Examples of Work

Here is a list of recent work that we have been involved in.

 Transitional Management

• Acting CIO for several Government Agencies. Strategic planning,  and IT Reviews 
• Mentoring of CIOs and IT Managers on behalf of several organisations.

Information Technology Strategic Planning

• Treasury capability bid input for government agencies.
• Banking technologies strategic consulting.
• Strategic advice to IT several organisations and Chief Executives.
• Intranet and Internet development advice for several clients.
• IT Architectural planning for several clients.

Tender Development and Management

• Management of the tender process for a finance system selection.
• Development of an RFP for Internet Hosting for several sites, management of the RFP process and assistance with evaluation.
• Management of an RFP process for managed IT services for a government agency. Assistance with contract negotiations including liaison with ministry solicitors and advice on SLA development. Management of the transition from the existing supplier to the new supplier.
• Assistance with development of a EDRMS request for information (RFI) for a government agency, IT technical input and evaluation team membership.
• Development of an RFI for Electronic Content Management. Part of the team to evaluate responses.
• Development of a request for proposal (RFP) for hosting services.
• Contract development on behalf of an organisation for development support in conjunction with legal staff and external vendor.
• Preparation of Blackberry solution business cases and project management of implementations for three organisations.
• Project management of a couple of  bids alongside other partner suppliers (Ecosystem partners).

Business Analysis, Project and Programme Management

• Project management of a systems transition project for a government client off Lotus Notes and existing infrastructure to completely new infrastructure using Server 2008 R2, Exchange 2010, and several hyper-V instances.
• Business Analysis and Project Management for a gaming industry client.
• Project management of a finance system implementation.
• Development of user requirement for a finance system.
• Project management of moves to new support providers for two government agencies.
• Analysis of Lotus Notes environments to support moves of mail and calendar and databases and applications.
• Project management of a Lotus Notes migration to Exchange, contacts to CRM and other databases to SharePoint.
• Project management of a new video conferencing solution for a government agency with offices in Auckland, Wellington, and Christchurch.
• IT technical project management of finance system upgrades and HR system database implementation.
• Project management of changes to a system which tracks items of national heritage significance.
• Business project management of an implementation of Microsoft CRM v3 and subsequent business analysis and project management of a contracts database for the same agency under CRM v4.
• Project management of a hosted programme management solution (i-lign) to an in-house hosted platform.
• Technical project management of a Sonar6 implementation.
• IT programme management relating to building moves, hosting and computer room moves.
• Project management of moves to new IT service providers including moves of equipment to hosting environments.
• Project management methodology design to fit with the culture and needs of organisation and policy projects, training and implementation for two government agencies.
• Support of project management tool and project management around its implementation and embedding with organisation alongside project methodologies for two government agencies.
• Project management of a blog development.
• Project management of a new website for an organisation with significant social responsibilities.
• Project management, development and implementation of a blog on behalf of a government agency.
• Blackberry BES server administration for several government clients.

IT Governance

• Development of governance documentation and advice to senior management on the governance of IT for several organisations.

IT Advice and Mentoring

• IT Reviews for organisations including staffing requirements.
• Ongoing IT advice for several organisations.
• Educational qualification advice for a private training provider.
• Development of job descriptions for IT staff, advice on remuneration, and assistance with selecting staff for several organisations.