Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
“...a positively engaged thinker, enabler, and doer.” Strategy: Identifying, Enabling and Enhancing the competitive advantages or capabilities of organizations to lead and drive ICT Strategy and Road-mapping, which then cascades down to all levels of planning, resourcing, and execution. Through strong influencing skills ensure that Leadership understand and support systems investment and resourcing and provide active sponsorship to drive successful outcomes. Stakeholder Engagement: Lead the engagement of the user community and other internal/ external stakeholders to understand the benefits of systems enabled changes and establish the necessary buy-in to deliver success. People and Culture: Building Information Systems Teams with appropriate skill bases and behavioural competencies to use technology to support competitive advantage/ organization outcomes. Encourage a customer focus, while pursuing their own aspirations with strong cultural fit. Communications and Influencing: Continuous development of communication and influencing skills, to lead engagement with the length and breadth of organizations on how technology can be learned and consumed to pioneer and innovate. Productivity and Customer Experience: Using Technology and Change Management to transform the business processes of organizations and enhance customer and/ or employee outcomes.
Executive team member reporting to the Managing Director. Current most significant areas of focus: • On-Line upgrade of our Dynamics CRM System (part of the Enterprise Suite, as below) across our Global Sales teams, incorporating Windows10, Office365, ‘Dropbox’ for local content management and ‘next generation’ devices. • Occurring within the broader “Delegat Cloud Imperative”, through which we are moving from internal enabling compute power to a SaaS utility model, • And, all as part of executing the next ICT Roadmap for Delegat out to 2020 (“2020 Vision”), authored during 2016 and approved by the Leadership team. The new roadmap is all about leveraging the global ICT megatrends now affecting us all, to deliver digital transformation at the user level. Previous Key Achievements: • Development and delivery of the “Tasting Host” App, used by 700 Hosts to plan and execute Wine Tasting events, • Interim migration of our entire northern hemisphere data centre, to the Azure Cloud. • Definition and execution of the original ICT Roadmap for Delegat, focused on establishing a single solution suite supporting 80% of our business processes . All our Viticulture and Grower Management, Finished Product Packaging, Supply Chain, Finance (ERP) and CRM business processes have now been supported by our Microsoft Dynamics AX Enterprise System platform for a considerable period. • Successfully completed the integration of all IS services to the Barossa Valley Estate Winery (South Australia), acquired in 2013 [M&A]. • Established a robust Annual IS Business Planning Cycle, capturing our annual commitment to the organization and defining the objectives upon which IS performance is evaluated. • Similarly, delivered commercial and governance platforms that would support technology acquisition and delivery cycles to support the rapidly developing Delegat business, and • Establishment and evolution of Delegat’s small, business-facing IS Team.
Lead Information and Applications Architecture team, within the Strategy Function of Fonterra Information Systems
Regional IS leadership role with overall responsibility for operational delivery as well as the implementation of the project programme for Fonterra’s four FMCG subsidiaries in the AME (Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt, and Russia), and a further five others in Asia. Dual reporting lines as part of the Fonterra Brands IS leadership team, reporting to the CIO, with 'dotted line' local reporting responsibilities in region.
Overall responsibility for a programme of IS Application Implementations across New Zealand Milk’s Asian region, extending from Sri Lanka to China.
Project Manager for the implementation of the J D Edwards OneWorld Applications at New Zealand Milk (Far East) Ltd., (Fonterra Cooperative Group), based in Taipei, Taiwan.
Project Manager for the implementation of COGNOS EMS Applications, New Zealand Dairy Board AIME Region, based in Dubai, UAE
Project Manager for the Oracle 10.7 SC Implementation at NZMP (USA), New Zealand Dairy Board, based in Santa Rosa, Ca. and Lemoyne, Pa. USA