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Sydney, NSW, AU

Leading the technology domain encompassing security, infrastructure, software engineering, and delivery

Sydney, NSW, AU

Moruya, NSW, AU

Established in 1996, AINS has been a trusted supplier of Telephony, Internet and Private Network services to SMB, Enterprise and Government clients providing a wide range of value added solutions such as Managed Services, Security, Cloud and Consulting. AINS is an approved telecommunications service provider with an Australian Government Telecommunications.

• MOTIV Communications was incorporated in Melbourne, Australia in March 2007. The company began trading in May 2007 as a telecommunications service provider which owns and operates a next generation IP telephony.
• Lead a team of developers and engineers to design, implement, and operate proprietary international calling card platform adding $2million to revenue in the first three months of operation and opening many new business.
• Introduced relationships directly with tier1 vendors which reduced overall cost of goods by over 45% saving in excess of $8million.
• Established a low cost national IP voice and data network primarily utilising open source applications which enabled the business to deliver on its vision of quality while keeping cost low and maintaining flexibility.
• Developed policy, procedure and training documentation enabling the business to execute its ICT strategy
• Business Intelligence and Analytics providing regular industry and competitor analysis and forecasting

Blitz Telecom now acquired was a rapidly growing provider of data and voice communications to the small and medium business space. Upon joining Blitz Telecom they only had voice capabilities through resale agreements with Telstra and Optus. Under my leadership Blitz developed an international IP voice and data network and introduced a full suite of.

The success of UTS and the ongoing success of Koala Telecom (both companies owned by the same equity group) saw the board of the Unique Group appoint me as the General Manager to oversee a merger of the two companies with the targeted goal of achieving government funding for blackspot projects which would then enable a targeted exit through a trade sale of.

UTS part of the Unique Group of Companies was a specialist provider of business PBX communications looking to expand its products to include the newly developing IP Voice technologies and professional services. Initially being led by a small team of technical engineers the business struggled to achieve profitability and adapt to market changes.I served in.

• Koala Telecom was originally my own business founded in the early concept days of commodity VoIP based on the SIPv2 protocol. As an early software developer and entrepreneur I saw a significant opportunity in.
• Initial founder of Koala Telecom after identifying an upcoming market need and capitalising on this as an early innovator of the technology. Koala Telecom was the fasting growing providers in 2007 growing at the rate.
• Development of technology, processes, teams, and products
• Successfully won a government tender to build a 1500kmsq wireless network adding over $4million in revenue over nine months
• Responsible for network architecture and implementation supported by a team of engineering and support staff.
• Vendor, Partner, and governance management

Macquarie Park, NSW, AU

Providing team leadership, mentorship, development, and management to a team of internet technicians. This was the early days of internet in Australia where processes and systems were still be developed. I played a key role in the development of those processes and consistently achieved awards for innovation and leadership.

Macquarie Park, NSW, AU

Starting my IT career as a technical support operator receiving telephone calls from users of Optus internet services experiencing a full spread of support issues from subscription, to installation, and fault management. This was an era when internet was just coming to age and no specific training was available to prepare technicians for this work.Optus.

Master’S Degree, Information Technology

Fortinet Network Security Professional, Fcnsp, Fcnsa

Prince2, Prince2 Practitioner

Cisco, Ccna, Ccda, Ccnp, Ccdp, Ccie

Itilv3, Itilv3