Nicholas Hutchins
Brighton East,VIC
Summary
Entrepreneurial professional offering progressive experience in operations leadership. Skilled at identifying and implementing process improvements to drive efficiency and productivity. Motivating leader with proven success managing cross-functional teams.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Founder
Pool Safety Network
Brighton, VIC
01.2020 - Current
- Developed relations with industry bodies and pool construction companies to expand the reach of the business
- Built proprietary business process to facilitate building permit provisioning
- Won SPASA's Best Professional Services Business Award
- Built Pool Safety Network into Victoria's largest provider of building permit provisioning
- 14 staff members are currently employed by Pool Safety Network.
Freelance Consultant
Hutch Software
Melbourne, VIC
01.2018 - 12.2020
- Short-term contract work for multiple companies to facilitate rapid scaling through system and process development.
- Developed proprietary software system specifically designed to support rapidly growing service businesses undertaking complex field operations, utilising a central reporting dashboard
Chief Information Officer
Skybridge Australia
Tullamarine, VIC
01.2011 - 12.2017
- Inception, development, and commissioning of the proprietary "SIMON" Workflow Management system, enabling installation capacity to grow from 200 installations per month to 1,000 installations per day (2006-2013)
- One of Australia's first service providers to develop a field app for the iOS platform in 2010.
- Grew services from satellite only to medical alarms, wireless, SDU, MDU fiber installations, solar, battery, and others (2010-2014)
- Wrote and won 14 tender responses during my tenure, responsible for over $200 million in revenue
- Collaborated with all Australian Tier 1 telcos to design and implement field service solutions
- Supported the CEO and business owner in completing the sale of the business to a private equity fund (2014)
- Seconded to NBN Co to designed and supervise the NBN satellite switchover project, requiring 50,000 satellite installations to be completed in 6 months (2016)
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Civil, Structural And Hydraulic
University of Melbourne
Parkville, VIC11-1998
Bachelor of Commerce - Accounting And Business Management
University of Melbourne
Parkville, VIC11-1998
Skills
- Consulting
- Marketing
- Revenue development
- Financial administration
- Partnership building
- Revenue generation
- Legal compliance
- Team building
- Start-up operations
- Board reporting
- Process improvements
- Innovation management
- Offshore team building
Accomplishments
- Won Best Professional Services Company (Pool Safety Network)
- Top 10 BRW Most Innovatve Companies (Skybridge)
- Runner up, Telstra Small Business Award (Skybridge)
Timeline
Founder
Pool Safety Network
01.2020 - Current
Freelance Consultant
Hutch Software
01.2018 - 12.2020
Chief Information Officer
Skybridge Australia
01.2011 - 12.2017
Bachelor of Engineering - Civil, Structural And Hydraulic
University of Melbourne
Bachelor of Commerce - Accounting And Business Management
University of Melbourne
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