Project Manager at Advanced Metering Systems
New Zealand
- Current
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- Project Manager at AMS - Advanced Metering Services
- Past
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- Senior Project & Programme Mngr at Unisys
- Senior Project Manager / Programme Manager at Unisys Ltd
- Sr. Project Mngr at BravePoint Inc
- Senior Software Engineer (Contract) at McCamish Systems
- Sr. Business Analyst at Syfrets Ltd
- Sr. Software Engineer at PETER J. KAUFMAN
- Project Mngr & Business Partner at OTS Pty Ltd
- Project Manager at Cape of Good Hope Bank
- Project Manager at Syfrets - Cape Town South Africa
- Project Leader at Syfrets Ltd
- Analyst Programmer at Syfrets Ltd
- Analyst Programmer at Getronics - Amsterdam - the Netherlands
- Analyst-Programmer at Infotheek - the Netherlands
- Programmer at MBC - the Netherlands
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Peter Kaufman (PMP)’s Summary
Peter has an extensive background and expertise in project management, methodologies, tools and techniques, and has successfully worked in large environments managing development and delivery of complex software applications.
Peter is a highly motivated, professional and PMI accredited senior project manager.
Peter has a passion for showing real interest in customer business needs, requirements gathering, leading collaborative workshops, designing solutions and building strong high performance teams deliver software that works.
During Peter's career, while working with teams and companies around the globe, he had the opportunity to gain a lot of knowledge of different approaches, best practices and methodologies; from traditional Waterfall approach to Rational Unified Process (RUP) and more flexible, iterative and incremental methodologies that embrace agile philosophies.
Peter Kaufman (PMP)’s Specialties:
Project management, Programme Management, Change Management, Business Transformation, Innovation, Continuous Process Improvement, Product Management
Peter Kaufman (PMP)’s Experience
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Project Manager
AMS - Advanced Metering Services
(Information Services industry)
August 2009 — Present (8 months)
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Senior Project & Programme Mngr
Unisys
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; UIS; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2008 — April 2009 (1 year 4 months)
Senior Project Manager @ Unisys Wellington New Zealand
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Senior Project Manager / Programme Manager
Unisys Ltd
(Information Services industry)
January 2008 — April 2009 (1 year 4 months)
Duties: Project & Programme Management on the New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) account.
Achievements:
Accelerated closure of third party payment system integration project, removed roadblocks to enable rapid test execution; Result: saved project by just in time delivery.
Reviewed business process at VTNZ; discussed changes with end-users, managed "Heavy Vehicle Brake Rule" project and successfully implemented legislative driven changes; Result: on-time and on-budget delivery.
Presented project sponsor with options to revive stalled project; drove requirements gathering, business analysis and design effort; Result: rapidly assessed needs, goals, objectives, gathered requirements, completed stage 1 under budget, ahead of schedule.
Inspired team to build prototype; Result: demonstrated prototype on handheld device to project sponsor and stakeholders, obtained excellent feedback, prototype tested by testing officers.
Mentored intermediate project managers on how to handle difficult client issues; Result: obtained quicker approval to proceed to next stage and less time waiting.
Supported continuous improvement; wrote paper and presented recommended improvements to risks management practice;
Actively contributed to business transformation. Result: suggested ways to optimize usage of offshore resources and improve communication with virtual teams;
Piloted use of Enterprise Architect (EA) as modeling tool; collaborated with 3rd party and client, designed templates and supporting business procedures. Result: Delivered procedures and templates for use of EA.
Identified inefficiency in process, determined risk and proposed solution Result: Successfully persuaded client to install central EA repository.
Pioneered face-to-face interactive workshops with client involving subject matter experts, business analysts, project managers. Result: advantages were observed by senior management, presented outline of approach to general managers. -
Sr. Project Mngr
BravePoint Inc
(Information Services industry)
November 1998 — December 2007 (9 years 2 months)
Duties: Project management of multiple simultaneously executed projects ($100K-$1M); Assess customer needs, interview stakeholders, manage requirements, change and expectations; prepare statements of work and proposals; product management; work with sales new and repeat business.
