Entrepreneur, IT Strategist, Market Development and Consultancy
China
Entrepreneur, IT Strategist, Market Development and Consultancy
China
Consummate Business Leader, Entrepreneur and Consultant with 25+ years of experience driving profitable growth in challenging global business markets. Highly developed leadership, communication, negotiation, creative and analytical skills. Global business perspective with ability to launch new businesses and achieve aggressive growth through implementation of large-scale information systems across a diverse range of sectors. Recognized for ability to build, motivate and empower productive/committed teams. Multi-lingual.
Establisment and rapid growth for new business. Focus on Computer services and Consultancy in Asian region
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Outsourcing/Offshoring industry)
November 2006 — Present (2 years 9 months)
Bamboo networks provides offshore software development and related services to a global client base from it's development centre in Guangzhou China. Bamboo's technical delivery capability is world class, one of the few companies in China to become certified at CMMI 5 level.
To complement this world class delivery organisation, my job is to establish a global Sales organisation to enable Bamboo to reach the global market-place.
Currently Sales offices are now established in
* United States - New York
* Hong Kong
* Singapore
* Carribean - Trinidad
* China - Guangzhou
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2006 — October 2006 (10 months)
Design, development, consulting and marketing of Mobile Content Solutions and Platform.
(Information Technology and Services industry)
1979 — 2006 (27 years)
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry)
September 2003 — October 2005 (2 years 2 months)
Established Datacrafts Solution Business in Asia. Ran the following Lines of Business throughout 13 countries. Each of these Businesses is headed by a General Manager.
Security
Data Centres
IP Telephony
Microsoft
Contact Centres
Systems and Network Management
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2000 — September 2003 (3 years 9 months)
Established and developed the firms IT Consulting, securing $2.3m in engagements in the first year.
Established a Software Development Centre aimed at off-shore development for western markets.
Accountable for the marketing, business development and the delivery of IT consulting projects for for providing direct consulting expertise
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Computer Software industry)
1997 — 2001 (4 years)
Established the firms consulting practice across nine countries to deliver Business Assessment and Consulting, E-commerce, Data Warehousing, Security, Systems Management, Applications Development and Facilities Management services.
(Information Technology and Services industry)
1996 — 1997 (1 year)
Reviewed the architecture and strategies associated with Operating System, Facilities Management and the Network for Thailand Taxation Departments computerisation project.
The project was 5 years late, had cost $100m and had not delivered. My role was to help bring about the project deliverables.
Developed a robust network management environment, improved network throughput and design and developed remote operations facilities for distributed Unix processors.
Introduced and implemented a comprehensive network simulation process allowing facilities management and applications teams to trial new simulation software designs instead of adopting a trial and error approach using real components. This work has identified large potential savings in time, money and effort and potential network performance, availability and management issues which need to be resolved
(Public Company; Banking industry)
January 1992 — January 1995 (3 years 1 month)
(Public Company; Computer Software industry)
1984 — 1990 (6 years)
(Computer Software industry)
1984 — 1987 (3 years)
(Public Company; Computer Software industry)
1980 — 1984 (4 years)
(Information Technology and Services industry)
1979 — 1983 (4 years)
B.Bus , Information Technology Management , January 1982 — December 1986
Australian Computer Society, PADI