Experience

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  Other

  Jan 1989 - Jan 1995

  Various roles
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  Dsto

  Jan 1995 - Jan 1996

  Stealth combat aircraft designer

  Part of a team using advanced simulation techniques to design stealth capability for combat aircraft, including radar diversion, radar absorbency and infrared signature suppression. Specialization was in the infrared domain, and in particular reducing the detection of the aircraft plume as it enters the atmosphere.1 year contract.

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  Ambermind

  Jan 1996 - Jan 1998

  General manager

  Responsible for acquiring and managing clients, handling financials, budgeting, delivering projects, profit & loss, product development.

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  Vpisystems

  Jan 1998 - Jan 2004

  Group manager

  Combined role of program manager / director of software development / head of quality assurance, managed teams in 4 different countries (Australia, Belarus, Germany, US). Grew and transformed IT arm of company from ground up, defined the global delivery model (combination of on-shore and off-shore development) for use within the company.

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  Unspecified

  Jan 2004 - Jun 2004

  Military special reconnaissance

  Built 3-D models of suspected nuclear facilities in Iraq during the 2003-11 Iraq War. The 3-D models were derived from composite triangulated synchronous photographs from multiple satellites, at a predetermined time of day. Identifying facility markers were confirmed in conjunction with British ex-Special Forces operatives.6 month contract.

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  Sensis classifieds

  Jan 2004 - Jan 2007

  Program manager - ecommerce transformation

  Closed down the Trading Post newspaper and replaced with the digital ecommerce platform www.tradingpost.com.au. Added online financial transactions, with strong focus on high performance and load, security management, data migration, international vendor management and large teams.

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  Telstra

  Sept 2004 - Jan 2011

  Program manager - finance project

  Various programs within Telstra. Largest program managed as Program Director (with absolute accountability for time / budget / scope / risk / quality): $80M budget, 300 people, globally distributed delivery team, 6 vendors (including 3 x tier 1). Mandatory on time delivery as program had a penalty of 1 $Million per week to partner company if delivered late.

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  Origin energy

  Jan 2011 - Dec 2013

  Integration of two NSW Electricity and Gas Retail Businesses acquired by Origin, with over 1 million customers. Completed to an exceptional migration and quality standard, a year ahead of its original schedule and well within its original $200M+ plus budget. Program manager to deliver a new, scalable state of the art data centre housing all of Origin Energy's mission critical infrastructure, applications and databases. Included migration of over 1400 servers and 200 Applications. Integrated SAP CRM & ISU solution for Origin Energy's Transformation Program. One of the largest SAP implementations in the southern hemisphere, the Retail Transformation Program won SAP's ERP Project of the year.

  • Program Manager PMO - NSW Integration

    Jan 2013 - Dec 2013

  • Program Manager - Data Centre Migration

    Jan 2013 - Aug 2013

  • Program Manager PMO - Retail Transformation

    Jan 2011 - Dec 2012
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  Energyaustralia

  Dec 2013 - May 2014

  Program director - digital transformation

  Online channel transformation program providing customer self service, online and mobile sales, and digital communications.Objective is to propel EnergyAustralia to become the leading digital platform within the Australia energy market.Ronnie was brought in to recover the program.

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  Origin energy

  Jun 2014 - Oct 2015

  Head of program management office - origin energy business & it transformation

  Accountability included scope (chaired change control board), schedule (managed multiple schedulers), risk, quality, governance, resourcing, business case, vendor engagement (peak of 200 staff), C-level engagement, providing reports to steering committee and origin board, tracking KPIs (project and vendor), delivery (over 1000 formal design and build-phase artifacts) and go-live. Project Purple is one of Origin's largest and most important programs with a budget of over $500million. Its objective is to deliver an enterprise SAP-based technology and business process solution to support all of Origin's businesses including exploration and production of oil and gas, electricity generation, and wholesale and retail sale of electricity and gas. Purple’s scope includes finance, project services, supply chain, asset maintenance, human resources, safety, compliance, risk and production operations. Purple has an internationally distributed team of 400 people, with a System Integrator vendor and a number of assurance parties.HR Transformation is a full redesign of Origin's HR platform and processes, including implementation of HR systems and HR Operating Model. Show less

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  A&l windows | doors

  Dec 2015 - Aug 2016

  Sap erp project manager

  A&L is one of the largest window manufacturers in Australia with over 650 staff.Ronnie was brought in to manage and recover a whole-of-business SAP ERP transformation that spanned Finance, Logistics, Sales, Transport, Production, Inventory, Manufacturing, R&D and Supply Chain.The SAP transformation went live July 2016 and was an outstanding success in every way: - On time- On budget- Exactly per signed-off scope- No change requests after specification lock-down- Go-Live: no business disruption- Go-Live: no critical or high severity problems- Go-Live: immediate and massive improvement in business processes, real-time fulfillment and ability to detect operational issues Show less

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  Lighting style

  Aug 2016 - now

  Managing director | founder
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  Pawssum vets on demand

  Mar 2019 - Oct 2023

  Head of digital marketing, sales and strategic initiatives

  Responsible for the following:- Google ads (achieved 750% ROI)- Expansion of business model to USA- Website- Online booking platform- Direct management of sales team/front of house- Sales transformation project (achieved 13% increase in revenue day 1 go-live)- Back of house transformation project

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  Fans r us

  Oct 2023 - now

  Manager director | founder