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Burleigh Heads, QLD, AU

• Future Results is a consulting service defining new operating models for big organisations to innovate like small startups while using their strengths.Enterprise organisations are being impacted by new market.
• Financial forecasting - business case drivers are defined in advance so ideas can't change
• Success measures - reporting focuses on margin, arpu, etc, not user engagement metrics
• Roadmaps - dates and costs are locked at the start of projects, discourging change
• Initiative pipeline - too few ideas are investigated so businesses must be built that will fail
• Employment - many varied staff are needed due to narrow and specific job roles

Palo Alto, CA, US

The Founder Institute is the world's largest entrepreneur training and startup launch program, helping aspiring founders across the globe build enduring technology companies. Based in Silicon Valley and with chapters across 50 countries, the Founder Institute has helped launch over 1,550 companies in 6 years. The company's mission is to "Globalize Silicon.

City, Australian Capital Territory, AU

The Digital Transformation Office’s vision is that government services should be simpler, clearer, and faster for users, just as services are in other parts of users’ lives. People should be able to get things done with government easily. I help the DTO and Government agency teams to rapidly test early stage ideas, and discover ways to add the most value.

Sydney, NSW, AU

• Pollenizer partners with big companies and drives an action based program to cultivate culture, identify the right people to activate breakthrough ideas the startup way. Pollenizer have become well known for.
• Coaching and Consulting with Pollenizer clients
• Business development and managing relationships
• Developing new products and services, and enhancing existing products
• Scaling Pollenizer in Sydney, and at a global level

Sydney, NSW, AU

The NRMA Jumpstart accelerator is a partnership between Slingshot and the National Roads and Motoring Association. It finds new startup founders and offers them seed capital and a 3-month training program to help them build their business. Once their idea gains traction, they have an opportunity to partner with NRMA and provide offerings to their 2.4.

Singapore, SG

• Group Digital L!fe division was formed in April 2012 to disrupt the global digital market and build new OTT revenue streams for SingTel. To execute this vision, a fundamental shift in delivery approach was necessary..
• As Proof of Concept Manager for Australia acted as a corporate “Intrapreneur” or “Entrepreneur-In-Residence” (EIR). Took lead responsibility to mentor and teach these leaders in how to strategically test, measure.
• After researching best practices circulated a “lean corporate startup” approach and a “cultural transformation” roadmap for GD!L. Supported by group Director and CIO, Aust. MD and HR
• Succeeded in facilitating mindset changes in staff and execs to benefits of “validated learning”
• Earned a reputation as a strategic leader through constructive discussion of “the big issues”

Macquarie Park, NSW, AU

• Accountability for all strategic delivery in three key digital business pillars; i) TV and Video, ii) Digital Business, and iii) Smart Home & Office. Products delivered and enhanced in market included:
• Optus MeTV linear TV streaming, and bundle constructs, mobile apps, and enhancements
• Optus TV Now mobile free-to-air cloud TV recording (removed from sale by high-court ruling)
• Optus MyBizOnline web hosting with search engine optimisation (SEO) and marketing (SEM)
• Optus Digital Solutions incl. PC & Mobile Security, PC & Mobile backup, Email & collaboration
• Market trials of Home Automation products to find market readiness and problem/benefit mixKey Achievements:

Macquarie Park, NSW, AU

• Optus MeTV with Fetch (now Optus TV with Fetch) is a set-top-box based personal video recorder and IPTV service. It delivers free-to-air, streaming and on-demand content to TV’s in Australia over the top of any ISP’s.
• Delivered an extremely complex product from initiation to full market launch within 10 months
• Overcame system roadblocks to integrate to legacy billing, logistics, and customer care tools
• Trained 2,500 customer support staff, and all sales staff to ensure full adoption of the product

London, GB

• colt provide fibre networks, telephony, internet services, and data-centre hosting throughout Europe. Clients include most EU investment banks. A new Online Transformation team was recruited with both employed and.
• Automated order workflows cut order completion time from ~6 weeks down to just 3 days
• Increased sales effectiveness by 35% through real-time customer tracking and push-chatSSO: Novell Identity Manager Suite used to provide a single colt identity and automate logins.
• Reduction in support cost gave ROI in <3 years, plus improved customer satisfactionSFDC: salesforce.com custom integration to automate processes and track live sale performance
• Sales resources each saved around 2-days per week previously wasted on administration SOMS: Automated sales order management, product configuration and quote builder web-app.
• Addressed major business challenges of geographic differences in products, costs, client contract rates, and automated connectivity checks to ensure the configuration was validP&G: The Pricing & Governance rules engine.

London, GB

• Managed design and build of a new end-to-end web infrastructure for colt’s customer facing websites with Cisco network architecture and 30 servers for webLogic Portal 9.1, Oracle UCM, webMethods middleware, and Oracle.
• New architecture delivered high performance and resilience for much lower operating cost
• Executives publically praised the efficiency and drive exhibited in program team delivery
• Newly hired Online Transformation Director selected me to build the new Online team

Sydney, NSW, AU

• Project managed build of a new European data centre, London office refurbishment and churn, major Cisco network replacement, core telephone system replacement, and two European office movesKey Achievements:
• Innovative data centre design provided efficient high density rack hosting in a very small area
• Maintained full banking operations throughout major office churn and multiple parallel projects

London, Newham, GB

• Managed a major infrastructure project for platforms and networks to broadcast live betting data to TV’s and EPOS tills in 1300 shops. Also designed and led bid for a UK wide shop network refreshKey Achievements:
• Increased customer spend and satisfaction through greatly improved in-shop screen data
• Raised critical platform resilience to N+N+1, and built a BCP broadcast studio data centre
• Identified 30% annual cost-saving by replacing shop ISDN with VoIP and MPLS over DSL