Damien Mcdonald Email Address

Project Consultant, Philanthropy Manager, Certified ScrumMaster

Mortgage Choice Limited is a financial services company which provides Home loans, Financial Planning, Personal loans, car loans, credit cards, Asset finance, Business lending and Insurances.

Damien is a very positive and energetic Project Manager. With over 12 years industry experience across the Government Energy sector as a Program/Project Manager in a major transformation project, implementing alternative digital communication channels that will provide customers with real time messages in a relevant communication channel. The Previous five years were specialising in retail and commercial Banking sectors as a Project Manager on the SAP Core Banking Modernisation(CBM) project for CBA. His proven business engagement and ability to maintain program scope with strong Project governance has definitely contributed to the successful delivery of high profile ICT projects from concept through to Business As Usual. His recent key highlights was as a PM on the CBA SAP integrated CBM program, delivering a 25M project 5% under budget and on time. The CBM program improved service delivery to customers by offering a simpler way of banking, anywhere and in real time while providing a competitive edge for the organisation. Some of his strengths include: ✔ Agile/Waterfall implementation ✔ Budget management CAPEX and OPEX ✔ Business process re-engineering ✔ Business benefits realisation ✔ Business case development ✔ Budget forecasting ✔ Coaching and Mentoring ✔ Core Banking Modernisation (CBM) ✔ Customer engagement research and evaluation ✔ Culture improvement ✔ Delivering projects ✔ Digital communication tools and platforms ✔ Estimation and forecasting ✔ Funding approvals ✔ Government probity tender evaluation and engagement ✔ Governance framework ✔ Integrated banking solutions ✔ Legacy system retirement ✔ New business process development ✔ Organisational change management ✔ Project/Program Governance ✔ Regulatory compliance ✔ Retail and Commercial banking product implementation ✔ SAP integration ✔ Scope Definition and Management ✔ SMS and Text to Voice POC ✔ Stakeholder management ✔ Vendor Selection Project Methodologies:SDLC, PMBOK, AGILE, WATERFALL and RAD