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Loganholme, Queensland, Australia

Loganholme, Queensland, Australia

Xcel Tech an Australian owned and operated company providing highly reliable and sustainable eco-friendly innovative technologies and services throughout the Asia and Pacific Region. Our focus is suppling the right solution to solve the problem you may have. We work from Solar & Battery storage solutions, including Electric Vehicle conversions, through to Robotics and emerging technologies.

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Brisbane, Australia

Working as part of the Mission Systems IPT, I managed a number of teams working on systems engineering activities including requirements analysis & development, design, integration, and verification within the Mission System Hardware, Communications, Navigation, Electronic Support Measures (ESM), and RadarIFF subsystems for the upgrade of the Wedgetail Mission Systems.This position will also be responsible for leading the design, development and maintenance of the Mission Systems Development Labs; and supporting the Ground Support Systems (GSS) IPT with Mission Systems products and expertise.• Leadership of team members by undertaking activities including but not limited to artefact review, mentoring, training and providing sound and accurate advice• Performance management and development of assigned Australian Mission Systems IPT members• Participation in technical reviews with internal and external stakeholders as required• Translating contract requirements into work requirements, processes and tasks• Managing the development of engineering documentation and artefacts in line with assigned technical responsibilities and Engineering Authority• Providing timely and pragmatic technical support to other areas of the business as directed• Execution and management of the team work scope including:• Participating in Engineering Function activities

Melbourne, Australia

The Hardware Installation & Design Team Lead position is responsible for providing direction and leadership to amulti-disciplined project team. Located in Melbourne, the team is responsible for the development of the hardwareand network architecture, and will perform design, development and other systems engineering activities based onsystem architectures. This includes developing network and server designs to meet processing performance andredundancy requirements, associated logistics engineering, and the development of full drawing packages for thedesign. The team will assist in the selection of components, design of hardware and operating systemconfigurations, and will develop set-to-work artefacts to ensure installed hardware meets system architecturedeployment needs• Manage the Engineering Design, Verification and Installation teams • Development of project Engineering and Verification Management plans• Lead the development of hardware and network designs for the system architecture,• Lead the Hardware and Network installation, integration and verification planning• Oversee the development of Site Installation Plans • Oversee the development of drawing packages for all site works and hardware installation activities• Support the conduct of Mandated System and Lead Internal Subsystem Reviews• Resolving or overseeing resolution of programmatic problems.• Resolving technical problems that would critically affect performance, cost and schedule.• Reviewing work in progress to ensure that specifications, design, criteria and performance schedules are maintained.

Brisbane, Australia

Sultanate Of Oman

• Build a five year road map in the development of the long term capabilities of the TTTF in support of the company’s strategic goals.•Conduct technical reviews of tender documentation related to current and future project tenders as required.•Coordination of Integration & Testing activities with the principle Engineer and all Stakeholders as required.•Manage & direct the individual Integration Managers in the implementation of the project’s test and commissioning strategy and approach. •Develop, manage and control the project “Master Interface Matrix”, including the defining of the Interface Control Document (ICD) template and processes•Overseeing the management and control of the system Primary Interface Agreement (PIA) process, ensuring the required linkages between the system owners, ICD and test stages are recorded and reported upon.•Oversee the management and Control of the project’s test and commissioning processes, policies and plans. •Develop, manage and control of the on and off site test & commissioning schedule, ensuring timeliness, contingency and the avoidance of bottlenecks to ensure milestones are comfortably met, instigating any corrective measures to bring a delivery back on schedule.•Develop and implement in coordination with the Training Manager and Handover Manager the strategy and programme for a successful handover to The Employer including: Training, Transition into warranty and defects maintenance, and Project closeout.•Development and establishment of a project Service Desk, in support of the delivery of all IT related systems and products being deployed. Including resources, infrastructure and polices required for an ITIL enabled services provider.•Monitoring and controlling associated processes and policies, being executed by to the associated work stream’s suppliers, ensuring that they adhere to the strategies.•Overseeing the Management & Operations of the Temporary Testing & Training Facility (TTTF).

