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This freelancer is available part-time (3 days per week) but hasn't confirmed their availability in over 7 days.
Part-time, 3 days per week
Location and workplace preferences
- Location
- Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
- Can work onsite in your office in
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- Edinburgh and around (up to 50km)
- Around London and 50km
- Around Newcastle upon Tyne and 50km
- Around Glasgow and 50km
Preferences
- Project length
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- ≤ 1 week
- ≤ 1 month
- Between 1-3 months
Verifications
Freelancer code of conduct signed
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Languages
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English
Native or bilingual
Categories
Skills (20)
Mike in a few words
• An enterprise delivery background, strong technical skills, commercial acumen, & natural innovation.
• A natural, personable leader with excellent written and oral communication skills, able to build high-performance teams with vision and mentorship.
• Worked in multiple industry sectors including Banking and Finance, Mining and Gas, Public Sector and SME Consulting
• Predominantly application management & software development trained and focussed, but also worked with a broad range of infrastructure disciplines including SOE, LAN, Data Centre and DR families
Experience
Waterstons
Executive Business Consultant
Dayshape
Project Manager
People's Postcode Lottery
Project Manager
• Ownership of player retention and product margin business objectives
• Operational process establishment and improvement
• Organisational planning and budget management
• Agile delivery of multiple significant product changes to an off-the-shelf e commerce platform via third party/off-shore supplier
• Engagement and oversight of multiple suppliers for supply/logistics, value stream mapping, UX design and quality assurance
davis.systems
Owner, Principle Consultant - As a freelancer
• Building and leading high-performance global development teams to deliver a broad range of business transformation projects on desktop, web and mobile platforms to a wide variety of clients including:
- automating onboarding and job placement with a web-based system for an offshore recruiter
- mining data through business intelligence dashboard reporting for a food inspection company
- significantly reducing customer acquisition through a wholesale B2B web portal
- establishing KPI management for state government health workers via new mobile app
• Established business presence including branding, marketing, online & social media
• Sales proposal and maintenance contracts, service delivery, and account mgmt
• Operational management of HR, finance, compliance and administration
Bank of South Pacific Ltd
Project Manager - As a freelancer
• Lead analyst teams via an external consultancy (4Impact Group) on discovery and remediation planning phase for failing core banking replacement program
• Reported on findings and recommendations to the bank executive team
• Successfully delivered and handed over a project plan to ongoing delivery teams to build a target operating model designed to work with the incoming core banking system
Queensland Building and Construction Commission
Project Manager - As a freelancer
• Responsible for leading the integration of a government legislated website into existing internal systems to support the agency's compliance responsibilities
• Coordinated internal technical and legal staff to deliver multiple internal changes to internal SalesForce systems and external website, reporting dashboards with Power BI, and integrated with third-party datasets for better discovery and analysis
Department of Housing and Public Works (Queensland)
Project Manager - As a freelancer
• Responsible for leading a multi-disciplinary project team comprised of a web development vendor, departmental and related agency legislative, legal, PR, Fire & Emergency Services, and contact centre specialists to deliver a high- profile website mandated by new legislation in a high-intensity, 12-week timeframe
• Established and reported to a multi-departmental c-level board with government ministerial stakeholders, leveraging both PRINCE2 and Agile methodologies
• Regular presentations and consultations with State Minister for Housing and Public Works
Suncorp Group
Portfolio Manager
• Responsible for stakeholder management, influencing key outcomes and strategic direction, tactical decision making and performance management in a high-pressure agile delivery program
• Successfully coordinated environments across provisioning a significantly large core banking replacement team.
QGC - A BG Group Business
Program Manager
• Successfully managed multiple external vendors to deliver a range of IT infrastructure projects over the course of the engagement focussing on the rollout of LAN network, DMZ, building infrastructure and other plant operations for the new Curtis Island LNG facility
• Successfully delivered other various data centre and field capacity and disaster recovery upgrades
BHP Billiton
Program Manager
• Delivery of enterprise service transition programme between two global IT service providers (CSC & IBM) throughout Asia-Pacific MetCoal division coordinating geographically dispersed project managers for the seamless migration of email, directory services, security and remote access for approx. 6K users, and identifying solutions for service gaps
• Coordination of teams of project managers and analyst teams to deliver an application portfolio and governance function for BMA IT, standardising applications and management processes across the organisation user base, plus ongoing functional changes in bespoke applications as required
• Management of other various infrastructure & miscellaneous projects in conjunction with external vendors
SUNCORP
Project Manager
• Successfully lead IT and business teams to deliver a variety of applications and payment systems including Basel II compliance, payment systems transitions from an acquired financial institution, and an online customer portal redevelopment
BANK OF QUEENSLAND
Program/Project Manager
• Delivered $5.5M in business benefits from the strategic rationalisation of the Bank's e-business portfolio
• Implemented the first Internet Banking offering as part of a multi-phase program
• Successfully lead IT and business teams to deliver a variety of SOE, and applications upgrade and payment systems projects as part of the EDS (now HP) service delivery team
Telstra
Architect/Senior Analyst
Queensland Department of Natural Resources
Business Analyst
Queensland Department of Mining and Energy
Analyst/Programmer
Micron Technologies Group
Analyst/Programmer
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Education
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Executive MBA, Business Management
The University of Edinburgh
2023 Executive MBA, Business Management
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Graduate Diploma, (Project Management)
The George Washington University
2003 Graduate Diploma, (Project Management)
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Bachelor of Science
University of New England (AU)
1993 Bachelor of Applied Science, (Computing)