Working with Fortitude Boxing on Projects and Programs for Veterans and First Nations Communities

Building the Curvalux network globally

Continuing to increase the availability of digital services and lower the cost of access in the region

ABS is an innovative and fast growing company with now 7 satellites and growing. I am excited and looking forward to growing the ABS platform over the Australia Pacific region. An excellent opportunity for the ABS platform and services.

Managing Sales, Business Development, Customer Support, Sales Engineering, and Project Management for IDC from Pakistan to the Pacific Islands, Mongolia to New Zealand. D Cinema and E Cinema platforms remain a strong focus with the aim to develop D Cinema delivery platforms in APAC, as well as expand upon current E Cinema platforms.Continuing to work at C Level, this is a challenging position, with many new potential $1-2 Million plus projects being identified all the time for IDC's innovative Broadcast Solutions, especially our LASER MPS platform for DTT rollouts, with over 10 projects identified and being addressed recently.

Managing Sales for IDC in S E Asia, leveraging my network I have identified and focused on medium sized porjects worth $US5 million for IDC products and services. S E Asia remains a vibrant market, with opportunities not just in hardware, but also services, and system integration. My main focus is currently on Indonesia, Vietnam, and looking for projects in Myanmar, Malaysia, Cambodia and Laos. D Cinema and E Cinema platforms remain a strong focus with the aim to develop D Cinema delivery platforms in APAC, as well as expand upon current E Cinema platforms.Working at C Level, this has been an enjoyable position, with many new potential projects being identified all the time for innovative Broadcast Solutions.

Advising Sat-Ed on a major venture in rural development and education.

Project Manager for the Systems Group at International Data Casting. Running the exciting CDN Project for Asia.Working on IDC's experience in Digital Cinema I was Project manager for IDC's E-Cinema solution. This is an ideal solution for Asian and developing markets, and their rapidly growing movie industries.

Providing solutions and concepts to IDC customers and distributors to build the IDC product range in Asia Pacific region. The new range of IDC products, with LAZER leading the way, are focused on our ability as an cutting edge CDN company with products that will forge new growth for our customers. Our Digital Cinema leadership is well known and continues to forge ahead. TATTOO is another exciting new product for the AsiaPac market, with these new products, built on our tried and tested experience, IDC's looks at playing a key roll in growing our partners and customers businesses in the Asia Pacific region. Part of IDC's Team AsiaPac - A New Focus and Strategy. I managed medium sized projects in the $US 4-6 million range, with a focus on business development through innovative solutions that enhanced the regions unique needs.

Project Management for the ZUKU Pay TV system. This is a Pay TV Platform built from the ground up by IDC System Integration team, from taking a blank field, turning it into a thriving Dish farm, Integrating and building the Head End, Conditional Access, specifying the Set Top Boxes, developing them, and overseeing software development. It including integrating our Hardware and Software from the IDC range into the platform as well as best of breed 3rd party solutions.Of special interest, was preparing the platform for a new major upgrade and innovation leap using the IDC TATTOO and IP STB's.The IDC "TATTOO" product, which allowed us to take the DVB-S2 ZUKU Video streams off the Satellite and convert into IPTV streams into the GPON networks in Kenya and Tanzania. Tracking shipments, deliveries, and integration meant a busy schedule, but a great experience.A great platform IDC built, really enjoyed my time as Project Manager, and a credit to Africa's innovation and foresight, Highly recommend ZUKU as a platform and company.

A great opportunity, develop a Nex Gen IP Satellite solution to bring low cost Internet access to remote parts of Africa.An exciting challenge that could not overcome resistance to IP Satellite delivered services. The contacts and lessons made the 12 months well worth the time spent. I hope in the near future to again bring to a great continent ICT solutions that will change peoples lives.Roles included negotiations with Minister level of many different Governments, Organizations and Commercial bodies.

I guided Sat-Ed innovative use of low cost VSAT for rural development with iPSTAR on solutions since inception. I led the teams for system integration and project management a number of innovative Pay TV solutions for the region. Sat-Ed sold a number of solutions for Pay TV, from CAS, Middle Ware, and Data casting solutions. Value of these solutions sold was over $20 Million US. I designed the Sat-Ed Digital Library for schools which proved to be an effective tool for rural schools to allow universal access to education. The system provided instant access to cached web sites, as well as Video on Demand for teachers. The concept was designed with the belief that teachers should be empowered buy ICT tools, and those tools be as simple an as eay to use as possible. With a simple TV remote, teachers could play short video clips that enhanced the lesson, such as chemistry lessons where schools had no chemistry sets. This has been extensively viewed and held as an example of successful ICT Integration by Rural Development professionals globally. I oversaw my teams aggregation over 2000 hours of compelling content for use in schools, Sat-Ed trialed the solution in a large number of schools in the South of Thailand. The project was surveyed by 3 independent third party Universities on behalf of the Ministry of Education of Thailand. The report was a glowing success for the system. At the same time I developed with my team the very successful “Sat-Ed Learning Café” concept. This is a ICT center for rural areas that immediately creates local employment, as well as being a portal for government and education, and encouraging and directly supporting local industry to use ICT tools from the local trained staff to build economic and job opportunities. Content for both solutions was developed locally, under John’s direction; this is part of the core success, as content should always be locally produced and key to the success of ICT platforms.

Mentor Data Systems was an innovative Taiwan company with a range of products from Video Servers, Conditional Access and Set Tops Boxes. I oversaw and initiated global marketing and strategy, working closely with companies that could be part of our eco-system. My roll went onto establishing a software development team at Software Park in Thailand, and playing a major roll in the first DVB-T trials in Thailand, based upon my experiences with DVB T in Taiwan and Australia.MDS was a company that had a vision of the future that time would prove correct.I was the direct contact for sales into major networks, in Australia, Thailand and Asia, with over $20 million in sales.

Taking my experience in press and digitization, I initially went to Media Press with one of their 90+ publications, over the next two years, I eventually became the Manager, with a vision of Digitizing the press rooms, digitizing art rooms, negotiating sales, rates, general day to day organization, government relations. I oversaw printing of some of the News Limited publications, and working with other allied companies was instrumental in developing the use of Internet as a deliver mechanism of global content into Australia.The Group printed over 90 regular publications, including 5 dailies, as well as 5 Radio stations.This gave me my first exposure to Pay TV, as we negotiated content for offshore content owners coming into Australia.