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Paul is a tertiary qualified professional with over eight years of Project Management experience within numerous industry domains including, IT, Telecommunications, Defence and Legal. He has also acquired many years of hands-on experience with the design of hardware and software products. He graduated at the end of 1988 with a Bachelor of Engineering with Distinction in the discipline of Electronics Engineering. He began his career at NEC Australia modifying the hardware and software of PABX and telephony products to meet Australian Telecommunications regulatory standards. He continued his career at Rockwell Systems Australia, where he was initially employed as an embedded design engineer and later as a Project Manager, working on the design and development of mission critical combat and air traffic control systems. He returned to the Telecommunications industry in 1993 and worked for 9 years at Fujitsu Australia within it's IT&T R&D facility. Whilst at Fujitsu he managed teams of Hardware, Software and Test engineers working on the development of complex telecommunications products for the international market. In his later years at Fujitsu, he project managed the IT Systems Administration & Quality Management services function of the R&D facility. It was during this later period that he was responsible for maintaining a production level IT network domain as well as driving continuous improved capability via the introduction of new tools and processes into the R&D environment. Paul now consults to the IT&T and Defence industries as both a practitioner and mentor in the fields of Project Management and Systems Engineering. He has particular specialist expertise in Specification and Change Management practices and many years of hands-on experience with the deployment of software based tools into engineering environments. He has been an active user of the Telelogic DOORS® Requirements tool since 1997. He's an active participant in the DOORS User Group forums and conferences, having attended conferences in Australia, the USA and the UK. He won the best paper and presentation award at the DOORS 2000 User Group conference in the USA He has also been engaged by the Legal Industry to provide expert advice on e-business related ventures. Paul is a national committee member of the Systems Engineering Society Of Australia (SESA). |
