Mark Freund

Current

Consultant at Turnpoint Solutions
RTCA Legacy Systems Consultant at Rio Tinto
Founder at Mincom Alumni Network

Principal Consultant at Entatek Pty Ltd

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Past

Consultant at COSOL Australia Pty Ltd
consultant at mincom
Technical Consultant at Lihir Gold

Product Manager - Mincom Mobile at Mincom
Product Manager - Mincom Work Planner at Mincom Ltd
Consultant at Mincom
Mine Maintenance Systems Administrator at Ok Tedi Mining Limited
Business Consultant at BHP Information Technology
Maintenance Planner at BHP Titanium Minerals

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Education

University of Newcastle

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Industry

Computer Software

Mark Freund’s Summary

Over twelve years experience consulting to capital intensive industries in Australasia and the Americas. Key areas of expertise include:
- Solution development and delivery
- Business process review and re-engineering
- Maintenance systems and strategies
- Systems conversions and migrations

Consulted to a broad range of clients in both public and private sector including:
- Public Works
- Transport
- Defence
- Local Government
- Utilities (Generation and Distribution)
- Mining

Mark Freund’s Specialties:

Enterprise Mobility, Mobile Solutions, Maintenance Planning and Strategies, Zero Base Budgeting, Systems Analysis and Design, Data analysis and conversion MIMS Implementation, integration and support MINT/SmartGUI Scripting, RDL, MIMS Connector, Visual Basic, Cobol, SQL, Java, XML, HTML, PHP, Extensive people management and supervisory skills , project management, product management, software development methodologies, extreme programming, agile development.

Mark Freund’s Experience

Consultant

Turnpoint Solutions

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

August 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)
RTCA Legacy Systems Consultant

Rio Tinto

(Public Company; RIO; Mining & Metals industry)

2007 — Present (2 years )
Founder

Mincom Alumni Network

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

July 2005 — Present (4 years 6 months)

Former employee networking group.

http://mincom-alumni.markfr.com
Principal Consultant

Entatek Pty Ltd

(Management Consulting industry)

May 2005 — Present (4 years 8 months)

http://www.entatek.com
Consultant

COSOL Australia Pty Ltd

(Information Technology and Services industry)

August 2006 — April 2009 (2 years 9 months)
consultant

mincom

(Computer Software industry)

1997 — 2009 (12 years )
Technical Consultant

Lihir Gold

(Computer Software industry)

2007 — 2007 (less than a year)
Product Manager - Mincom Mobile

Mincom

(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry)

October 2004 — July 2005 (10 months)

Duties included:
•Management & ownership of product scope,
•Product Life Cycle Management,
•Liaising with customers and identifiaction of new requirements / products,
•Providing guidance to analysts & designers on product requirements,
•Supporting Sales and Marketing with product collateral.
Product Manager - Mincom Work Planner

Mincom Ltd

(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry)

October 2003 — October 2004 (1 year 1 month)

Duties included:
•Management & ownership of product scope,
•Product Life Cycle Management,
•Liaising with customers and identifiaction of new requirements / products,
•Providing guidance to analysts & designers on product requirements,
•Supporting Sales and Marketing with product collateral.
Consultant

Mincom

(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry)

October 1998 — October 2003 (5 years 1 month)

Mincom, Project Viva (Seconded to Solutions Development)
Requirements Analyst
A member of the Project Viva Team; providing requirements management skills
Duties included:
•Facilitating customer requirements workshops
•Documenting/managing use cases & user stories
•Providing guidance to designers on functional requirements
•Developing automated customer test cases

Mincom (Technical Services – Business Technologies)
Senior Consultant
A member of the Business Technologies Team; providing customised business solutions to match client specific requirements.
Skill involved in:
Requirements Management, customer testing, Systems analysis, software design, implementation and team leading, Functional/Business analysis, Scripting and report generation, data conversion, Systems analysis and design, MIMS connector/Visual Basic
Mine Maintenance Systems Administrator

Ok Tedi Mining Limited

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Mining & Metals industry)

July 1997 — October 1998 (1 year 4 months)

A member of the Planning Section; to provide training, support and systems improvements in MIMS and related products for the Maintenance and Operations Departments.

Duties Include:
•Introduction of a structured MIMS training schedule.
•Investigate and implement oppurtunities in MIMS integration.
•Improve Maintenance Planning functions.
•Development of Maintenance Systems Procedures.
•PC/Network Field Support.
•Networking Planning and Administration.
Business Consultant

BHP Information Technology

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)

February 1996 — July 1997 (1 year 6 months)

A member of the MIMS group within SIS; to ensure that new installations, upgrades, training and support for BHP Minerals and external Customers MIMS implementations are carried out to the highest professional standards.

Major Projects involved in:
•Development of MIMS training modules for the Continuous Training Package (CTP)
•Desktop Services (DTS) support for BHP-LPD
•MIMS Implementation for BHP-Titanium Minerals (Beenup), which included:
•MIMS Establishments
•CITECT to MIMS Operating Statistics Interface
•MPDS to MIMS Maintenance Scheduling Interface
•MIMS Maintenance Training for BHP-GEMCo
Maintenance Planner

BHP Titanium Minerals

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Mining & Metals industry)

December 1994 — February 1996 (1 year 3 months)

Duties included:
•Maintaining and re-evaluation of a Work Order Database System.
•Compilation of Equipment Information Database.
•Co-ordinate maintenance work allocations throughout operation.
•Supervisory role of maintenance employees and contractors.
•On call staff roster.
•Inform Area Manager of issues related to prioritising work loads within the operation
•Assistance in Development and Maintaining of a Work Order Database.
•Assistance in Compilation of Operations Information Database.
•Assistance in maintenance work allocations throughout Operation.
•Supervisory role of maintenance employees.
•On call staff roster.
•General assistance to Maintenance Superintendent and Maintenance Planner.
•Word processing.