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Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

Responsible for the implementation of the Commissions role within the affordable waters reforms.

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

Lead the portfolio that is responsible for New Zealand's Telecommunications sector regulation. Working alongside industry, consumers and Government to ensure the NZ telecommunications sector delivers great outcomes in terms of competition, investment and innovation that allow New Zealand business and consumers to thrive. This includes setting wholesale access requirements on both the fixed and mobile networks as well as identifying and addressing areas of consumer harm that may may be impacting competition.Current areas of work include our review of retail mobile bills, consumer protection codes for those moving onto next generation technology, measuring the performance of New Zealand’s broadband and upping our focus on retail service quality for the purposes of enabling consumer choice.

Ireland

On secondment to ComReg as Senior Strategy Manager in the Office of the Commissioner. ComReg is Ireland's statutory body responsible for the regulation of the electronic communications sector (telecommunications, radiocommunications and broadcasting transmission) and the postal sector.Specific responsibilities involve: - Development and delivery of strategic planning framework to drive work through to 2021 - Facilitation of the Strategic Insights Network - Delivery of strategic projects - Drafter for BEREC expert working group on Net Neutrality - Development of work programme on trend analysisGeneral responsibilities involve: - Internal and external engagement on market developments - Advice on projects of strategic significance

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

Manager of the Telecommunications team at the Commerce Commission. Responsible for leading the industry through the regulatory and market changes resulting from the structural separation of New Zealand's incumbent fixed line operator Telecom, into Chorus and Spark.Significant pieces of work we undertook included: - The transition from retail minus to cost-based regulation for wholesale bitstream access;- The subsequent full bottom-up cost modelling of the copper unbundled loop (including sub-loop) and wholesale bitstream access;- Setting terms for, and monitoring of, regulated products to promote competition in the mobile markets; - Analysis of business incentives under structural separation for investment and innovation at the wholesale level; - Setup of an information disclosure regime to collect build information for the new fibre to the home networks being built as part of the Government Ultra Fast Broadband initiative. General work responsibilities included:- Setting strategic direction and goals for regulation of the telecommunications sector- Management and leadership of the telecommunications team - Managing the teams work programme and owner of projects- Government, Ministerial, Industry and international stakeholder relationship management- Providing strategic advice to the Commission, Commissioners and Government. - Setting of, and management of annual budgets.

Wellington

Msc, Cell And Molecular Biology

Bsc, Biochemistry