
Principal Consultant and Architect, OSS
Melbourne Area, Australia

Principal Consultant and Architect, OSS
Melbourne Area, Australia
23 years of experience developing Products and Solutions for Operations Support Systems (OSS). Experience in all major OSS areas: Inventory, Order Management, Service Activation, Service Management, Assurance, Network Management. Customer facing, leading roles with Tier-1 companies. A broad Architecture experience gained within a variety of telecommunications applications. Current member of the OSS/J Expert Group (JSR-264, Order Management API). Highly developed NGOSS, eTOM knowledge. Participant in the TMF work, TMW speaker (Nice 2008).
OSS Solution Architect, systems integration, Services Management including Fulfillment, Design&Assign, Delivery.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; DOX.US; Telecommunications industry)
May 2006 — Present (3 years 3 months)
Lead Inventory Solution Architect, end-2-end process, interfaces/integration with external systems, data modeling. Primary project - Telstra OSSP in Melbourne.
(Telecommunications industry)
January 2005 — December 2007 (3 years)
Contributed to the specification of the OSS/J Order Management API. The API proposes a generic interface capable of handling Product, Service, Resource and WorkOrder Orders. It will support your own definition of an order by extending the generic orders. Same applies to the data model; based on OSS/J CBEs (Core Business Entities) and SID, it can be extended.
(Privately Held; 5001-10,000 employees; Telecommunications industry)
January 2006 — March 2006 (3 months)
Lead Architect in the new OSS Architecture Blueprint development, SOA, OSS/J based, includes Partner Gateway design. Work done at UPC Broadband HQ in Amsterdam.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
June 2005 — November 2005 (6 months)
Lead Architect in a TroubleTicketing OSS/J Proof of Concept project, completed. Proposal of the Production system(s) based on the PoC and the related technologies. Working with the leading World vendors.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
2003 — May 2005 (2 years)
Specified the Requirements and Architecture for an advanced Service Activation product. Deliver first version to the market readiness. The role covered number of responsibilities including market research, requirement and architecture definition, development management, pre-sales activites including solutions definitions and customer presentations.
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
2002 — 2003 (1 year)
Deployment of a large OSS system to Reliance Infocomm in India, Mumbai. Spent 7 months on site, enjoying it big time. Very fast paced project with great people!
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
1993 — 2002 (9 years)
Responsible for end-to-end software product development and support for a variety of Network Management System (NMS) products implemented using emerging technologies. Advanced SW Development processes applied to meet the stringent quality requirements expected within the dynamic Telecommunications Industry.
Managed end-to-end development of 3 complex Network Management products (Xmate, FRA, MAA) for the global markets meeting delivery targets with 5-10% delivery precision. Multiple projects with budgets up to $6M/year over a period of 4 years. Very challenging time and budget delivery precision demands with expected Telecom grade Quality. Introduced and consolidated mature processes (RUP, CMM).
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ANZ.AX; Information Technology and Services industry)
1992 — 1993 (1 year)
Electronic transactions, financial networks testing, testing SW development
(Information Technology and Services industry)
1990 — 1991 (1 year)
(Information Technology and Services industry)
1984 — 1990 (6 years)
MSc , Telecommunications , 1983 — 1984
BSc , Telecommunications , 1979 — 1984
travelling, boating, sailing, flying, horse riding, building and maintaining machinery (aeroplanes, boats, etc.)