Richard M.

Experience

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  COMPUSPEC INDUSTRIES LIMITED

  Jan 1985 - Dec 1987

  Design Engineer

  Compuspec Industries designed and manufactured telecommunications equipment for the Customer Premise Equipment (CPE) telecommunications markets in Australasia and Europe.

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  EuroDESC, HITACHI EUROPE PLC., Maidenhead, United Kingdom

  Jan 1991 - Jun 1992

  Design Engineer

  As one of the five design engineers in EuroDESC, I provided European sector design engineering support for evaluation boards and In-circuit emulation products for use in semiconductor product sales.

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  TELEVOX INTERNATIONAL LIMITED, Auckland, N.Z.

  Jul 1993 - Jan 1998

  General Manager - Hardware Development & Production

  General Manager for all Hardware R&D/Product Development, and Manufacturing.

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  PARADOX SECURITY SYSTEMS (NZ) LIMITED, Auckland, N.Z.

  Feb 1998 - Oct 1999

  General Manager & Chief Engineer

  General Manager and Chief Engineer. Led a team responsible for developing a range of Paradox security products including all hardware and software design and development, and manufacture in Canada.Also responsible for day-to-day business operational responsibilities for Paradox NZ - HR, commercial, accounting, reporting to HO in Canada, general management.

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  TELEMEDIA NETWORKS INTERNATIONAL LIMITED, Auckland, N.Z.

  Oct 1999 - Jun 2001

  EVP - Network Engineering & Product Development

  Created and managed the Network Engineering department: Hardware Product Infrastructure Design, Test/QA, Production and Company I.T. Infrastructure. Responsible for teams in NZ, Portland OR & Phoenix ARZ, USA.

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  NAVMAN NZ LIMITED, Auckland, N.Z.

  Nov 2001 - Nov 2004

  R&D/Product Development Manager - Personal and Car Navigation Division

  Created and managed Navman’s first true Software Business. The Personal & Car Navigation division (PCN) developed hand-held GPS navigation solutions for the Compaq iPAQ and PalmPilot PDAs, as well as 'dash-top'​ in-car navigation products. Sold internationally these products catapulted Navman's revenue and profitability within 3 years.

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  PHITEK SYSTEMS LIMITED, Auckland, N.Z.

  Jan 2005 - Jun 2006

  Chief Operations Officer

  Designer and manufacturer of high-end audio consumer products implementing Phitek’s latest noise cancellation technology aimed at Tier 1 consumer brands such as Jabra, Logitech, Philips.

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  BUSINESS DESIGNS

  Jun 2006 - Oct 2011

  Consultant

  Freelance consulting offering a wide range of business, technology, best practice, compliance and governance advice and hands-on implementation.Covering diverse industries from global Singapore-based fleet tracking business (GPS, IoT, Cloud), business intelligence software start-up, pharmacy businesses, University of Auckland (Incubator, Research), Ministry of Health and related District Health Boards.

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  Spark Digital NZ

  Oct 2011 - Nov 2015

  Senior Product Development Manager - Product Development & Digital Enablement

  Managing product development activity for Spark Digital's network delivered range of products and services, aimed at their Corporate and Enterprise clients.Experience in IaaS, Mobility and Security Practices.Experience with Apttus CPQ package for Salesforce

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  Spark New Zealand

  Nov 2015 - Oct 2016

  Product Manager

  New role name to encompass prior Product Development Management role (Spark Digital) and new Product Management responsibilities (Spark).Responsible for Spark's Corporate/Enterprise/Govt Security Products and Services including the new Government TaaS Managed Security Catalogue Products.

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  Teknique

  Oct 2016 - Sept 2018

  VP of Engineering (Oct 16 to Sep 18 - 2yrs), also Acting COO (Oct 17 - Sep 18 - 1 yr)

  Responsibilities• All engineering teams (Electronic hardware design, Embedded Software development, QA/Test, Manufacturing Services, Optics Engineering, DevOps, AI/ML, Front-end/Back-end Web applications) • All ICT services company wide (includes traditional IT services and also DevOps services)• All engineering People & Talent responsibilities (Recruitment, Performance Management, Professional Development, Culture)• Project governance (PMO) and Agile (scrum) development framework• General Administration (Office, Finance)• Working closely with Business Development to ensure correct commercial structures implemented & maintained• Board meeting attendance• Ongoing improvements to Engineering team culture• Continuous improvement culture – selecting meaningful metrics to measure and report on, so stakeholders and customers (internal and external) see value Show less

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  Youtap Ltd

  Oct 2018 - Dec 2019

  Head of Engineering at Youtap! Limited

  Responsibilities• Software development team (Back End, Front end, QA) – Java, Hibernate, RHEL, Oracle SE, Git, Maven, Spring/Spring Boot, Android (Mobile app dev)• All ICT services (includes traditional IT services and also DevOps services) – Singapore, Jakarta, Auckland• All engineering People & Talent responsibilities (Recruitment, Performance Management, Professional Development, Culture)• Implemented Agile scrum development framework for scale and higher quality deterministic value to its customers and partners• Implementation of best practice Version Control processes (Semantic) and correct use of development tools (e.g. Git, Artifactory)• Implementation of a test case management solution and automated testing capability for all software development and added to CI/CD processes and Jira instances• Worked with other stakeholders to deliver a multi-phase architectural plan for moving the Youtap solution to be cloud-delivered (aaS)• Implementation of proper work effort estimation and contribution tracking and reporting, to enable proper cost contribution metrics for product development and utilisation improvements• Continuous improvement mentality – selecting meaningful metrics to measure and report on so stakeholders and customers (internal and external) see value e.g. number of bugs per release (regression, new), ATS coverage, on-time delivery of commitments (sprint), etc.• Performance benchmarking of Youtap solution – create capability and then make systemic improvements to solution to improve its non-functional performance across key use cases. Add to existing ATS functional test coverage and CI/CD pipeline• Implementation of enhanced/new IT capabilities to enhance IT security, disaster recovery, performance (remote connectivity, online services, video conferencing, endpoint security and encryption, periodic penetration testing, onboarding/offboarding policies and procedures, DevOps processes and procedures) Show less

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  Business Designs

  Feb 2020 - Mar 2020

  Consultant

  Freelance consulting in the Medtech industry - offering a wide range of business, technology, best practice, compliance and governance advice and hands-on implementation.Including; Product Design, Product Management, Product Development, Engineering Management, HR, Commercial, Sales & Marketing

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  Veriphi Limited

  Mar 2020 - now

  Engineering Manager