Industry Expertise Options:
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Description:
Pat is an executive consultant, program and project manager, program and project fixer and educator / trainer who for many years has straddled the strategy/operations, business/program and program/project levels and has extensive experience in all those contexts. Moreover, his ability to also bridge the executive/staff, business/government and military/civilian worlds provides exceptional value to any business or organisation.
Further, Pat’s experience in managing an array of clients, users, scientists, programmers, engineers, analysts, public servants, manufacturers and other contractors across many projects and project teams provides him with considerable depth. Pat’s particular talent for bringing people together in successful and productive teams, including business initiatives has required him to shape, motivate, mentor and energise those teams to focus on the required outcomes within the schedule permitted.
Pat is ideally suited to strategically positioned programs or projects and has particular skills in aligning programs and projects to business objectives and fixing problem or troubled projects and programs. Pat is also an experienced business consultant suited to resolving issues, challenges and problems that need an investigative approach with robust and defensible outcomes.
Among other qualifications Pat has a Master of Technology Management and a Diploma of Personnel and Resource Management. Pat has been an economics and engineering/project management tutor/lecturer at undergraduate and graduate level and has delivered numerous courses on project management and requirements management.
He also happens to be a world class expert in the IBM Rational DOORS – its use in a business, in training delivery, in building databases and in requirements management.
Pat’s professional, collaborative yet direct and courteous approach cuts through problems and creates a focussed and collegiate environment across clients and users, project staff, executives and other stakeholders.
Skill Seniority:
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