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Lynden Pennicott (born 22 September 1969 in Hobart, Australia is a Senior Executive working for the Tasmanian Government.

Biography
Lynden is a past President and former Chair of the Board of Directors of the Australasian Housing Institute (AHI). The AHI is the association of housing professionals in Australia and New Zealand.

Lynden is a past State Secretary, past Director and current member of Australian Mensa. He is also a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and the Australian Institute of Management.

Lynden has held a range of positions in both Government and the private sector. He commenced working in the banking and finance industry where he spent over a decade in a range of lending, management and project management roles. He subsequently moved into government continuing in the area of project management. Lynden has spent the last five years as a senior executive in charge of public housing service delivery for the State of Tasmania.

Manager Housing Services – Department of Health and Human Services

As a member of Housing Tasmania’s senior executive team Lynden provides leadership and direction in the development and management of Housing Services for the State of Tasmania, including the development of strategic and business frameworks and the development of policies, systems and processes to support the statewide delivery of housing services.

Project Manager (Affordable Housing Strategy) – Department of Health and Human Services

Managed the implementation of Tasmania’s Affordable Housing Strategy (AHS). The AHS was the largest ever state investment in social housing. The AHS delivered a program of 84 separate service and asset initiatives over a four year period. This was a fundamental intervention and reconfiguration of the housing service system in Tasmania that continues to deliver benefits to clients to this day.

Senior Project Manager – Tasmania Police

Lynden was responsible for implementing key projects within the Tasmanian jurisdiction to support national information sharing solutions to facilitate the effective operation of police services and law enforcement agencies across state and territory borders. In particular, the National Automated Fingerprint Identification System and Livescan projects provided capability to identify offenders based on their fingerprints in real time.

Project Director

Following the acquisition of the National Bank of Fiji by the Colonial group in Australia Lynden successfully implemented a core banking system replacement project. This included hardware and software upgrades, staff training, business process re-engineering and client and stakeholder management.

Professional Memberships and Societies

 * Australasian Housing Institute (AHI) – Past President and current Member
 * Australian Mensa - Past State Secretary, Past National Board Member and current Member
 * Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) - Member
 * Australian Institute of Management (AIM) - Member
 * Australian Institute of Project Management (AIPM) – Member