Sultanate Of Oman

•Working with the Systems Integration Team’s other Integration Managers to establish the project’s test and commissioning strategy and approach. Develop the project’s test and commissioning processes, policies and plans. Establish the strategy and programme for a successful handover to The Employer including: Training, Transition into warranty and defects maintenance, and Project closeout.•Cascading the strategies and associated processes and policies, to the associated work stream’s suppliers, ensuring that they adhere to the strategies.•Working with the associated work stream’s suppliers to establish test and commissioning method statements, acceptance test specifications, and test & commissioning plans for each system.•Establishing the requirements for the IT fit out of a Temporary Test & Training facility to satisfy the offsite testing and training requirements of the associated work stream.

•Develop and Manage a team of technical subject matter experts (SME’s) in the integration, acceptance and commissioning of C2/4 systems, 3rd party applications, hardware and Infrastructure in accordance with project requirements and customer expectations. •Support all ATS Group Project objectives in the execution and reporting of Systems Integration Testing (SIT), System Acceptance Testing (SAT) and Operational Site Acceptance Testing (OSAT).•Develop and Implementation of System Engineering Policies and Procedures complying with international standards.

Abu Dhabi

Develop, manage and provide; Information Assurance, Security Operations support and ICT security engineering capabilities, services and resources.

Manage, and maintain a work plan of all system testing tasks. Provide input into the organisational project structure and processes to provide clarity of relationships, responsibilities and accountabilities for all stakeholders. Established standards, methodologies, and develop the overall system test strategy. Ensure the highest quality of test results and provide recommendations on migration of issues into production. Oversee all Business and testing resources (staff and tools) and their responsibilities. Define critical test objectives for the project and how they will be accomplished and coordinated. Manage the execution of test plans and lead the evaluation of test results and metrics

Direct and coordinate all activities necessary to complete a complex engineering project or several small projects to specification and on schedule; may serve as a task or project lead, exercising leadership in either a technical role training other engineers and implementing and enforcing established standards and technologies, or in a project coordination role leading tasks and assuming responsibility for the design, development, test, and delivery of a software system or application.

Management of the project engineering team through all phases of the Bid Project phase, Task planning, monitoring and product review. Develop detailed contract documentation including system development plan, system work breakdown structure and project / subcontractor statement of work (SOW). Develop project test strategy, test process and input into the organisational project structure and processes to provide clarity of relationships, responsibilities and accountabilities for all stakeholders

Develop and build a new and highly demanding area of Information Systems Security. Through the investigation of current market trends and evaluate security products so to enable the company to develop a wide and effective line of products for resale to their growing customer base.

The development, integration and evaluation, of an Industry Test Bed (ITB) into a Standing Operating Environment (SOE), using various developing and experimental security software and hardware devices.

Project Management of the Secure Gateway Team, for delivery of Secure Gateway functionality as part of a major Defence trusted messaging system project.

Research Navy aspects of Communication Information System capability, interoperability and integration requirements for Major Projects.

Human Resource and day-to-day administration of the Communications station supervise the Northern Territory’s Naval information systems network (LAN, WAN) environment and support team personnel.

Information Systems Instructor / Divisional Petty Officer (HMAS CERBERUS) - Information Systems Instructor for NAVAL messaging systems, RF communications (Voice, Data), High-grade encryption devices, Crypto security, Physical security and provide administrative support for all trainees undergoing communications training.Communications Supervisor (HMAS DARWIN) - Manage the day-to-day operations of the communications centre and radio communications capabilities, supervision of all personnel working in the communication centre.Various roles and duties My career in the Royal Australian Navy began in 1980, starting from initial Radio Operator training and leading to a number of postings and positions as a Radio Operator, Radio Supervisor to Communications Information Systems Management. During this time I gained broad exposure in various voice / data / telecommunications technologies, and have achieved competencies in these areas though professional experience and studies.

Advance Diploma, Newtwork Management

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