Michael Bryant
Program Director
Areas Of Expertise
- Business Transformation
- Program & Portfolio Management
- Vendor Management
- Business Process re-engineering
- Data Migration
- Scaled Agile delivery
- Program Assurance
Education
- Bachelor of Engineering with Honours – Electrical (University of Melbourne
- Masters of Management Economics (University of New South Wales, Australia)
- PMI – Project Management Professional; AIPM – Master Project Director Accreditation in Project Management and PRINCE2 certified.
- SAFe 4 Certified Agilist
About Michael Bryant
Michael Bryant is an experienced Program Director who joined Seven Consulting’s Melbourne team in 2017. He has worked extensively on delivering large-scale business transformation, complex programs of work, with multiple vendors and solutions.
He has led large programs in multiple regulated industries including telecommunications, banking & finance, utilities, private health insurance and wealth. Prior to joining Seven Consulting, Michael held executive consulting and program management roles with IBM, SMS Management & Technology and Department of Defence.
What Michael brings
- Business Transformation Executive delivery practitioner with experience in delivering large Agile/Traditional IT programs, including transformation and data migration, supporting businesses to meet their strategic objectives.
- Self-motivated and effective problem solver with the ability to work under pressure with multi-disciplinary teams across several technology platforms and industries.
- Leadership across all Program/Portfolio Management processes and tools such as stakeholder management, reporting, financial management, planning, prioritisation, benefits management data migration and risk & issue management.
- Experienced Vendor Manager focused on a teaming and collaborative approach.
Client feedback:
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Executive ECOM-Sponsor, Large Australian Financial Institution – 2025
“Michael has had a significant impact since joining the ECOM team. Impressed with how he is driving both business and technology colleagues to lift their performance and deliver better commercial outcomes.” |
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Sponsor, Residential aged care facilities – 2024
“Michael has been very committed to the success of this project and has been an important part of getting it back on track and driving it to the finish line which is close. There hasn’t been any moment where I have felt Michael has disconnected in any way.” |
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Executive Tech and Migration, Large Australian Financial Institution – 2023
“Ability to be productive very quickly, brings a sense of planning and organisation, and a solid decision and engagement framework to a massively complex program.” |
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Agile Coach – Financial Services Company – 2022
“Great at detailing and presenting complex portfolio and program management concepts and working with key stakeholders to confirm the approach to take forward.” |
Key Clients:
- MYOB
- Regis Aged Care
- SS&C
- NAB
- Macquarie
- WorkSafe Victoria
- AMP
- BNK
- NAB/MLC Wealth
- Energy Australia
- AGL
- Medibank
- NBN
- Telstra
- National Australia Bank
- Satyam
- ANZ
- Department of Defence
Key Achievements
Joined the NAB Enterprise Customer Onboarding & Management domain as the Program Director for Individual Onboarding. Michael’s role entailed providing delivery leadership whilst identifying and improving governance processes associated with managing a portfolio of work. Working with Product Management he led the team in defining the FY26 Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) and established the prioritised list of Business Outcomes. Michael led the implementation of several process improvements such as a weekly governance forum for progress tracking and decision making; improved test reporting and management; improved use of delivery tools for RAID management; establishment of regular RAID Management forum and an ongoing process improvement group. Working closely with the Heads of Delivery, Engineering and Testing Michael was accountable for end-to-end delivery outcomes for multiple asset teams / squads following the Delivery at NAB methodology.
As Program Director at NAB, Michael was engaged for the Citi integration of the Unsecured Lending (USL) Data Migration Stream responsible for the migration of customer and product data. Developed the integrated plan between the migration stream and platform build and initiated the data mapping phase. Transitioned role to internal candidate to complete the construct and deploy phase of the delivery.
As Program Director at MLC, Michael managed the MLC Wealth program to separate the Wealth business from NAB Group. Michael managed delivery of separation activities to achieve Operational separation for the MLC business. In this role Michael was a member of the Separation Program Leadership Team. The successful delivery of the program enabled the sale and transition of the MLC Wealth business to IOOF.
As Program Director at Regis Aged Care, Michael delivered a substantial HR platform business transformation to enhance its HR operations and enable greater digitisation, modernisation and cost optimization, consisting of a system for Recruitment & Onboarding, HRIS and Time & Attendance. Michael conducted an initial Program Delivery Assurance review and subsequently joined the program as the Program Director to manage delivery through to completion.
As Program Director at AGL, Michael managed the $300m Customer Experience digital transformation program using Scaled Agile delivery methodology. The program delivery was focused around three components targeting AGL’s foundational capability, the digitisation of key customer interactions and delivering “signature moments” (new customer experiences). The program also introduced new technology capabilities for AGL such as Pegasystems and Adobe Marketing suite. Michael transitioned the Program into an ongoing Portfolio of work that he then managed for the Customer Markets Leadership Team.
