David Ward Email & Phone Number

Brisbane, Qld, Au

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

SME Program & Project Management end to end delivery of IT upgrades, Wireless technologies specialising in Operations Technology environment for Mining and State utilities.• State Bulk Water - Production, Operations and Distribution digital upgrade programmes . SME on wireless services, microwave, Radio Site Design & Construction• Electrical & Radio Engineering Support• Network Designs, Study, Costing & Execution• Hands on Project Management • RFQ - Bid & Quote lead & support• Contractor & Contract management• Radio Site new builds, relocations and upgrades P25, DMR, 4G & 5G• Project Reporting, WRACs• On Site Support & Supervision (S123)• Facilitate Risk Management (G2)

Brisbane, Australia

Delivery of Technology Projects for COAL ASSET in Queensland.$60 million of Project Selection & Design phases.Multiple $2M to $10 million sized project delivery.Management from design, selection, bid & quote, construction, migration and execution of two way radio, microwave, CCTV, wireless, IT and OT transformation projects before transitioning to the Operations team, at Coal Mines across Queensland. Rapid deployment of critical radio & wireless networks to mitigate impact to Production teams on sites.Multiple projects across multiple mine sites simultaneously.

Adelaide, Australia

South Australian Government Radio Network Upgrade$100 million project. 50% infrastructure & 50% services.Project Manage & expedite the upgrade of the Radio Network, Core, IP Transmission and Operation centres across the State. Ensuring that all build, transition and migrations works did not impact the Operations to any of the emergency services.The design, new builds, upgrade and roll-out of shelters, mains power, solar power, towers, greenfield sites, DC power systems, P25 radio equipment and IP back-haul of the state government emergency services• State Police Service• State Ambulance Services• Metropolitan Fire Service• Country Fire Service• State Emergency Services (Civil Defence - SES)• State Transport• State Power Networks

Sydney, Australia

Project Setup and recruitment of a new team to win and deliver Radio Access Network (RAN) Project Management Services.Preparation and response to RFQ's for Deployment Services.Change Management.Services Management & Governance.Develop Scope of Works, quote appraisal, variation approval and sub-contractor selection.Recruit, train and mentor the new delivery Project Management team (3 new PM’s)Set and manage the P&L on project delivery into Vodafone.Budgeting, Invoicing, Cash-flow and Asset management.

Australia

The setup and management of the Australia and Asia Pacific region with 4 regional offices.Solely responsible for Sales, project delivery, close out, P&L for all projects in the region.Direct report to Group CEO.Building cellular networks from Thailand to Australia, Nigeria to Papua New Guinea.Rapid deployment of Riggers, Techs & PM teams. Self-managed projects, staffing size between 10 to 200+ staff.

London, United Kingdom

Start-up company by Motorola & Cisco Systems Integration JV.Set-up PMO in London.Recruit, train and support new project management team (6) for EMEA. Hands On building PM team and supporting System Architects, Business Development team (HW & SW) . Bid & Quote, win contracts and deploy our own products.Architects for 3G core, applications & servers, through to the mobile device as a full Systems Integration company.IP and IT specialists with in house software developers to glue applications from third parties into platforms from Cisco, Sun & HP.Development & Test labs in London where we Verified and Validated (V&V) the SI function end to end, before deploying them into Operator networks in Europe.Offices in London, Chicago, Dallas, San Jose, Singapore, Tokyo and Beijing.

Uk, Chicago, Singapore Regional Offices

Design & Deploy Motorola Cellular Infrastructure networks internationally setting up regional and local project offices. Singapore: 6 years – Regional Projects Delivery Manager - South Asia & Pacific USA: 2 years – International Support Manager - Asia Pacific UK: 5 years – UK Rollout Manager of BT Cellnet mobile networkPersonally managed Mobile Network projects of Analogue, GSM, PDC, JDC, CDMA IS95B, CDMA 1x EVDO, WCDMA, UMTS, Wi-Max for many operators. RAN, Mobile Switching, VAS & core.Support & managed project wins, & delivery in 12 Asia Pacific countries between 1992 to 1999 then Europe thru to 2001.

Hamilton, New Zealand

NZ Government National Power Generation & Transmission Company. Produced power by Hydro, Coal, Gas, Oil and Geothermal resourcesEngineering Technician for Telecommunications & Protection of the Power Generation and Transmission throughout the Waikato region.• Sub Stations and Power Stations controlled remotely via Comms Systems (UHF & Fibre)• Trained and worked on 220kV power stations, 33 kV sub stations & domestic single / three phase. • Built and maintained Wire line & Wireless Comms, Tele-signalling, Tele-metering and Speech, Data and Protection over 220KV lines with UHF backup, VHF two way radio & HF sites.

Masters Certificate, Project Management

PMBOK

Nzce Telecommunications, Radio

Technicians Certificate, Electrical