Jan Van Der Watt

Experience

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  RHB Consultation

  Jan 1997 - Jan 1998

  Project Manager

  Lead a team of software developers through a variety of projects in the microprocessor field. Contracted as a specialised digital signal processing software developer for a long-distance communication company.

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  Aricent

  Jun 1998 - Oct 2002

  Project Manager

  Project manager in Internet Commerce Technologies division. Projects of €1 million.Writing, reviewing user requirements, system requirements, detailed design, testing and acceptance procedures, roll-out.Weekly reporting on progress and budget.

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  Rapid Mobile

  Nov 2001 - Nov 2008

  Chief Technical Officer

  Strategic involvement in contract negotiation, budgeting, personnel planning, road map planning.Project manager of largest project in the company (€4 million, 6 team members).Developer of Intranet problem tracking system (and auxiliary services like leave applications, document numbering, reporting).

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  Nbn™ Australia

  Dec 2010 - now

  - Define product performance objectives, agreed by executives- Garner executive support for creating roadmaps to deliver to those objectives- Develop multi-level reporting capability on network status and trends relating to performance- Develop performance proposals to entrench in regulation (Standard Access Undertaking with ACCC)- Publish quarterly reference on user application needs and their relationship with our product performance- Identify issues around product performance for attention of EGMs at bi-monthly steering committee Show less nbn Ethernet product lifecycle management and product feature enhancements.Product architecture definition, performance commitments.Implementation of technology agnostic product improvements including Wholesale Broadband Agreement (WBA) implementation.Operational go-to-market execution of product enhancements.Product Capability Reporting & Performance- Business Performance Review (BPR)- Customer Experience (CX) monitoring – particularly UseDrive development of product engineering quality and product operating model effectiveness. Show less - Track, report and analyse progress against plan, providing key management analytics and insights to support plan delivery- Accountable for the facilitation of the monthly Portfolio Reviews in all aspects including attendees, agenda, minutes, discussion materials and driving of actions to completion. Accountable for the delivery of nbn’s monthly and weekly network rollout performance reporting augmented through analytics and actionable insights- Provide ongoing support to the Chief Network Deployment Officer in preparation for monthly and weekly discussions with the CEO regarding historic and future network deployment performance through detailed analysis of trends, root causes and solutions presented in weekly and monthly forums together with direct reports (EGMs)- Architect visualisations for the weekly dashboards and monthly reviews (metrics to use, composition, look and feel). Drive through to delivery from sourcing data, definition of business rules, proof of concept, implementation in Tableau and automation Show less - Report on the monthly ready-for-service publication, including analysis of construction trends towards meeting target dates, identification of slippage as well as opportunity for earlier delivery, developing appropriate call-outs and commentary with programme managers to present to senior stakeholders.- Facilitate monthly meeting with senior stakeholders and executive management, presenting the report and obtaining approval to publish the construction target data.- Distributing the construction target data internally for publication on NBN Co's website, distribution to our customers and communication to federal and state government and community stakeholders. Show less - Manage projects to take Product concepts through detailed design, producing detailed requirements for the product, as well as an integrated approach to delivering the network and IT components that make the product capability. Projects include Multicast, Facilities Access, Customer Verification and Training (Sandpit), Central Deployment, FTTB & FTTN (FTTx).- Manage a process for preparing request for work into the Network programme through evluation of business justification, business priorities and preparation of quality requirements. Developed a tool to transform multi-domain resource estimates of work requests into an integrated starting point for the baseline scope of the Network programme.- Developed data model and tools within which to manage requirements and downstream deconstruction, compliance indication, traceability reporting and quality metrics.- Support process development and then continued process improvement, quality measurement tools, productivity improvement- Administering of document management libraries for the business unit, including access control, structure and metadata design.- Occasionally develop or review detailed requirements, review compliance (upward or downward) Show less

  • Senior Manager Product Performance

    Oct 2020 - now

  • Executive Manager (Ethernet & Facilities Access)

    Jul 2018 - Oct 2020

  • Manager Analytics and Insights

    Sept 2016 - Jun 2018

  • Manager Rollout Plan Reporting

    Nov 2014 - Aug 2016

  • Project Manager : Release Management

    Dec 2010 - Oct 2014