Victoria University of Wellington

Owner, Vantage Consulting Group

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

Senior Business Project Manager for the Print Technology & Associated Services Project for the Ministry of Social Development and (as part of the provision of a shared service) Oranga Tamariki.  Management of a secondary procurement process in a complex environment and the rollout of 940 print devices to more than 180 sites across New Zealand.  This involved significant risk management, communications, change management, utilisation of IT resources, building of virtual teams and detailed planning





Ministry of Social Development (MSD)

Senior Business Project Manager

Strategic review focussing on the business model, corporate structure and service delivery mechanisms and structure

Barnardos New Zealand

Strategic Review

Key Responsibilities were:
- establishing processes to collect excesses
- development of EQC debtor management policy
- communications planning and content

Earthquake Commission (EQC)

Debtor Management Advisory

Senior Business Project Manager for the AVL Expansion Project, a Ministry of Justice (MoJ) project (funded by the Department of Corrections) to install $9.0 million of audio-visual links in 12 District Courts to enable the appearance of defendants in criminal proceedings from prison.  This involved vendor management, risk management, communications planning, stakeholder management across MoJ and Corrections, change management, management of external service providers including a service aggregator, utilisation of IT resources, construction management (alterations), building virtual teams and detailed planning.  The installations were achieved on time with minimal disruption to court operations.

Ministry of Justice - New Zealand

Senior Business Project Manager - AVL Expansion

Telecom (Wholesale - now Chorus)

Commercial Dispute Resolution Consultant

Credit risk analysis, structuring and documentation of new corporate lending proposals, problem account management

Dave Allen