Objective Seeking product strategy and organizational development role that will allow me to apply a wealth of experience in Telecommunications, GNSS, Network/Infrastructure Engineering, Program and Strategic Management in Government, Private and PPP sectors. Seeking an opportunity that will allow me to combine my skills with leadership qualities and profound understanding of Organizational Business Requirements, to achieve strong value added objectives.

Salient Personal Attributes

• Distinguishing intrinsic qualities, which can potentially lead to strong business growth and technical case of an organization, include:
• Self-motivated, proactive and believe in hard work leading to team achievements, committed to self-learning and ongoing development.
• Excellent presentation, communication skills and customer focus with team leading and stakeholder management capabilities. Adaptable and problem solving approach. Strong documentation skills with high attention to detail and accuracy.
• Strong negotiation skills to work effectively with technical staff and senior management, across cultural boundaries maintaining confidence levels. Ability to strongly manage, control and motivate a team with task prioritization.
• Able to share and maintain a consistent knowledge level through new and old team-members in a simple yet effective manner. Efficient work load distribution across junior members according to their abilities maximizing team output.
• Strong Professional background with extensive academic portfolio. Intelligence paired with hard work and patience. Entrepreneurial and start-up establishment experience.

Key Management Skills

• Organizational, Team, Engineering Management, Change, Solution, Technology and Operations Management.
• Project Forecast, Scope and Time Management, Cost Benefit and Quality Management.
• Resource Control and Communications Management, Stake Holders, Risk, Issues, Acceptance and Documentation Management.
• Contract Management and Strategy Establishment.

Career Summary

• Project/Programs Manager/Director PMO , Salzbrenner, Germany/Australia Present
• Operations Manager, Telstra, Australia Dec11-Dec12
• Manager National , Access and Distribution, Optus, Australia Jul11-Dec11
• Manager, Transmission Delivery, Vodafone Hutchison Australia Jul07 Jun11
• Network Deployment Engineering Consultant, Optus, Australia Sep 06 Jul 07
• Manager, Network Impact and Change, Ericsson, Australia Jan 05 - Sep 06
• Services Lead, America Online, United States Feb 99 Dec 04

Academic Qualifications

• PhD in MaGNSS/Multi-vendor/Telco positioning technologies, ACSER UNSW 2014
• GSM in Strategy, Harvard Business School 2013
• PGD. in Project Management, Macquarie University 2006
• ME in Telecommunications, UNSW 2005
• BE in Electronics and Electrical, U.E.T. 2003

Management Qualifications

Career Details

Confidential

• Accountable for the successful planning, delivery and implementation of projects on time, within budget and to quality, in a customer facing, director role responsible for coordination of all resources assigned to the project. Responsibilities include Project planning, delivery, financial management, resource management, reporting and governance.. Adept at applying project controls including status reporting, change management, quality reviews, archiving of project documentation and identifying lessons learned and perform the following functions:
• Confirm project business requirements and produce project plan, budget resources plan, schedule, and maintain risks and issues logs.
• Plan, schedule, monitor and report on the status of milestones and all key elements of the project. Monitor and analyse project progress and costs, identify and correct areas outside plan and identify improvements in project outcomes or approach.
• Initiate tailored SEO/SEM strategies to propagate new improvements specific information to customers and undertake meetings with key stakeholders to inform of project status, risks and issues, and to obtain direction where necessary.
• Identify scope and manage any changes to initial project specifications, and report change impact to stakeholders.
• Escalation point for staff working on the project. Formulate contingency plans to address revisions to risk, budget, resources and requirements, and ensure relevant stakeholders are aware of status.
• Demonstrate that project objectives satisfy all client requirements, and manage a smooth handover to external operational teams. Plan own workload to achieve deliverables in required time frames

Confidential

• Charged with delivering mobile network project needs while dealing with competing priorities and resource constraints. This was for both natural and project based growth of Telstra Mobile network in 3G, 4G LTE RAN and Transmission, keeping network impact to a minimum and controlling CAPEX.
• Led influencing and negotiating agreements with internal and external partners to insure delivery of business objectives and management and consolidation of planning requirements for a wide variety of business needs and products. Responsible for delivering accurate and robust Mobile plans to an aggressive schedule of in a timely manner.
• Influenced inter carrier performance and processes: Scope Management, Time Management , Cost Management , Quality Management , Resource Management , Communications Management , Risk and Issue Management for a budget of 500k.
• Led the responsibility to evaluate performance of infrastructure growth and management according approved AOP budget. Manage the Group within agreed expenditure levels, Policy Strategy guidelines and delivery timetables in uncertain environments.

Confidential

• Led the planning of the access and distribution networks nationally covering all Australia transmission and mobile network. This included detailed plans to cater for the growth in the Access and Distribution networks to enable Optus to deliver its solutions for Optus Business, SMB, Consumer, Mobile and Wholesale customers in the Southern Region.
• Made significant contributions to Mobile business case estimates, material, duct and facility forecasts, and AOP costing. Created optimisation plans for the access and distribution network to ensure the continued efficient use of leases and other network resources.
• Minimised the impact of network growth on capital and operational expenditure. Delivered business needs while dealing with competing priorities and resource constraints.
• Influenced negotiation agreements with internal and external partners to enable delivery of business objectives. Management and consolidation of planning requirements for a wide variety of business needs and products and management of a 1.5m budget. Development and delivery of an accurate and robust Mobile plans to an aggressive schedule in a timely manner. Ability to operate and produce results in an uncertain and evolving environment.
• Key Performance Indicators:

Key Contacts

Confidential

• Project managed new projects on Vodafone sites and services according to policies and guidelines and maintain QoS. Achieve milestones for efficient site delivery and acceptance.
• Technically governed live Network changes and dynamically support all groups involved. Forecast budget and resource requirements to meet stringent project time frames.
• Conducted peer training and perform business meetings nationally and internationally amongst all stake holders. Provided change recommendations on existing and new hardware and software OS.
• Managed sub-contractors and control site implementations. Managed JV MORAN/INNER and independent sites for all Vodafone and network Order equipment from warehouse managed timely delivery and completion through liaising across all teams involved through effective negotiation.
• Managed conflicts through mediation keeping a strong working relationship amongst stake holders. Integrated all products, services, applications, technologies, skills and tools into the operational environment.
• Configured and supported MGWS, RBS/BTS, RNCs and SAXC and provide L2 support. Deploy the new Huawei IP/PTN boxes for RNC offloading and packet data expansion. Network related services included deployment and support care taking of both active and passive network elements in OSS, BSS, IT and Core network.