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Melbourne, Vic, Au

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

As the Managing Director (Asia Pacific Region) at Orion-Soft, I am dedicated to transforming the equipment hire industry with cutting-edge software solutions. With over 30 years of experience in technology, consulting, and business intelligence, I have a proven track record of driving growth, enhancing operational efficiency, and delivering exceptional value to clients.At Orion-Soft, we specialise in developing comprehensive hire management software that simplifies the complexities of managing equipment hire. Our solutions are designed to streamline operations, improve asset utilisation, and provide real-time insights, empowering businesses to make informed decisions and achieve their goals.My role involves overseeing all aspects of our operations in Australia, including sales, marketing, customer relations, and strategic partnerships. I leverage my extensive background in consulting and business intelligence to deliver data-driven insights and innovative solutions that meet the unique needs of our clients.Key Achievements:Successfully leading the launch and expansion of Orion-Soft's Australian operations, achieving significant market penetration and revenue growth.Developing and implementing strategic initiatives that enhance customer satisfaction and retention.Building and managing a high-performing team, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence.Providing consulting services that improve business processes and optimise data warehousing for better decision-making.Let's connect to explore how Orion-Soft can support your equipment hire business and help you achieve operational excellence.

Melbourne, Australia

Intellismart provides cost effective, full end-to end Big Data solutions to businesses of any size or market. We have experience using many technologies, but have chosen the following combination of products: • Talend Open Studio for Big Data → Data integration, cleansing, transformation, loading • Google Bigquery → Data Warehouse / Data lake in the cloud • Google Data Studio → Unlimited users for data visualisation and dashboards in the cloud • Ubuntu Server (Linux) → Talend runtime deployments both on-premise or in the cloud These technologies are not only cost effective but also well known brands and endorsed by Gartner. No need to register products or deal with the vendors directly. It’s as simple as creating a gmail account and both on-premise or cloud options are supported. Google producs in particular are very easy to use and limited training or interaction with the vendor. Talend is quite stable and Linux is a well supported and stable operating system.

Melbourne, Australia

Talend is a next-generation leader in cloud and big data integration software that helps companies become data driven by making data more accessible, improving its quality and quickly moving it where it’s needed for real-time decision making. Talend’s open-source, native, and unified integration platform, Data Fabric, enables customers to embrace new innovations and scale to meet the evolving data demands of the business.The only open source vendor named a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools, and the Forrester Big Data Fabric Wave, Talend’s innovative solutions are relied upon by 1500+ global enterprise customers across a range of industries, including Air France, GE, and Lenovo.

Asia

Big data should deliver big insights. But it doesn’t always work out that way. Unless you have Zoomdata. We provide a simple, intuitive, and collaborative way to visually interact with data to solve business problems. We enable interactive data visualization at any scale—from billions of rows of data to real time streams in less than a second. Our innovative technology accelerates time-to-big-data-insight by removing complexities that prevent traditional BI and analytics application users put the power of big data to use. A modern enterprise needs modern set of analytics - supporting big data and everything else, based on a streaming architecture. This is the era of visual analytics at the speed of thought.

Melbourne

I'm responsible for consulting services & implementing Cloud Strategic Services related products such as Roambi.

Auckland, New Zealand

Implemented Business Intelligence solutions using Microsoft SQL Server, Analysis Services and IQ4bis Management software. Managed small team of consultants. Helped with software testing and feedback to Dataserver development team in Austria.

Auckland, New Zealand

Implemented SQL Server, Analysis Services, Proclarity solutions to MFGPRO ERP software users. Assisted with software development & testing.

Auckland, New Zealand

Implemented Corporate data warehouse, reporting and Business Intelligence solution. Worked as both Marketing Analyst and Data warehouse architect in order to understand both business and IT requirements. This role was a joint venture between IT and the marketing department.

Database, datawarehouse design & implementation. Report and systems analysis.

Bachelor Of Technology (Btech), Information Technology

Activities and Societies: Part time Information Technology lecturer

Education record

Activities and Societies: Chess, athletics, tennis.