Lachlan Thomas Email & Phone Number

Sydney, Australia

Glitz Detailing provides Mobile cleaning and Detailing services on Sydney’s Northshore. Founded in 2016, Glitz Detailing has grown to include a team of four. We work to to the standard that a job is not worth doing unless it’s done to perfection.

Sydney, Australia

x2 IT is a professional services business working with Integrators and end customers providing successful business outcomes. x2 IT focuses on three main Professional Services disciplines: - IT Project Management using Prince2 methodologies - Technical Writing - Business Analysisx2 IT is building up a team of professionals with these skill sets to provide services both through the channel and to end customers.Lachlan is an IT Project Manager, Business Analyst… Show more x2 IT is a professional services business working with Integrators and end customers providing successful business outcomes. x2 IT focuses on three main Professional Services disciplines: - IT Project Management using Prince2 methodologies - Technical Writing - Business Analysisx2 IT is building up a team of professionals with these skill sets to provide services both through the channel and to end customers.Lachlan is an IT Project Manager, Business Analyst, Technical writer and consultant working in the corporate and Government vertical markets. Show less

Lachlan’s charter within Somerville was to develop a strong presence within Government and Corporate environments, design solutions and project manage the implementation of these solutions. Achievements• Lachlan built the Local, State and Federal Government business to several million dollars revenue per annum; Supplied technical resources to ServiceFirst (A long term customer of mine since May 2005 to present)• Lachlan’s very successful project management and stakeholder management… Show more Lachlan’s charter within Somerville was to develop a strong presence within Government and Corporate environments, design solutions and project manage the implementation of these solutions. Achievements• Lachlan built the Local, State and Federal Government business to several million dollars revenue per annum; Supplied technical resources to ServiceFirst (A long term customer of mine since May 2005 to present)• Lachlan’s very successful project management and stakeholder management resulted in a very large amount of repeat business• Plan, organise and host Roadshows in regional NSW (Parkes) for surrounding• Bid Managed Government Tenders successfully• Negotiation profitable outcomes for the businessSkills• Stakeholder management: primarily on the customers side and additionally Somerville senior management• Vendor Management & Distributor management throughout sales and delivery cycle. Vendors/Distis include: HP, Cisco, McAfee, ShoreTel, Emerson, Fuji Xerox; Ingram Micro; Lynx Technology; DickerData• Lachlan’s ability to converse with all levels of the business and articulate at their levels from CxO down to field engineers.• Lachlan’s Leadership qualities: Lead by example; Develop team spirit; inspire a “want to achieve” attitude• Very logically minded (thanks to his programming brain)• Professional documentation abilities for project handover and tender responses• Acquire new opportunities; scope the solution; sell the solution; successfully deliver the project on time, within budget and to exceptional satisfaction ensuring repeat business;Our solutions typically employ such technologies as: Security, Servers and Storage (SANs etc), Virtualisation, VoIP, High Definition Video Conferencing, Routing and Switching. Show less

Nextgen’s core business provides large backhaul links to other Telecommunications carriers for a combination of Primary and/or redundant links. Major Achievements:• In addition to acquiring new business, Lachlan successfully managed the entire bid process getting Nextgen Networks onto State Government Contracts (ITS2360 GTA1A Data Services) allowing them to sell large bandwidth services to NSW State Government Agencies.

In addition to responding to, negotiating and closing large NSW State Government Tenders, Lachlan successfully Account Managed and Project Managed the implementation of WANs for large NSW State Government Agencies. Lachlan’s responsibilities: • Manage a team consisting of a Pre-Sales engineer and Project Manager• Stakeholder management with reporting and chair monthly meetings • Sales/implementations for Department of Planning, Infrastructure and Natural Resources (Now… Show more In addition to responding to, negotiating and closing large NSW State Government Tenders, Lachlan successfully Account Managed and Project Managed the implementation of WANs for large NSW State Government Agencies. Lachlan’s responsibilities: • Manage a team consisting of a Pre-Sales engineer and Project Manager• Stakeholder management with reporting and chair monthly meetings • Sales/implementations for Department of Planning, Infrastructure and Natural Resources (Now ServiceFirst) – 100+ Site, $1.1m; Department of Environment and Conservation (Now DECCW) – 80+ sites; Department of Primary Industries – 90+ sites Show less

Improving my customers business operations with Macquarie Telecom by nurturing the operational side of the account.

Lachlan developed document translators (application development) for the automotive & retail industries.

Higher level support and mentor first level customer support engineers

• Promoted within the first 9 months of employment• Even though fresh out of Uni, Lachlan taught himself how to program the AT&T PABX (worth approximately $500k back then). Designing and configuring vectors, ACD, Agent queues, call flows etc.• Lachlan developed a customer knowledgebase in PERL to allow customers to query a knowledgebase on the web for customer self support.• Lachlan developed a change management approval application using PERL and HTML

Prince2 Practitioner, Project Management

Activities and Societies: Prince2 Foundation and Prince2 Practitioner

Bachelor Of Information Systems, Information Systems

Higher School Certificate, Hsc

Activities and Societies: Rugby, Surf Life Saving, Tennis.