PRINCIPAL CONSULTANT – PROGRAM AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Candidate Description

Driving enterprise transformation through strategic advisory and disciplined delivery, the candidate brings extensive experience in program leadership, integration architecture, business analysis, and operational management. Their career includes a substantial tenure with a technology consulting firm and a current Principal Consultant role with a management consulting firm. They have supported financial services, government, and commercial organizations through complex technology and operating-model change. Core expertise spans enterprise integrations, cloud migration, workforce systems, and end-to-end project delivery. Their functional knowledge includes job scheduling, timesheet processing, payroll, human resources, and third-party integrations. Australian citizenship and NV1 clearance complement their suitability for security-sensitive engagements.

Enterprise delivery achievements combine commercial accountability with practical technology modernization. At a technology consulting firm, they oversaw pre-sales and delivery of the first phase of a $20M government agency transformation involving website and data migration to Sitecore. They also managed tenders valued at more than $120M between 2022 and 2023 and collaborated with a consulting firm and government agency stakeholders to maintain delivery momentum. Eight years in integration solution architecture included designing client solutions, responding to RFPs, and delivering the proposed implementations. Their broader delivery experience includes large-scale Office 365 rollouts, core banking modernization, and a workforce transition to Workday. Applying Agile, SAFe, and Waterfall approaches, they reduced forecasting gaps from 5% to 2% and earned recognition in a technology consulting firm's global hall of fame for a critical government compliance project.

Leadership capability extends from multidisciplinary delivery teams to enterprise workforce operations and account-level financial responsibility. They directed more than 160 professionals on a government agency account, led project teams of up to 42 members, and supported utilization management across more than 1,000 permanent and contract personnel. Their operational achievements include growing a technology consulting firm's Adelaide office to more than 100 employees within one year while strengthening forecasting, governance, and talent planning. A Bachelor of Computing from a university is complemented by PRINCE2 Foundation, Certified Integration Solution Architect, and Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist in MOSS credentials, with the Microsoft certification obtained in 2007. Further professional development covers AI Governance Professional, AI Project Delivery, Agile Scrum, PMP, PgMP, PfMP, and PMO-CP training. By combining stakeholder engagement, team development, commercial oversight, and AI strategy and governance services at a management consulting firm, they offer a well-rounded approach to complex transformation and sustainable operational improvement.