Justin Herbert

Objective: To implement project management principles and a work programme for the Clinical, Quality and Safety team.

• Delivered a work programme for the Clinical Chiefs and Clinical Advisors to improve their ways of working within the Ministry and with the other Directorates.
• Successfully established relationships with the Clinical team and their Senior Leadership team completing interviews with 15 Clinicians on their current ways of working and regular catch ups and advice into SLT.
• Successfully established relationships with Deputy Director Generals and Groups Managers of all the Directorates within the Ministry to discuss better ways of working with the Clinical, Quality and Safety team.
• Facilitated and delivered the work programme involving a Clinical, Quality and Safety Planning Day, bringing the team from across NZ to Wellington. Included keynote speakers from the Deputy Director General, the Deputy Director General from another Directorate, and delivery of key sections from the Group Manager and members of the working group.
• Delivered change management to transition the management and support of the work programme in to BAU rolling out Microsoft Work Planner Basic.
• Led cross-functional teams to deliver healthcare projects on time and within budget.
• Developed project plans aligning with organizational goals to enhance service delivery.
• The delivery of a Risk Management framework, RASCI and recommendations for future consideration to improve Clinical, Quality and Safety delivery.
• Delivered terms of reference for better governance for the Clinical, Quality and Safety Senior Leadership team better aligned with the Ministry's governance.

Objective: To support the Programme Director in managing the partnership and alliance, set up a PMO, governance, and reset the Programme through the TOC (Target Outturn Cost Agreement) phase.

• Reviewing and resetting Programme Governance and Programme Management Office roles and responsibilities.
• Managing relationships between the partnership with NZTA, Hutt City Council, Greater Wellington Regional Council and Mana Whenua.
• Delivery of a Partnership Agreement between NZTA, Greater Wellington Regional Council, Hutt City Council, and Mana Whenua, coordinating the Board and Project Directors.
• Coordinating efforts to deliver a coordinated delivery plan with construction sequence for a Programme estimated to take over 7 years.
• Delivering a recommendation of a new delivery strategy that best suits the Partners moving them from Programme to Partner Led Delivery.
• Team management and mentoring of the Programme Management Office.
• Delivery of a Programme Management Plan and Programme Procedures Manual, manage risks and issues and deliver a RASCI.

Objective: To cover for maternity leave, supporting the Māori Language Commission to deliver strategic and operational projects and manage their project team.

• Responsible for the management of 3 project managers delivering projects for the Māori Language Commission.
• Responsible for all PMO activities and the delivery of all projects as a programme for the agency.
• Responsible for designing a project management framework using te ao Māori principles.
• Responsible for the delivery of the Māori Language Commissions premier event, Ngā Tohu, which is a national awards event celebrating Māori success in the promotion of te reo Māori.
• Strategic planning and delivery.
• Led cross-functional teams to execute strategic initiatives for Māori language revitalization programs.
• Developed and implemented project management frameworks to enhance operational efficiency and stakeholder engagement.

Objective: To deliver key curriculum projects for Te Uepū Reo Māori for the redevelopment of Te Marautanga o Aotearoa (the curriculum for schools who deliver their teaching and learning programmes through the Māori language).

• Delivery of Te Kawa Matakura. An Iwi/marae led programme delivering the passing on of knowledge from iwi elders to their rangatahi.
• Workshop facilitation to define scope and objectives for Te Marautanga o Aotearoa with the Ministry of Education wider programme and Te Uepū Reo Māori team.
• Delivery of a project plan describing the work packages, timeframes, resources, and budgets to deliver Te Marautanga o Aotearoa.
• Management of the RAID register.
• Management of suppliers to ensure key resources were designed, produced and delivered on time and sent out to schools nationwide.
• Coordinated cross-functional teams to deliver timely results while managing stakeholder expectations.

• Objective: To establish and imbed a shared service to provide back office functions for the four workforce development councils as part of the vocational education reforms (ROVE).
• Delivering and establishing the core back-office support services to support the Workforce Development Councils with people, processes, and systems for Finance, HR/Payroll, IT, Policy, and Training.
• Ensuring delivery is in line with honouring Te Tiriti, coordinating with Kahui and Kaimahi Māori advisory.
• Responsible for managing the delivery of policies and a transformational policy framework.
• Responsible for managing key relationships with CE’s across the four workforce development councils.
• Identifying projects with indicators of failure early and implementing plans to get them back on track.
• Delivery and management of Service Level Agreements with each Workforce Development Council, ensuring the Workforce Development Councils receive consistent quality of service from the Shared Service (Hāpaitia).
• Successfully delivered a change management programme to establish Hāpaitia into BAU with good governance, clear roles and responsibilities, and excellent Chief Executive ownership across the five councils.

