Mia Horrigan
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About
Mia is anexperienced Enterprise Agile Coach and Senior Program Manager with over 15 years senior executive experience leading and implementing software solutions, including digital transformations. Mia has been working with agile teams for over 10 years and is an experienced Product Manager and Scrum Master and has been successful in delivering business outcomes and value through successful implementation of Agile/Scrum at team and enterprise level. Mia key clients include Australian Taxation Office, Dept of Industry, Innovation and Sciences , Clean energy Regulator, ACT health and ACTEWAGL.
Mia has an MBA, a Bachelor of Commerce as well as Scrum Master Certification, Scrum Master Professional, SAFe Program Consultant and PRINCE2 certification..
Mia’s areas of specialty include:
• Agile/Scrum Coaching and Training including Enterprise Agile
• Business engagement with senior executives , program boards and stakeholders
• Developing strategies and roadmaps for Digital Transformations programs
• Program and Service Delivery management
Mia has a reputation for innovation, managing change, driving strategy implementation and successfully delivering programs.
Mia set up her own consultancy company and is the lead for program management and advisory services.Mia has experience working with federal government to assess their capability as well as project management and implementation of large scale business systems, development of requirements, systems planning and development.
Mia is able to quickly engage with stakeholders, and she has a great understanding of the issues, risks and benefits of proposed changes within the industry. As an experienced business manager and senior business analyst, Mia is able to build strong relationships with senior executives. In her roles as an ICT Strategic Advisor, Mia has been successful in providing advice on developing system requirements with a focus on business needs and using an agile and user centred design approach, to ensure the business and IT systems are intuitive, useable and add value to the business.
Mia has an enthusiastic presentation style and is a well known Australian speaker on communication, Agile program management, user-centered design, and business analysis. With excellent communication and liaison skills, Mia is able to quickly engage with stakeholders and has a great understanding of issues, risks and benefits of system planning and development in the health environment.
Specialties: Business Management, Communications, Scrum Coaching, Business Analysis, Strategic Planning, Information Design, Web and Information Management, Project Management, Stakeholder Management and Team Leadership
Experience and services
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Career history
- 2012-07-02 - present - Zen Ex Machina (Lead Partner - Program management and Advisory Services)
- 2006-04-03 - 2009-06-26 - SMS Management & technology (Account Director (Senior Consultant))
- 2009-06-08 - 2010-04-08 - Oakton Services (Consulting Director)
- 2010-04-12 - 2010-11-05 - PWC (Manager)
- 2010-11-08 - 2012-06-30 - AHIA (CIO)