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>  Contract Experience:

• Project management of variously structured teams, including managers, technical, developers, testers

• Infrastructure and production planning management

>  Management Experience:

• Hiring, inducting and mentoring over twenty contract and three permanent staff;  Project Managers, Applications Developers and Application Support staff (J2EE and Microsoft), Technical Analysts and Business Analysts.

• Supporting and mentoring during a period of significant change at the Ministry of Justice.  Changes included a major organisational merger, which resulted in new senior management, a new project office and large numbers of new personnel.  During this time, I was instrumental in supporting existing staff and noted as being a key figure in keeping moral up in management and staff

• Taking the lead whenever required

• Significant team member for Enterprise Architecture review project

• Significant team member in the setting of budgets each year

• Significant team member in instituting new performance appraisal processes in each of three successive years

>  Within BOC Gases:

• Managing and supporting staff during significant organisational changes, including redundancies and move of head office from Wellington to Auckland

• Mentoring development staff

• Mentoring organisational staff in a range of business skills, such as price setting, budgeting and warehousing

>  Within IBM Ltd:

• Seconded to trouble-shoot IBM reseller (Providing Business and Sales Marketing skills)

• Trouble-shoot ailing department

• Trouble-shoot department process both in IT and non-IT areas

>  Own businesses:

• Consulting and systems services business

• Freelance International Marketing Services

• Financial & Banking Skills

  Banking background in Post Office

  Budget control during many stages (including most recent) of my career

  Financial skills gained from running my own business on several occasions

  Accounting certificate and partial from degree

  Worked on financial systems, including writing and supporting a business-side application for supporting bank Electronic Funds Transfer system

   

• Other Skills & Highlights From The Past

  Assignment to New York for four months to undertake business analysis for an international cable ordering system.  Singapore, Japan, Canada...  Interface with France and several other continental countries.

  IBM marketing representative

  Youngest Postmaster in the Post Office when I resigned.

  Own business as international marketing consultant, plus business and technology consultant

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