Greater Darwin Area
A senior manager with experience developing and managing complex operational environments over more than 20 years. With a foundation in civil engineering, estate management and structured finance and operating and interacting at senior and all levels within small business, corporate and government organisations across Australia, Asia/Pacific region and globally. Experienced in developing and operating data management and business systems for digital transformation and related project services. A passion for deep diving in the data (especially spatial and temporal), characterising and structuring it to create reality models for project and business operations that make for clearer stakeholder insight leading to action and better outcomes.
Using traditional project management and business methods together with new AI tools to help organisations succeed during these challenging times.
For smart communities, engineering projects and operations Air Inspect Australia deliver a complete end-to-end solution for reality modelling and related business process improvement in data acquisition, management and analysis.
Digital transformation project services for Federal, State, Local and private enterprise stakeholders and clients. DigitalDarwin 2022-present Development of Virtual Twins and AI-enabled business systems and knowledge Management services. Including design and running teams of AI-assistants with access to knowledge, storage and tools. CDU 2021-2022 - project start-up services for the next Student Administration System Northern Land Council 2019-2021 - Successfully delivered a stalled program to improve the policies and processes associated with issuing and managing permits to do things on Aboriginal land NT Dept of Education 2019 - Program Director, Data and Analytics Transformation - Analysed and prepared business cases and project plans for improving the pathways from existing data repositories to regulated management reporting and on to facilitating management insight.at multiple levels of the department Power Water Corporation 2018-2019 - Delivered the procurement activities to engage the system vendor and launch contractual delivery of the Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) connectivity ungrade. Resolved a procurement impass with the system vendor for the refreshed Power Water website NT Health 2017-2018 - Project Manager of the modification of more than 10 sub-systems to enable the incorporation of the new Palmerston Regional Hospital (PRH) into business-as-usual operations Foxtel 2014-2016 – National Network Enhancement and Market Analysis for ISP Offering National Spatial Analytics associated with optimizing business product integration and timing with NBN functional availability. • >2.1 million active customers. All plotted and overlaid with Telstra and NBN service access details • Top ISP competitor details sourced from public domain • ABS data correlated with GNAF address details for the >12 Million addresses in Australia
Austrade 2013-2016 – Global Data Network Procurement Strategy Services Global Data Network >100 offices in 48 countries and field operatives in > 50 other countries. Services: • Needs analysis for current and projected operations across geographically distributed teams, business owners and stakeholders. • Detailed geospatial analysis • Service delivery contract considerations: Realities, Implications and Principles • Profiling of major International Network Service Providers (INSP’s) and Local Network Service Providers (LNSP’s) and pre-procurement scoping with the top 4 INSP’s. • Business modelling of multiple procurement scenarios Interactive 2015 – Project Director services to complete flailing National MPLS project. • Detailed internal planning, aligning stakeholder commitments and operational integration • Refocus and contractual solidification related to a Telstra supplied MPLS design and Cisco based supply and commission service • Management of multiple in-house interests and input in concert with Telstra services activation Fair Work Commission 2015 – Project completion services for national video conferencing system • Refocus and contractual solidification related to a vendor supplied and Polycom based system supply and commission service • Management of multiple in-house interests and input in concert with vendor services activation Consultel Client – Expert Witness on 4G coverage: geospatial analysis – 2016-2017 Dept of Justice – Emergency Alert Programme Phase 3 – 2015-2016 4G Risk Analysis including very detailed geospatial analysis ; also distillation of user stories from multiple stakeholder documents as part of Phase 3 Specification
Part of the Product and Marketing team that saw sales grow from $10M to $230M (2005 to 2013). Led co-ordination, analytics and production in creating the entity’s rolling 5-year strategic business plans. Specification and implementation of Nextgen’s Customer facing Performance Reporting Portal Establishment of GIS-based pre-qualification tools to support rapid quoting of productized services to any location in Australia 2005-2007 Program Director – VPLS Overlay Implementation and Initial Operation o >$40M VPLS overlay and upgrade roadmap – incl. several technology refreshes o Alcatel Lucent was initial vendor pre-selected by Nextgen Engineering Team o Refined, implemented and revised Business Model over 8 years of operation o > 60 initial network nodes including capital city nodes and Data Centre Points of Interconnect ; subsequently developed to include > 1500 on-net buildings o Short-listed, set contractual terms and engaged 13 3rd party network service providers (fibre, microwave, copper and satellite) to extend the Nextgen Network to anywhere-to-anywhere functionality. Including multiple equipment vendor issues. o Directed implementation Project Managers for first >50 VPLS based services 2007-2013 Program Director – Data Centre Connectivity o Identified the top 100 data centres in Australia and guided development of Nextgen presence in previously unserved sites anchored on commercial sales 2007-2013 Program Director – Microwave Product o Developed the technical and business case for Nextgen in-housing certain microwave links o Directed development of microwave links into business-as-usual VPLS products