Grant Simonds

Grant Simonds

About

Detail

Head of Development
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Timeline

work
Job
school
Education
folder
Project

Résumé

Jobs verified_user 0% verified
  • Civica
    Head of Development
    Civica
    May 2026 - Current (4 months)
    Lead development, data and testing teams, focused on delivering secure, reliable software aligned to product strategy, customer commitments and technical direction. Coordinating development programmes, supporting backlog prioritisation, improving delivery practices, and helping teams balance market demand, defect resolution, technical debt and security risk. Key focus areas include: •        Leading geographically distributed development and testing teams •        Driving Agile delivery practices and continuous improvement •        Improving automation, release cadence and software quality •        Using delivery metrics and performance indicators to support decision-making •        Supporting secure, performant and cloud-aligned product d
  • GigaComm
    General Manager Information Technology and Enterprise Systems
    GigaComm
    Nov 2024 - Jun 2026 (1 year 8 months)
    As GigaComm's IT leader, I define and execute the technology vision powering the company's growth and operational excellence. I lead the IT function across infrastructure, applications, and service delivery — aligning technology strategy with business priorities to enable innovation, efficiency, and reliability. • Introduced AI software development and DevOps practices across the team, achieving huge improvements in cycle time • Designed and architected AI and agentic development workflows, upskilling the team and significantly reducing lead time • Deployed AI tooling across the enterprise to all staff • Led the development of APIs for retail service providers, launching GigaComm's wholesale business and contributing significantly to compan
  • DB Results
    Head of Infrastructure - APT Travel Group
    DB Results
    Mar 2024 - Oct 2024 (8 months)
    Managing Azure cloud infrastructure, cloud services and end user services including managing vendors for cloud, SDWAN, service desk, licensing etc. Helping APT Travel Group get value from IT by ensuring that cloud infrastructure and end user services are working efficiently and efficiently. • Managing IT vendors, networks and clouds with ITIL, DevOps and Agile processes • Improving customer and employee experience through process simplification • Leading IT project to move head office • Managed Stack: Azure, Microsoft 365, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Jira, Confluence, Mimecast, OutSystems
  • DB Results
    Senior Consultant
    DB Results
    Feb 2024 - Oct 2024 (9 months)
    Helping clients solve problems, manage change, improve efficiency, and develop business solutions. Analysing and evaluate clients’ business requirements on complex business and technology projects. Wrote DB Results initial AI consulting strategy. Helping DB Results put in place information security management practices and achieve ISO27001 certification.
  • EPiC Agile
    Business Agility and Technology Delivery Consultant
    EPiC Agile
    Nov 2021 - Feb 2024 (2 years 4 months)
    Consulting and Coaching for clients including Coles, Teachers Mutual Bank, Alinta Energy, Tricor/Vistra, Dulux, Xero enabling organisations to greater deliver value to their customers more efficiently. • Consulting recommendations on reducing technology delivery lead time • Identifying best practices for software delivery • Consulting in improving the flow of value and implementing change • Coaching Managers in Product, Delivery, Technology and Operations • Consulting on organisational design • Industry experience in eCommerce, Banking, Platforms, Electricity, Data • Building tailored growth plans across teams • Leading & Facilitating Agile Practices, Transformations and Coaching across multiple teams
  • G
    Product Manager
    Guardian Startup
    Jul 2021 - Oct 2021 (4 months)
    Guardian Lifestream is a personal safety and assistance platform and app providing real-time visibility and protection for those you care about. Not all emergencies need a call to emergency 000 and for those others Lifestream provides emergency voice, video calls, chat and location between you and a 24/7 professional response centre. • Manage DevOps team providing SaaS platform • Implement Agile methods for Scrum, Kanban, prioritisation and collaboration • Video calling using Vonage Tokbox, AWS Connect, Chime etc • Reporting to the CTO and managing a team of 10 • Azure, Azure DevOps, Functions, NodeJS, Angular, Java, Swift and Kotlin
  • Telstra
    Technical Product Owner - Smart Video
    Telstra
    Oct 2020 - Jul 2021 (10 months)
    Led the vision, roadmap, solution design, and delivery of Telstra’s AI-based Smart Video platform, combining computer vision, IoT, edge deployment, and cloud services for enterprise customers. Directed cross-functional teams across AI research, software engineering, and IoT to turn product strategy into deployed capability. • Led development and launch of an AI computer vision platform for enterprise use cases • Built model training and MLOps capability, including Telstra’s first Nvidia GPU-based training environment • Delivered IoT deployments across Australia using Azure IoT Edge over 5G • Managed roadmap, OKRs, vendors, and enterprise stakeholder alignment across Microsoft, Nvidia, and Bosch • Delivered against OKRs, resource planning an
  • Telstra
    Agile Ways of Working Coach
    Telstra
    Mar 2019 - Oct 2020 (1 year 8 months)
