Brian Kelly

Experience

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  Australian Government Department of Administrative Services

  Jun 1990 - Oct 1997

  Manage the R&M and capital works program for Telstra across the Northern Territory.Manage Dept. of Defence' R&M and capital works in central Australia. Team member and acting Operations Manager for the Antarctic Asset Management Program delivering R&M and capital works for Australia's four Antarctic stations.

  • Client and Program Manager

    Jan 1992 - Oct 1997

  • Manager of Operations

    Jun 1990 - Jan 1992
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  P&O Asset Services

  Oct 1997 - Aug 2000

  Branch Manager

  Manage utilities, marine services and construction projects for the Cocos (Keeling) Islands as a profit centre for P&O Asset Services.

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  Power and Water Corporation

  Jan 2001 - Apr 2008

  Manager General Business

  Manage the General Business Services unit within the Corporation - with 5 lines of responsibility: Key infrastructure and facilities, risk and business continuity, stores, Fleet, and procurement.Nationally security cleared to SECRET. Represent the Northern Territory in the national Energy Industry Business to Government forum. (4 years).One of the founding members of the Energy sub group of the Trusted Information Sharing Network (the TISN); being the primary body linking industry and Governments to ensuring business continuity using the all hazards approach to business continuity and critical infrastructure.Represented and presented Australia's infrastructure resilience and position in international forums.Chairperson for national pandemic planning in the energy industry (electricity, liquid fuels, gas) resulting in the national plan for this sector. Show less

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  Bkprojects

  Jan 2008 - Apr 2010

  Business Consultant, Project Engineering

  Owner of the Bkprojects Business - Project, business and risk analysis, tender advice and resource analysis for infrastructure bids including a major Alliance program ($1.1 billion). Tendering services to the contracting industry.Risk assessments and design and construction management for infrastructure such as the Darwin Waterfront, Top End Mental Health facilities, Power and Water Corporation utilities infrastructure.

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  Leighton Contractors

  Jun 2008 - Jul 2011

  Program Manager

  A key role in the bid team, and then program and package manager for the $680 million program for the New Future Alliance. The Alliance was charged with building, rebuilding and carrying out major refurbishment in the order of 1200 community houses and associated infrastructure throughout the Northern Territory's Indigenous communities.

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  John Holland

  Jan 2011 - Aug 2012

  Design management and delivery of high voltage and power upgrade work for a key and major Defence facility in the Northern TerritoryIncluded a new 16 m/watt backup powerstation, 68 substations, 5 x hv intake stations, complex control and optical fibre reticulation for this crtical infrastructure. Take the Project from Federal Gov. funding presentations through detailed design, tendering, and hand-over to the construction crew and delivery phase.

  • Engineering Design Manager

    May 2011 - Aug 2012

  • Project Manager

    Jan 2011 - Jan 2012
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  Leighton Contractors

  Sept 2012 - Jun 2013

  Engineering Services Manager

  Engineering services manager for the temporary 1 works package (+$100m) of the Ichtys LNG onshore project, Darwin.The role morphed into design management for the rest of the infrastructure for the Temp 1 package. Established power, water, waste water, communications fire protection as engineering services for the site.Heavily involved in detailed design reports, risk assessments, Client management, Document control, contract and change management in this EPC project.

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  Northern Territory Government

  Apr 2014 - Jan 2020

  Director, major projects for the Northern Territory Government’s Strategic Infrastructure & Projects.Manage the reporting to Cabinet of 18 projects with major project status.Facilitate and negotiate major project agreements between the Territory to Federal Governments. Provide high level and detailed policy advice to Government on a range of complex initiatives including asset management and rationalisation, capital investment, and economic development.Facilitate a number of high value projects in the mining sector, marine infrastructure, and a major gas pipeline. Show less

  • Project Director, Housing and Strategic Projects

    Feb 2019 - Jan 2020

  • Project Director, Strategic Infrastructure & Projects

    Oct 2017 - Jan 2019

  • Project Director

    Apr 2014 - Oct 2017
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  Self Employed

  Mar 2020 - now

  Program Management Specialist

  Just returned from +two years overlanding of Southern and Eastern Africa. Looking to broaden my working experiences through consultancies or temporary placements.