As Program Director at MYOB, MYOB commenced a business transformation underpinned by replacing a complex and outdated legacy stack for billing, CRM and ERP with current state SaaS solutions. Michael mobilised the program establishing program governance, program delivery structure, ways of working and decision-making authorities. Managing the design phase of the program establishing the to-be design supporting the business transformation objectives. He then handed over to another designated Program Manager for ongoing delivery.
As Program Director at SS&C, Michael was engaged by SS&C to scope and plan a Program of work to exit the Transitional Services Agreement (TSA) with Iress post the purchase of the Managed Funds Administration (MFA) business.
As Program Director at Macquarie Bank, Michael was engaged to support the planning of the Capital and Liquidity E2E Transformation programs. Introducing the O3 (Objective/Output/Outcome) methodology the programs were able to identify their common scope and structure teams for delivery. He also established a new Capacity Planning and Delivery methodology for Enterprise Data Platforms using Jira Advanced Roadmap.
As Program Director at WorkSafe Victoria, Michael completed detailed planning in preparation for a major regulatory change initiative. Michael also worked for the Insurance Business Unit to develop the initial Business Case for the procurement of $1.5B of Agent services.
As Program Director at AMP, Michael conducted a Post Implementation Review (PIR) of the AMP Data Loss Protection project. Michael assessed the project’s objectives, structure, governance, delivery methodology and outcomes and provided key improvement recommendations for future project delivery.
As Program Director at BNK, reporting to the CEO/COO, Michael conducted a Program Assessment for BNK Core Banking System upgrade program. Applying Seven’s Program Assessment methodology, he provided several recommendations to reset program scope and delivery. Commenced implementation of these recommendations and handed them over to a BNK Program Manager.
As Program Director at Energy Australia, Michael completed the business case and established the program to deliver the regulatory change supporting Five Minute Settlement and Global Settlement. The project included migration of the Information Management Data Warehouse to a cloud hosted solution.
As Business Transformation Program Manager at Medibank, Michael managed multi-disciplinary teams (150+ resources) across several technology platforms and business groups for the Implementation of Medibank’s transformation Program, replacing a 30-year-old legacy system with SAP’s Health Insurance package. The Program involved the migration of 3.7 million customer policies from the mainframe legacy system to the new SAP Policy Management system.
As Release Manager at NBN, Michael managed the delivery of NBN Operational Support Systems Integrated Release 6, 7 and 9 to production. Led delivery team of 150+ personnel across NBN Co, IBM and sub-contractor suppliers including the negotiation of vendor contracts. Michael implemented extensive risk analysis and management during the early design phase of a release to protect delivery of business benefits to Production.
As Fulfilment Platform Lead at NBN, Michael ensured successful delivery of several releases of the Comptel service fulfilment and orchestration system (now owned by Nokia).
As Assurance Platform Lead at NBN, Michael ensured successful delivery of NBN Network Alarm Management and Trouble Ticketing system supporting the Trouble to Resolve business process. With an aggressive schedule he delivered three releases from March 2011 to January 2012 achieving the financial objectives of the $20M+ Program. Prior to commencing delivery Michael was involved in solution development and contract negotiation for the overall System Integration Program.
As Program Manager at Telstra, Michael managed the ramp-up of the Telstra Identity Management Program from predominantly Sydney based team of 45 practitioners to more than 140 located in Sydney, Melbourne and India delivering multiple initiatives in the portfolio of work worth over $20M.
As Project Director at NAB, Michael managed the transition of National Australia Bank Day 1 voucher processing operation from NAB systems and premises to the vendors with a Project Budget of $25M.
As Senior Project Manager at Telstra, Michael upgraded Telstra’s existing Physical Network Inventory application based on components from the GE Energy Smallworld suite of products. This involved the data migration of Telstra’s physical network inventory to the new platform.
As Program Change Control Governance Manager at Telstra, Michael managed Telstra Operational Support Systems major upgrade across Fulfilment, Inventory, Customer Service Assurance, Network Service Assurance, and Integration Platform.
As Senior Project Manager at National Australia Bank (NAB), Michael managed the End-to-End lending project. Responsible for the delivery of the imaging work stream during the planning and design stage for the delivery of a loan document capture, indexing and storage solution for the lending workflows.
As Senior Project Manager at Satyam, Michael managed end to end responsibility for delivery of projects in SAP R/3 and SRM 4.0 environments. Managed multiple projects at different phases of the SDLC with offshore development team.
As a Senior Consultant, Michael performed various Project Management roles for clients delivering Financial Reporting solutions, Telecommunication Product Development, Business Case development and eProcurement implementations.
During his time at the Department of Defence (RAAF) Michael performed duties as a pilot at 32 & 37 Squadron and Project Manager for Department of Communication and Information Systems and Department of Information Warfare.
