Kathy Gallagher

Independent Consultant @Kathy Gallagher Consulting

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Highly successful and versatile business professional with 41 years industry experience in the finance, technology and public sector. Capabilities as a strategist, consultant and senior leader are the result of broad experience in managing business, technology, people and processes. Demonstrated ability to anticipate the business needs based on the company strategic direction and fundamental objectives, and ensures that business targets are met or exceeded. Ability to provide strong leadership and create highly effective teams gives me a strong set of competencies that can set me apart from my peers; teamed with many years of technical expertise as well as strong business background, including having run several businesses myself, allows me to provide strong leadership in the technology field. With the emergent trends of Cloud computing, big data, BYOD and the associated privacy and regulatory requirements businesses are now faced with, you need to ensure that the technology governance for business is under control. Not only do you need to be able to manage the current requirements for your business, you need to ensure your business is prepared for what the future might bring. Strong leadership and technology knowledge is now a key component of any senior leadership team, and this is what I can offer your business. My goal is to ensure that I can use my skills and expertise to make your business not only successful in the current market, but that your business goals into the future can also be technology ready.

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Work Background

Vision AustraliaFundraising CRM Program Manager

May. 2023Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · HybridWorking with the senior leadership team at Vision Australia, this role helps to provide strong governance and control over the larger technology initiatives within Vision Australia. In particular: * Development of a revised business case to support the board approval for the Fundrasing CRM project * Management of the $3.2 M Fundraising CRM implementation, including financials, resourcing and delivery Outcomes achieved so far: * Successfully received board approval to proceed with the Fundraising CRM program of work.

Kathy Gallagher ConsultingOwner

Nov. 2022Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · HybridWorking as an independent contractor providing specialist technology and business consultancy services to my wonderful clients. Currently working with the wonderful Escient team as an Associate providing delivery guidance to a range of lovely clients.

World Vision AustraliaProject Director, consulting through Escient

Dec. 2017 - Jun. 2023Melbourne, Australia · HybridWorking with the senior leadership team at World Vision, this role helps to provide strong governance and control over the larger technology initiatives within World Vision. In particular: * Management of the $1.2M Marketing Automation and Data Lake implementation, including financials, resourcing and delivery * Leadership of a $3m Grants Management initiative to support World Vision strategic objectives * Rollout out of a $2.5m ERP solution replacing WVA legacy financial systems * Direction of the $6m SODA Project CRM replacement program * Contribute to project management capability uplift for delivery Outcomes achieved: * Successfully implemented a fully integrated Marketing Automation platform (Responsys) to support revenue targets for FY19 * Creation of a new data warehouse (Data Lake) with integration to the WVA CRM (Echo), website and World Vision International (WVI) systems * Implementation of Dynamics 365 CE Solution with Grant Management capability and D365 Finance and Operations to support World Vision's financial management. * Successfully implemented a new ERP solution in 9 months to 300+ staff with the replacement of 5 WVA legacy system * Lead the SODA project team towards delivering the new D365 CE CRM replacement of their legacy CRM system.

Silverchain GroupTechnical Project Manager

Mar. 2023 - May. 2023Perth, Western Australia, Australia · RemoteProviding technical cutover support to the Silverchain group for the implementation of their new D365 FnO Finance solution. In particular: * Managing the activities to roll the new system out * Lead the hyper care period and issue resolutions as required * Transition the new system to the BAU support teams * Provide guidance and lessons learnt for future programs

EscientPrincipal Consultant

Feb. 2017 - Nov. 2022Melbourne, AustraliaWorking as a founding member of the fantastic Escient team in Melbourne, my key focus areas are: * Providing superior consulting services to our growing list of Escient clients by implementing innovative and high quality business and technology solutions across complex business environments. * Actively promote the Escient brand through business development and company promotion activities * Contribute and help drive the development of core capabilities and IP within the organisation * Help promote a high performing culture within Escient by providing support, mentoring and coaching to the wider Escient team.

Selby IT ServicesManaging Partner

Jan. 2017 - Oct. 2022Selby, Victoria, AustraliaProviding niche multimedia, digital and IT hardware/software support to the local community in the Dandenong Ranges.

SMS Management & TechnologyVictorian Capability Lead, Program and Project Services

Feb. 2016 - Jan. 2017Melbourne, AustraliaReporting to the APAC Capability lead, this role helps develop and demonstrate leadership of PPS resources, capability, and IP while working collaboratively with local Practice Managers, Industry Directors, Account Directors, and leads of other capabilities within Victoria. In particular the role looks at: • Pre-sales support - Working with the local Practice Manager and Sales Team to respond quickly and comprehensively to tenders, requests for proposals and / or informal requests for capability statements and / or PPS related outcomes / deliverables, • QA / Delivery Ownership / Leadership - Apply SMS-wide PPS capability and assurance (as necessary) to achieve location-specific SMS goals and objectives and support the capability development of local PPS resources • IP review and collation - Ensure PPS related knowledge and IP is captured, collated, updated and shared with the broader PPS and SMS teams in line with corporate standards and processes

