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Project Management Professional — PMI #2693951
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ICT Project & Programme Manager
30+ years delivering complex tech projects across mining, energy, marine, telco & cyber - with genuine enthusiasm for the technology I manage.
I'm a Technology Project & Programme Manager with 30 years of experience delivering complex technology projects across mining, energy, marine, telecommunications, and cyber sectors - and I genuinely love what I do.
I specialise in bridging IT and operational technology environments: translating technical complexity into business outcomes, and navigating the commercial and contractual realities that come with large-scale delivery. Whether that's a greenfield mine in the Pilbara, a manufacturing facility in China, or a data centre buildout - I've probably been in weirder places with worse internet.
I plan early and identify risks before they become blockers. Equally comfortable with rigorous governance on a multi-site programme or pragmatic, fast-moving delivery on a tight deadline, I manage multiple concurrent projects without losing sight of what matters to each stakeholder.
People describe me as calm under pressure, candid in delivery, and quietly relentless about getting things done. My enthusiasm for technology extends well beyond the workplace - home lab experimentation, automation, cybersecurity, and AI keep me genuinely close to the technical realities my teams face.
I invest in continuous professional development across delivery and interpersonal skills, and I'm actively looking to grow into more senior programme and leadership roles - particularly where delivery experience and genuine technical credibility both matter.
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Project Management Professional — PMI #2693951
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The long version - because there's a lot of ground to cover.
As part of Fortescue's IT team, I lead multiple concurrent technology projects supporting various business units — High-Performance Compute environment establishment, OT device compliance upgrades, manufacturing plants in China, hydrogen production facilities, a global new office programme, and R&D facility relocations. Wide scope, which keeps things interesting.
One of the more satisfying threads through this role has been pushing back on inherited assumptions. When Fortescue's OT mining standards were being applied to manufacturing environments - where the margins are fundamentally different and the compute requirements don't match the industrial control model - I led early engagement discussions to challenge that pattern. By advocating for fit-for-purpose designs rather than copy-pasting the mining framework, we landed on delivery approaches that met cybersecurity and compliance requirements without the cost overhead. Sometimes the best engineering decision is the one that questions the previous one.
Key Achievements:
What I Learned: Challenging existing methodologies and technical patterns can dramatically improve outcomes - and occasionally save a significant amount of money.
What's Next: Project certainty at Fortescue is limited beyond mid-2026, so I'm proactively exploring senior project management and cybersecurity-adjacent roles that align with where I want to go next. If that sounds like you, the contact page is right there. 👋
Led multiple IT workstreams across the Onslow Iron program, working closely with construction teams and business units. Delivered technologies ranging from GPON-based resort entertainment to SD-WAN, LTE, compute and storage, fibre builds, satellite, and bespoke marine comms systems.
Highlights included rolling out corporate IT and marine technologies across a fleet of transhipper vessels, and delivering IT for an airport terminal and a very large truck maintenance facility — both under very tight deadlines.
Key Achievements: Delivered the full IT and communications scope for the newly created Marine division — corporate IT, VHF/UHF/LTE/HF/satellite radio for the transhipper fleet and shore-side operations.
What I Learned: How to align diverse infrastructure needs under aggressive timelines through vendor collaboration and adaptive logistics.
Why I Left: Rewarding role, but limited flexibility around hybrid work. Fortescue offered comparable scope with better work-life balance.
Managed infrastructure and application projects nationally across mining and processing operations. Key projects included a cybersecurity OT perimeter programme, onboarding a stakeholder management platform across Australia and South Africa, and deploying IT for a greenfield mine in Victoria.
Key Achievements: Delivered a dual firewall, DMZ-segmented OT perimeter across 8 Australian sites, eliminating direct IT-to-OT network exposure. Also established an early engagement model with greenfield mine management that reduced the risk of IT becoming the critical path at go-live.
What I Learned: The power of early stakeholder engagement to drive proactive planning and improve operational readiness.
Why I Left: A global downturn in the Titanium Dioxide (TiO₂) market led to widespread project suspensions. With limited work available, I moved on.
Engaged by Kinetic to lead project delivery at Water Corporation, spanning critical infrastructure, desktop virtualisation, and security solutions across corporate and SCADA domains.
Key Achievements: Delivered a 4,000-endpoint Windows upgrade across the corporate fleet on time and budget. Implemented pilot cybersecurity infrastructure between IT and OT networks, ready for technical sign-off.
What I Learned: How to manage large-scale technical change across diverse business units with minimal disruption.
Why I Left: Kinetic's contract at Water Corporation concluded. Transitioned to Tronox after a tip-off from former colleagues who'd recently made the move.
