I am available for consulting on a daily basis. I am also available for permanent roles.
Please feel free to give me a call on +61 414532345 for a confidential obligation-free discussion of your IPTV/WebTV/Multimedia/Consumer Electronics product, technology and business-development challenges.
I'll be glad to give you a breakdown of how I might be able to assist you.
Please find below an executive summary and a shortlist of my skills and achievements.
Executive Summary
Wide-ranging experience in high-technology product development, including broadcasting, telecommunications, internet services and consumer electronics fields.
Demonstrated leadership of complex multidisciplinary teams & multiple inter- and intra- company projects and operations.
Excellent depth and breadth of knowledge of the facets of modern multi-platform rich/new/web 2.0 media from concept development to nuts and bolts.
Demonstrated ability to apply the depth and breadth of the technology playing-field to the goals and objectives of the business
Achievements and Skills Shortlist
Major Achievements
As Consultant to FOXTEL, managing numerous IPTV systems evaluations and pilots.
As Consultant to FOXTEL, defining FOXTEL's standards for IPTV systems evaluation.
As CTO of EzyDownload, providing consultative expertise in determining corporate strategies for entry into the paid content market for EzyDVD.
As CTO of Reeltime, providing Technical Leadership, development and operations management of Reeltime.tv’s Internet TV delivery platform & Content Post-production operations.
As Engineering Manager - Consumer Devices at Reeltime, providing Technical Management & Vendor management of Reeltime.tv’sSet-Top-Box, pc-hardware and related software development programs
As Interactive Television Architect at FOXTEL, designed & delivered FOXTEL’s entire Interactive Television System, Customer products and related dependent projects On-time, On-budget and On-specification
Skills
Operations:
Creation, Monitoring and Management of processes and systems across a range of functions including Content Acquisition, Broadcast, Conditional Access/DRM, IT/IS & Internet–based Services.
Operations Policy creation, Change Control, Planning and Supervision.
Product Development:
Concept development, Cost/benefit modeling, Stakeholder Identification and consultation, Product Development & Innovation Process Improvement.
Extensive real-world experience with projects at the intersection of complex technologies and novel creative concepts.
Project Management:
Practical experience with Prince 2
Multi-project Dependency Analysis, Work Decomposition, Resource Estimation, Stakeholder Negotiation, Planning, Tracking & Exception Management.
Staff Management
Management and Development of Professional staff, Job descriptions, evaluation criteria and evaluations of applicants.
Budgeting and planning.
Software Engineering Management
Top to bottom experience of Software development across most spheres of Software development.
Requirements Analysis, Architectural Design, Module Design, Testing, Quality Monitoring,
Agile product development process, including Lean, SCRUM and allied concepts.
Process Improvement, Configuration Management and Version Control.
Programming
Experience with numerous programming languages and environments.
Management and Mentoring of Programmers.
Development of best practices and methodologies.
Hardware Engineering
High-speed logic & Microprocessor-based Circuit Design at a board, component and IC design level, Hardware/Software Co-fault-finding.