Scott Rowan

Executive summary

Scott is a Partner in BDO’s consultancy division providing strategy, transformation, and digital and technology services to clients.

With over 20 years’ experience, Scott possesses a diverse range of skills and experience from his commercial and consulting background covering technology, corporate services, general management, and executive leadership roles.

Scott has led major complex system and business transformation projects across areas such as developing and executing digital strategies, business analysis, strategic procurement, resilience planning and system implementation. Scott drives to deliver engagements to provide value and results to his clients.

Scott specialises in the Government and public sector, and not-for-profit industries.

Expertise

• Business, digital and technology strategy, operational planning and optimisation
• Solution design and implementation
• Strategic procurement of technology and technology providers
• Implementation services and advisory
• Project management and delivery
• IT operations and service management
• Systems integration
• Business, team and process analysis, documentation, and transformation
• Business continuity and resilience planning
• Vendor and contract management
• IT operations management

Experience

• Successful delivery of multiple Queensland Government technology and digital business cases for change
• Strategic procurement and contract negotiation of digital solutions for government and not-for-profits
• CIO service delivery for Queensland Government agency
• Program and Project Management establishment and reviews across multiple Queensland and NSW state government agencies
• Technology operation reviews for government, private and not-for-profit clients
• Digital and technology strategies for government, private and not-for-profit clients
• Multiple business continuity and disaster recovery engagements across government, private and not-for-profit clients
• State Government, multi-year full-time engagement to provide management and consulting services across multiple streams of program activity
• Queensland Statutory Authority, executive leader responsible for digital and transformation of operations and legacy systems

Qualifications and affiliations

• Bachelor of Commerce (Information Technology)
• Chartered Accountant, CA ANZ
• PRINCE2 Agile Practitioner Project Manager
• PRINCE2 Practitioner Project Manager
• ITIL Foundation Certification
• CBCI (Certification of Business Continuity Institute)

Professional engagements and activities

• Not-For-Profit webinar: Setting up your digital projects for success | Apr, 2021
• Food & Agribusiness webinar: Creating a business continuity plan for your agribusiness | Apr, 2020