Context
The Air Warfare Destroyer shipyard and training facility required ICT services aligned to a new physical operating environment. As the first dedicated on-site IT resource, Benjamin project managed the ICT mobilisation, coordinating facilities, vendors and corporate stakeholders to establish the services required for operational readiness.
This was a high-stakes industrial and defence-adjacent environment where ICT needed to be ready before the site could function effectively.
Problem
New shipyard and training facilities need ICT, network, telephony, audio visual, printing, communications-room and support services in place before operations can function reliably.
The challenge was dependency management. Facilities, vendors, communications rooms, server rooms, standard operating environment, office services, network services and user relocation all had to move together without treating ICT as an afterthought to construction.
Benjamin’s Role
Benjamin worked as Infrastructure Manager for the mobilisation. He project managed ICT requirements for the Air Warfare Destroyer shipyard complex and associated training facility, connecting facilities delivery, network infrastructure, communications rooms, server environments, telephony, wireless, audio visual, procurement, documentation and user readiness.
What Benjamin Built Or Changed
- Project managed ICT requirements for the new shipyard complex and training facility.
- Project managed server environments, Active Directory, Group Policy, Office Services and standard operating environment requirements.
- Project managed network, telephony, wireless, audio visual, multifunction device, communications-room and server-room delivery.
- Worked across facilities, ICT, vendors, technical teams and business stakeholders to align technology delivery with mobilisation needs.
- Supported procurement, documentation, budgets, policies, staff relocation and operational-readiness planning.
- Connected site mobilisation with the separate timelapse camera capability used to capture the shipyard build.
Stakeholders
ASC leadership, facilities teams, ICT teams, vendors, technical teams, shipyard users, training-facility users and business stakeholders.
Delivery Approach
The work required project management across physical facilities and ICT services. Benjamin had to understand dependencies between construction, rooms, cabling, devices, servers, telephony, AV, SOE, documentation, support processes and user needs.
The approach was readiness-focused: identify what the site needed to operate, project manage the parties responsible for each component, and make sure technology decisions were connected to the physical reality of the new environment.
Outcomes
The project delivered ICT foundations for operational readiness across a major shipyard and training environment. It also strengthened Benjamin’s practical experience in large-site infrastructure delivery, vendor project management and facilities-technology integration.
The work became a foundation for later public-sector and managed-services leadership because it required disciplined delivery across technical, physical, vendor and business boundaries.
What It Demonstrates
Infrastructure leadership, cross-functional delivery, project management, vendor management and the ability to connect technology with facilities and operational readiness.