• Objective: To investigate options for partnership into Steinemann Construction design, a company that builds environmentally friendly prefabricated passive homes.
• Implemented XERO as an FMIS to move manual financial processing to digital.
• Implemented Site Safe practices, trained the team, identified and sign posted hazardous work areas, and held daily tool box sessions to improve Health and Safety.
• Developed a business plan for the partnership with financial forecasting, operational plans, and an investment plan to help both parties decide options.
• Importation of double and triple glazed windows, steico and cross laminated timber from Europe.

• Objective: As a Project Manager to support clients NZQA in New Zealand and the Ministry of Education, Israel delivering digital examination software, functions and features.
• Weekly management meetings with NZQA and Israel to understand their work programmes and support needed to deliver digital exams and assessment.
• Managing fortnightly sprints with the development team to deliver features and functions for NZQA and Israel.
• Working closely with Product Owners to ensure delivery is timely, meets the clients needs, and has the right quality.
• Working closely with the testers to identify potential bugs early.
• Delivering software improvement via Agile.
• SoNET is a provider of SaaS and mobile solutions for education and community services sectors. Our national and international clients are provided with complete software services – design, development, hosting, support and maintenance.

• Objective: To deliver trial and pilot digital assessments for NCEA secondary school students across New Zealand. To gather feedback from students, teachers, principles and families for the purposes of rolling out digital exams and assessment for all secondary schools.
• Delivery of digital assessment NCEA trials and pilots to over 200 schools and 3500 students nationwide.
• Coordination of suppliers for the provision of a stable digital platform.
• Closely coordinated release packages with the supplier to ensure the features and functions were delivered on time and tested internally before rolling out for use.
• Coordination and support of Markers nationwide to ensure online marking was done on time and with accuracy.
• Daily, minute by minute monitoring of digital exams throughout the exam cycle to ensure students could log in, access and complete exams, whilst coordinating with Invigilators to resolve any issues in real time.
• Internal and external stakeholder management to continually learn and improve the digital exam experience.
• Delivery and implementation of change management for schools and NZQA to operationalise digital exams and assessment.
• Assessment of student access to technology and internet service providers by location throughout NZ to establish an implementation strategy to deliver technology to students in remote areas or with affordability issues.
• Delivery of the business case to Treasury to roll out digital exams nationwide and for ongoing funding to support the digital rollout and operation.

Achieved:

• The successful delivery of a Disaster Recovery Programme
• The successful delivery of an upgraded Debt collection management system.

Achieved:

• The successful implementation of Business Automation, IBM ODM tools for the Simplification Programme.

Achieved:

• Client Relationship Manager delivering business improvement and relationship management for Child, Youth and Family and sitting on the executive for Fingo Consulting.

Achieved:

• Delivery of a Disaster Recovery Programme
• Delivery of a Proof of Concept for the implementation of digital printing solutions for assessment.

Achieved:

• Delivery of software implementation support and upgrades for Fronde clients MBIE, MPI, and Customs.

Achieved:

• Delivering "fail fast" proof of concept solutions using Agile to help support the business for Asset tracking and maintenance.

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• Delivery of a National VoIP CiSCO implementation.
• Delivery of SAP Project Costing and timesheeting for the business.

Achieved:

• Delivery of PeopleSoft Functional implementations in Finance and Procurement
• Delivery of Business Re-engineering implementations

Achieved:

• Delivery of Peoplesoft of Finance and Procurement for Shandong Electric Power in Jinan, Shandong Province.

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• Supporting Citipower as a PeopleSoft Functional Consultant managing releases, developers, and the customer.

Achieved:

• Delivery of PeopleSoft Finance and Procurement for Macau Telecom.

Achieved:

• Delivery of PeopleSoft Procurement for Meridian Energy in it's establishment phase.

• Deepsea Trawler fishing