Project Management

This has been undertaken as an interim eight month role to assist Trustees through the transition between project managers. It has included securing funding, preparing the business plan, administration and coordination coupled with preparing the documentation and recruiting a designated Project Facilitator. October 2018 - Current

Under the role of Project Manager of Venture West Coast, Gurden Consulting Ltd prepared the West Coast's first regional digital strategy. This was one of the first of its kind in New Zealand. A greenfields project, the strategy contained three aims and six goals that presented an integrated approach to digital enablement planning. The strategy's aims, all of which are still r...

Under the Venture West Coast contract, Gurden Consulting managed the Government's Project Probe that took broadband out to all schools and also worked with technical consultants, telecommunication companies and West Coast communities to develop successful business cases to government for the installation of broadband through new fibre installations and other technologies. B...

Venture West Coast - Project Manager Gurden Consulting Ltd prepared the successful application to Government that established Venture West Coast, the inaugural economic development agency for the region. The Company also managed the entity throughout its three year existence before it merged to what is now Development West Coast. Coupled with management of the entity, G...