Experience

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  Hewlett-packard

  Jan 2003 - Jul 2007

  Project manager

  Intermediate Project Manager for HP, working on a range of mainly infrastrucutre projects.

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  Prego restuarant

  Jan 2004 - Feb 2013

  Maitre 'd

  I was part of the management team affecting day to day operations - this was a part time position however.

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  Air new zealand

  Aug 2007 - Jul 2020

  Most recently as a Product Manager, whether through intimately knowing my business partner needs or leading a delivery and support team I have a proven track record of delivering successful business outcomes. Creating and developing teams through Agile transitions while delivering value to a broad portfolio has been my world for the last 5 years.Skills from previous roles in programme and project management, service desk management and service improvement programmes, coupled with my breadth of touchpoints across the Air New Zealand business units including crew, finance, safety, cargo, airports, supply chain and property business units. Additionally, I created and managed the Oracle Database Program, prioritised work and managed Project Managers that delivered various projects for desktop, networks, security and infrastructure portfolios.Skills include:• Excellent stakeholder (internal and external to digital) management.• Build and inspire teams to develop agile working practices that improve productivity and system reliability.• Build portfolio and product roadmaps to communicate objective themes and • Work with UX, architecture, software developers and infrastructure (cloud and on-premise) to define solutions.• Ownership of difficult tasks; business and process based • Building excellent business relationships to drive change and surface business priorities.• Business process reengineering• Passion for continuous improvement • Strong financial oversight• Balancing operational and business needs• Project & Portfolio Management• Team building and Training• Being an agent for change within immediate teams and the business.• Vendor management, relationship and negotiation skills Show less Product Management (morphing from Dev/Ops Lead) at AirNZ while we are feeling our way through this digital transformation, is a blend of operational management for a suite of products in my portfolio. My team supports the day to day break/fix of existing platforms and their stacks as well as business initiatives that introduce change to this suite or are developing or introducing new digital value to our business partners.The suite of products that are under my remit are the safety and wellbeing products as well as the operational and sales systems that AirNZ cargo use.Its a broad portfolio and we challenge and enable the business to work on what is of best value to them which can be quite a challenge when multiple GM's have their own outcomes that they are driven by. Show less

  • Product Manager

    Aug 2007 - Jul 2020

  • DevOps Product Lead

    Feb 2016 - Jun 2016

  • Programme Leader

    Aug 2007 - Feb 2016
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  Freightways information services

  Mar 2021 - Sept 2022

  Snr product manager, team leader
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  Hare and the turtle

  Oct 2022 - now

  Director

  Looking for contract project management work, 15yrs experience.