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Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

O&M Business Development and Bid Manager to plan, build and maintain the O&M sales channel in Australia.

Greater Melbourne Area

Diverse role responsible for contract management and bid management across a product commercialisation and service delivery organisation.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Melbourne, Australia

Melbourne, Australia

Telecommunications, ITS and services bid manager responsible for EoI, RFP and RFT submissions across Australia and New Zealand, for a wide range of customers including NBN, Telstra, Optus, VicRoads, Cisco and NZTA.

Senior Account Manager working towards the Department of Transport, Metro Trains Melbourne and Public Transport Victoria.

South East Water is a provider of water, sewerage, trade waste and water-saving services for residents and businesses in South East of Melbourne. Responsibilities:User analysis of the GIS system users.Prepare User Guide documentation for the new GIS software system.Run GIS user training for South East Water personnel. Achievements:Trained and transitioned 60 SEW personnel to the new GIS software.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

GHD is a professional engineer consultancy, employing over 6,000 professionals across Australia, New Zealand, Asia, China, Middle East and the Americas. Telecommunications is one of 16 business areas within the GHD services portfolio. Responsibilities- Telecommunications Service Group Manager (managing 12 people).-National Sales and Bid Manager for national based proposals towards mobile network carriers, equipment vendors and Government Departments.National Project Director (end to end) for all national telecommunications projects.Contract manager for all national telecommunications contracts, including Telstra's Integrated Deed.

Geographical Information Systems (GIS) solutions for major utility and public safety companies. ResponsibilitiesTechnical project manager for the South East Water GIS software Upgrade,Analysing, managing and documenting the client's requirements,Performing risk assessments and risk mitigation planning,Resource Management of the software design and verification team,Detailed planning and execution of the entire project, from requirement management to client acceptance testing. AchievementsOn-time delivery of the first three project phases for client acceptance.Documented and executed over 5,000 test cases.Managed the data migration of over 5 million data records.

Ericsson Australia supplies mobile network equipment and services to Australia, New Zealand and South East Asia. Ericsson's worldwide market share is over 30%, and in Australia had annual revenues of over $1B supplying equipment and services to Telstra, Vodafone, Optus and Hutchison. ResponsibilitiesSolution Group manager (managing 10 people),Solution Manager for mobile network solutions, including pre-sales solution definition, generating pricing models, preparing solution documents and post sales project management support.Provide pre-sales competence to the Telstra, Vodafone, Optus and Hutchison account teams.Core Network Product manager for MSC/VLR, HLR, SGSN, GGSN, Media Gateway, Messaging/SMSC, IMS and associated applications,Market requirement specification manager at Telstra, involving business case analysis, pricing proposals and driving product requirements to the Ericsson design organization,Market Introduction Project and Process Manager. AchievementsTelstra GSM R9.1 upgrade project ($15M) which included business case analysis, product migration solutions, new feature presentations and pricing proposals. When awarded, post sales technical support provided to the implementation team, in particular on the initiate upgrades.Telstra GPRS R3 upgrades project ($2M) which included business case analysis, product migration solutions, new feature presentations and pricing proposals. When awarded, post sales technical support provided to the implementation team, in particular the in-service performance.Hutchison ("3") WCDMA contract ($800+ million) and transition to the design and implementation phases. As core network solution manager, performed extensive solution definition, network design, pricing proposals and transition to the design teams.Samoa GSM network contract win ($2M) as overall solution manager coordinating the core and radio network solutions, including pricing.

Ericsson Radio (Sweden) supplies mobile network equipment and services to the world market, which includes all global sales and marketing, product management and standardisation activities. In 1999, 3G spectrum auctions were carried out, with major network operators selecting network vendors. Responsibilities Mobile Network Bid Manager in the Global Marketing and Sales group responsible for WCDMA (3G) tender preparation for global mobile network operators.

Product Manager working with the following product areas, supporting the world market:(1) Unified Messaging solutions for Mobile Operators, with solutions using inhouse developed products and sourced 3rd party products.(2) Security, Fraud and Network Interception.