Vince Boffa Email & Phone Number

Princes Hill, Vic, Au

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Melbourne/ Sydney

Certatech is a professional services company providing project, program and technical engineering and IT services to Tier 1 and 2 clients in Telco, IT, Banking and Utilities.While in the services of Certatech I have completed several major assignments locally and internationally. SMART Wireless Technology Group Philippines - Consultant.The assignment was to set-up a PMO and select appropriate tools to support a USD$900M deployment of 3G/LTEOoredoo, Myanmar - Project DirectorAs Project Director 3G/LTE deployment. Initial stage was in-excess of USD$1000MIn this role I was responsible for full deployment including Tower and IBC builds, Transmission and Power.NBNCo - Greenfields, Australia - Project DirectorThe assignment had a A$500M budget. As National PD- Greenfields, the role was to develop processes and methodologies to successfully connect greenfield estates and MDUs to the NBN. Once proven successful we trained the regions and handed over the task of greenfield connections.Ericsson Australia, Melbourne and Sydney - Principal LTE Consultant and Regional Leader NSW. In this assignment I implemented an "Agile like" environment to improve internal and external communications and provide more reliable scheduling and reporting. Telecom NZ - Program DirectorIn this assignment, reporting to CTO, I setup a cross company PMO aligning all aspects of the 3G roll-out from Channels and Marketing to Site Acquisition and Build through to Support and MaintenanceIn all these positions I have had between 4 and 6 direct reports and up to 60 staff on the projects under me.In these roles I have provided the following key service - Leadership and Mentoring, Executive Level Management reporting , Program Management, Business Analysis and Stakeholder Management to name a few.

Melbourne, Australia

Telstra is modernizing the way it does business with major investments in IT and Networks and introducing a NAL fabric from which to expose re-usable services from Network Domains to the IT consumers.It is an exciting program which will allow Telstra to introduce new Services/ Products into the market within weeks instead of months or years as is the current state of play.This is achieve via the NAL layer (NaaS – Network as a Service) and ODM closed loop assurance Orchestration creating composite services from the atomic exposed services from the Network DomainsMy role as team leader is to ensure alignment between the various SILO stakeholders within Telstra (Networks, IT, Corp and Finance) in the interpretation of Telstra's 2020 vision and ensure the transition from Product engineering to Service modelling is as smooth as possible while meeting Mission critical deadlines. A significant part of the role is Stakeholder Management and Business Analysis ensuring Process and Change management is followed. The transition from Product engineering to Service modelling is significant and requires strong leadership and guidance which I provide.

Manila, Phillipines

Award a 3 month contract to support CTIO review project management practises and complete a "health Check" of current initiatives/ projects.Set up PMO, and selected appropriate project Tools to support a current roll-out valued in excess of US$900M.As part of the management team I also assisted in formulating the 3 and 5 year strategy plan

Yangon, Myanmar (Burma)

Ooredoo is bringing mobile high speed data and crystal clear voice to Myanmar.As Director of Construction and Deployment I was part of the executive management team and headed up the Construction Team responsible for the build of 1000's of new towers and deployment of dual vendor RAN solution working with Nokia and ZTE.It is truly a greenfield project with little to no existing infrastructure and little in the way of skilled labour. As such I was responsible for several key initiatives including the building of a training facility, 3 key Exchange Building , and over 4000 greenfield sites, requiring the errection of towers and over a 1000kms of fibre. My team Managed all contractors and vendors, programmed and scheduled all works and managed all contracts under the scope of works The initiative has been a total success with over a 1M subscribers within a week of launch.

National Role

As part of the Government National Boardband scheme all new estates greater than 100 lots/ premises will be fibred from Day 1. It is a complex programme of works as new estates are signing in at between 25-50/week and are located in both metro and rural environments across Australia.As Project Director I direct our internal teams and work with of suppliers and sub-contractors to ensure new estates are connected in a timely manner in a challenging and evolving environment

Working In Nsw And Victoria

As principal consultant assisted to modify and/or add systems, processes and reporting to deliver more effectively the deployment of 1800Mhz LTE to Telstra - Project code name KSD.In addition, took NSW region under my personal responsibility and delivered to agreed timelines under difficult conditions

After leaving Telstra, Vince went to Telecom New Zealand Telecom. The position was a contract role for 12 months. The role was Project Director RAN deployment which involved approximately 1000 sites having 2G and 3G (850 and 2100) deployed. He was responsible for full end to end delivery of the RAN/ UTRAN network from site acquisition through to transmission and tower errection, from site make ready through to operational readiness and commerical launch. The project was valued in excess of NZ$450M

Melbourne

Reporting to Head of Wireless, as GM my role was to supervise and take full responsibility and accountability for both Business As Usual (BAU) and Development projects within the Telstra 3G umbrella including annual and quarterly roll-out/ expansion plans, site banking, successful introduction of new features and products operating on 3G Budgets, Resourcing ,Communications within Technology Group and greater Telstra, Liaising with internal and external parties to achieve KPIs.

Vince filled the role of General Manager 3G Development Technology Infrastructure. In filling this role, Vince was also Project Director for the 3G 850 Deployment (NextG); a key Telstra Transformation deliverable involving over 5000 sites, 7500 base-stations (3G and 2G) and a common core deployment and several world firsts.In addition to the NextG deployment, Vince was also involved in mobile roll-outs in New Zealand and Hong Kong on behalf of wholly owned Telstra subsidiaries Telstra-Clear and CSL/ MWM respectively

Melbourne, Australia

Set-up and managed 3 significant PoW with typical combined budgets of between A$200 and A$300M/ann. The programs included: 2G/3G Capacity PlanningGPRS/ Data Enhancements and UpgradesCore/ IN Upgrades and Associated Infrastructure

Diploma; Bachelor Of Engineering, Business Administration; Electrical

Suspended MBA

Bachelor, Engineering In Electrical Engineering

Bachelor'S Degree, Electrical And Electronics Engineering