Project Description
Robert Caminiti
PMO Director
Areas Of Expertise:
- PMO Set-Up
- Development & Implementation of Portfolio & Project Management Methodologies/Frameworks
- Portfolio
- Program & Project Governance & Reporting
- Portfolio Management tools
Education:
- Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering, South Australia Institute of Technology
- Certified PRINCE2 & Earned Value Management Professional
- Project Management Institute PMI Member
About Robert Caminiti
Robert is a skilled PMO Director, who joined Seven Consulting’s Melbourne Practice in March 2013. He has over 20 years’ experience with extensive Transformation and Business Change, Portfolio/Program and Project Management experience. Robert provides Transformation, Business and Program Management, Governance, leading Program Managers, Project Managers and Change professionals in ensuring transparent delivery of the right things at the right time with the right quality. He has demonstrated through the successful implementation of several Portfolio/Program Management Offices for major programs and organisations across both Agile & Traditional delivery environments.
What Robert brings
- Develops and deploys Portfolio, Program & Project Management Frameworks across a broad range of delivery methodologies (e.g. Waterfall, Hybrid and/or Agile).
- Manages Strategic Project Portfolios, in Portfolio Management Committee meetings, with emphasis on the provision of advice on performance and potential implications resulting from any project variances and/or changes to the Business Case.
- Coaching and mentoring of direct reports and key team members to develop their capabilities to the benefit of the program and organization.
- Experience in managing a variety of high-level stakeholders from Heads of Office and/or Departmental Managers.
Client feedback:
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Chris Apostolou, Program Manager – 2023
“Dedication and drive to complete the work.” |
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Key Clients:
- Future Fund
- Healthscope
- NAB
- Telstra
- ANZ
- Medibank
- QBE Insurance
- Bendigo & Adelaide Bank
- Latitude Financial Services
- Goldman Sachs JBWere
Key Achievements:
As Lead consultant at City of Melbourne, Rob was responsible for reviewing and assessing’s their existing technology delivery practices, and to make recommendations to improve and enhance its delivery methodology that will be adaptable to multiple delivery approaches. The scope of the review covers aspects of Methodology & Frameworks, Project Delivery, Governance & Reporting, Resourcing & Staffing, Financial Management and Organisational Change Management practices.
As PMO Manager at Future Fund, Robert was responsible in facilitating the yearly Business Planning cycles and overseeing the Strategic Projects Portfolio (budget ~$40m); which involved providing more focused governance and greater insight & analysis into the status of the portfolio, and its projects. Robert was also involved in defining and implementing the Project Services target operating model, Project Management & Governance Frameworks, and the project delivery capability, through increased levels of support and training.
As PMO Director at Healthscope, Robert was responsible in developing and defining the Transformation Portfolio Roadmap and Dashboard Tracker for the 20 Organisational Priorities (Scope, Cost & Benefits, Deliverables, Resources and Dependencies). Developed Transformation Management Office (TMO) Capability / Maturity Roadmap for TMO over the next 12 months for Board understanding and implementation.
As Tribe Central (Services) Director for NAB HLEX Portfolio Target Scaled Agile Delivery Mode. The key objective of the engagement was to define the roadmap and help NAB scale up the home lending portfolio from the current pilot state to the future state. Robert was responsible for developing and implementing the Quarterly Planning approach and facilitating the first Quarterly Planning Program Increment for the TRIBE Portfolio, consisting of approximately 50 attendees.
As Business Operations Principal – Business Ops, Finance & Reporting at Telstra, Robert was responsible for leadership and oversight of the Business Operations, Finance, Reporting & Governance team of the B2B Digitisation program (circa $800M over 4 years) working in scaled Agile to deliver on Telstra’s T22 strategic targets. He conducted an independent, program wide review considering all potential factors that would place the delivery of the program at risk. By developing & driving the approval of the B2B Business case and Financial Year Funding Requests, as well as providing central support to enable effective decision making. Leading a team of 15 FTE that covered all areas of the PMO including schedule, risk, issue, resource, financial, scope, reporting and governance management and leading and facilitating various governance committees. Robert played a key role in the Program exceeding its strategic, financial, and delivery objectives for the year.
