Our Women of Defence:
Gianne Quijano
Senior Project Manager.
It didn’t take long, after Gianne joined JLL, for her to progress naturally into leadership. Her ability to respectfully communicate, negotiate and collaborate were evident from day one, back in August 2021.By 2022, Gianne was managing ten projects across the Defence Estate Works Program (EWP). Simultaneously, she was completing a masters in project management at the University of Sydney, and before long she had nabbed ‘Future Project Leader’ at the AIPM (Australian Institute of Project Management) Project Management Achievement Awards.
Gianne, a senior project manager, has delivered multi-site projects of varying complexities for our client, the Department of Defence. Her stakeholder management skills are second to none.
Gianne’s background is in engineering and design management, which allows her to call upon skills and experience in building certification, engineering documentation, estate data, and the handover takeover (HOTO) process. She brings to projects a holistic understanding of requirements and objectives, risk mitigation and the potential impacts of change requests. She gets that eliciting quality input from stakeholders during the design process drives higher value outcomes. How does she do it? In one example, Gianne used sketches instead of the standard complex documentation to simplify design meetings with stakeholders.
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Gianne’s optimism and ability to collaborate with stakeholders enables her to persevere through the time pressure imposed on projects to achieve HOTO finalisation on time. In one project, she delivered 25 living-in accommodation buildings in the Northern Territory’s Robertson Barracks in 25 weeks.
Gianne has achieved a lot in her three years at JLL so far, but she’s a life-long learner, striving to expand her skills in the realm of project management. Her commitment to continuous improvement and stakeholder engagement sets a benchmark for successful project management in dynamic environments like the EWP.