Marcus Schnell
Executive Summary
I am a Project and Program Manager with over 20 years’ experience delivering solutions in complex business and technology scenarios in industries including financial services, telecommunications, utilities and NFP.
I am passionate about creating collaborative and supportive environments where individuals thrive and contribute meaningfully to overall outcomes that drive organizational success.
I bring broad experience to the Oracle practice, am adept at building close working relationships with C-level stakeholders and focus on the human side of program delivery and driving a culture of capability uplift and innovation.
Key Skills
- Leadership of strategic business transformations
- Transformation strategy road mapping
- Project and program Management
- Project delivery organizational capability uplift
- Delivery methodology & governance implementation
- Business case development
- Project risk management
- MS Project Online & other PPP management tools
- Implementation of PPP management tools into organisations
- Team leadership & mentoring
- Recruitment and multi-skills team building
- AI: Prompt Engineering for Project Managers – Project Management Institute (PMI)
- Leveraging Generative AI for Project Management
Experience
Mercy Health - Program Manager Transformation
03/2023–05/2024
Led a business transformation program across 3 business units, consolidating & centralizing 30+ business and operational functions improving efficiency, customer service delivery and procurement.
Mecwacare – Senior Manager Projects
03/2022 – 04/2023
Led the Enterprise PMO advising senior executives of portfolio progress, risks, issues, priorities and opportunities. Implemented a project methodology and progress reporting standards.
Saved over $2M annual overtime and agency staff costs by implementing Time & Attendance software into 25 residential aged care homes.
Australian Unity – Program Manager
01/2019 – 06/2022
Transformed 2 legacy on-premise data centers to hosted cloud environments, achieving a 75% reduction in business-critical application downtime.
Reduced major safety incidents by 30% through implementing a new “Safety and Wellbeing” system to 7,000 staff.
Implemented MS Dynamics Finance and Operations (F&O) in the Home Care business, reducing billing variations by >70% leading to a overall reduction of 3x FTE.
SMS Consulting – Senior Project Manager
01/2011 – 12/2018
Delivered the $28M FTTN (Fibre To The Node) program for nbn which now supports 37% of all nbn connections on time avoiding significant government penalties (>$50M).