Led end-to-end delivery of industrial wireless and camp connectivity projects — private LTE (RAN and Core), managed WiFi, GPON, Point-to-Point & Point-to-Multipoint microwave, and village entertainment. Delivered for Rio, FMG, South32, Newmont, Hancock, and Abra, consistently hitting or beating margin targets.
Key Achievements: Grew an initial FMG consultancy engagement into a pilot deployment, which then expanded into a major project many times the original value. Protected margins on commercially complex projects by restructuring delivery phasing and revising commercial terms.
What I Learned: Juggling complex technical deliveries while building trust with both internal teams and external stakeholders simultaneously.
Why I Left: Wanted a shift from telecommunications into enterprise IT. Kinetic IT offered a strong foundation to make that move.
Central role in iiNet's WiFi team, driving national connectivity initiatives including smart city deployments across Adelaide, Canberra, Melbourne, Bendigo, and Ballarat. Also led iiNet's small business managed WiFi rollout and, toward the end of my tenure, helped launch the TPG LTE project following the iiNet acquisition.
Key Achievements: Contributed to early TPG LTE network design. Managed construction of TPG's first mobile site in the ACT.
What I Learned: Navigating strategic change during corporate mergers while keeping the delivery lights on.
Why I Left: Role made redundant following an internal reorganisation at TPG.
Led deployment of 3G/4G mobile infrastructure for Optus across WA. Oversaw engineering teams and construction partners to deliver complex sites safely, on time, and on budget. Actively managed milestones, vendor performance, and risk to align with programme goals.
Key Achievements: Delivered significant LTE rollout milestones under compressed timeframes — equipment forecasting was make-or-break on this one.
What I Learned: Delivering carrier-grade infrastructure under contract requires meticulous planning, especially when equipment lead times are longer than your schedule buffer.
Managed mobile network projects across new builds, upgrades, and enterprise rollouts. Full site lifecycle from lease and legal agreements, through local authority and AMTA compliance, design to Australian Standards, and on through construction and commissioning — including sensitive community cases and Defence and Resources sector LTE deployments.
The enterprise side was particularly interesting - delivering LTE infrastructure to mine sites and Defence facilities meant navigating complex physical access, tight security requirements, and stakeholders who had very specific (and not always written down) expectations.
Key Achievements: Delivered LTE services to major enterprise customers including BHP, Rio, and DoD - sites with serious access and logistics challenges that made standard rollout playbooks largely irrelevant.
What I Learned: Regulatory navigation and inter-team alignment are crucial for state-wide rollouts. Also: always visit the site before promising a delivery date.
Directed a fast-tracked mobile swap-out programme for VHA, replacing legacy equipment with Huawei SRAN gear across Western Australia. Coordinated integration teams, logistics, and field operations while adapting to an accelerated rollout schedule that kept moving faster.
Key Achievements: Completed record numbers of swaps against extremely challenging deadlines — the kind where you look back and wonder how it actually happened.
What I Learned: Surround yourself with a great team. When the schedule is brutal, the difference between success and failure is almost always the people, not the plan.
National lead for radio upgrades across the Optus/VHA joint mobile network. Managed end-to-end delivery from survey through acceptance, coordinating RF, logistics, and delivery teams across the country under aggressive timelines and with two customers who didn't always agree on priorities.
Key Achievements: Delivered upgrades to approximately 1,600 sites - balancing two customers with their own (often competing) requirements, schedules, and definitions of "done."
What I Learned: National deployments require both consistency and regional adaptation. A process that works in Sydney won't necessarily survive contact with Far North Queensland.
Drove a high-priority transmission programme supporting Optus's nationwide network rollout targets. Worked cross-functionally across core and field teams to identify blockers, expedite workstreams, and maintain momentum - the kind of role where you spend a lot of time asking "what's stopping this, and who do I need to talk to?"
Key Achievements: Delivered transmission upgrades on time, avoiding capacity shortfalls that would have constrained the broader network programme.
What I Learned: Defining a good process is key to delivering consistently at scale. And transmission engineers are some of the most unsung people in the industry.
Built and led the field engineering team delivering Telstra's national 3G programme (Project Jersey) — hundreds of sites across the country, from metro to very much not-metro. Later moved into the estimating team, costing a complex communications system for Transgrid that included fibre-over-powerline (OPGW) and SDH radio. A genuinely interesting piece of infrastructure work.
Key Achievements: Delivered hundreds of 3G sites, exceeding programme expectations. The Transgrid estimating work was a good reminder that costing complex systems properly is a skill in itself.
What I Learned: Keep good project records. Not because you're paranoid — but because sometimes the legal team will need them and you'll be very glad you did.
