Helping automate the business and let the smart people do clever things

External technical advisor to the Founder and management team on platform implementation and strategy.

Currently working on a number of paid and volunteer opportunities in web, streaming media and TV production.Please reach out if there's anything I can help with - either in Melbourne, remotely, or for the right opportunities happy to travel

Leading the Professional Services team for Ooyala (IVP/OVP, Media Asset Management and Workflow, and Advertising Technology) for the Asia-Pacific/Japan region.

Part of the DX/TED Team working with US and International Telcos to help them leverage Azure and Windows 10 (Machine Learning, Compute, Big Data, IoT, Media and Bot frameworks) to deliver great experiences for their customers.

July 2012 - January 2014 Senior Technical EvangelistAugust 2013 - January 2014 Developer Services, ManagerJanuary 2014 - December 2014 Solution Architect, ManagerWorking with the Kindle Fire Tablets, the Fire TV streaming media/gaming device, Fire Phone, as well as the APIs and services that support the Amazon AppStore on Android and other platforms. No matter the title I carry, my role is as a channel between our internal organizations and the developers building for our devices and services.As a member of the Developer Relations Group (both initially as a Technical Evangelist, and now as a Manager in the Solutions Architect group) I work with top tier application developers during all phases of product launch to explore how they can best use our un-announced technologies to create delightful video and audio experiences for their customers. We are also a core part of the device launch process for any new hardware when the time is right to unveil the hard work.As the manager for our Developer Support Team I ran a multi-national team who are tasked with helping our global base of developers with both programatic and technical inquiries. The team managed in-bound communication as well as contributing to developer-facing documentation and acting as developer advocates to our Platform, SDK and Developer Portal teams across both released and unannounced products and technologies.

"Change the world or go home" was the challenge I was given when I joined Microsoft.Seen through the lens of consumer video experience and the web Microsoft is a great place to be an Evangelist.With Silverlight; IE; Media Center; Xbox; Windows Phone; Azure and Azure Media Services as well as Windows 8 engaging at a number of levels - from developers to CxOs to tell the evolving story is not without it's challenge... but that's where the opportunities lie.Working with partners as diverse as NASA, RedBull, KEXP, NBC and Playboy on projects reaching across Europe, Asia, and the United States (and as far as Mars) has honed and extended my skills in a number of areas.Gold Star Award winner, author/co-author on 4 patent applications

Freelance cross media consulting for clients in a wide variety of industries.

Freelance position, ad hoc for 6 months, full time for 6 months of each year, geared around the Big Brother show.

Technical Director for the projects website (selected platform, developed code, managed day-to-day operations), internal IT manager and Technical Consultant to the twice weekly TV show (briefing Producer, researchers and talent as well as managing 'high tech' showcase for on-air)

When Sterling aquired KnowledgeWare I continued in the Support/Services/Pre-Sales roles, initially in the UK as we expanded and consolidated the product families into the larger SSW portfolio and then, following a move to Australia, primarily in the pre-sales and services role. Following the aquisition of Texas Instruments Software I also took on a sales role for the former KWI/SSW "KEY" and "VISION" family of products.I transitioned from SSW when they where aquired by CA

Continued the Customer Support role from when we had been EYCT but in a more senior role (eventually managing the team during and after the transition to Sterling Software that was to come)Also added Consulting and Education experience, as well as a more active Pre-Sales role

Joined EYCT in their Customer Support department, handling clients for the IEW/ADW, ObjectView, Maxim, Flashpoint and Legacy suites of products (CASE Technology, and mainframe rejuvenation tools)As the group grew the Customer Support team in London became the primary focus for Northen Europe.Remained there until we where spun off from Ernst & Young into the KnowledgeWare organisation (the tools we where providing consulting and services for)

Responsible for developing management systems using COBOL and DB/2 as well as managing deployment of CASE tools and technologies for next generation platform development

Developed management systems using COBOL, MetaCOBOL, IDEAL and DatacomDBDeveloped CICS tools and utilities (using VOLLIE)