Gary Billingham

Gary Billingham

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Senior Project Manager Contract

  • Education

    • Ferndown Upper School

      1974 - 1980
    • University of Portsmouth

      1980 - 1986
      HND Computer Studies
  • Experience

    • AXA

      Jan 2004 - Jan 2004
      Project Manager
    • Ministry of Justice

      Jan 2006 - Jan 2007
      Programme Manager
    • Unisys

      Jul 2007 - Jun 2011

      Programme Manager responsible for delivery of a programme of infrastructure related projects for MAF Senior Project Manager on the primary account for Unisys in New Zealand, the New Zealand Transport Agency. Responsible for high profile and high risk projects. Provision of guidance and direction for other Project Managers on the team. End to end responsibility for establishing estimates for the bid process through to delivery to agreed budget and timeline. Support of the Programme Management function

      • Programme Manager

        May 2010 - Jun 2011
      • Senior Project Manager

        Jul 2007 - Apr 2010
    • Project Management Institute

      Dec 2008 - Dec 2012

      A voluntary board position with the Project Management Institute in New Zealand. Two year duration A voluntary board level role with the Project Mangement Institute in New Zealand

      • Vice President

        Jan 2011 - Dec 2012
      • PMINZ Central Branch Chair

        Dec 2008 - Dec 2010
    • Ministry of Education of New Zealand

      Jun 2011 - May 2012
      Business Change Project Manager

      Planning of business change activity including; - Business Change Strategy - Sector stakeholder management - Change readiness assessment - Responsibility assessment and alignment - Strategy and planning for engagement and communication - Strategy and planning for trainingCoordinating business change with the parallel delivery of the technical solution and producing a practical and achievable re-baseline of the schedule.Contingency planning for a variety of scenarios involving both incoming and outgoing vendors. Show less

    • IBM

      Jun 2012 - Aug 2013
      Senior Project Manager Contract

      Contract role as a Senior Project Manager on the Westpac account

    • New Zealand Customs Service

      Aug 2013 - Aug 2016
      Senior Project Manager Contract

      Contract role covering a number of initiatives over a 3 year period. Including; - Project Management of the delivery of the Cook Islands Border Management Systems - Project Managing the delivery of NZ Customs Environment Automation capability. Initially focused upon supporting the NZ Customs contractual obligations of the JBMS Programme, this project delivered an Environment Automation capability that is reusable across the entire NZ Customs IS landscape.

    • Careers New Zealand

      Apr 2016 - Jun 2017
      Senior Project Manager Contract

      Programme Management of the successful delivery of all components of the 2016/17 Capital Plan (with no overrun and minimal underspend)Project Management of the early adopter TaaS Project for Careers New ZealandProject Management of the development of enhanced and replacement web based toolsProvision of business and executive support for the merger with TEC

    • Tertiary Education Commission

      Jul 2017 - Jul 2018
      Senior Project Manager Contract

      An extension to the engagement with Careers New Zealand following the merger with the Tertiary Education Commission in July 2017.Project Management of the delivery and maintenance of web based tools for the Careers Directorate.

    • Accident Compensation Corporation

      Aug 2018 - Dec 2018
      Senior Project Manager Contract

      Senior Project Manager working on the Analytics 2.0 programme for ACC.

    • Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment

      Jan 2019 - Jun 2020
      Senior Project Manager Contract

       Project recovery work for IT Operations and delivery of infrastructure and change for a move to a globally hosted SAS service within Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence.

    • Maritime New Zealand

      Sept 2020 - Dec 2020
      Senior Project Manager

       Managing the Agile delivery of a replacement Beacons Registration website for the Rescue Coordination Centre.

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Prince2 Practitioner

    • Project Management Professional (PMP)

      PMI