Wakerley, Queensland, Australia
Specialties: Project Management Market Research Project/Product Proposals Server/Storage Architecture
Work with clients to identify requirements for networking and home automation systems Design network and system architecture Plan and manage project budgets
• Transitioned email and data storage system to combination of Google and Microsoft Cloud Services • Day-to-day IT Support and Network Management • Volunteer as a Study Mate tutor for refugee children in Yeronga High School
• Managing the day to day operations and sales for the company • Providing consultation services to customers embarking on first major system and providing hands on demonstration of customised systems • Maintaining relationship with current and new customers and identifying potential areas for improvements for their systems • Creating and managing the corporate website
Key Responsibilities: • Undertook market study on the viability of an entry-level product line with customers and solution partners and created the product requirements document • Worked directly with regional sales managers in Asia Pacific to forecast the Return on Investment (ROI) for the new project and presented to top management in Chicago for project funding • Identified new manufacturing vendors and leveraged their manufacturing and technology strengths to reduce development and unit costs • Managed the new product development project with a multi-national team across China, Taiwan and the US Achievements: • Successfully developed and launched a brand new product line with 5 different products using only 1/3rd the development cost of previous programs, by developing the products in parallel and leveraging a common design, with Coca Cola, China Unicom and Nestle as launch customers • Worked with the sales team to develop product demonstrations and presentations to win a crucial deal, worth US$5 million in hardware, solutions and services with the police force, previously a customer of a competitor, and received a sales award from the Senior Vice President (SVP) of Asia Pacific
Key Responsibilities: • Partnered with sales teams of IBM, Dell, HP and Sun Microsystems to deliver technical presentations of the AMD platform to potential customers • Managed customer relationships with supercomputing business customers, such as Chartered Semiconductors, across South Asia • Designed and conducted proof of concept demonstrations for customers Achievements: • Won the tender for the Ministry of Education in Indonesia to supply energy-efficient desktops for a leading university in Jakarta with AMD-based desktops from HP, worth US$5 million, against Intel after a successful technical demonstration and presentation to the Minister and his team.