Mark Porter

CEO | Director | Investor | Board Member | Traveller

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

About

PM Solutions® - CEO, Director and Founder Responsible for oversight of best practice, consulting, assurance practices, and global best practice partnerships including PeopleCert®, Assurance PLUS™ and Global Digital Assurance® RugbyMates - Director, COO and Founder Early to mid-stage investment company with a current focus on bio-medical, mRNA personalised vaccines, global software assurance development, and Japanese investment real estate. Global Digital Assurance® - Director and Co-founder Responsible for the ongoing development global best practice Gateway Assurance™ and Agile Assurance™ methods, practice, guides and the support of 'GDA Accredited Partners'.

Experience

  • PM Solutions (Full-time · 20 yrs 6 mos)
    • Chief Executive Officer
      Nov 2017 - Present · 8 yrs 8 mos

      CEO of PM Solutions, providing portfolio, program and project best practice, consulting and assurance services to clients and their organisations and governments across Australia with affiliate offices in Canberra, Sydney and the Gold Coast. PeopleCert ACP, AssurancePLUS for SAP, and Global Digital Assurance Accredited Partner.

    • Director
      Jan 2006 - Nov 2017 · 11 yrs 11 mos

      Director of PM Solutions portfolio, program and project best practice, consulting and assurance services to clients and their organisations and governments across Australia with affiliate offices in Canberra, Sydney and the Gold Coast. PeopleCert ACP, AssurancePLUS for SAP, and Global Digital Assurance Accredited Partner.

  • Founder & Director at Rugbymates
    Jan 2011 - Present · 15 yrs 6 mos

    Investment, development and management of 'Japandi' styled, family focused, modern holiday properties in the high snowfall areas of Hokkaido, Japan - for domestic and international travellers. Hokkaido Holiday Homes www.rugbymates.com

  • PeopleCert (United Kingdom)
    • Global Reviewer for Management of Risk (MoR) 4th edition
      Aug 2021 - Sep 2021 · 2 mos

    • Global Reviewer for Managing Successful Programmes (MSP) 5th edition
      Jul 2021 - Aug 2021 · 2 mos

  • Executive Consultant at eHealth Queensland
    Nov 2017 - Jun 2018 · 8 mos

    Engaged by eHealth Queensland to deliver Enterprise Portfolio Management Office (EPMO) model design, leading a team of senior independent modelling and change consultants, whilst supporting in-house processes, functions and executive strategies. eHealth Queensland was presented with an opportunity to review the current portfolio, program and project support functions with a view to establishing a centralised P3O.

  • QSuper Group (Greater Brisbane Area)
    • Senior Projects Manager (Consultant)
      Jun 2017 - Nov 2017 · 6 mos

      Engaged to deliver Portfolio Analytics, Reporting and Scheduling Standards, including an enterprise-wide PPM tool in Microsoft Project Online within the newly established Enterprise Portfolio Management Office. The project included definition of business requirements, integration of existing process, application of industry best practices, development of P3O reporting and analysis capability and alignment to Integrated Delivery Framework for greenfield and in-flight projects. The works included management of project team to configure 'of the shelf' product to meet business needs and define and deliver integration with enterprise ERP system, including significant financial interfaces and audit compliance.

    • Senior Projects Manager (Consultant)
      Feb 2016 - Nov 2017 · 1 yr 10 mos

      Engaged to realign and deliver a business critical project and establish a program of work to delivery externally hosted IT portal aligned the Australian Taxation Office ‘SuperStream’ legislation, across all Queensland Government departments, agencies and majority-owned government entities and employers, whilst managing the delivery of compliance capability across QSuper including SuperStream system functionalities and APRA reporting.