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Newtown, NSW, AU

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

• Delivery management of a company-wide transformation program, establishing governance and processes, identifying and managing the delivery of key initiatives to improve return on invested capital and ensure a stronger.
• Managed delivery of a program of work to enable seamless E2E sales, billing and debt collection workflows for Enterprise B2B customers.Key Achievements
• Engaged with key stakeholders in the company across all levels including senior management at the parent company Singtel to establish a transformation path in key areas such as 3rd Party Spend engagement.
• Proactively implemented framework and governance to break down silo’s and ensure collaborative delivery of financially viable revenue-generating initiatives.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

• Managed project initiation and delivery for the Optus Sport livestreaming and VOD platform.Key Achievements
• Successfully managed delivery of Women's World Cup 2023 across whole of business with Optus being official supporter and broadcaster. Optus Sport's coverage of the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023™ was awarded Best Coverage.
• Pro-active management of LaLiga Premiere Football League broadcast rights acquisition with terms agreed and contract countersigned in 3 weeks. This process would normally take 3-4 months.
• Successfully managed the Optus Sport annual budget ensuring spending was on-track with forecast.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

• Managed the program management, operational support and content delivery of ViacomCBS streaming products in Australia including Paramount+ and 10 Play.Key Achievements
• Successfully managed the national launch of the Paramount+ Subscription Video on Demand platform.
• Successfully managed the launch of livestreaming sports capability for the first Paramount+ country outside of the USA.
• Seamlessly launched livestreaming and Video on Demand for multiple key football competitions including FA Cup, A-League Men, A-League Women, AFC: Road to Qatar, AFC Champions League together with all Socceroos and.
• Worked directly with Australia and Global Senior Management teams to ensure achievement of strategic goals.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

• Managed the delivery of a Pan-ABC Rights Management System to enable efficient management of the full content rights lifecycle from acquisition negotiations, through legal documentation, content and merchandise.
• Actively managed transition of the project team to Agile delivery
• Implemented JIRA and Confluence framework to enable clear delivery and capability to pivot as and when required
• Directly engaged with senior executive stakeholders to ensure prioritisation of benefit delivery within the available project budget
• Directly managed vendor engagement to ensure clarity of what needed to be delivered and when
• Line managed technical lead and test lead resources, ensuring informed decisions were made for solutions that meet or exceed expectations while ensuring quality criteria were met

Sydney, Australia

• Lead critical projects delivering stable and innovative 7plus platform capability, ensuring a resilient viewing platform for Tokyo Olympic Games to be viewed as the largest television and streaming event in.
• Actively managed delivery of full Tokyo Olympic Games program scope 3 months prior to the target launch date for the upcoming largest online-streaming event in Australia
• Directly managed accelerated delivery of the Big Brother Google Actions application to increase viewer engagement for the hit TV series
• Prepared and hosted Game Day event to ensure operational readiness and crisis management framework in preparation for Tokyo taking into account measured feedback
• Managed cross-functional team delivery to enable up-scaling of dedicated sport streaming capability including multi-lingual captions for 25M viewers to watch all 46 Olympic Sports
• Drove a 38% increase in customer viewing device footprint for the 7plus video streaming platform

Sydney, Australia

• Mentored and coached team of 9 Scrum Masters and Project Managers overseeing delivery of Website, Data, Video Streaming Application and Headend Infrastructure portfolios as well as directly managed dozens of.
• Managed critical testing for the delivery of a production-hardened national video streaming platform, architecture and operational support structure for Game of Thrones; the record-breaking largest video streaming.
• Expedited delivery of the Foxtel Now OTT application working directly with the CEO and executive team members. Application delivered successfully on 6 platforms together with 5 pre-requisite headend deployments, 2.
• Developed team talent through mentoring and coaching individual members resulting in 5 qualifying for promotions and an employee engagement score 20% higher than the company average
• Enabled delivery using both Waterfall and Agile SCRUM methodology across all portfolios
• Achieved 100% of deliverables managing change through 4 transitions involving team composition, roles and responsibility changes as part of company-wide restructures

Sydney, Australia

• Planned and scheduled 8+ high priority projects including the Foxtel Go and Foxtel Play video streaming platforms.Key Achievements
• Implemented a conduit for clear requirements gathering, prioritisation and implementation for the Presto video streaming platform to ensure team focus on maximum benefit delivery
• Managed delivery of valuable core capability for the Presto Subscription VOD platform such as HD and Airplay resulting in >130K subscribers
• Improved user experience for Foxtel Go and Foxtel Play video streaming platforms fast-tracking implementations

Amsterdam Area, The Netherlands

• Delivered highest revenue generating Pan-European IT, Software, Digital TV, Video on Demand and Online platforms for 6M+ customers. Formed key vendor relationships with Cisco, Pace, Technicolor and OpenTV.Key.
• Delivered the Pan European Cloud-based Panorama customer service platform for customers with a premium Set Top Box service to provide an optimal customer experience
• Disrupted markets launching lucrative UPC Austria and UPC Ireland Video on Demand platforms in 8 months; 2 months ahead of schedule, driving revenue in both countries
• Identified and managed resolution of key revenue inhibitor of widespread 2-way connectivity issues impacting video-on-demand sales across Europe
• Managed upgrade of national conditional access system across Ireland, significantly reducing use of pirated set-top boxes to illegally view content
• Eliminated hundreds of costly call-driver issues for 4M+ DTV customers expediting full testing and launch Digital TV Set box codes across 9 digital TV platforms in 7 countries

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

• Responsible for GSM and 3G training specialising in the Nokia mobile communications network throughout Europe, Middle East and Africa.Key achievements
• Spearheaded the implementation and upgrade of the Nokia mobile communications infrastructure in Kazakhstan, Turkey, Nigeria, Italy, Iran and Kuwait
• Effectively trained participants in the Nokia GSM and 3G infrastructure
• Clearly communicated new concepts to participants from multiple management levels and cultural backgrounds

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

• Thoroughly communicating new ideas and concepts to senior management executives from top European companies.Key achievements
• Conscientiously facilitated multiple conferences including senior executives from market-leading companies such as Microsoft, Apple, Nike, IBM, Dell and Adidas

Diploma In Business Studies, Majoring In Marketing

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