Annie O’Connor

Experience

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  Candle ICT

  Jan 2000 - Oct 2005

  Senior Account Manager

  Provided recruitment services (candidate screening, tender response development, client management) for a number of federal government clients.

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  CGI

  Jan 2006 - Jul 2006

  Recruitment Specialist

  Provided Canberra market specific recruitment specialist advice to CGI in order to maximise their tender response successes and increase business in the market. Placement of new candidates within the business and opened up new clients for the organisation.

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  Department of Immigration and Citizenship

  Jul 2006 - Jul 2008

  Business Analyst

  Worked on the Enterprise Correspondence Services projects for the Generic Visa Portal (and various previous iterations).

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  Department of Veterans' Affairs

  Jul 2008 - Feb 2009

  Business Analyst

  Worked on the Veterans Home Care project integrating the business process into the exsiting departmental systems.

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  Northern Highland Travel

  Feb 2009 - Mar 2009

  Business Consultant

  Website Analysis and Design, Database Management, franchising proposal preparation

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  Fujitsu Australia Limited

  Mar 2009 - May 2009

  Business Analyst

  Worked on the Department of Employment, Education and Workplace Relations project "Training.gov.au"Performed change management of project change requests, technical specification documentation.

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  Department of Immigration and Citizenship

  Jun 2009 - Dec 2011

  Provided oversight of the EDRMS upgrade. Managed a department section specialising in recordkeeping and library services.Oversaw the physical relocation of the department's library. Managed a team of Recordkeeping Specialists, providing recordkeeping advice and specialist technical expertise to departmental projects and business areas. Worked as lead business analyst on the implementation of a new visa sub-class into departmental systems. Worked with multiple stakeholder groups to achieve outcomes. Also provided technical oversight of a large number of defects in order for them to be triaged for resolution, prioritised and then resolved.

  • Acting Director

    Jul 2011 - Dec 2011

  • Recordkeeping Systems Manager

    Feb 2010 - Jun 2011

  • Senior Business Analyst

    Jun 2009 - Jan 2010
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  Department of Industry, Innovation and Science

  Dec 2011 - Sept 2015

  Project Management of the Tailoring of PRINCE2 into the organisation.Leading procurement for PRINCE2 and MSP training for the organisation.Development of initial requirements for internal web-presence.Development of project briefs.Review of departmental project briefs.Oversight of internal communications strategy for our team.Strategic alignment review of projects.Development of Section Work-plan (in conjunction with colleagues) Electronic implementation of the recordkeeping system across the entire department. Involves a technical upgrade from TRIM 7.2.1, and business upgrades to: configuration, security model/control and a change program for the organisation to move from paper records management to electronic. Managed the department's EDRMS (Electronic Document Records Management System) help desk and training teams.

  • Assistant Manager - Portfolio Management Office

    Mar 2014 - Sept 2015

  • Project Manager, EDRMS Implementation

    Jul 2012 - Mar 2014

  • Assistant Manager, EDRMS Service Delivery

    Dec 2011 - Jul 2012
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  Hewlett Packard Enterprise

  Oct 2015 - Sept 2016

  PMO Lead - Dept of Agriculture and Water Resources

  When I arrived at HPE on this account, there was no Portfolio Management Office.I developed from scratch methods to forecast, track and realise revenue and cost for projects on the account, at a granular level that stands up to scrutiny. I took the project management team on the journey of having no substance to our limited documentation towards a robust and well defined set of project artefacts. I made them see the benefit and therefore positively anticipate the release of new project artefacts that will make their projects easier to run. I taught several new project management coordinator staff the ropes of working in a PMO, and enjoyed the reward of their faces when they "got" something I'd been teaching them. Show less

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  Oakton

  Sept 2016 - Feb 2017

  PMO Leader

  Working for a secure government client as an embedded resource, I implemented a coordination office for projects. Many aspects of a project management office are apparent in this role, such as reporting and governance, quality assurance and compliance auditing.

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  Datacom

  Feb 2017 - Nov 2017

  PMO Lead

  I was the Account Portfolio Management Office Lead for a Federal Government Account. I support the project lifecycle from conception to closure for over 70 projects and four programmes. I support 17 project managers to deliver these projects and programmes and engage with multiple stakeholder groups within our client's organisation.As an agent for change within the project space for this account, I worked to:* increase our project management maturity for our client, * assist our project and programme managers to deliver within the agreed scope and cost envelopes* through efficient processes, reduce the cost and effort required by Datacom to deliver on its managed services contract with this client. Show less

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  Service Value

  Nov 2017 - Dec 2017

  Transition Manager

  A short piece of work writing a transition project plan for a service integration provider. Along with that is a resource plan, risk and issue management plan and a few other documents.

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  Projects Assured

  Mar 2018 - Aug 2021

  Senior Consultant - PMO Specialist

  Working with Projects Assured clients to implement or reinvigorate Portfolio Management Offices within their organisation. If a PMO I'm running isn't adding value to the organisation, I want to fix it!

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  Accenture

  Aug 2021 - now

  Manager - Project Management Office Specialist