    Helped the Ways of Working transformation programme implement an enterprise-wide transformation to Agile. Coaching business and technology teams in DevOps, Agile, Lean Startup, Design Thinking. Facilitating training, workshops and events to help the organisation as a whole adopt new ways of working. Helping teams adapt Agile and Lean Startup thinking to their situations and helping them challenge the existing environment. • Coached many groups/tribes including Marketing and IoT • Presented Telstra’s DevOps journey at DevOps talks with a top 10 audience rating and article in ITNews • Worked with Networks and IT executives to workshop DevOps principles • Certified Telstra Skilled Coach, IC Agile certificates in Coaching and DevOps, Luma Huma
  • Telstra
    User Experience and Software Engineering Manager
    Telstra
    Sep 2014 - Mar 2019 (4 years 7 months)
    Built the Media User Experience and Software Development team and evolved it into a high performing team delivering many great software products along the way... Achievements: • Manager for media software applications for Telstra TV, Telstra TV Box Office (BigPond Movies), Presto, AFL, NRL, Netball and many others • Design and manage development of Java/Node.js Microservices and Apigee API gateway • Running microservices on Docker/Kubernetes on AWS • Implement and advocate the use of Agile, Lean Startup and Design Thinking • Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment (CI/CD), DevOps and Test Automation • Recruit and build a team of 4 User Experience Designers and 17 software developers • Responsible for $5M annual budget • Run workshops
  • Telstra
    Solutions Specialist – Mobile Network Engineering
    Telstra
    Jan 2005 - May 2006 (1 year 5 months)
    I was initially employed within this role to manage the Telstra mobile videoconferencing system and video calling project. Based on successes, I subsequently led a number of large-scale video streaming projects and other projects for the Commonwealth Games, iMode, DVB-H and Mobile Positioning technologies. Managing high-performance, multidisciplinary project teams, I ensured achievement of critical milestones supporting Telstra’s reputation with customers as an innovative industry leader. My role encompassed end-to-end project management including definition, planning, execution, control and closure, with full accountability for all facets of time, budget and scope. Most notably I performed as the Technical Lead for Telstra’s ground-brea
  • MComms TV
    CEO and Founder
    MComms TV
    Jan 2004 - Mar 2019 (15 years 3 months)
    MComms TV provides software for live video stream transcoding, monitoring and ad insertion for the web, broadcast and mobile networks. Founding MComms TV in 2006, I have delivered the company from concept to fruition. This has included business development, financial management, operations management and all facets of sales and marketing. As CEO I lead development of key software products, including MComms Transcode and MComms Monitor for mobile and internet video streaming, in C++, C#, HTML and PHP. I subsequently ranked as a finalist in the Telstra Business Awards 2009, for the MComms TV software solution. Managing a team of up to 9 full-time employees, my skills in developing performance and monitoring KPI achievement were integral to
  • ERICSSON AUSTRALIA
    Solution Architect – Mobile Systems and Applications - Future Development
    ERICSSON AUSTRALIA
    Jan 2001 - Dec 2004 (4 years)
    Promoted through a number of roles including directly reporting to the CTO and CMO, I ultimately undertook the role of a Solution Architect and was subsequently certified by Ericsson’s global panel of experts as an ‘Ericsson Certified Solution Architect’. This role encompassed accountability for pre-sales product management of the full range of Ericsson service layer products. This included SMS, web proxies, voice/video mail, web portal solutions, video streaming, IP networking and mobile positioning products. A key achievement within this role was the development and delivery of the IP Network, Switching and Firewall design for video streaming and video calling solutions for Singtel, Vodafone-Hutchison Australia and Telstra. In additi
Education verified_user 0% verified
  • Dimension Data
    Building Cisco Multilayer Switched Networks
    Dimension Data
  • H
    Design Thinking, Business
    Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford University
  • I
    Agile Coaching
    IC Agile
    Jan 2020
    At the Agile Coaching step, the coach has expert-level understanding of current lean- agile practices; is significantly skilled in team facilitation; and has developed some professional coaching and mentoring skill. Coaches with these skills are likely operating at a scope of several teams or a program, starting new teams, mentoring others, or spending significant time working with managers and engaging with impediments outside the direct control of teams.
  • I
    Team Facilitation
    IC Agile
    Jan 2020
    Operating at the team facilitation step, agile coaches learn the core skills of facilitation and gain the self-leadership needed to use them well. For those working with teams on- the-ground, facilitation skills are the first step because they pave the way for teams to achieve true empowerment, collaboration, and ownership of their actions and decisions. In this way, facilitation skills help the vision of agile-done-well come true. This step is important for coaches operating at any level of an organization or scope of influence, whether that is with one team, a group of teams, an executive team or a whole organization. Further, the skills learned at this step may also provide value for learners in other disciplines, such as product ownersh
  • ICAgile
    Implementing DevOps
    ICAgile
    Jan 2020
