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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Project management involving electrical upgrade to seven Waste transfer stations and Fire Safety upgrade to one transfer station. This involves managing the compilation of the technical requirements, planning tender structure and approaches, managing schedules, the tender review process and construction activities.

Sydney, Australia

Business Analysis and planning support, E Commerce Website capability development support, manage application software, patch and server upgrades; Order fulfillment and logistics management support ; Marketing and sales support.

Sydney, Australia

My main role was as process and capability lead to setup, improve or resolve issues with NBN’s network design roll-out process. I also specialised and consulted in subject areas that I became involved in such as Address Processing and geo-spatial data standardisation and quality and was appointed project manager to lead a major business transformation.I utilised lean type principals to analyse issues, AGILE style solutions to implement tactical solutions and related process change during scale design production, and worked under waterfall style frameworks for capability transfer and consolidation onto core IT platforms.Key achievements:• Standardised network design data schema and interface to strategic IT systems with enforced conformance via automated quality assurance over a 4 week period overcoming a 3 month design process blockage • Led Public Sector Mapping Authority (PSMA) strategy workshops to develop approaches for better utilising national Address data in support of NBN network roll-out, improving data accuracy from 70% to over 90%. • Project management of the fibre design transformation trial and roll-out of 80 Fibre Areas (1 million addresses) to reduce cycle time by 400%, coordinating 6 separate strategic work streams interfacing to each at General Management level.

Australia

I managed a team of between 6 to 8 staff comprising mainly technical project managers , some business analysts and a technical writer who in turn delivered new service products and enhancements for Optus on a per project basis related to their experience and technical speciality. I worked one year delivering data services, then on request transitioned to perform the same role for the voice services division of Optus networks for an additional year.Key achievements:• Taking direct project control to achieve Payment Card Industry Compliance, providing a first mover market advantage to attract financial customers. This complex project altered operations across more than 20 servers operating under Windows VMware or Solaris and the co-ordination of over 50 expert staff.• Oversight of accelerated technical delivery of $20M project to upgrade Optus HFC Cable Broadband to 100 Mbps speeds to achieve revised launch dates• Management of National Ethernet Access Network upgrade involving 182 new and 123 upgraded DSLAM sites, with related re-engineering of 8 major data and voice services.

Sydney, Australia

I managed a 14-strong team of IP VPN and Voice network design engineers delivering customised IP and voice network designs to large organisations in Australia that included ASX, banks, and government departments.I was responsible for cost centre and performance management to achieve aggressive productivity growth targets. In support of this I developed and implemented strategies for the rationalisation and automation of business processes, and provided weekly performance reports. I managed escalations and risks to the order pipeline to ensure volume targets and service level agreements were meet often in collaboration with upstream sales and downstream operational peer managers Key achievements: • Achieved annual productivity gains of 20% in order growth with 100% on-time performance via streamlining of work processes with online automation of design support tools and work aids.• Led in-house development of expert and workflow management intranet server with interfaces to strategic sales order and operational workflow systems reducing design lead time by 20%. • Set up a new sub-team responsible for Voice IP Centrex, co-located with sales and operational specialists to facilitate communication and achieve 200% fault resolution.

Sydney, Australia

I was a project manager and telecommunications design engineer responsible for high level technical design, costing for telecommunication bid submissions and special customised service requests for large corporate and government business customers. When the bid was won or proposal accepted, I was responsible for project managing implementation of the solution to schedules, costs and spend profile and other dependencies previously advised in business case submissions and mitigate risk and issues as they arose.Key achievements: • Major contributor to the technical design and costing behind winning a 3 year voice access solution contract for all Victorian Government Voice Services• Innovated by using and integrating data from geographic positioning tools, customer address lists and network infrastructure database to automating customer access design and costing.Managed the deployment to achieve Capex ($3M) and Opex ($10M) budget forecasts across the 2,000 sites.

Sydney, Australia

Responsible for Optus Broadband (ATM) platform capacity management, planning for new feature introduction and related bid support engineering consultancy. Aspects of the role included capital budget forecasting and management, project management of hardware and software upgrades, vendor and stakeholder relationship management. Key achievements: • Design authority and sometimes Project Manager for design and construction of the successful National Broadband switch network underpinning the Australian Broadcasting Commission's (ABC's) core inter-city infrastructure for carriage of voice data radio and program control data. Completed the operational framework guide for the 5 year managed service services agreement for this network. • Led the Optus professional services interface with the contracting firm representing the ABC’s interests, co-located at the ABC premise, interfaced with ABC technical and operational staff during implementation• Australian Communications Industry Forum representative developing the Inter-Network ATM Services Guideline. ACIF G605:2002.

Sydney, Australia

Telecommunication Specialist in the Optus Advanced Technology group involved in planning the initial OPTUS network roll-out and service deployment. Responsible for developing new technology solutions from initial concept to deployment planning stage, utilising waterfall type development frameworks Specific aspects of the role included identifying new technology and innovation opportunities, championing and influencing to garner support for these from the wider organization, technical and project lead for multi-functional project development teams planning implementation, managing equipment supplier relationships, equipment sourcing, conducting network equipment tenders, implementation planning, familiarity with Australian telecommunications regulatory framework. Key achievements: • High level planning and costing for the initial HFC network roll-out ($300 Million)• Broad band Access network tender and planning, re-architecture of deployment plans saving capital equipment costs up to $1M• Conducted the IP data over ATM over satellite link technology trial of the San Francisco to Sydney link and advised recommendations for deployment

Sydney, Australia

• Project and contract management of Digital Exchange hardware and software volume roll-out • Data base and software approaches to reduce trouble ticket issues in digital telephone exchanges• Deployment strategies optimising digital telephone exchange roll-out• Telephony electronic hardware and software design.• Lean Six Sigma (TQM statistical) control charts for 1 Million phone per annum production line• Telephony voice transmission specialist.• Successful design of Voice transmission testing system for AS compliance. (Loudness Ratings)• Achieved FCC compliance for USA export design version of the Australian designed TouchPhone and AUSTEL compliance for Australian Payphone.

Bachelor Of Engineering, Electrical

2003 Master Business Administration, Technology And E-Business Strategy, High Distinction