Alan Chow Email & Phone Number

Melbourne Area, Australia

Chowmain is a software development company dedicated to integration of 3rd party products and services into professionally installed home automation systems. Our staff have been working in the home automation industry for years and understand how electronics work.We are either contracted by manufacturers to assist with integration of their product or we see a hole in the market that can be filled with a particular product or service and we fund it ourselves. Manufacturer sponsored development is usually provided for free to integrators so that they can integrate the hardware the manufacturer sells into a particular control system where as Chowmain funded development is licenced out on a per project basis to recoup the investment made.Chowmain supports and works closely with major control systems including Control4, Crestron, Crestron Home, ELAN, Fibaro, Q-SYS, RTI, Savant and URC.

Melbourne, Australia

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Auckland, New Zealand

New Zealand company Energis develops home energy management services on the Control4 home automation hub. These services include circuit and plug level energy monitoring, temperature based control of hot water cylinders, infrared remote control of heat pumps, control of plug loads etc.In addition, data from all devices is managed on the Control4 hub through Energis developed software supporting upload to a cloud based data server.A “rules based” control system allows sophisticated control of devices in the home while the consolidated data view supports both customer information and centralised management services.

Melbourne Area, Australia

Development of software systems to expand the current solutions in the home automation market to provide consumers with extended functionality. Productising these solutions to release to integrators around the world to utilise in their projects.* System Design & Project Management of large residential automation projects (size upto $150,000) encompassing data network, electrical, lighting, audio visual, automation, hvac, motorisation and irrigation services.* Software development & Hardware Integration of 3rd party products and services. -Text to speech integration -POP3 and SMTP email applications -Weather information service integration -Biometric finger print UDP based integration -Media Player integration (XBMC, Boxee, Plex) -Security system integration (M1)* Created, marketed and managed online software sales with over 1000 unique resellers worldwide generating repeat reoccurring revenue with minimized overheads.* Awards for Best Overall Project for Control4 home automation system and Best Show Stand for HIA home show.

Melbourne, Australia

Managing a small team of engineers to support & develop the Control4 home automation system whilst recruiting/maintaining new dealers, developing/executing marketing plans to attack existing or new demographics and refining our business model to increase revenue.* Business modeling & process development* Sales & Technical Training to dealer base* Staff Training & Mentoring* Project Management & Design of major commercial and residential automation projects* Organize partnership programs with Netgear, Clipsal, PDL, NESS, Axis, Austar Security, Integral Energy* Created business processes that minimized overheads in the technical division and maximized productivity.* Created content management system to deliver technical & sales information to dealer base.* Software development & Hardware Integration of 3rd party products and services.* Web/Network Administration

Melbourne, Victoria

Ensuring the process of internet support and problem resolution is accurate and timely by supervising and coordinating the activities of helpdesk phone consultants.* Coaching of staff in technical support and sales skills* Supervision of Sales and Technical support staff* Development and implementation of consultant task monitoring tools.* Documentation of procedures & policys* Resolving Client Support/Service Escalations.

Bachelor'S Degree, Information Systems

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