Project Description
Mohammad Ramezani
Program Manager
Areas Of Expertise
- Business process Transformation
- IT Systems/ Infrastructure Transformation
- Regulatory Compliance
- IT Operations Outsourcing
Education
- Certified Scaled Agile Framework practitioner
- PRINCE2 Foundation / Practitioner Certificate
- Project Management using Primavera
- Bachelor of Science Industrial Engineering
About Mohammad Ramezani
Mohammad is a skilled Program Manager, joined Seven Consulting’s Sydney team in December 2010. He is highly experienced in various aspects of business transformation delivery, from managing senior stakeholders to hands on management of day-to-day activities-where required; from conducting reviews and leading project turnarounds to establishing delivery structure for new initiatives. Mohammad’s experience encompasses delivery of Systems and Business Process Transformation, Regulatory Compliance enhancement, and Outsourcing.
What Mohammad brings
- Strong capability in leading delivery of large, multi-release program of work in complex environments.
- Proven track record in understanding and navigation of competing stakeholders’ expectations and priorities in the interest of delivery targets.
- Extensive experience across various industries; financial sector, oil & gas, governmental and non-profit.
- Valuable experience in setting up and establishing program governance structure.
- Hands on experience in running scoping, planning and risk review workshops.
Client feedback:
|
CIO, One of Australia’s largest customer-owned financial institutions – 2024
“Mohammad is organised, forthright, and clear, he excels at coaching and passing on his skills, demonstrating flexibility, valuing quality people, and ensuring strong delivery when ownership of outcomes is embraced.”
|
|
 |
Angie Zissis, CEO – 2021 “Very good at resolving issues that arise and managing expectations. He has the ability to deal with many stakeholders and has the ability to delegate/escalate up and down.” |
|
|
Bjorn Meier, COO – 2020 “I consider Mohammad a pivotal member of the team who has proven time and again his highly valuable contributions to the business, in terms of cost avoidance, better solutions, alternative solutions or opportunities for improvement beyond the immediate scope of the project. I believe he is an exemplary representative of Seven Consulting and is very positively contributing to the brand – so much so that when I suggested an external PM for AUB Group’s Workday project, there was no question that we would source this PM from Seven Consulting.” |
Key Clients
- NGM Group
- Optus
- Woolworths Facility Management
- SURA (Part of AUB Group)
- Lifestyle Solutions
- Revenue NSW
- NAB Wealth
- Department of Justice
- Oil Search Limited
- BPAY
- MLC
- CBA
- Westpac
Key Achievements
As Program Manager at GM3, Mohammad established the delivery governance of divestment program from South32. The 14-stream program delivered the full separation of all Technology from South32 in less than 6 months. It was heavily controlled by various levels of governance, internal and external to GM3, and Mohammad managed to structure an effective regime to support delivery, facilitate timely decision making, and satisfy external governance requirements.
As Program Manager at GM3, Mohammad managed the user/ device migration process in a compressed 8-week period, migrating over 1400 accounts and devices across 10 different sites. This included large scare data analysis, as well as great logistical coordination in a very short time frame.
As Technology Delivery Manager at NGM group, Mohammad was involved in various aspects of delivering NGM’s strategic roadmap. Starting by leading a large transformation program before merger, Mohammad went on to be part of a team of senior employees tasked with preparing a board paper to set the strategic priorities post-merger. Following that, Mohammad led an initiative to uplift Technology project delivery capability, and later on, sponsored by CIO, delivered the most complex technology project for NGM at the time, consolidation of IAM and M365 identities across the two merged entities.
As Program Manager at Woolworths Facility Management, Mohammad led the delivery of a range of business-critical initiatives. A large suite of stakeholders across various business units were impacted and Mohammad spent most of his days ensuring they remain supportive of the work, as well as leading a team of asset experts who were responsible for carrying out of required activities. Due to the number of initiatives and size of the team, dynamic prioritisation and coordination was required which Mohammad conducted successfully.