SMS Management & TechnologyPractice Lead

Nov. 2013 - Jan. 2017Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaProvide consultants with continuity of leadership to support their job performance, professional development and career management. This includes: • Input into salary reviews and PRS reviews for team members as well as feedback from those reviews • Performance management including providing periodic feedback and conducting annual performance reviews • Provide advice on setting performance objectives and professional development goals • Coaching and advising on career progression options • Acting as a conduit for top-down/bottom-up communication, escalating issues of significance to Practice Managers where appropriate including working with relevant stakeholders to resolve issues

SMS Management & TechnologyDynamics COE Delivery

Sep. 2015 - Dec. 2015Melbourne, AustraliaWorking with the SMS Senior management team to achieve the following: • Implementation of strategies to uplift delivery capability within the Dynamics Centre of Excellence • Assistance in remediation of at risk delivery within the Dynamics COE • Identification of strategies to support and improve the delivery outcomes of the COE Outcomes achieved: • Successfully increased the delivery capability by a factor of 3 to effectively cater for growing range of delivery initiatives • Generated additional sales of $1M within a 3 month period

SMS Management & TechnologyConsultant - Program and Project Services

Jun. 2011 - Oct. 2013Providing a variety of program and project management services through SMS Management and Technology

BupaDelivery Lead Legacy stream, Customer Transformation Program

Oct. 2016 - Jan. 2017Melbourne, AustraliaWorking closely with the Legacy stream, this role provides leadership and governance in the activities associated with delivery of the BUPA Customer Transformation program. In particular this role: • Provides thought leadership in providing innovative solutions for resolving delivery related problems • Creates a culture of high employee engagement • Drives the development of a customer focused delivery culture within Transformation and IS • Drives the development of collaborative work approach across teams in Transformation and IS Key achievements of the this role include: • Establishment of $4M+ Legacy delivery stream with expected $11M+ benefits to BUPA over 5 years • Implementation of CI/CD capability to significantly reduce delivery timeframes and assist BUPA Business in speed to market for new initiatives

TelstraGeneral Manager NBN Program Management Office

Apr. 2016 - Sep. 2016Melbourne, AustraliaWorking with the Director NBN Strategy Planning and Commercial and our DR team, this role helps to provide strong governance and control to the Telstra Retail NBN portfolio. In particular: • Financial governance over a $300m+ portfolio of works covering multiple financial years • Portfolio governance in relation to quality, delivery and risk management • Relevant status reporting to the Head of NBN and the directorship team • Relationship and stakeholder management within and outside the NBN PMO • Implementation of proactive and innovative strategies to ensure high quality delivery

TelstraCustomer and Channel Capability Delivery Manager

Jun. 2015 - Aug. 2015Melbourne, AustraliaWorking with the Customer and Channel Capability General Manager to assist with: • Implementation of a business lead process initiative to enable consistent design, delivery and execution of CX capabilities. • Financial management of the engagement • Identification of delivery and process improvements within CCC Outcomes achieved: • Successful implementation of delivery model 30% below expects costs

TelstraSenior Program Manager

Jan. 2012 - Jun. 2012Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaAt Telstra, I managed the delivery team for the TBI Roadmap program. This role included the financial management of $30M program of work with approximately 170 resources onsite and in India involved in the delivery. TBI Roadmap program had been put in place to deliver the new format Telstra invoice to wholesale and commercial customers and required integration between legacy Telstra systems such as MICA and Flexcab with a new agile developed application called RIFDI. During the engagement, the program implemented two major releases with planning put in place for a following three releases during 2012. The program was also involved in supporting business activities leading up to commercial launch of the invoice in July. When I came on board the program was running six months behind and $2.5M over budget. During my tenure, I was instrumental in reviewing and implementing key areas for improvement within the program to ensure delivery timeframes were met and reductions in budget were achieved.

BHP BillitonProject Director

May. 2014 - May. 2015SingaporeSupporting the Marketing Information Systems team at BHP in a project director role. In particular addressing: * Strategic direction of programs within MIM * Implementation of risk mitigations and delivery improvements * Streamlining of vendor engagements * Financial management including pipeline forecasts and cost efficiencies * Process improvement support for MIM PMO and related functions Outcomes achieved: * Successful implementation of Strategic Data Centre Migration Program with significant reduction in ongoing operational costs and transition of managed services * Provision of a private cloud document management solution with associated costs reductions and increased performance * Strategic storage management solution with dial-up/down capability to enable enhanced cost management and agility to business needs

SuperpartnersBusiness Services Portfolio Review

Nov. 2013 - May. 2014Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaWorking with the Delivery Director and leadership team to provide support for the portfolio and assistance in governance and controls as required. In particular: • Identification of key areas of concerns and strategies to remediate • Overall support for delivery team and specific assistance with data warehouse delivery issues Outcomes of this review • Reduction in overall risk profile for the porfolio • Targetted solutions for specific issues to allow sucessful delivey within the portfolio.

