Summary

1968 to the present

My career has followed a steady path towards my current standing as a senior and respected champion, proponent and practitioner of professional project management.  Even my first career as an Army Officer gave me an absolute underpinning in planning and control of projects and programs often at a strategic level.

My second career, now lasting twenty years, has totally focussed on professional roles in project management and in the delivery of project assurance and project management capability.  I currently support major corporates in various industry sectors in their goals for project management excellence.  I also work with individual project practitioners to help them realise their full potential through project management education and certification. My clients cover mining, aviation, infrastructure, consulting, banking, telecommunication and government.

Primal Solutions

Brisbane, Australia

July 2005 to present

Title:  Owner/Principal Consultant

In Primal Solutions, I have developed an international consulting practice to public and private sector organisations specialising in project management excellence. Primal Solutions delivers:

•     Assessment of organisational project management maturity

•     Design of organisational project management human capital strategies

•     Corporate skills audit in project management and allied areas such as business analysis

•     Program and project audits and lessons learned reviews

•     Professional assessment/certification of portfolio, program and project managers

•     Education, training and assessment in portfolio, program and project management

•     Development/review of organisational project management methodologies

•     Development/review of corporate project governance at portfolio and program level

•     Development of project assurance frameworks

Australian College of Project Management

National Role, Australia

2001 - 2005

Title:  Chief Executive Officer/Academy Director

In this role, I managed the leading national practice in Australia for organisational consulting and education in project management best practices.

The college comprised fifteen trainers in five capital cities across Australia and a professional support office of five staff. The Australian College of Project Management was recognised as industry leaders in the development and delivery of best practice in project management training and education and assessment and we specialised in the development of customised training and education solutions for small, medium and large scale programs with industry clients.

Clientele included blue chip Australian companies in mining, aviation, telecommunications, banking and finance, government and defence.

As the Lead EPM Consultant, I delivered organisational project management maturity assessments and managed the first project management benchmarking network.  As part of this work I facilitated the development of the AIPM Project Managed Organisation Award. Another aspect of this work was the facilitation and development of corporate client project management methodologies.

I led this company through a merger and acquisition from private ownership to ownership by a publicly listed (stock exchange) company, before resigning to establish my own practice.

Brisbane City Council (Contract Role)

Brisbane, Australia

1999 - 2000

Title: Program Manager

In this role I managed an eighteen month program comprising four projects for the total business process review of the billing and receipting processes for the $2B p.a. Brisbane City Council revenue system. The program involved six full time and 30 part time project members with a total project budget of $1.5M AUD and successfully delivered a new vision for Council’s billing and revenue processes.

Queensland Government (Contract role)

Brisbane, Australia

1998 – 1999

Title: Project/Relationships Manager

After the appointment of a new state government, I was given the responsibility for establishing the project management framework for a new government lead agency for information technology and telecommunications strategy and projects.

I also held the personal responsibility for the establishment and ongoing management of two strategic stakeholder interfaces:

•     Ministerial industry advisory panel, comprising senior technology industry executives

•     The governing body of government department information management directors

•     ‘Soft’ liaison at ‘C’ level across government to align departments with emerging policy

Queensland Government (Contract role)

Brisbane, Australia

1996 - 1998

Title: Manager, Strategic Projects

In this role I managed a project team of five full time and thirty part time staff. The project successfully delivered best practice implementation guidelines for a $300M AUD HR and Payroll system replacement across all of Queensland Government. It also delivered the total procurement framework for this $300M procurement. These systems supported more than

300,000 people.

My team also developed best practice project management methodology support to enable some thirty departments to successfully implement their own version of the HR and payroll system replacement. We were also highly successful in implementing Y2K strategies as part of the risk mitigation in the pre and post-system transition.