David Perez

Founder @ Sydney Business School, University of Wollongong

About

Creative and innovative Executive MBA graduate and Business Owner with a passion for business strategy and management of large-scale programs. Certified in Project Management and knowledgeable and experienced in business development and growth. A strong and effective leader with an entrepreneurial mindset and adept at building high performing teams and driving positive change. Over 15 years’ experience managing ICT initiatives and the successful delivery of key government funded infrastructure projects in state schools.

Country

Australia

City

Greater Sydney Area

Industry

Management Consulting

Skill

New Business Development, Sales Strategy, Business Operations, Stakeholder Management, Project Management, Business Strategy, Business Development, Project Delivery, ITIL, System Administration, Service Delivery, Project Planning, IT Service Management, PRINCE2, IT Management, IT Strategy, Information Technology, Business Process Improvement, Business Planning, Marketing Strategy

Experience

Founder

EVGEN

2024-2 - Present · 2 yrs 8 mos

Australia

General Manager

Solar Run

2020-10 - Present · 6 yrs

Canberra ACT, Sydney NSW

Franchise partner

San Churro

2015-6 - Present · 11 yrs 4 mos

Sydney, Australia

Responsible for business development, growth strategies and financial management of the company PnL including forecasting, managing compliance, marketing and stakeholder management. Recruit and build high-performing teams with a positive internal culture and a strong training and support structure.

Project Manager

NSW Department of Education

2012-2 - 2015-7 · 3 yrs 6 mos

Australian Technology Park, Department of Education and Communities

Accountable for delivering a range of strategic projects at various levels of complexity and scale, from local and regional projects to state-wide initiatives. Responsible for the delivery of a large-scale multi-million dollar strategic project to upgrade the ICT network infrastructure for all NSW public schools. This project ensured the provisioning of network and wireless access to every learning space at over 1700 schools impacting over 400,000 students. Responsible for planning, budgeting, quality assurance, vendor management, procurement and asset management.

Technology Adviser

NSW Department of Education

2011-7 - 2012-2 · 8 mos

Sydney Region

Responsible for establishing and managing key stakeholder relationships, providing advice and assistance on developing strategies to underpin support services and management of core ICT systems and corporate objectives. Accountable for the delivery of several key projects such as Implementation of Wireless networks, Network Remediation and enhancements of ICT Infrastructure including Automated software deployment and management of software licencing.

Regional Technology Officer - DER

NSW Department of Education

2009-7 - 2011-7 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Sydney Region

Worked as part of a team to establish a support structure to manage the service delivery for over 60 Secondary schools across Sydney and the successful roll-out of over 250,000 laptops as part of the Digital Education Revolution (DER) program. Managed stakeholder relationships and led a team to ensure the successful upgrade of Network infrastructure, software deployment and licensing, device security and asset management.

Systems Support Officer

NSW Department of Education

2001-6 - 2007-2 · 5 yrs 9 mos

TAFE NSW - Sydney Institute

Managed several IT projects and worked closely with Department Heads Directors to plan ICT requirements and conduct gap analysis. Accountable for procurement, Service License Agreements (SLA's) and support of a commercial department of Sydney TAFE. Responsible for developing and aligning ICT plans with long term strategic business requirements in a commercial setting.