Alan Riley

Experience

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  Telecom Australia

  Nov 1985 - Nov 1988

  Analyst Programmer

  Analyst Programmer & Project Leader for 2 nationally implemented systems for the Buildings Division, using ADABAS/NATURAL.

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  World Vision Australia

  Mar 1991 - Dec 1995

  Analyst/Programmer

  Analysis, programming, enhancements and support for fund-raising and marketing systems.

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  Praxa Ltd

  Jan 1996 - Feb 2010

  Project Manager

  Provide project management for the delivery of software applications to clients. Applications can be new, updates to legacy systems or package implementations.Project managed the conception, development and implementation of a National Support Centre to provide a new revenue stream and value add proposition to Praxa customers.Quality manager responsible for maintaining Praxa's ISO9001 accreditation.

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  Leopard Systems

  Mar 2010 - Jul 2010

  Project Manager

  Leopard Systems provides mobility solutions, including both hardware and software. Alan worked in the Software Department, where his role included: management of multiple small projects simultaneously, resource management and scheduling, support management and co-ordination of the hardware and software teams.

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  Coles Ltd

  Sept 2010 - Nov 2012

  Senior Delivery Analyst

  Decommissioning of the legacy (20+ years) Store Order Management, and Procurement systems and a number of smaller sub-systems at Coles Ltd. This require seeking $600k funds from the CIO, engaging 15 technical staff from different functional teams, more than 10 representatives from different areas of the business, and establishing a steering committee. Business critical data flows were re-routed seamlessly to Coles central merchandising system and the roll-out affected all 750+ Coles stores. This work was particularly difficult because of the need to solve several problems previously attempted by other projects but de-scoped because of their difficulty. Show less

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  World Vision Australia

  Jan 2013 - Dec 2015

  Digital Project/Program Manager

  Alan was responsible for project and program management for the Digital team. This included managing projects to support BAU marketing campaign projects, and major projects delivering a new World Vision Australia website (industry recognised for excellence), the 2014 40 Hour Famine system, and Digital Progress Reporting. Other major projects delivered at World Vision include the Windows 2003 Server Upgrade project (requiring developing and implementing a strategy to upgrade or replace 31 Windows 2003 Servers and related applications) and achievement of PCI DSS Compliance certification (compliance to payment card industry data security standards). These projects require working across the entire business and engaging with business, IT resources and a number of third party vendors. All projects were delivered using Agile/Lean methodologies. Show less

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  Monash University

  Mar 2016 - Mar 2016

  SAFe Consultant

  Short term contract advising on how to set up an Agile Release Train.

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  Bureau of Meteorology

  Apr 2016 - Feb 2020

  Agile Project Manager

  I was initially hired on a 3-month contract as an agile PM for a large project on the Supercomputer Program. My contract was extended multiple times for a total of nearly 4 years' service at BOM. During that period, I covered the full range of PM activities including:* business case preparation* "take-over" and remediation of in-flight projects* governance structures/arrangements* simultaneously managing multiple software and infrastructure projects with budgets ranging from $200k - $3 million. Projects included scientifically complex and technically demanding numeric weather prediction post processing systems, supercomputer workflow management systems, system migrations, and analysis, assessment and risk mitigation steps for a suite of business critical legacy systems.* conducting several RFT's, along with vendor selection, contract negotiation and vendor management.* assembling, recruiting and managing several project teams. Most teams were a combination of internal, contractor and vendor staff. The most complex team was distributed across 4 different countries.* pioneered the use of Agile methods (outside of the Digital team) at the BOM, but also used traditional and hybrid methods depending on the project situation. Show less

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  Latrobe University

  Jun 2020 - Dec 2020

  Sessional Lecturer in IT Project Management, Health Information Systems

  I was hired on a 6-month contract as a sessional lecturer in IT Project Management of Health Information Systems. This role entails:• Update and creation of course content, covering both traditional and Agile methodologies.• Delivery of recorded/online lectures.• Setting, supervising and marking of student assignments and exams.• Supervision of Master of Health Information Management students, supporting them through workshop facilitation, participation in live chat and team discussion boards.All activities are delivered remotely using tools such as Office 365, Zoom (video conferencing), OneDrive (document repository), HeySpace (Kanban board and chat facility), and Moodle (Learning Management System). Show less

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  MetaPM

  Mar 2021 - Jun 2021

  PM and Agile Coach at Department of Transport

  Working through MetaPM (IT consultancy company) I was hired on a 4-month contract to:• Manage project delivery of two workstreams on the Smarter Roads program. The most interesting of these streams pioneered the design, trialing, setup and analysis of air quality monitoring stations around Melbourne. This was a new, high profile initiative for the DOT.• Perform initial planning, requirements gathering and setup of a ServiceNow implementation for the Signal Services team.• Act as a consultant PM and Agile Coach to the program manager of the Transport Health Safety and Wellbeing Program. These roles entailed:• Assessment of current project status and taking remediation steps where necessary.• Development of project charters.• Project planning, then assembly and running of project delivery teams.• Management of project budgets.All activities are delivered remotely using tools such as Office 365, MS Teams (video conferencing). Show less

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  Alcro Group

  Jul 2021 - now

  Project Manager

  Consultant Project Manager for the delivery of two projects for the Department of Transport and the Magistrates Court of Victoria.