David Priestley
 
 
David Priestley
 
Education & Qualifications

Range of Experience

Specific Experience
 
Project Manager for a provincial government in the outsourcing of operations and support for 29,000 workstations in a ten-year deal valued at approximately $300m.

Led the re-structuring and renewal of a $30m, three-year outsourcing contract for a major Saudi Arabian hospital complex, providing total clinical, administrative and network support services.

As Director of Information Services for a large hospital group in the UK, David managed a $10m outsourced contract for clinical, patient-care and administration systems.

Managed a $1.5m systems and process integration project for a large electricity utility which integrated the Peoplesoft HR and Payroll systems and the Indus Work Management System.

With Ernst & Young Consulting, David directed the quality assurance team for a provincial Ministry of Health in the implementation of a $100m province-wide, patient-based healthcare information system.

Led the design and development of Europe-wide system changes to implement the Euro currency for an international credit card company and managed the implementation program in 30 branches across 9 countries.

As part of an advisory team to a national Transport Ministry, David led the business process redesign to the rail timetable as part of a national rail privatization program. He facilitated industry-wide and adoption of the new design and led the government team assigned to assess all industry system implications of the change.

While he was with the National Health Service in the UK, David managed technical and administrative teams up to 100 people with budget responsibility to $10m providing application development and support, network management, end user training and 24/7 support for multiple business units.

While he was with Ernst & Young Consulting in the UK, David served for two years as a special advisor to the UK Audit Commission in the development of an evaluation process to assess the ‘value for money’ of public sector IT spending.

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