    The ICP-IDO is one of two knowledge-based certifications on the DevOps Track. This certification takes a hands-on approach to planning, building, monitoring, and maturing a DevOps pipeline. While the learning outcomes themselves are technology-agnostic, course designers will accredit their courses based on technology stacks and tool suites most relevant to their intended course audience. Participants who complete this certification will gain an excellent foundation for implementing DevOps in their organizations and will become well-versed in avoiding common pitfalls and overcoming obstacles to DevOps implementations.
  • ICAgile
    Foundations of DevOps
    ICAgile
    Jan 2020
    The ICP-FDO is one of two knowledge-based certifications on the DevOps Track. This certification provides an overview of core concepts for DevOps and is geared towards a broad audience of professionals, both technical and non-technical. The learning outcomes cover areas such as the business case for DevOps, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, accompanying cultural changes, operational considerations and configuration management. Participants who complete this certification will gain an excellent foundation in DevOps concepts and ingredients for a successful transition.
  • LUMA Institute
    Certified Practitioner of Human-Centered Design, Human Centred Design
    LUMA Institute
    Jan 2019
    LUMA certified practitioners: * Use human-centered design methods, activities and techniques in work on a daily basis Speak a common language for creative problem-solving that leads to faster, better collaboration that gets results. * Know how and when to apply combinations of human-centered design methods to common challenges, such as aligning a team or coming up with better ideas. * Build agendas for work sessions that use combinations of LUMA methods to address specific business challenges. * Collaborate effectively with others — whether that’s colleagues, customers or partners — both in-person and remotely, across locations and time zones.
  • RMIT University
    Bachelor of Engineering - BEng, Communications
    RMIT University
    Mar 1993 - Nov 1996 (3 years 9 months)
    Electronics engineering from integrated circuits, designing printed circuit boards, systems engineering. Communications systems including microwave, fibre, mobile networks, IP networks etc. Digital and software systems design, coding, testing and integration. Engineering management, project management and design systems, CAD/CAM and mechanical engineering.
Projects (professional or personal) verified_user 0% verified
  • T
    Telstra TV
    Mar 2015 - Oct 2015 (8 months)
    Stream content from your Netflix, Stan and Foxtel Now subscriptions, as well as live sport and free-to-air Catch Up TV straight to your big screen, with Telstra TV®. Plus, you can access the latest new releases and blockbusters with BigPond Movies. Telstra TV – it’s the little box with a big bag of tricks. Telstra TV brings you some of the best brands in entertainment in one little box. You can watch for free, subscribe to, rent or buy the best in movies, TV shows, live sport, news and music. Just plug it in to discover the simple way of watching TV.
  • A
    ARIA Awards Live Mobile Streaming
    Nov 2011
    In 2011, for the first time ever, fans of the ARIAs were able to watch the drama unfolding backstage with Optus providing a dedicated mobile video stream direct from the awards night ceremony. As well as exclusive interviews and footage, the Optus mobile video stream complemented the free-to-air GO! broadcast of the event which was also available to watch on any 3G mobile. MComms provided mobile streaming from the Allphones Arena in Sydney to mobile users around Australia. Taking both the live (to tape) free to air feed and an exclusive backstage feed, MComms delivered mobile video streams to all devices. This was the first time in Australia a live stream had been produced exclusively for mobile with backstage footage not seen on TV. The p
  • O
    Optus TV Now
    Jul 2011 - Feb 2012 (8 months)
    With Optus TV Now, Optus customers can record their favourite TV program using their mobile phone and then play it back on their mobile or PC at a time that's more convenient to them. The service is available across all 15 free-to-air channels. MComms TV provided the TV recording, encoding and video streaming to Optus for this revolutionary project, working in conjunction with PMN and NCC.
  • M
    Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games Live Streaming
    Mar 2006
    The Technical Lead for Telstra’s 2006 Commonwealth Games Video Streaming Project, I worked across multiple Telstra divisions to deliver live streaming of 9 channels of content from host broadcaster to Telstra mobile devices, including RTP streaming and video calling.
  • B
    Big Brother 2004 Live Mobile Streaming
    May 2004 - Jul 2004 (3 months)
    Big Brother on 3, allowed 3 customers to interact with the Big Brother program through a variety of ways. These included Live Cam TV, Live Chat with evicted housemates, Real Tones, half-hourly text updates, daily text summaries of what happened in the house, alerts, evictee video interviews, video highlight clips and much more. 3 customers always wanted to be part of the action and the results found 3 mobile customers would watch the show and then access the Big Brother Live Cams on their mobiles as soon as the show ended to remain connected to the action. The project included four live streams - two main program feeds switched by Southern Star Endemol, a fixed camera and a camera chosen by viewer votes (usually always "Spa Cam"). 3 cust
This is a community-created genome.