Marc Boschma

Current

Media-Comms Consultant at Telstra
Senior Consultant at Galapagos Empressa P/L
Owner and Managing Director (linkedin [at] marc.boschma.cx) at Wei Wu Wei Investments P/L

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Past

Consultant at Telstra
Consultant at Nokia Siemens Networks
Senior Technology Architecture Specialist at Telstra Corporation Ltd

Senior Technology Architecture Specialist at Telstra Corporation Ltd
Solutions Architect at Ericsson
Solutions & Integration Manager - Broadband Access at Telstra Corp. Ltd.
Senior Architect at Telstra Corporation Ltd/Data & IP Architecture
External Lecturer – Broadband Access Technologies at Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Melbourne.
Senior Platform Architect – Big Pond Cable and Content Delivery at Telstra Corporation Ltd
Platform Architect – Big Pond Cable at Telstra Corporation Ltd
Interactive TV Network and Systems Architect (Microsoft Interactive TV project) at Telstra Corporation Ltd
IT and Network Integration Architect – IN and Calling Cards Group at Telecom Australia/NTG
Development Team Leader – Sydney Office at PICA P/L
Shop Front Manager at PICA P/L

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Marc Boschma’s Summary

Broad experience in business case development and managing the design and deployment of large scale IP convergent networks and related IT systems, content delivery infrastructure and technical strategy in support of business directions.

Successfully handed over the Strategic direction of Telstra's QoS enabled Broadband convergent network and systems to deployment vendors.

Previously experience includes large scale Cable and DSL ISP network and systems architecture; IN and Card Services delivery; mid-range, mainframe and network integration; UNIX and proprietary kernel development including TCP/IP stack; and graphics design.

Looking to continue to evolve my skills more in the Business and Product arenas leveraging my technical and commercial experience.

Marc Boschma’s Specialties:

Broadband Access Multiservice Business Cases, Technology Evangelism, Content Delivery specialising in Broadband, Broadband Systems (IT and Network) Architecture, and Product and Business Systems.

Marc Boschma’s Experience

Media-Comms Consultant

Telstra

(Public Company; TLS; Telecommunications industry)

October 2009 — Present (3 months)
Senior Consultant

Galapagos Empressa P/L

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Broadcast Media industry)

August 2007 — Present (2 years 5 months)

Available for work.
Owner and Managing Director (linkedin [at] marc.boschma.cx)

Wei Wu Wei Investments P/L

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Telecommunications industry)

March 2006 — Present (3 years 10 months)

Strategic consulting in Telecommunications technology, policy, business.
Consultant

Telstra

(Public Company; TLS; Telecommunications industry)

April 2009 — September 2009 (6 months)

Media Projects - TBox
Consultant

Nokia Siemens Networks

(Public Company; NOK; Telecommunications industry)

April 2008 — March 2009 (1 year )

Consulting to Telstra Customer Account Team
(Part Time Load)
on customer engagement and NBN (FTTN/FTTH), IPTV, Professional Video Delivery, Lawful Interception, Security, Deep Packet Inspection (DPI), etc.
Senior Technology Architecture Specialist

Telstra Corporation Ltd

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; TLS; Telecommunications industry)

August 2007 — February 2008 (7 months)

Responsible for the architecting of Telstra's the next generation Digital Video Network (DVN) real-time professional video platform; integration into access and IT components.
Senior Technology Architecture Specialist

Telstra Corporation Ltd

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; TLS; Telecommunications industry)

March 2007 — July 2007 (5 months)

Group: Video Platform Technology.

Responsible for the architecting of an IP/Ethernet/MPLS core solution for Telstra's the next generation Digital Video Network (DVN) real-time professional video platform; integration into access and IT components.
Solutions Architect

Ericsson

(Public Company; Telecommunications industry)

August 2006 — February 2007 (7 months)

Platform Management Group, Telstra Service Delivery Platform. The platform delivers leading edge 3G & 2G Mobile content and TV.
Solutions & Integration Manager - Broadband Access

Telstra Corp. Ltd.

