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Sunchana Johnston

Posted Sun, 2024-03-03 19:29 by Sunchana Johnston
First Name: 
Sunchana
Last Name: 
Johnston

I am a Chartered Project Management (ChPP) Professional with a 25-year career, delivering complex regulatory transformations.

Fully qualified P3O, MSP, Prince2 and Management of Risk Practitioner, with excellent planning and analytical skills gained in banking, IT and utilities over the past 15 years, working in both private and public sectors.

An enthusiastic, methodical, proactive and result-driven professional with experience of delivering and managing change. Strong analytical skills with an ability to identify critical issues and constructively challenge stakeholders to improve the overall delivery. Expert user of Microsoft Project and Primavera P6.

Areas of Expertise:

  • Setting up Project Management centre of excellence functions.
  • Designing new governance standards and policies.
  • Creating and fine tuning of programme master plans.
  • Creating detailed E2E project plans in a variety of planning tools.
  • Direct line management responsibility for both consultants and permanent staff.
  • Leading senior leader level workshops.
  • Baselining and QA.
  • Resource management and regulatory sign off.
  • Training, coaching and mentoring of a large customer base.
  • RAIDS of a large portfolio of programmes with a value of over £1b.
  • Providing accurate, consistent and impartial real time reporting.
  • Strategic planning of the capital investment plan worth £2 billion, spanning over 5 years.
  • Co-ordinating a large portfolio related programmes as a Programme Sponsor.
  • End to end project management of a large, global IT infrastructure implementation project.
  • Leading audits; forensic project control; complying with contractual obligations and arbitration. 
  • Budget re-forecasting, cost profiling, procurement and billing procedures, providing tech support to the Executive teams.

Qualifications:

  • 2014 P3O Practitioner
  • 2013 Managing Successful Programmes (MSP) Practitioner
  • 2012 Management of Risk (M_o_R) Practitioner 
  • 2011 BESC and SHEA (Gas)
  • 2010 Primavera P6 V7.3 (Project Management & Earned Value), Oracle University
  • 2010 Prince2 Practitioner, AMPG
  • 2009 Association of Project Management, APMP (IPMA Level D)
  • 2006 ACCA Level 1
  • 2020 ChPP Chartered Project Management Professional
Professional Since: 
May-1997 (27.0 yrs experience)
Oldest experience: 
Aug 2006 (17.7 yrs experience, WARNING: 9.3 years variance with Professional Since)
Years Experience: 
17
Guild Accreditation: 
GPC Member
GPC Member Since: 
Thu, 2014-05-29 (All day)

Market Place

Eastwood Harris Pty
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