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Mikaelah Rehutai

Porirua,WGN

Summary

Enthusiastic and Highly motivated IT Professional with expertise in Corporate IT Change Management and IT Service Managemnet. Cultivates rapport with individuals to optimize project goals and output, resolve complex problems and deliver innovative improvement strategies.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

Change Management Co-Ordinator

New Zealand Police
2023.07 - Current
  • Received New Comer of the Year Award 2023 presented by our Deputy Chief Executive and Chief Information Officer at the NZ Police IT Awards Ceremony
  • Promotes responsibility, accountability, integrity and quality within the change management lifecycle to stakeholders
  • Assist in the running of the Change Advisory Board (CAB) meetings, and ensures the CAB agendas and minutes are prepared and distributed in a timely fashion
  • Promotes a professional customer-focused service delivery culture that is service-based and aligned with current IT industry best practices
  • Maintain a forward schedule of changes for all approved changes
  • Represented and presented Police Change Management in a Service Management Conference held with Spark - March 2024
  • Contributes to Change Management including assessing changes, authorising changes, reviewing changes and scheduling changes – i.e. Maintaining the Change Management Lifecycle, for both internal and external vendors and partnerships
  • Maintain an overview of all RFCs and facilitates action or escalates, as required.
  • Identified impacted parties, business partners and resources required for planned changes.
  • Developed and delivered change management support documentation and manuals.
  • Identifies and implements continual service improvement strategies for reducing failures for change
  • Maintains excellent relationships with ICTSC teams to facilitate the on-boarding of changes, the resolution of any issues and the continuous flow of change information between stakeholders
  • Ensures that all changes are recorded, tracked, updated, and managed through their lifecycle
  • Identifies and implements continual service improvement strategies for reducing failures for change
  • Created and optimized records management strategies to coordinate and protect information.

Bartender

Homegrown Events Ltd
2024.03 - 2024.03

Casual Bar Staff Contractor for Homegrown Festival 2024 and Freg Again Gig 2024 hosted at Waitangi Park in Wellington

  • Maintained a clean and organized workspace, ensuring compliance with health and safety regulations.
  • Contributed to a positive work environment through effective teamwork and communication with colleagues.
  • Managed cash handling duties responsibly, ensuring accurate accounting at the end of each shift.
  • Served high customer volumes during festival.
  • Ensuring all ID's are checked and customer is not intoxicated prior to serving alcohol
  • Kept bar presentable and well-stocked to meet customer needs.
  • Followed alcohol awareness procedures for preventing excessive guest intoxication.

Human Resources Assistant

New Zealand Police
2022.09 - 2023.07

Provides administrative support and advice in Human Resources Management within the Human Resources Service Centre

  • Created and completed personnel action forms for hires, terminations and position movements.
  • Contributes to and assist in implementation of Human Resource Projects such Kronos Migration and Field Training Officer Constabulary Project 2023. I was also the only HR assistant responsible for the Tasman, Southern and Canterbury district personnel files.
  • Representative of HR Hub in charge of hosting District/Workgroup Meetings in 2023 to provide insight on HR processes and how we connect together in business.
  • Ensuring all services results and complaints are met with professional, customer friendly and timely response
  • Assisted with meetings and presentations within company
  • Knowledge and Experience in MyPolice Specialist, SAP and Successfactors Applications
  • Apply Policy and Procedures as set out by Police National Headquarters and Service Centre Manager
  • Became an HR Vetting Lead for New Zealand Police Headquarters responsible for Vetting Internal, External, snd Agency Vetting using the Police Vetting System, Real ME and SuccessFactors.
  • Managing permanent appointments, staff designations and leave.
  • Manages District Personal Files and Staff
  • Directed and Mentored Vetting Training for 12 Team Members across New Zealand via MS Teams or in-person.
  • Developed and implemented policies and procedures to use for recruitment, employee relations and benefits administration.
  • Responded to employee inquiries regarding benefits and other HR topics.

Bar Staff Member - Contractor

Homegrown Events LTD
2023.03 - 2023.03

Bar Staff Member at Homegrown Festival serving Customer alcohol and non-alcohol beverages.


  • Kept bar presentable and well-stocked to meet customer needs.
  • Processed Eftpos Transactions and Served alcohol and non-alcohol beverages to Customers
  • Organized bar inventory and storage procedures to keep stock within optimal levels and meet expected customer demands.
  • Handled simultaneous customer, team and business needs while avoiding unnecessary delays or errors.
  • Collaborated with staff members to enhance customer service experience and exceed team goals.
  • Followed alcohol awareness procedures for preventing excessive guest intoxication.
  • Adhered to state laws regarding alcoholic beverage services and customer regulations.
  • Decreased waste, following strict recipes and drink measurement protocol.

