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Sydney, Nsw, Au

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

With the growing disaggregation of media through proliferation of Direct-to-Consumer SVODs, the Foxtel Group re-imagined how to approach the challenges facing customers. Hubbl is a world leading innovative approach to bringing together all these D2C streaming experiences through a converged viewing and converged billing experience. From initial customer research, product strategy, product and experience design, E2E technology build and integration with global technology partners Sky and Comcast, through to contract negotiation with 7 Local and 6 Global SVODs and finally customer launch, the role of Exec Director of Product was responsible from start to finish for "Hubbl".

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Managing the Product, Business Analysis and User Experience teams, this role continues to expand on the previous role's responsibility for all of Foxtel's Products and now includes the Foxtel Group's full product portfolio, including the streaming products Kayo, Binge and Flash. With overall responsibility for product innovation, this role includes responsibility for defining the product strategy, product definition & development and supporting in-life product development.

Sydney, Australia

Managing the Product Management, Business Analysis and User Experience teams, this role continues to expand on the previous role's responsibility for all of Foxtel's Products and now covers 4 key areas: 1. Streaming services Foxtel Go & Foxtel Now - More than 500k active users across 10 devices, Foxtel Go and Foxtel Now have seen consistent growth in usage through new product enhancements. 2. Set-Top-Boxes (iQ4, iQ3, iQ2, MyStar, etc...) - The primary aggregation platform for Foxtel, the latest generation of STB and User Interface is now with more than 1 million customers, delivering significant NPS, Churn and APRU benefits. Recent aggregation additions include Netflix and ABC iView 3. VOD Services (OnDemand & Store) - Foxtel manages a library of nearly 50,000 VOD assets. These need to be efficiently prioritised, processed and made available to customers through end user experiences. 4. Recommendations Platform - Foxtel uses a cloud based content recommendations platform from a global technology leader. Over the last 12 months, this has become more integrated to the end user experience enable powerful CMS driven experiences to better curate and promote content to the end user. With overall responsibility for product innovation, this role includes responsibility for defining the product strategy, product definition & development and supporting in-life product development.

Sydney Area, Australia

Responsible for the product management of all of Foxtel's products. Specifically, this includes Set-Top-Boxes (iQ3, iQ2, MyStar, etc...), Foxtel Go, Foxtel Play, Guide Applications and the product management of the common VOD services (AnyTime and Store).

Sydney, Australia

After the merger of Foxtel and Austar (July 2012), I was asked to take on a role as Product Delivery Manager. In this role, I would be responsible for the Project Management Team tasked with delivering all new products for Foxtel. Examples include the introduction of next generation set-top-units, on-line products such as iOS and Android applications, the enhancement of existing products on the iQ2 and MyStar platforms and the delivery of the vast array of engineering projects required to enable these new products.

Sydney, Australia

As Broadcast Technology Manager, I was responsible for the end-to-end lifecycle of broadcast technology at Austar. Fundamentally, this can be broken into three components:1. Technology Strategy - Working with the Product Strategy and Senior Management Team, I was responsible for developing the appropriate technology strategy to ensure there was a constant stream of products delivered to meet the business needs. This included the management of an internal technical architecture team as well as strategic vendor management.2. Product Delivery - There were several internal teams and external vendors, responsible for delivering on the technology roadmap. I managed these teams and was responsible for the delivery of products into the field.3. Broadcast Operations - Once products were launched, I was responsible for the in-life technology support provided by the Broadcast Operations Team.This role also included financial responsibility of all product technology development and support (approx. $10m pa) and line management responsibility of all areas of Broadcast Technology (~35 people).

Sydney, Australia

Joining Austar in May 2006, was initially responsible for the in-life support of Broadcast Technology through the Broadcast Operations Team. This role quickly grew to include all Engineering product development for Austar.Early in this role I took on financial responsibility of the entire Broadcast Technology Department which I maintained during my tenure at Austar.

Sydney, Australia

Starting with Accenture straight out of University, my first role was in Financial Services with AMP for approximately 1 year, before joining the Optus DTV project. From there, I joined Imagine Broadband, a smaller consulting firm specialising in Digital TV engagements. With Imagine Broadband, I worked at NTL and Cable & Wireless in the UK in 2002 and then with Telstra doing the Foxtel Digital project in 2003.

Senior Management Program

Bachelor'S Degree, Electrical And Electronics Engineering, Honors

Activities and Societies: President of The University of Adelaide Baseball Club (1997, 1998)