Hi Caroline, Happy to have a chat.... since I wrote that intro below a lot has changed so a small update is probably in order.
I currently still split my time between not only management & technical but now also between working with some of Australia's largest enterprises as well as earliest-stage startups. I now have a day job with HP as the CTO for Communications, Media, Entertainment (South Pacific) where I work with telcos, media companies and entertainment companies to help them take advantage of the Cloud, Analytics, Security, and Mobile. This requires lots of understanding customer needs and work to find / create great solutions for them using HP's technologies in these spaces as well as partner organisations (Hint: lots of opportunities here for emerging companies at the scale stage BTW). In many respects my role is a corporate version of the "lean startup" mindset but with access to a much wider pool of skills and resources. I'm also one of the founders of Pushstart and spend a lot of my spare time working with the irrepressible Kim Heras to help enable the startup ecosystem here in Australia. We've been fortunate to attract around 150 awesome mentors across Australia into the Pushstart Mentor network and have only just completed our inaugural accelerator with 8 emerging technology companies who will shortly be pitching to investors here in Australia and also the US. This is a somewhat unique and privileged situation in that I get to work closely with enterprises and startups. It affords me a view point to see how the big end of town is updating their core platforms to use cloud / big data / mobility and also prepare for the NBN. I also get to work closely with Australia's increasingly vibrant startup scene to see the cool ideas and emerging tech that's coming out of there as well. As a result I'm finding that there are plenty opportunities to act as mentor / coach to help startups learn how to work with enterprise customers / partners and vice versa. I'll reconnect with you privately to set up a time to chat over a coffee, cheers, Roger On 24/06/2012, at 1:01 PM, Caroline Gordon wrote: > Hey Roger. That is one awesome resume. Can't wait to see what's next for you. > > Your mix of tech / management and business skills is really interesting for > me. > I have been in R&D management for 15 years, and now realising I want to get > back and be more technical. > > I'd love to get some insights about how you managed to juggle both management > and technical skills. > > Cheers > > Caroline > > (will have to probably delurk again myself, I've been off the list for last > few months but just decided to come back) > > > On Thursday, May 28, 2009 11:08:37 AM UTC+10, Roger Kermode wrote: > I must apologise for being a lurker for a little while.... time to > introduce myself to those of you who don't me. > > The Short Summary: > I'd like to think of myself as Media Tech Shapeshifter: I take the > shape of what's needed to get the job done and am as comfortable > dealing with the Business side of making good things happen as I am > with Tech. > > A Longer Version: > I spent a big chunk of the 90s at the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge MA, > USA where I earned Master's and Ph.D. degrees in video and networking > (think TiVO + bit-torrent using IP multicast but back in the 1997 > timeframe). I also worked for SGI around the time Jurassic Park came > out (the entire company went to the San Jose Performing Arts Center > for a screening the day before the premiere) and Motorola while over > there. I've been back in Australia for about 10yrs now and worked on a > wide variety of stuff. At Motorola I established a Networking lab and > led team of really smart engineers who delivered WiFi QoS, Home > Networking, and Content Management technologies to product groups in > the USA and China. I've co-chaired an IETF working group on Reliable > Multicast Transport, was a key driver behind putting together the > successful bids for the Smart Internet and Smart Services CRCs ($250m > of research over 14years), and also served on a PMSEIC working group > looking at R&D that provided input into the Backing Australia's > Ability policy. > > More recently I've been working in the media space. I was the CTO at > iPrime and led the creation of federalelction.com.au for the 1997 > election as well as large aspects of the strategy, design, and build > of extensions of the Joomla open source CMS to create the platform > used by iPrime to serve its 50 odd hyperlocal sites with a FTE of > around 3-4 people. Over the past few months I've been helping a number > of small companies in Melbourne, Brisbane, and Sydney with IP, > Marketing Strategy, Sales Startegy/Process, Direct Selling into South > East Asia Market Entry, and General Corporate Strategy. > > I'm driven and excited about the possibilities for value creation that > arise when Marketing, Sales, Engineering, Operations, and R&D get > aligned and have spent much of my life learning how to speak the > language used by each of this disciplines. > > Finally, I very much enjoy the quality of the discussion and insights > shared by this group and look forward to making some more > contributions myself. > > cheers, > > Roger Kermode > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach > Australia mailing list. Vist http://siliconbeachaustralia.org for more > > Forum rules > 1) No lurkers! It is expected that you introduce yourself. > 2) No jobs postings. 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