TELSTRA EXCHANGE|Author List
Jehad
Jehad began his career in a suburban Telstra call-centre, after completing the Graduate program he now works with Telstra’s Employee Communications and Digital Media team. Jehad produces video content and employee communications to the corporate intranet and Telstra’s YouTube channel.
Jehad has keen interests in social media, politics and music. He is also a poet, activist and hip-hop artist.
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Greg Adcock
As Executive Director of Business, Commercial and Premium Services, Greg uses his depth of knowledge and experience in project management, technical management and general management to span shared elements of the Operations group. In this role Greg is accountable for the Operations business strategy, commercial engagement, process re-engineering, regulatory compliance, key strategic projects, and Telstra Plus.
Greg began his career in IT, and built a disciplined commercial management style from that through various industry verticals including the wine industry, gaming, major building such as the New Parliament House project, and today in telecommunications. During his career his enthusiasm for project management led him to move to a start-up company where he was asked to set up and run a separate technology venture.
Greg enjoys watching his children participate in various sporting and cultural activities, riding his jet ski, and innovative moments in his shed. Outside of his home, his favorite place to be is the beach and he is a very strong supporter of Surf Lifesaving Australia.
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Charles Agee
Charles was formally responsible for running the Small Business customer unit for Telstra.
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Natalie Alaimo
Natalie Alaimo is the Founder and Director of Natalie Alaimo International and is based on the beautiful Gold Coast which means Natalie has achieved the right balance of play, play and some work.
In her play time Natalie enjoys computer games, painting, reading and socialising with a good bottle of New Zealand Sav Blanc.
In her work time, Natalie assists small business owners and solopreneurs tackle the online world, include web design, blogs, email marketing solutions and social media.
You can follow her adventures on Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/NatalieAlaimo
or Blog
http://www.nataliealaimo.com
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Jo Allan
I am now a full-time Mum/Nana, and loving it! I have worked in administration for over 20 years and am enjoying being able to spend all of my time with my family now.
I am a bit of a computer nerd, have been since school, and I absolutely love my gadgets. I can't afford to be the first to have “it”, but I do get it eventually!
At home I have a 16 (almost 17) year old daughter and a 10 month old grandson. My daughter is also my best friend, I am so lucky to have such an open relationship with her. She has just finished her school exams and is going to go for her drivers licence very very soon (so be warned!).
I also have 3 older step-children who have given me 4 gorgeous grandchildren between them so far. I absolutely adore them!
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Sam Andruszkiewicz
Video Producer – Telstra
When at Telstra Sam plays the role of video content producer for internal communications and helps create a lot of the content on the corporate Youtube channel.
He spends a lot of his time running around shooting various exciting projects around Telstra like product launches and the CEO blog.
The rest of his time he spends researching (i.e watching) Youtube and experimenting with the cool interactive features that Youtube keeps bringing out.
Originally a media communications graduate from UNSW Sam has spent almost all of his working life working as a video production specialist.
Sam has hopes of continuing his filmmaking when this whole online video thing dies down.
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Ben Armstrong
Ben Armstrong is the General Manager of T-Suite Solutions in Telstra Business responsible for Telstra businesses cloud computing (SaaS) strategy and executing on that strategy. Ben has over 15 years experience in the IT industry from the perspective of a software developer, an IT manager, a website developer, managing product lines, business development and legal aspects. Ben holds a computer science and a legal degree from Melbourne University.
In his spare time Ben enjoys playing with his children, blogging about growing small businesses and occasionally helping his wife and her small business with SaaSifying their IT.
Ben is also a director of the AMA's medical publishing company, the publisher of the Australian Medical Journal
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Brent Artindale
Brent Artindale is the Manager at BigPond Games. Since starting in the role he's been instrumental in the success and growth of Telstra's games-focused businesses - Australia's largest non-aggregate games media site, GameArena, Australia's leading digital distribution site BigPond Games Shop and the biggest Australian-specific mobile games library in the country, BigPond Games Shop Mobile.
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Nathan Azouz
As GM for Postpaid Mobile & Devices Nathan and his team are responsible for bringing to market Telstra consumer offers & devices. With a key focus on the latest technology and what customers want from it, Nathan’s team’s goal is to bring the best of what the mobile world has to offer to the Australian public.