Achievements:
Conceptualized and designed project management website, managed construction and implementation. This site allows customers and the project team to collaborate online and share project artefacts. Results: Significant improvement in collaboration with client by providing access to easy to use web tool for tracking and monitoring of issues and risks.
Instigated online repository of latest version of all project documents, listing team members contact details, ageing of open issues and logging full event history. Result: site provides transparent communication and keeps entire project team accurately informed with real-time data at all times without any duplication in process.
Identified customer needs and market potential, performed competitor analysis, listed, defined and prioritized top features with high sales value; Product managed development of new web-based product, designed main features, managed application development and implementations. Results: signed up fifteen new customers, implemented in two years.
Product sold off for $1,000,000 to Fidelity. Success continued, at present there are close to one hundred customers who bought the product and services.
Architected new relational data model, project managed construction and implementation of a Worker Compensation Management System for the State of South Carolina. Result: successfully completed migration from legacy system to RDMS web-based application, further commercialized application into a product to get ready for sales to other States of America. -
Senior Software Engineer (Contract)
McCamish Systems
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Insurance industry)
1998 — 1999 (1 year )
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Sr. Business Analyst
Syfrets Ltd
(Information Services industry)
October 1996 — December 1998 (2 years 3 months)
Performed requirements gathering, business analysis and design duties; designed process workflows; prepared plan to migrate legacy Consumer Credit Application to Microsoft technology (SQL Server, web & business intelligence)
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Sr. Software Engineer
PETER J. KAUFMAN
(Information Services industry)
January 1998 — November 1998 (11 months)
Systems analysis and design duties, worked with business analysts; participated in requirements gathering; prototyped and demonstrated new features to users; performed QA and code inspections; developed custom components and web-enabled access
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Project Mngr & Business Partner
OTS Pty Ltd
(Information Services industry)
June 1995 — October 1996 (1 year 5 months)
Responsible for business development and project management of application projects; managed 15 developers deliver R 3,000,000 migration project in 18 months. Managed 8 months R 600,000 investment planning application development project
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Project Manager
Cape of Good Hope Bank
(Information Services industry)
September 1994 — June 1995 (10 months)
One of two Project Managers for 1200 employee investment management company; Managed 15 team members design, develop, test and implement client-server software applications; as Business Transformation Lead facilitated reengineering sessions; Identified new business needs and opportunities for system improvements, migrations, system rewrites and new applications for 3 business units; marketing, treasury and accounting.
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Project Manager
Syfrets - Cape Town South Africa
(Financial Services industry)
February 1992 — May 1995 (3 years 4 months)
Project manager software development projects
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Project Leader
Syfrets Ltd
(Information Services industry)
November 1993 — September 1994 (11 months)
Saved failing implementation of a large accounting system: Result: promoted to Project Manager. Coached 5 analyst programmers resolve issues, repair defects, implement system changes and new features in operational environment. Proposed and implemented interface standards with other product systems.
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Analyst Programmer
Syfrets Ltd
(Information Services industry)
November 1992 — November 1993 (1 year 1 month)
Performed system analysis duties, programmed, wrote technical specifications, created data models and administered databases, performed code reviews and quality assurance; rewrote Participation Mortgage Bond System from COBOL/Mainframe to Progress 4GL client-server.
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Analyst Programmer
Getronics - Amsterdam - the Netherlands
(Information Services industry)
November 1991 — November 1992 (1 year 1 month)
Performed system analysis duties and developed prototype for large front/back office banking applications (ING Bank Amsterdam); administered CASE tools environment.
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Analyst-Programmer
Infotheek - the Netherlands
(Information Services industry)
November 1990 — November 1991 (1 year 1 month)
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Programmer
MBC - the Netherlands
(Information Services industry)
November 1988 — November 1990 (2 years 1 month)
Additional Information
Peter Kaufman (PMP)’s Interests:
Mountain biking, reading, sailing, cooking, great outdoors, skiing
Peter Kaufman (PMP)’s Groups:
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PMI Certified PMPs -
Agile Professionals Network -
o.v. B.O.R.G.I.A. -
New Zealand Business and Professional Network -
RiskSIG.com -
Wellington, NZ -
Hudson ICT Wellington
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