Suncorp GroupBT Porfolio Consultant

Jul. 2013 - Oct. 2013Melbourne Victoria AustraliaWorking with the BT Policy team in Melbourne to provide portfolio support and coaching. Main areas being addressed are: • Identification of key areas of concern and providing support and capability uplift in delivery • Leadership coaching • Hands on assistance to implement agreed road map and co-ordination of related activities. Outcomes from this program: • Improved agile delivery of Suncorp LSP (Legacy Simplification Program) • Capability uplift of senior leadership team • Reduction in program and operational costs due to delivery efficiencies.

National Australia BankSenior Program Manager at NAB

Jul. 2012 - Jul. 2013500 Bourke Steet, MelbourneProvided program management expertise to deliver key system and process outcomes for the GMI (Global Markets Investments) department of NAB Wholesale. Role included the following responsibilities and outcomes: • Financial management of a $10M program of work for the delivery of new systems for Project Cash. • Process transformation with the GMI business • Implementation of new systems to replace existing manual or non strategic systems • Data migration and management • Integration with NAB retail systems Outcomes achieved from the program: • $31M revenue uplift predicted over the next 5 years • Business transformation by process re-engineering • Enhanced NAB Wholesale Customer experience

National Australia BankSenior Program Manager Infrastructure

Jul. 2011 - Dec. 2011Melbourne, VicManaged the infrastructure services for Release 2A of NextGen to ensure delivery of the release in March 2011. This role included the financial management of $100M program of work for the delivery of new infrastructure for Release 2A of NextGen. This included hardware from the floor up, cabling, networking, load balancers, storage and data infrastructure, VM creation, operating system, testing and shake out. During this engagement, the program developed and implemented 22 critical complete systems using the skills from a team of approx 200 resources (3 vendor suppliers) over 4 sites including an offshore development team in India. Also, during my tenure, also put in place strategic and tactical governance strategies to ensure successful delivery and reduced staff turnover within the team by 25% due to implementation of team supporting activities.

SensisIT Shared Services Solution Delivery Manager

Apr. 2010 - Jun. 2011Melbourne, AustraliaManaged the software development, support and projects services for all shared applications within Sensis. Also managed a team of 120 resources at peak and managed a capital budget of $50M. Key achievements during this period were: an increased ownership of shared applications from 5 to 43; team management from 30 resources to 120 over 8 months; reduction in Opex costs by 30% over 12 month period through the conversion of contractor to permanent staff for operational roles; delivered a new Self Service portal for Sensis; and delivered a new Metered Ads system to cater for growth of metered ads usage.

SensisHead of Infrastructure

Dec. 2009 - Mar. 2010During a 4 month secondment, managed the delivery of infrastructure projects for all of Sensis by provision of technical project management services to IT and business stakeholders. Successfully managed all infrastructure solutions as required for Sensis IT project and operational teams including provision of technical resources to complete work as required. Also managed a team of 12 technical project managers within this portfolio.

SensisIT Lead, Program Morph

Jan. 2008 - Nov. 2009Over two years, managed the Information Technology delivery for the Sensis Morph program, reporting to the Technical Transformation manager. Successfully lined managed 6 project managers, with indirect line management of another 8 project managers and around 320 staff. Responsibilities included: $200M+ budget (Technology only), 320+ resources, 2 years from design to deployment, Employed both waterfall (for the primary vendor) and Agile (for the online components) methodologies. The overall program employed over 650 staff at its peak and cost around A$500m.

SensisDomain Lead, Siebel

Dec. 2004 - Dec. 2007Over three years, acted as the domain lead for the Siebel 6.3 systems, involving implementation of large scale projects for Sensis strategic CRM and Sales application, including management of 3rd party vendors, staff and liaison with all Sensis product owners. Managed a $1.3M Opex and $3M Capital budget per annum. Delivered cost reduction of approximately $1M in Opex expenditure through process and system improvements.

ColesCRM Consultant

Jun. 2003 - Dec. 2004Melbourne, AustraliaKathy managed and implemented large project implementations for CML strategic CRM applications, including creation of company wide support infrastructure, management of 3rd party vendors and liaison with all CML brands for deployment and support for CRM solutions. Kathy implemented 2 tier infrastructure company wide, reducing server SLA for each brand; upgraded all CML CRM brands to MDE (Managed Desktop Environment) thereby allowing remote deployment of software and reduced development costs. Kathy delivered to the business an increased overall customer satisfaction within the brands due to implementation of communications strategies CML wide.

NewbizkoCEO

May. 2002 - May. 2003Melbourne, AustraliaProviding business and IT consultancy and coaching services to small and medium sized businesses including: business analysis services for POS strategy for “Marketclub” business startup; web development solutions for interstate and local businesses; mentor and training services provided to staff of various businesses (including management staff).