Nathan arrived in Oz some 10 years ago as a back packer and has never looked back, working in online marketing, retail buying and with another telco as Devices Manager (guess which one…). Nathan loves technology, films, live music & sports - especially football (he's a Liverpool fan) and enjoys nothing more than the rare occasions the English manage to beat the Aussies at anything.
In his spare time Nathan can be found in his back garden doing his best impression of a true Aussie by burning various types of food on his BBQ.
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Emile Baak
Emile Baak is Managing Director for Nokia Australia and New Zealand and is responsible for the overall management of Nokia in those territories.
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Steve Baker
As Product Manager for On Device Integration, Steve’s responsibilities include the design, development and implementation of the TelstraOne and My Place products across a number of mobile platforms. This involves working with a diverse range of people throughout Telstra to deliver mobile solutions which are both customisable and tightly integrated with the look and feel of individual phones.
Previously, Steve worked as an IT manager for a global FMCG company, managing IT operations across Taiwan, Korea and Australia, a National IT Manager for a construction company, as well as a number of gigs in consulting.
As someone who enjoys his gadgets, Steve is very happy with his current role, as it keeps him at the forefront of the latest shiny mobile technology. The only downside is leaving them at work at the end of each day!
Steve is passionate about improving the customer experience across Telstra’s mobile solutions, and is working hard to ensure the TelstraOne and My Place products deliver against this promise.
When not at work, Steve enjoys nothing more than spending as much time as possible with his young family and catching up with friends.
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Gordon Ballantyne
Gordon was recently been appointed Chief Customer Officer to lead a newly formed business unit, Telstra Customer Sales & Service. Gordon is responsible for sales and service to all segments including consumer, business and enterprise and government customers in both Australia and New Zealand. Prior to this, Gordon was responsible for Telstra’s Consumer and Telstra Country Wide, having joined Telstra in June 2010.
Gordon joined Telstra from HP, where he was VP & General Manager, UK & Ireland, leading HP’s consumer business. Gordon was founder of Dell Ventures Europe, the strategic investment arm of Dell Corporation, a $1.2 Billion venture capital fund invested in over 120 technology companies with 37 successful IPO’s. During his time at Dell, Gordon was also Founder of www.dell.com in Europe and a Member of Dell’s European Executive Management team. He holds a degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh.
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Writabrata Banerjee
I joined first in the bigpond team under leadership of Davin Chao, and at the moment I am in my first rotation, working for Hosting Solutions.
Before joining Telstra, I have worked on contract-based positions as a web developer in different mid-scale software development companies. I finished my masters in Information Systems from RMIT University and have been working there as a sessional staff since then. I have been a labber, tutor, head-tutor and a stopgap lecturer for couple of courses on web development and networking.
I have a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and music (proficiency in playing indian percussion tabla), and I like reading articles on extraterrestrial and paranormal encounters. My friends apparently think that I should get the award for the 'one who changes his status message more than 8 times a day'! When I get time, I still do web development to keep the flair alive.
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Sakshi Banerjee
It would be fair to say that I am a Telstra newbie I only joined February of this year as part of an 18 month graduate program. The joys of the graduate program mean that I get to hop around departments and taste and get a feel for several areas of my home unit – Business, Commercial & Premium Services. So far I have been involved with new product development, business development, learning what constitutes a good webpage (clearly my original idea let a bit to be desired!) as well as data analytics and process mapping.
Whilst that covers my days during the night I turn into a super hero well not really but I like to think so. I scour the streets of Melbourne for cool hidden bookstores, coffee shops, crepe stalls and dumpling restaurants. Well anything to do with books or food or theatre you’d find me there. You would think working at Telstra I would have an affinity for technology but not really. I am a technology clutz I love technology but for the life of me I can’t get it to work for me. Luckily I have many geeky aficionados as friends who are more than happy to help me out and mock me along the way. What’s life without humiliating oneself and having a laugh at one’s expense?
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Vickie Barnes
Vickie Barnes is a former junior Legatee and was supported by Legacy as a child after her father died at Vietnam.
Vickie found such value in the organisation that she is now the President of Legacy’s Blue Mountains Division.
Vickie Barnes, nominated ‘I was only 19’ by The Herd to feature on the Legacy Songs Badge as it reminded her of her late father who lost his life serving Australia.
Music has always played an important role in Vickie’s life by helping keep the memory of her father alive.
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