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Sydney, Australia

As a Senior Technical Consultant in the Telstra Wholesale Sales team I am a member of each of the 6 account teams within the Service Provider Group of accounts. This group of accounts consists of ~100 service providers with total annual revenues of ~$90M. I also support the Global Account team with the national requirements of a number of global multinational carriers (e.g. Verizon, BT, Sprint ) and participate in the establishment of new service provider accounts.I provide technical expertise to customers and account teams for the Data, IP & Network Applications portfolio of products which includes Wavelength Services, Carrier Ethernet, Internet, IP Voice and other products

Sydney, Australia

As a member of the Optus Wholesale Sales & Marketing organisation I was responsible for all stages of the development & delivery of new fixed products from product concept through to launch. Functions include defining the product concept & requirements, business case preparation, project costing, preparation of funding requests, vendor selection & management . I was also responsible for project managing the timely delivery of new products within budget by establishing and managing the cross functional core team, managing the project schedule, budget and providing regular project steering committee updates.

Sydney, Australia

Project management responsibility for the integration and operational readiness of new Telstra cloud products and services.

Sydney, Australia

Verizon is one of the world’s largest telecoms companies, with worldwide revenues in 2013 exceeding $125Bn USD.Tasked with driving Verizon’s Asia Pacific Voice/VoIP product technology strategy and ownership of Australia & New Zealand carrier partner relationships for voice and ethernet access network interconnect.• Assessed and recommended appropriate technology strategies for the evolution of Verizon’s APAC voice network• Ongoing product life cycle management to identify product trends and determine product roadmaps.• Project sponsor for mult-million dollar cost saving initiative. Prepared business case and product roadmap minimizing revenue loss by suggesting appropriate migration strategies, obtained stakeholder approval, initiated the project by drafting the Project Description Document and engaging the Project Management Office.• Performed product cost modelling to ensure optimum pricing of products • Contributed to successful launch of Verizon’s APAC SIP Carrier Interconnect platform by performing verification testing of the first international carrier interconnect.

Sydney, Australia

An early employee of Verizon Australia (formerly MCI WorldCom), joining at a time of rapid network expansion and company growth. Responsible for the planning, design & implementation of Verizon’s APAC carrier voice network and the project management of projects for the APAC Network Engineering & Planning organisation. A key participant in the transformation of Verizon’s APAC core voice network from TDM to VoIP with responsibility for planning, design & project management of the deployment of new SIP platforms i.e. Retail Hosted IP Centrex, Wholesale SIP Trunking and SIP Carrier interconnect platforms.

Telstra is Australia’s primary telecommunications and information services company, offering a full range of communications services and competing in all telecommunications markets. • A member of a small team responsible for establishing the Worldfax Network Operations Centre responsible for onshore and offshore Worldfax network operations and maintenance• Responsibilities included network fault investigation and resolution, network management, software acceptance testing, network dimensioning, network quality and performance monitoring and reporting, configuration management & commissioning of Worldfax nodes• In this position I performed high level technical liaison with developers, suppliers, offshore technical support staff and internal groups

Sydney, Australia

The Overseas Telecommunications Commission (OTC) was established in August 1946 for the purpose of controlling Australia's international telecommunications. In 1992 a merger took place between the OTC and Telecom Australia, forming Telstra. I began my career here as a Telecommunications Technical Officer after a rigorous selection process and completing 6 months of intensive in-house training and 6 months of field rotation through various areas of expertise within the organisationDuties included:• Operations & Maintenance and system configuration of Nortel DMS 300 international voice gateway.• Alarm monitoring, fault investigation and reporting • SS7 TUP and ISUP & Switched Digital conformance testing with overseas carriers• Establishment and testing of new circuits and routes• Installation and testing of software patches• Liaison with overseas carriers, equipment suppliers and internal groups.

Marketing Practice Certificate, Marketing

Associate Diploma, Electrical And Electronics Engineering, Credit