Aaron S. Email & Phone Number

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Seven Consulting is a private and independent Australian IT Project and Program Management Consultancy. We manage and successfully deliver large-scale, complex IT-enabled business transformation projects for Australia’s top companiesCLIENTS Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (Jun 22 - Current):SAP EWM Warehouse Automation Deployment SOX Compliance Wannon Water, (Oct 21 - Jun 22):Wannon Water is an urban water corporation responsible for water and sewerage in Victoria’s south-western corner. As Project Manager, I worked on the implementation of new contract lifecycle management (CLM) and contractor management solutions.

Sydney, Australia

Leading a team of Project Managers and Technical Writers. Managed a project to identify issues with existing distributed data caching architecture in the USA and implemented this as a replacement for the existing solution used in Australia Deployed new Forcepoint email gateway appliances, migrating users and decommissioning legacy Barracuda gatewaysEstablished a POC between two leading container platforms to demonstrate the capabilities of containerisation (Kubernetes) and microservices. This includes working with the development teams to ensure success criteria are met and promoting the benefits of containerisation internallyMigrated Mercury/HealthShare from Windows to AIX. Best practice implementation, backup, disaster recovery and monitoring Migrated users, applications and hardware from Classic to Virtual Desktop InfrastructureImplemented and migrated users to a new Forcepoint internet proxyImplemented Network Application and Performance Monitoring (NAPM) of critical applications incl. electronic results delivery, collection of patient data and voice & data traffic for 12 sites. Leveraging performance data to reduce the time it takes to resolved faults, sub-optimal config or breaches of SLAsManaged the migration of VLANs from a classic to a SDDC (Cloud) environmentMigrated medical practices from legacy PSTN telephony to Enterprise SIPUpgraded Windows Server 2008 to 2012, migrated services incl. Dynamics AX and SQL servers and other applications to a secure Cloud environment Migrated user access for enterprise users from using cloud-based authentication to on-premises authentication via SAML IdP

Sydney, Australia

Led the build of new enterprise and customer facing mapping apps

Auckland, New Zealand

Launched Kogan Mobile, Vodafone NZ’s budget MVNO. Legal compliance / regulatory – lead a program required to update legacy billing and payment capabilities to address historical issues with how products are priced and billed in response to an investigation by the Commerce Commission. A high profile project with significant media interest and large penalties depending on the outcomeLead product and offer capability build to support marketing activities for major national ATL acquisition campaigns

Managed a team of 28 Project Managers, Business Analysts, Solution Architects, Testers, Support Engineers, Developers and Release Managers including during a major organisational transformation to scaled agile. This included establishing a new team structure to support more agile ways of working, transitioning people into new roles within the company (or elsewhere) and recruitmentLed the re-platform of Skinny websites including a rebranding of Skinny Mobile. Managed a CAPEX budget ensuring delivery is within budget and a standard required to meet business requirements and benefitsManaged the commercial relationship with third parties / vendors

Auckland, New Zealand

Led a team of 8 Project Managers and Business Analysts. Establish KPIs, professional development and coaching team members. Met BU objectives by delivering a pipeline of new capability for Spark and its multi-brands including establishing a new budget mobile brand, IFP payment capability, ‘Upgrade NZ’ wireless home broadband migrations and BCP infrastructure building network redundancy of the Skinny networkResponsible for business casing CAPEX spend and managing finances across multiple projects

Auckland, New Zealand

Responsible for establishing and maintaining a portfolio of initiatives to deliver a 90-day plan working with senior stakeholders in technology and business teams to ensure initiatives are aligned with business prioritiesLeading PMs and providing support as required with the goal of simplifying legacy IT stacks during a multi-year re-engineering program of workRepresenting IT to different business units and as part of the project management office to report on progress at an executive level, dealing with escalations as necessary. Represent Platforms at fortnightly executive level steering committee meetings ensuring alignment across the business units on timings, budgets and RAID.

Auckland, New Zealand

Responsible for a GTM portfolio to deliver new offer and product capability required for ATL campaigns to meet customer growth targets including Christmas offers, new product builds incl. FWA and loyalty programs. Maintain and communicate a build pipeline to support future retail initiatives to ensure funding and track future benefits. Represent Platforms to other business units to ensure business objectives are met and aligned as required with changing business priorities.Provide support and coaching to PMs in a hands on capacity being across all aspects from concept, build, launch and adoption.

Auckland, New Zealand

Responsible for the delivery of layer 3 business wholesale services incl. Managed WAN, EduNet, and Carrier Ethernet Working closely with the sales teams to define the offer and ensure products meet the needs of customers including direct and resellersSupport resellers to deliver competitive solutions to customers

Auckland, New Zealand

Reporting to GM Slingshot to deliver a portfolio of Fixed Access, Calling, Data, Mobile and VAS. Responsible for UBA migration, fibre trials, campaigns, pricing, gap closing initiatives, channel incentives, social media and customer engagement.Key achievements − Responsible for our major nationwide ATL campaigns:− Rollover broadband - carried over data won’t expire for 12 months (a NZ first)− ‘Bigger & Better’ broadband plans – 50GB for $30/month - vs. the 5GB being offered by our competitors− 6 months’ half-price broadband − Unlimited broadband for $60 with no contract – established Slingshot as the innovator in broadband− Regularly updated broadband plan line-up to ensure they remain competitive − Launched new tolls offers, plans and bundles incl. “Talk INDIA” - $2 for discounted calling− Launched UFB and EUBA. Business owner responsible for developing concept, business case approval, hardware selection/supply/est. distribution channels, testing and customer trials− Established and managed telemarketing and door-to-door (D2D) sales channels incl. staff training and special offers− Loyalty initiatives− Established new direct and door-to-door sales channels

Auckland, New Zealand

Billing, payments, analytics and reporting.

Value-add services and apps, incl. audio, video and web conferencing, 'smart phone' services e.g. voice messaging and CLIP, toll-free reporting, billing incl. presentation and analysis.

Billing Solutions. 9 direct reports incl. sales teams and help-desk. Working with staff to establish and achieve KRAs and career objectives.

Auckland, New Zealand

Key responsibilities included fixed price account analysis and billing, set up and monitor non standing pricing / billing solutions, billing SME for products including launching a Trans-Tasman & domestic online bill analysis tool.

Aberdeen, United Kingdom

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Mce Masters Of Commercialisation And Entrepreneurship, Postgraduate Business Studies, 8.0

Bca Bachelor Of Commerce, Economics

Economics