Managed integration and troubleshooting of 3G base stations in single and multi-operator environments for the Optus/Vodafone rollout. Hands-on technical commissioning work - the kind where you're on-site, in the equipment room, making things actually work.
Key Achievements: Completed integration targets on schedule while maintaining high quality standards across a demanding rollout environment.
What I Learned: Quality control at the commissioning stage saves enormous pain downstream. Get it right at acceptance, not after the customer calls.
Field engineering for VHA mobile networks - Ericsson RBS upgrades, capacity expansion across NSW, and general technology support to operations and deployment teams. Short contract, good grounding in how the sausage actually gets made at the infrastructure level.
Key Achievements: Rapid on-site troubleshooting and live network support - the kind of work where being calm and methodical under pressure matters a lot.
What I Learned: Practical field experience is invaluable for managing delivery expectations later in your career. You can't really understand the constraints until you've lived them.
Took a year off to travel and sail. Became a certified Yachting Australia Inshore Skipper Instructor along the way - and decided to call Australia home. Best professional decision I never planned to make. No regrets whatsoever.
Key Achievements: Recharged, gained a sailing qualification, and found a country I actually wanted to live in.
What I Learned: Sometimes the best thing you can do for your career is step away from it for a bit. Personal growth and professional clarity are more connected than they look.
Team Leader for mobile network operations, maintenance, and upgrades across one of the UK's biggest and fastest-growing mobile networks. Joined during the rollout phase and stayed through a decade of continuous evolution - from early 2G through the start of 3G, through Orange becoming a genuine national player.
Managed site upgrades, network performance improvement initiatives, and a team that had to keep a live, high-traffic network running while also building out the next generation of it. Not always a relaxing combination.
Key Achievements: Supported critical infrastructure across one of the world's busiest mobile networks through a period of rapid technological change and massive subscriber growth.
What I Learned: How to lead teams through continuous evolution of technology standards and systems - and that the network never cares what time it is when something breaks.
Provided 24/7 technical support to critical police communications systems - radio, CCTV, alarms, and secure data networks - across a wide range of technologies from ISDN to IP/MPLS. This is where I started. Nothing quite sharpens your sense of urgency like infrastructure that people's safety depends on.
Key Achievements: Maintained uptime of vital communication infrastructure under genuinely high-stakes conditions - the kind where "we'll look into it tomorrow" isn't an option.
What I Learned: Mission-critical support requires absolute reliability and calm under pressure. Also: "it'll be fine" is never an acceptable risk mitigation strategy.
Originally from the UK, I came to Australia backpacking in the early 2000s and never quite made it back. Best decision I ever made. I'm a father of three daughters who challenge and inspire me daily (and occasionally break my Wi-Fi).
I've always been a tech enthusiast - nerdy in the best ways. I love everything from retro computing to whatever the latest thing is that I probably shouldn't be running on a VPS in Japan. I'm particularly drawn to cybersecurity, hacking, and ethical tinkering, and I've taught myself Python, built a home lab, and have the TryHackMe ranking to prove I spend too much time on it.
I hold a Defence Security Clearance (Baseline — eligible for reinstatement), which has come in handy more than once.
Outside of tech: Hugo and Nebula-nominated sci-fi, sailing whenever I can find the time, and an arguably world-class BLT.
Because apparently work isn't enough.
Built and maintain a Proxmox-based virtual environment with LXC containers, VLAN segmentation, and integrated network services. A place to break things safely and learn by doing.
Running: Full stack of monitoring, security, and media services - because cloud costs money and learning is free.
Designed, built, and deployed on a VPS in Japan. Caddy handles HTTPS and reverse proxying. A Python Flask backend powers the inspirational quotes. Deployed via GitHub and shell scripts. Umami handles privacy-conscious analytics. XMPP and IRC bridge so you can actually chat with me in real time if you're that kind of person.
The whole thing is a working demonstration of infrastructure skills as much as it is a CV.
Highlight: DevOps-style deployment, secure hosting, and a self-hosted communications stack — all from scratch.
Built and run cybr.cx — a daily AI-curated news and threat intelligence platform covering CVEs, cybersecurity, and quantum computing. Powered by Claude Haiku, Ghost CMS, and a monitoring agent I built myself.
Highlight: End-to-end: content pipeline, infrastructure, automation. The kind of thing that started as a weekend project and turned into something I'm actually pleased with.
Exploring offensive and defensive cybersecurity through structured labs and scenarios. Consistently ranked in the top 10% globally. Learning while breaking things - which is the best way.
Known locally for gourmet sandwich construction, layering techniques, and flavour balance. An underrated skill in any project environment - morale matters.
Signature Move: Three-layer toasted BLT with chutney and a perfectly fried egg. Non-negotiable.