As Project Manager at Woolworths, Mohammad led the transformation of Asset Management solution at the new fully automated Distribution Centre, by rolling out IBM Maximo as the first roll out in Woolworths asset management transformation program.
At Woolworths Asset Management Portfolio, Mohammad established a project delivery governance structure including reporting, financial tracking, resource allocation, etc.
As Program Manager at SURA, Mohammad led the transformation initiative to replace the core underwriting and finance platform across 13 agencies. As SURA’s most critical program at the time, it spanned over more than two years and over twenty releases and was directly reported to the CEO as the sponsor, with high visibility to AUB Board. Mohammad was highly successful in managing competing priorities of stakeholders across various agencies and business units towards successful delivery.
As a Business Program Manager at Optus TV & Content, Mohammad established governance and orchestrated the delivery of a range of business initiatives, including Women’s World Cup 2023. In competing priorities across the business, Mohammad’s focus was to ensure stakeholders alignment and adherence to timeline, in order to meet the timeline.
As a Program Manager at Woolworths Facility Management, Mohammad led the delivery of a range of business-critical initiatives. A large suite of stakeholders across various business units were impacted and Mohammad spent most of his days ensuring they remain supportive of the work, as well as leading a team of asset experts who were responsible for carrying out of required activities. Due to the number of initiatives and size of the team, dynamic prioritisation and coordination was required which Mohammad conducted successfully.
As a Program Manager at SURA, Mohammad led the transformation initiative to replace the core underwriting and finance platform across 13 agencies. As SURA’s most critical program at the time, it spanned over more than two years and over twenty releases and was directly reported to the CEO as the sponsor, with high visibility to AUB Board. Mohammad was highly successful in managing competing priorities of stakeholders across various agencies and business units towards successful delivery.
As Senior Project Manager at Lifestyle Solutions, Mohammad established and led a wide-ranging practice improvement program across the organisation, containing technology implementation as well as business process improvement. As a project manager, Mohammad delivered a highly critical compliance project, reporting directly to the CEO and the Board, involving external auditors and regulatory bodies.
As Project Manager at Revenue NSW reporting directly to CIO, Mohammad set up and established the project to implement a new payment platform across all government agencies.
As Project Manager at Woolworths, Mohammad led the transformation of Asset Management solution at the new fully automated Distribution Centre, by rolling out IBM Maximo as the first roll out in Woolworths asset management transformation program.
As Project Manager at NAB, and as part of a large compliance transformation program, Mohammad established and delivered the project to completely transform NAB Wealth Advice regulatory compliance framework. Managed a large number of senior stakeholders as part of establishing a new accountability model within NAB Wealth regulatory compliance framework.
As Project Manager at Department of Justice, performed a complete review of NCAT (NSW Courts & Administrative Tribunal) project – with the scope to transform courts and tribunal services across NSW- including review of Business case and delivery approach, and providing recommendation to ensure achieving objectives within the timeline.
At Woolworths Asset Management Portfolio, Mohammad established a project delivery governance structure including reporting, financial tracking, resource allocation, etc.
As Project Manager at Oil Search, Mohammad performed a complete review of the ICT processes with the view of enhancing the working processes and provided recommendations. Moving on from there, set up and delivered the initial phase of ICT Enhancement Project, including Configuration Management Data Base (CMDB), Service Catalogue and tool enhancement.
As PMO Manager at a large Australian banking group, set up and established project governance for a major outsourcing initiative engaging three large service provider companies. Also, ran and managed the Data Room as part of the RFP process during the extensive provider selection process.
As PMO Lead at BPAY, Mohammad established the PMO office and project governance processes. Also, managed the scoping/ planning workshops with stream leads to establish detailed baseline working plan.
As PMO Manager at NEXUS program (budget over $130m); the second largest program in CBA, implemented program governance across multiple releases. The process spanned across 9 work streams and included regular reporting from streams all the way to the Steering Group- chaired by the CEO’s direct report.
As PMO Consultant at MLC, managed the release readiness process, including managing the relevant stakeholders, from Enterprise risk to Operations and internal/external auditors, for Superstream project.