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Telecommunications industry)

June 2003 — February 2006 (2 years 9 months)

Sole responsibility for ensuring that relevant Broadband products were developed, delivered and managed. Responsibility for ensuring infrastructure, technologies and vendors were chosen and managed so as to enable the achievement of lowest cost, earliest to market products at the required quality level.
Led the establishment and implementation of strategic architectural and technology roadmaps with supporting infrastructure plans to achieve common, cost effective infrastructure capabilities aligned to business requirements.
Ensured Broadband Network “product capacity” requirements were achieved in accordance with agreed growth forecasts for marketing, Telstra Infrastructure and ISP growth.
Applied lifecycle management principles to Network Infrastructure including the formulation of an investment program to deliver future growth requirements that optimised investment over the full life of the Network infrastructure.
Senior Architect

Telstra Corporation Ltd/Data & IP Architecture

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Telecommunications industry)

2002 — 2003 (1 year )

A Senior Architect role is to facilitate the development of Domain Architectures (Broadband and Content Delivery), guide Tactical Architects in the development of their Architectures and liaise with the Office of the Chief Architect in the development of Strategic Architectures.
Identifying and articulating the impact of emerging technology on Telstra and championing opportunities for new services or cost reductions for Telstra.
Developing and articulating a holistic end-to-end service and infrastructure strategy and architecture for: Big Pond Broadband (DSL/Cable) network convergence, Interception of Telstra IP networks, and Telstra’s next-generation residential fibre access network (Green Field deployment of Pay-TV, broadband Internet and telephony).
Provision of architectural, technical and strategic leadership to Telstra International activities, including China and REACH.
External Lecturer – Broadband Access Technologies

Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Melbourne.

(Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Higher Education industry)

February 2002 — December 2002 (11 months)

External Lecturer – Broadband Access Technologies Post Graduate course.
Senior Platform Architect – Big Pond Cable and Content Delivery

Telstra Corporation Ltd

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Telecommunications industry)

2000 — 2002 (2 years )

The prime IT and network architect and design authority for Big Pond Cable system. Subject matter expert for broadband content delivery.
End to end National ISP IT system architecture and design covering:
Activation, Assurance, Authentication, Accounting (Usage collection and Rating), Access network integration (HFC) sub-systems
EMail, Web and Stream Caching, NetNEWS, FTP, etc.
End to end National Network architecture and design:
AAA, DHCP, DNS and IP address policy and management
Access (HFC/IP), Point of Presense (PoP), Internet interconnection.

Content Delivery Systems and Technologies.
Platform Architect – Big Pond Cable

Telstra Corporation Ltd

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Telecommunications industry)

1997 — 2000 (3 years )

The prime network architect and assistant IT architect for Big Pond Cable platform.

National ISP IT system design and technical management of IT suppliers covering:
Activation, Assurance, Authentication, Accounting (Usage collection and Rating), Access network integration (HFC) sub-systems.
EMail, NetNEWS, FTP, etc.

End to end National Network architecture and design:
AAA, DHCP, DNS and IP address policy and management.
Access (HFC/IP), Point of Presense (PoP), Internet interconnection.

Fourth level customer field support.
Interactive TV Network and Systems Architect (Microsoft Interactive TV project)

Telstra Corporation Ltd

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Telecommunications industry)

1996 — 1997 (1 year )

HFC and Network prime to joint venture for Microsoft Interactive TV (MITV).

Representing Telstra at Microsoft in Redmond, WA, USA.

Participate architecture, design and laboratory work bring Network knowledge and attributes of Telstra’s network to Microsoft and other participants team members.

Report on Microsoft’s directions: Business and Technical impacts to Telstra.
IT and Network Integration Architect – IN and Calling Cards Group

Telecom Australia/NTG

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Telecommunications industry)

1990 — 1996 (6 years )

Responsible for the architecture, design, technology choice and delivery of the integration of the midrange systems with the network and mainframes.
Development Team Leader – Sydney Office

PICA P/L

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

1987 — 1989 (2 years )

Co-manage the Sydney office, team lead programming team.
Shop Front Manager

PICA P/L

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Printing industry)

1980 — 1986 (6 years )

Shop front management – Public Access Computing.
Apple Lisa and PostScript programmer.
Typographic and high-end postscript printer support.