Department of Justice

Department of Justice’s Business Intelligence (BI) capability is at the forefront of its delivery of cross-functional analytics and reporting solutions. As Procurement Lead and Senior PM, I remediated a troubled initiative to procure services for the upgrade and migration of the department’s Oracle and COGNOS BI platforms.

Responsibilities & Contributions

• Project managed and led the delivery of a multi-million dollar initiative, including procurement of managed services, reviewing BI strategy and business case, financial analysis and project controls. Established project governance and reporting requirements.

• Established effective stakeholder management and engagement models, using informal and formal channels of communication, including workshop facilitation, process re-design, preparation of complex reports, briefings and presentations to influence stakeholders.

• Engineered the BI operational functions by incorporating agile-scrum, waterfall, enterprise release, organisational change management, and ITIL methodologies as part of the corporate and business strategy planning process.

Achievements

• Identified and remediated a pre-existing program planning and funding gap by defining the 2016 BI service model and product roadmap (including a plan to incorporate strategic change, capability uplift via self-managing agile teams and ITIL design principles) and securing an additional $5M+ funding for the Implementation Stage in less than 4 weeks, including full Ministerial and Executive sign-off.

• Mobilised a team of multidisciplinary project managers delivering BI services across 12 diverse business units, while managing vendor relationships to achieve a best-and-final offer resulting in a 32% cost savings against expected projections for DJR.

• Provided a roadmap for more streamlined and cost-effective service delivery, including a tailored organisational design and impact assessment to integrate new and emerging data and analytics capability for the operational teams.