Service Desk Analyst

New Zealand Police
2019.08 - 2022.09

Providing 24/7 ICT Support to a large number of internal employee's with over 1000 applications working within a team of 30.

  • Entered service tickets into incident tracking system to facilitate faster problem identification and resolution.
  • ITIL Knowlegde and Experience
  • End User Support: Such as Software and Hardware Assistance in MS office, Ms Azure, RSA Console, SAP, Windows 8.1/10, ServiceNow and much more.
  • Able to Adapt Quickly and work across different systems and software depending on Customer Incident or Request.
  • Responsible for own workloads and managing queue work such as updating/resolving tickets in organized queues for example: Priority 1 Severity Tickets to Radio Enable/Disable, Emails and My Groups Work Queues.
  • Engaged in user support interactions via telephone, chat and email platforms.
  • Troubleshooting Windows, Microsoft Office and New Zealand Police Software/Hardware Incidents and Request
  • Knowledge and Experience in Remote Security Access (RSA) such as: enabling/disabling tokens, re-assigning new tokens and troubleshooting Remote Access Incidents.
  • Fair understanding of SAP Systems.
  • Troubleshooting Mobility, Hardware and Application based faults at Service Desk level such as: Laptops, iPhones, Deskphone's, PC Monitors, Webex Smart boards and Police Radios.
  • Assisting other colleagues where needed with incidents/requests.
  • Providing knowledge, assistance, training and process flows to Team Members
  • Communicating with internal teams such as MyPolice Specialist, Application Support, Infrastructure Teams etc and external vendors such as Hexagon, Spark, Vodafone etc for further ticket resolution or advice
  • Knowledge around ITSM tool - ServiceNow
  • Actively Managing Service Desk Queues ensuring any unresolved/urgent jobs are escalated to appropriate teams/external vendors or resolved at first point of contact
  • Improved customer service rankings by quickly resolving issues to improve overall satisfaction.

Retail Sales Assistant

Shampoo Plus Ltd
2018.06 - 2019.08
  • Greeted customers and helped with product questions, selections and purchases.
  • Organized store merchandise racks and displays to promote and maintain visually appealing environments.
  • Worked closely with shift manager to solve problems and handle customer concerns.
  • Opened and closed store independently and prepared nightly bank drop for manager.
  • Increased sales by 10% offering advice on purchases and promoting additional products.
  • Answered product questions with up-to-date knowledge of sales and store promotions.
  • Helped customers complete purchases, locate items and join reward programs.
  • Issued receipts and processed refunds, credits or exchanges.
  • Stocktake: Kept documentation and records accurate and up-to-date with latest data to prevent errors in processing or delivery.
  • Answered customer questions and provided detailed product information.

Colour Technician

Rodney Wayne
2016.09 - 2018.06
  • Excelled and became a Kerastase Brand Ambassador: Attending workshops to gain knowledge for New Products and Ranges.
  • Mentored and Trained new Team Members such as Apprentices in Color Work and Salon Processes
  • Maintained and offered highly skilled and diverse Salon Services to Regular Clients of up to 20+ regular Clients while handling new walk-in clients weekly
  • Applied specialized color techniques to create makeovers from natural to theatrical
  • Promoted and sold salon services and products resulting to achieved KPI Targets.
  • Educated Clients about products and self-maintenance for healthy hair based on needs and preferences
  • Conducted Client Consultations to understand Client's desired Hair Goals and current concerns.
  • Built strong and lasting rapport with clients through consistent delivery of requested services and exceptional results.
  • Ensured Salon is Clean and Maintained in between color and cut Services
  • Knowledge of Rodney Wayne System, Booking Software and Salon Banking such as Float, Total Banking for day and ensuring Banking System is up to date with correct information and reports.
  • Shampooed, Conditioned and rinsed clients hair using Salon Exclusive products while educating clients on product benefits increasing Kerastase by 50% Sales
  • Maintaining regular client files and ensuring they are kept up to date with latest in-salon services

Salon Assistant

Mani's Salon
2014.11 - 2014.12
  • Prepared and mixed color formulas for clients hair.
  • Massaged client's scalp during shampoos.
  • Helped prepare clients for requested hair services.
  • Greeted clients to salon with warmth and professionalism for consistent positive first impressions.
  • Kept Salon and Salon Tools Clean while keeping on top of Towel Laundry
  • Delivered exceptional level of service to each customer by listening to concerns and answering questions.
  • Ensured clients had fresh beverages and magazines during services

Casual Stocktake

Rocks Netball Club
2014.03 - 2014.03

Casual Stocktake for Bunnings Warehouse this was due to a Netball Club Fundraiser. This helped raise funds for our Club and Team Fees for the Netball Season.

