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Adelaide, SA, AU

Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Smart Energy. Innovation. Products & Services

Adelaide, Australia

Adelaide, Australia

TTFM is the fund manager for the Trans-Tasman Commercialisation Fund (TTCF), a venture capital fund focused on investing in early stage high technology companies.Responsible for identifying new ICT based investment opportunities, managing stakeholder expectations, conducting technology analysis and assessment of the market opportunity, negotiating terms.

Represented TTFM on the board and took a very active executive role in the company. Provided leadership and management to the small (6 person) team along with product management expertise. Initial focus was to ensure a compelling product was being built that solved a genuine market need and met with investor’s expectations

Responsible for delivering commercialisation and investment strategies for new innovative technology ideas being developed within the University of South Australia. Role encompasses protecting new IP, market and competitive analysis, sourcing funding and developing a sustainable business model and strategic pathway to successfully bring the technology to.

Worked with the IC Board in finding new strategic options to reinvigorate the business, whilst positioning and negotiating its sale to a strategic partner.

Building the product and market opportunity for a new highly mobile wireless solution aimed at driving down business costs and speeding operational efficiency in mobile dispatch, order/maintenance management and billing/invoicing.Consulting/contract position.

Led virtual worldwide team in creating a new network security product, targeted to generate $35M revenue and uplift sales over $100M.Created a suite of world-class embedded software security components - cryptographic library, X.509 certificate manager and secure-socket library (SSL) - for highly constrained devices, delivering a targeted $6M in.

Adelaide, Australia

Recruited by General Manager of the Embedded Design Automation (EDA) division to create marketing, sales and business development opportunities for their unique automated software model verification technology. Designed, orchestrated and executed all outbound marketing and pre-sales activities. Provided oversight of actual product development, feature.

Established the technical credibility of the GSG Australia team in the eyes of Motorola customers, enabling the group to win several key multi-million dollar contracts.Provided technical oversight, leadership and mentoring for smartcard and related security products within the Smart eCommerce team in the Motorola Software Group.Led a team of up to 25.

Worked in a highly technical team developing a Rapid Application Development tool set and chain, comprising a 4th Generation Language (4GL) and SQL complier, interpreter and programing environment. Provided front-line technical support and on-site consultancy to key customers.

Nine Mile Ride, Wokingham, UK

Organised and ran HP's Test Centre, testing and configuring various network and operating system configurations to enable HP's software teams to recreate customer environments for bug/error reproduction, test and fix.

Graduate, Company Directors Course

B.Sc (Hons), Computer Science

M.Sc, Technology Commercialisation