Peter Boylan
Program Office Consultant

BComm-Bachelor of Commerce, National University of Ireland

Core Skills     

• Demonstrated skills as PMO consultant on large scale programs
• Issue, Risk & Assumption management
• Scope management
• Configuration Change Control
• Statement of Work, Work Package & Purchase Order drafting, review and adjustments
• Management of Project budgets and expenditure
• Project Scheduling
• Project Reporting to Steering Committee level
• Supporting multiple Project Managers simultaneously
• Stakeholder management & vendor relationships
• Management of Program Logistics and Procurement
• Administration of large Program Teams (50-70 FTEs)
• Creating and updating Program documentation and templates
• Meeting organisation and minuting
• MS Project, Office & Visio proficient
• Proficient in PMBOK methodology

Key Clients            

• Commonwealth Bank
• Hutchison
• Telstra
• Unisys

 Key Achievements

• Consultant on a high-level Program replan for Commonwealth Bank.
• PMO for the Hutchison Managed Services transition. Completed contract negotiations, Due Diligence and Program Planning. Program cancelled due to the merger with Vodafone.
• Created and maintained agreed baselined scope for transition during contract negotiations.
• PMO for the Hutchison Billing System Upgrade Program ($10M+). This program was delivered successfully, under budget and ahead of schedule. Management of the program's budget and finances. This involved auditing prior expenditure, integrating resource plans for each workstream, (including all labour and material costs) into an overall Program budget. The budget and expenditure projections were updated weekly throughout the program. This required working closely with all the vendors and project managers to get accurate and timely costs and estimates.
• Organised the move of the entire project team from various offices to one new location. This involved coordinating the movement of people and equipment, changing access, phone and network connections while ensuring that the minimum number of work hours were lost.
• Program Coordinator for the Transition of Cathay Pacific’s IT Systems from IBM to Unisys. This program was delivered successfully, under budget and ahead of schedule. The setup and management of a new daily configuration change control meeting for the program. This involved managing the appropriate SMEs to evaluate all changes, ensuring compatibility between changes. The result of this was a daily report to the Service Delivery Manager. This meeting pre-empted a number of potentially serious issues.
• Ran the transition of change control on the Cathay account from Unisys Sydney to Unisys Bangalore. This involved creating training materials, writing documentation explaining the toolsets involved, the processes and reasoning, and training the resources allocated to the task.
• Planned and coordinated the review of over 180 Telstra Program Directors, Project Managers and Project Coordinators. This project was delivered successfully, under budget and on-time. Created a Score Summary document including analysis of trends and patterns in the results and produced a draft report based on these.