  • Conducted inventory and restocked items
  • Recorded information, shortages, and discrepancies to keep records current and accurate.

Education

Certificate - Information Technology

Auldhouse
Wellington
11.2023

Course Paper - Small Business Idea

Open Polytechnic
Wellington, WGN
05.2022

Certificate - Beauty

National Association Lash Academy
Wellington, WGN
04.2022

Certificate in Hairdressing Emerging Stylist - Hairdressing

Wellington Institute of Technology
Wellington
2018

Certificate in Hairdressing Level 2 - Hairdressing

Premier Academy
Lower Hutt
2016

Certificate in Hairdressing Salon Support Level 3 - Hairdressing

Whitireia Polytechnic
Porirua
2016

Certificate in Beauty Therapy - Beauty Therapy

Whitireia Polytechnic
Porirua
2015

Certificate in Retail And Cosmetics Level 2 - Retail And Cosmetics Level 2

Whitireia Polytechnic
Porirua
2013

National Certificate of Education Achievement -

Aotea College
Papakowhai
2012

Skills

  • Service Desk Support
  • ServiceNow Knowledge and Experience
  • ITIL Knowledge and Experience
  • Fast Learner
  • Team Player
  • Organizational Skills
  • Analytical and Methodical
  • Adaptable
  • Calm and Professional Under Pressure
  • Customer Service and Assistance
  • Microsoft Windows and Office Support
  • Microsoft Azure, RSA Console and Adobe Support Knowledge and Experience
  • Resolving Problems and Incidents
  • Proficient Typing Skills
  • Excellent Communication Skills
  • Business Administration
  • Critical Thinking
  • Personnel Records Maintenance
  • HRIS Management

References

Olivia Wareham

Service Desk Trainer

Mobile: 02119337241

Email: Olivia.Wareham@police.govt.nz


Talita Orr

Ex Service Desk Team Leader at NZ Police

Mobile: 0279674375




Hobbies

  • Wolf Nation Powerlifting Athlete 2024
  • Member of the SQL Academy from 2022- current
  • Member of the New Zealand Police Women's Softball Team 2020/23/24
  • Member of the New Zealand Police Recruitment Panel 2022
  • Assistant Manager of the Rocks Premier One Women's Netball Team 2020
  • Team Player for Kapiti Coast Women's Softball Team at the Saint's Softball Tournament 2020
  • Back Up Team Player for Tawa Prem 2 Women's Softball Team 2020

Timeline

Bartender

Homegrown Events Ltd
2024.03 - 2024.03

Change Management Co-Ordinator

New Zealand Police
2023.07 - Current

Bar Staff Member - Contractor

Homegrown Events LTD
2023.03 - 2023.03

Human Resources Assistant

New Zealand Police
2022.09 - 2023.07

Service Desk Analyst

New Zealand Police
2019.08 - 2022.09

Retail Sales Assistant

Shampoo Plus Ltd
2018.06 - 2019.08

Colour Technician

Rodney Wayne
2016.09 - 2018.06

Salon Assistant

Mani's Salon
2014.11 - 2014.12

Casual Stocktake

Rocks Netball Club
2014.03 - 2014.03

Certificate - Information Technology

Auldhouse

Course Paper - Small Business Idea

Open Polytechnic

Certificate - Beauty

National Association Lash Academy

Certificate in Hairdressing Emerging Stylist - Hairdressing

Wellington Institute of Technology

Certificate in Hairdressing Level 2 - Hairdressing

Premier Academy

Certificate in Hairdressing Salon Support Level 3 - Hairdressing

Whitireia Polytechnic

Certificate in Beauty Therapy - Beauty Therapy

Whitireia Polytechnic

Certificate in Retail And Cosmetics Level 2 - Retail And Cosmetics Level 2

Whitireia Polytechnic

National Certificate of Education Achievement -

Aotea College
Mikaelah Rehutai