KVDGroup Pty Ltd was established in 2015 by Harold Koopmans (Founder) and delivers Project Management, Consultancy and System Integration services. Harold has over 20 years’ experience in the IT industry, including 12 years in IT Service Delivery/Outsourcing with leading international IT consultancy firms. KVDGroup ensures professionalism in the delivery of high quality IT architecture and corporate projects. Harold has excelled in a diverse range of roles during his career including Network/System Engineering, IT Integration Consultant, Infrastructure Manager and Project Management.

KVDGroup has specific expertise in the delivery of IT infrastructure projects, large scale system migration and corporate system integration solutions. KVDGroup acts as the client’s representative, combining the applicable professional and technical skills required to deliver projects to completion for the best outcome. KVDGroup takes ownership of the projects and its delivery by: managing and leading the professional disciplines, identifying the risk associated with the project, appropriate reporting, stakeholder engagement and developing risk mitigation options.

Technical Project Management

KVDGroup aims to tailor solution specifically based on a client’s needs, by capturing and formulating them into one solid, flexible plan that ensures timely delivery factoring contingency and budget constraints.

  • Detailed project management, co-ordination and experience utilising AGILE and PRINCE methodologies
  • Relationship-based approach coupled with our ability to act independently of all design and development activities enabling our clients to enjoy the best possible project outcomes.
  • We believe effective project management requires decisive and inspiring leadership. At KVDGroup we aim to innovate, strengthen, lead and excel in everything we do.
  • Trust and reliability are fundamental aspects of any working relationship between project manager and client.
  • We will work closely with the customers adopted project methodology during the project or can develop an approach if required

KVDGroup Team Expertise

The team at KVDGroup are accomplished Senior Technical Project Managers with experience across a broad range of industries national and international including Energy & Utilities, Healthcare, National and State Government, Transport and Financial Services.

Experienced across all phases of the development lifecycle with strengths in the management of Data Centre migrations and Private & Public Cloud development projects (including IAAS,PAAS and SAAS), requirements analysis, solution design, change management and training.

Enterprise Projects

  • Cloud based (PAAS) electronic permit to work system (ePTW )
  • AutoCAD Vault drawing management system
  • Network and system transition
  • Document management system upgrade and migrations (OpenText, HPRM, SharePoint)
  • New Data Centre construct and Data Centre migration
  • Data Centre relocation of two live sites, including AzureAD
  • Establish new Cloud domain and SaaS for sale of government assets
  • Migration of 3 large Data Centre’s for State Transport Company within 4 months
  • Migration/transition of Interstate government infrastructure to Privet Cloud
  • Transition process from Exchange 2010 to Office 365 Exchange Online hosting. Build on required on-site infrastructure to facilitate this migration.
  • National Role Out of new Windows MOE and implementation of Windows SCCM deployment servers
  • Relocation of Critical and Confidential data on EMC Storages from Canberra to Sydney and Melbourne
  • Deployment of 10,000 new desktops and MOE’s

Technology Expertise

  • Full Windows software product range
  • Network infrastructure and topology, firewalls, gateways and WAN accelerators
  • VMware, AWS and Azure
  • Disaster Recovery, IT Business Continuity and failover expertise
  • Cloud providers: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure
  • Hardware providers: HP, Cisco, Xerox, Konica Minolta, IBM, EMC