John Borg Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, Australia

Applying a consultative process to many of the business challenges facing organisations as they move through a digital transformation of the ICT space, business processes and workplace environments. This includes;- Customer Technology Insight and Strategic Roadmaps- Solution Consulting on Networks, Security, Digital Workplace Transformation and IOT based solutions - Technology Strategy Development (Networks, Cloud, IOT, Security, Tracking & Monitoring/Sensors)- Business Consulting (processes, competitive edge, customer experience, demand generation, etc)

Melbourne, Australia

Currently working as a Solutions Consultant in the Finance and Insurance Team providing consulting services various solution types including:- SD-WAN (Velocloud), IP/MPLS based VPN services, NBN Based Services, Internet- Cloud Services (Telstra CSX Cloud, Storage, Security)- Carrier Managed Services (CPE, WAN Optimisation, Storage Management, Remote Access)- IOT, Mobile Apps- Fixed Voice- SIP/TIPT and Hosted Telephony- Fibre builds- Wireless Services- NAS - Telstra Network Application Services

Melbourne, Australia

Manager for a group of Communication Consultants in the southern region at AAPT, as well as performing a Senior Technical Advisory and Communications Consultant role to major clients for IP/MPLS VPN. fixed Voice, SIP Voice trunking, Internet, Co-location Hosting and Cloud services at AAPT.

A senior network engineer/architect and Product Manager (AsiaPac) - Enterprise and Carrier, business development, Product Line Manager (Passports), Systems Engineer - Finance & Insurance Industry.Strengths and Capabilities:• Extensive design, solution development and sales engineering (on-quota) experience.• Technologies: IP/MPLS, ATM, Frame Relay, Ethernet transports, IP routing protocols OSPF, BGP, COS/QOS mapping, VPN solutions (RFC2764 & RFC2547), wireless backhaul, VoIP, VoTDM, VoATM, Carrier Ethernet (PBB, PBB-TE, PLSB, Y.1731).• Broad technical knowledge in optical transport networks including DWDM, ROADM, SDH, Control Plane• Extensive experience in bid proposal fulfillment, acceptance testing, technical solution papers, and competitive sales• Technical support provided to in-country direct engineering sales force within the Asia/Pacific region.• Proven written and oral communication skills• Formal sales skills developed through IBM sales and Siebel TAS workshops• Strong customer focus with a view to exceeding customer expectations• Experience in leadership positions gained as Team Leader in providing Technical Engineering Resource Management• Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) experience

Group Manager role in 2008/09 for the ‘Optical and Data Pre-Sales Engineering’ team in A/NZ which was part of the Metro Ethernet Network (MEN) division within Nortel. Responsible for mentoring, training, performance and managing the resource requirements to drive optical and data business in our region.

Nortel Product Lifecycle Manager (PLM) responsible for the product line management of the Multi-Service range of WAN switches/routers within the Asia/PAC region.

Successfully led a team of virtual pre-sales data engineers and architects (2005/06) across the Asia region, which were responsible for the multi-service switching architectures in the region that resulted in the over-achievement of our allocated quota by 10% and 9% in successive years.

Senior Advisory Systems Network Engineer Designed and installed IBM Australia’s first ATM switching solution for a major bank in Australia. Other design/installations include:• Police Emergency Service backbone/campus infrastructure• Major hospital health care network in Victoria and Western Australia• Wagering/Gaming industry in Victoria and New South Wales • Infrastructure Utilities in Victoria and New South Wales• Finance/Insurance group across Australia• Automotive Industry in VictoriaDesigned and implemented both SNA and non-SNA communication solutions for wide area and LAN based networks. These networks involved various network topologies utilising routers, broadband switches, IBM Front-End Processors for various industries such as;• Banking and Finance industry• Government Department• Wagering/Gaming Industry• Automotive IndustryMarketing Excellence Award 1990, 1994Engineering Excellence Award 1995‘Professional of the Month’ awards

Technical evangelist for IBM's ATM switching range and MSS routing platform.

ANZ Bank Account Network Engineer,

Account Advisory Network Engineer for State Bank of Victoria both before and during the merger with CBA in 1991.

IT Systems Engineer working on Finance and Insurance solutions.Specialised in EFT systems and 'Fault Tolerant' front end computing systems as part of the IBM Advanced Systems Centre.