Additionally, he provided project coordination and support to project teams; ensuring key cross-functional partners were engaged (offering visibility into the portfolio/program decision-making process); as well as communicating key Program-related information across the Enterprise, delivering a program-wide view of progress, issues, and interdependencies.
As PMO Director for Latitude Financial Services, Robert was directly responsible for the establishment and approval of the Business Case (circa $100m) for the Transformation Program. Responsible for setting up and managing the PMO, which provided the Leadership Team, Steering Committee and Board visibility of program progress, financials and key risks.
As PMO Director for QBE, Robert established a more effective governance for the QBE Global HR Group. This focused on HR service delivery and how HR services are experienced by QBE employees. Worked with the HR key deliverable teams, setting up formal governance before it became manageable via BAU, which involved implementing the key strategic governance points. These included monthly service performance governance and associated reporting, Quarterly performance management forums and reporting, and Demand and Supply-side governance activities that enable strategic, operational, and financial planning. He also led the Prioritisation approach for initiatives across the global HR function.
As PMO Director at Telstra, Robert refined and led the PMO for Telstra Structural Separation Undertaking (SSU). This was Telstra’s commitment to structurally separate by 1 July 2018 (wholesale business units & networks service business units must separate from staff in retail business units). Responsible for managing the PMO for the Program duration across the whole of the Information System Remediation (ISR) Program, which provided the Leadership Team & Steering Committee visibility of program progress across the 3 program pillars: Completion Strategy (ACCC); ISR Program; and BAU Transition.
As PMO Director at CGU, Robert implemented and led the Transformation & Portfolio Office for CGU’s Transformation Program valued at approx. $200M+. Responsible for leadership and oversight of the Program Management, Integration Management, Finance/Benefits, Change Management, Human Resource & Resource Management, Quality Management, Communication and Testing Governance. This ensured Transformation Program & Portfolio of work was delivered to the required time, within scope, function and to budget to achieve the Business objectives.
As PMO Director for NAB, Robert undertook an independent external review for Bank’s New Payment Platform (NPP) Program. Robert had key accountability for reviewing the plans/schedules to ensure they are set up for successful integrated (schedule management) planning, including review of the individual work-stream plans available during the engagement, to establish if they were structured to an appropriate level of detail to allow integration of the plans. In addition, Robert provided ongoing governance, management and reporting ensuring that processes and controls from top to bottom were defined in detail and agreed with all key delivery parties/stakeholders.
As PMO Director for NAB’s NPP Program, Robert led the consolidation of the individual Project and Program schedules into the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS). This enabled the Bank to ensure it aligned with the Industry High Level Project timelines (including performing traceability reviews for each of the Project and Program Streams) and positioned the NPP Program for successful Integrated Delivery Management.
As PMO Director at ANZ Bank, Robert established & managed the PMO to support the Head of Technology Governance, Portfolio & Performance for Bank. He successfully established Reporting & Governance to effectively track control and monitor the Transformation and portfolio capability uplift of the team, providing Program Delivery Governance across the ANZ Technology Portfolio.
As PMO Manager for Medibank, Robert led the development, support, and implementation of the IT roadmap on behalf of the Medibank Business. This included the establishment of a Reporting and Governance structure to effectively track, control and manage the Business Projects and IT Portfolio and Program of Work.
As Manager, Business Projects Program Office at Medibank, Robert had key responsibility for the development, management and mentoring of the organisational Project Co-ordinator Competency Framework to support the Medibank project management community. The framework helped to drive business decisions regarding the health of the IT Roadmap, investment prioritisation and resourcing plans by transparently and consistently providing data, reports, and analysis.
