Past Projects & Events
Technical Projects
Telstra's BIG TV 1999
Andrew was one of the original instigators and drivers behind a monthly
live-to-air internal TV show for 1000+ of Telstra's Business and
Government National Sales teams. Developed original pilot
and worked with creative team at
Jack Morton
to develop a monthly show. Assisted in the design and
delivery of the program via satellite to 10 Telstra offices from
Foxtel's Pyrmont studios around
Australia as well as providing ongoing creative input into the
show.
Product Development Manager responsible for development of Business Requirements into a Product Development. Included Management of a cross-functional team from Information Technology, Engineering, Operations, Training, Billing and Product Management representatives. Responsible for developing a business case to secure funding for the development, and ongoing project budget management and project management of technical development, marketing development, customer trials and product launch. Click here for a fact sheet on Multinet.
Product
Development Manager responsible for development of Business
Requirements into a Product Development for Optus
DataReach™
VSAT product.
Formed cross-functional project team, and developed business case to secure funding from senior management. Click here for a fact sheet on Optus DataReach.
Communication
Systems Engineer responsible for Prototype development and
testing, and liaison with the Australian Army Project Office.
Environmental Test Engineer for a 3 month period of extensive
environmental testing on the Transportable Earth Station unit
shown above at the Army Testing facilities in Melbourne. Manager
of a $200,000 cost centre to design, develop and deliver a Tempest
rated power supply unit.
Test engineer involved in satellite
acceptance and commissioning testing on the Optus Satellite
Network. Andrew's involvement with Project Parakeet began as an
industry placement as part of the Master of Engineering Program.
Click here
for a detailed fact sheet on Parakeet.
Technical Assistant responsible for the design, development and assembly of 6 prototype Mobilesat™ modems under contract with Optus Communications. Designed and Assembled front panel control panels and speech codec equipment. Involved in acceptance testing of Baseband speech coding equipment as part of the Mobilesat project. Click here for a detailed fact sheet on the modem.
Mobilesat™
Satellite Modem - Product details Mobilesat™
Fact Sheet
Front
panel design and assembly by Andrew Grill
Responsible for the design and implementation of the Fire and Race Marshall emergency radio network for the Australian Formula One Grand Prix. This included on-site technical support for catering, security and police radio networks, as well as the installation of two repeaters at high sites on the Santos building and Hilton Hotel.
Event Management
Property Industry Foundation "Unforgettable Black Tie Affair" Ball 2002
Special Event Producer for the Annual Ball - responsible for a team of 7 crew, producing all of the on-screen material, as well as a live TV show at the ball. Also responsible for co-ordinating a team of 50 volunteers drawn from the Property Industry as crew for the ball.
Rotary Club of Sydney Moulin Rouge Ball 2001
Production Manager for event. Co-ordinated technical requirements and co-ordinated acts and crew for event and hosted event as MC.
Rotary District Conference 2001
Production Manager for entire 2 day event - managed all audio/video requirements and presenter graphics. Ran crew of 3 AV personnel and directed all elements of the conference including conference dinner.
Telstra Marketing Conference 1999
Designed, developed and implemented a Marketing Conference including dinner and award night for 60 Marketing staff from Telstra's Business and Government Marketing group in 3 weeks.
Project Manager of the 1996 National Training Conference, a 2 day residential Conference for 130 training staff from Technical, Systems, Corporate and Sales Training departments. Managed Conference team, and liaised with hotel and external suppliers to provide an interesting and entertaining conference
Video production - camera, production and editing
See HotGrill Productions -
www.hotgrill.com.au
for a full list of productions and capabilities
Website design, project management & maintenance
www.andrewgrill.com - Personal website
www.legionone.com - B2B Business communications
www.sydneyrotary.com - Rotary Club of Sydney
www.sydneyrotary2000.com - Rotary Olympics/Paralympics website (no longer live)
www.pif.com.au - Property Industry Foundation
www.futuredirections.info - Future Directions Group
www.propertylook.com
- Commercial property website
Andrew Grill's personal website Andrew Grill www.andrewgrill.com MBA qualified General Manager Board Member expert communicator strategic marketer technology evangelist team builder strong telecommunications background wireless broadcast experience Sydney Australia technology entrepreneur guest speaker media linkedin commentator strategist board member Volunteering NSW Sydney rotary club duke of Edinburgh linkedin profile www.linkedin.com resume cv curriculum vitae career history award master of ceremonies MC booking inspirational coach event sms short message GSM MBA qualified master of engineering satellite optus belrose guest speaker management consulting linkedin www.linkedin.com linked-in marketing strategy go-to-market technology product development broadcaster based in Sydney Australia messaging ww.andrewgrill.com/career premium rate ADMA Australian direct marketing association location technology lecturer marketing www.hotgrill.com.au ecommerce specialist general manager CEO director role Rotarian Sydney Rotary Board Member career Andrew Grill Australian e-commerce expert launch Sydney 2000 Olympics pictures www.andrewgrill.com/olympics successful start-up infectious energy strategic high accuracy location technology marketer guru marketing dinner speaker presenter property look GSM GPRS WAP MMS product development at Optus dynamic entertaining speaker presenter camera documentary corporate video HotGrill productions hotgrill producer team player sms short message www.andrewgrill.com/olympics location based services australia producer digital video business SMS www.propertylook.com.au corporate sitemap site map video production documentaries successful launch www.propertylook.com business development Telstra Singtel Optus British aerospace parakeet mobilesat projects master of ceremonies sydney olympic pictures olympic games sydney olympic games pictures www.sydneyrotary.com business messaging international award royalty free olympic pictures MBA qualified General Manager strategy development wireless cellular business development business use of SMS Telstra www.andrewgrill.com/sitemap.html blogging weblog www.andrewgrill.com/blog/ Andrew Grill's weblog blogger.com contact Andrew Grill www.andrewgrill.com/contacts marketing portfolio www.andrewgrill.com/marketing webcentral hosting www.webcentral.com.au olympic torches olympic torch relay howstuff works http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/olympic-torch.htm howstuffworks how olympic torches work http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/olympic-torch1.htm http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/olympic-torch3.htm http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/olympic-torch7.htm location based services SMS location find location via SMS boutique video production corporate video production sydney http://www.andrewgrill.net andrewgrill dot net andrewgrill .net advertising marketing strategy business development strategic partnerships seeker wireless http://www.seekerwireless.com seekerwireless child tracking mobile in the UK mobile London United Kingdom UK mobiles UK consulting UK recruitment andrewgrill.co.uktracking staff locator employee locater andrewgrill.org staff tracking mobile phone locator mobile phone finder mobile phone locater location based sms service corporate mobile phone field sales location