ICT Consultant
Office of the Governor, Provincial Government of Pampanga
Total years of experience :24 years, 3 Months
IT Management
• Responsible for all major undertaking in developing the foundations of the ICT infrastructure and organizational capacity building of the existing MIS department to catch up and possibly be at par to existing ICT standards and best practices.
• Advised the provincial governor, the provincial legislative body and the administrative heads about ICT issues to simplify and ensure that all Information and Communications Technology-related projects are aligned and integrated with the existing strategic roadmap.
• Formulated yearly budgets and appropriations for the MIS office inclusive of both capital and operational expenditures.
• Recommended skill requirements for the department, and corresponding staff vacancies which could fill those skills needed, to the MIS Head and the HR Head.
• Provided yearly training plan and budget for each staff where they would increase their knowledge and competence for their specific roles and translate into a more innovative MIS office in the long run.
ICT Programme Management
• Provided a strategic roadmap for a streamlined and unified communications architecture resulting to operations and procedural efficiency, hence, incurring savings.
• Authored and implemented ICT policies and procedures stating limitations and capabilities of existing IT infrastructure for clarity and compliance of all staff.
• Reorganized the structure of the MIS office resulting to clear and focused roles for each of the staff members.
• Standardized ICT procurement processes using best practices from ITIL, ITSM and PMI frameworks leading to proper documentation; concise, rational and more definitive procurement document content and information.
• Single point of contact for all ICT-related concerns within the provincial government including giving presentations to officials and stakeholders, ensuring their utmost understanding and knowledge regarding specific projects and initiatives.
• Acted as the IT Project manager the following projects:
Pampanga Capitol Building Structured Cabling - primary data and voice backbone of the provincial capitol
Provincial Jail and Capitol compound IP Surveillance Systems - on-site and remote monitoring including state-of-the-art IP-based capabilities
Province-wide iTax Real Property Tax system - computerization of RPT systems to enforce efficiency and increase revenue from 24M per annum to 600M per annum.
Hospital Operations Management Information Systems (HOMIS) deployment - IT Infrastructure capacity building that aims to end the 200M annual losses and transform into near-zero loss government social service.
Vendor Management
• Evaluated feasibility and viability or ICT proposals from companies resulting into a more coherent and comprehensive technical analysis that ensured the warranty and utility of those projects being proposed.
Client's project manager to ensure that programme of works of ongoing IT projects are met satisfactorily by contractors and suppliers.
IT Management
• Managed, maintained and developed all aspects of ICT systems and equipment in Vietnam, Bangkok and Philippine offices.
• Developed an effective ICT function in all offices within South East Asia, implementing the global & continental ICT strategy and standards, strengthening ICT infrastructure and capacity at both regional and country level, and supporting corporate networking and communication.
IT Management
• Authored the South East Asia Regional ICT Strategy which improved the ICT infrastructure within the region and aligned it with existing standards and best practices.
• Authored and developed the SEA Regional ICT policies and procedures as the primary manual for the ICT operations within the region.
• Managed and coordinated ICT tasks of local IT administrators in the region.
• Implemented and maintained all regional ICT systems and standards thereby achieving a cost-efficient and effective ICT environment.
• Assisted and advised country offices within the region about designing their ICT architecture and planning long-term ICT needs, ensuring strategic ICT requirements are met.
• Advised and supported country offices in implementing global ICT policies and standards, and provide technical support as needed.
• Assumed responsibility for data security including the planning, designing and implementing security measures.
• Consultant - IT Manager of R&D Tecdesign (MAY 2008 TO SEPTEMBER 2008) (URS project)
o Headed the planning of IT and telecommunications infrastructure components of the project.
• Consultant - Web Developer of Asian Devt. Bank (APRIL 2003 TO DECEMBER 2003) (URS project)
o Developed and designed the website of RETA 5871 - Road Funds Project.
IT Project Management
• Redesigned the Local Area Networks (LANs) of Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok country offices which became those said offices’ main digital backbone.
• Spearheaded and facilitated the design and development of 2nd and 3rd generation of the company-wide Intranet which created a single portal for documents and company information.
• Developed, commissioned and maintained regional and local application servers in both physical and virtualized environment which simplified the server infrastructure within the region.
• Designed, developed and configured the regional websites for Australia and Southeast Asia.
The Master of Environment and Natural Resources Management or MENRM Program is designed to give professionals in environment-related activities a solid foundation in the art and science of environment and natural resources management.
33 units credited