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Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Providing expertise to manage nbn's location data, and associated strategic projects. Developing initiatives to increase the long-term spatial and temporal accuracy of nbn’s location footprint, and ensure nbn meets regulatory obligations in its addressing footprint.Location Program Manager for the Regional Upgrade program (transitioning 120,000 eligible locations from Satellite to Fixed Wireless).

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Accountable for managing the delivery of specialised programs within the Network Data Management area, including Special Service Migration, Network Extensions and data correction projects to support regulatory requirements and build initiatives.Development of Strategic initiatives designed to increase the long-term spatial and temporal accuracy of nbn’s footprint, including development of systems to dynamically update the footprint and processes to govern changes to the footprint, ensuring adherence to data standards and guidelines.

Location Management lead for Special Service Migration: (Ethernet Lite, ATM, Megalink & ISDN).Managed Inservicing of High Care sitesDeveloped a Data Quality team to ensure location accuracy and timeliness in the nbn footprint for compliance, and to enhance customer experience metrics

Network Enablement lead for Business Segment, a cross-functional team that encompasses multiple pillars across the organisation. The Business Segment is made up of all non-residential end-users and includes businesses and government.Designed a forecasting methodology based on population estimates and vacancy rates, to more accurately model demand for nbn products.Provided direction to other pillars to enhance business customer outcomes and experience with addressing and disconnection related interactions.Roll encompasses developing baseline metrics on existing business customers, quantifying their current experiences, and enabling these customers to more readily gain access to the networkDeveloped strategic initiatives that enhanced the quality of nbn's location management addressing systems

Responsible for the successful transition to serviceable of 412,000 addresses within the Satellite footprintLed a team of address matching administrators performing address matching with Telstra, expanding it from 5-16 and improving OLAs from 57% to 100% over a six-month period. Oversaw a 380% volume increase for address matching processing during tenure. Developed metrics and tracking systems to provide senior management with detailed statistical information on the business unit's performance.

Part of the Address Management team responsible for the Inservicing of the nbn rollout, Address Matching with Telstra, and address/location related enquiries Developed processes and repositories to mature the Location Management space, including Address Validation practices, Addressing Standards, Mapinfo scripts to improve processes, and staff trainingUsed geospatial analytics to identify spatial mis-alignments between network boundaries and addresses within the Geocoded National Address File (G-NAF)

Canberra/Melbourne

2011 - Australian CensusPart of a management team responsible for the geocoding of the Census residential and workplace addressingDeveloped training for 120 coders, met all state processing deadlines and worked with State Transport Agencies to optimise journey to work outputs2010 - ABS Geography DepartmentResponsible for maintaining Australia's statistical geography classificaitonDeveloped and executed UAT scripts to deliver Google map overlays to smartphone devices for Census collectors.Researched automated zone design techniques for creating Census collection area and statistical output areas, and time-space population modelling. The ABS subsequently acquired software to further pursue this research.

Wellington/Christchurch

2007-2010 - Geography Department / CensusMaintained New Zealand's Statitical geography classification system.Lead contact for GIS related inquiries.Led a review of New Zealand’s Geographic Classification in consultation with Local Government Authorities. Co-authored an issues paper, leading to the re-development of SNZ's statistical geography.Part of an Operations Research group that developed optimization software to plan the 2011 Census. Responsible for conceptualising, testing and operating ArcGIS analysis tools to produce optimised maps for 6,000 census collectors.Vendor procurement involvement for map design and printing contracts.Member of an Emergency Task Force reporting to the Minister of Health as part of the Swine Flu pandemic, producing daily tracking maps for daily ministerial briefing papersRepresented SNZ at the Spatially Enabled Government Summit, presenting on data interoperability2006 - New Zealand Census - IT Technical Support to Census processing operations. Responsible for troubleshooting, maintenance of software applications, and workflow management.Role led to a 9 month position on the 2006 Australian Census, leading a data quality and systems support team, ensuring the accuracy of Census data releases.