Brent Smith

Brent Smith Product, Project, Technical, and Senior Management -•- Dublin, Ireland, A94W2C5 https://ie.linkedin.com/in/brentfsmith • Proven expertise in technology start-ups, complex programme and project management, product ideation through to multicountry launch management, major infrastructure tenders, vendor management, mentoring, consulting, research, and change. • Fosters strong engagements with clients, vendors, staff, and key stakeholders. • Experienced with graphics, documentation, design tools (Adobe stack, Visio, AI tools etc), user interfaces, and market launch. • Experienced in patenting, and consulting in prior art search, e.g., Bluetooth, RISC-V, IoT, & Audio. • Continued skills development in quantum computing, AI, product and project management, and blockchain technologies Areas of Expertise Programme / Project Management Research / Report / Documentation Strategy / Change Product Lifecycle Management Software Test / UX / UI Team Development / Leadership Signature Accomplishments • Founder, Managing Director, and Board Director of Clearwire Ireland Ltd - raised €52m in FDI from the McCaw group of companies. - Led successful national wireless network roll-out and built the company as a national WISP - Led multiple programmes - product development and network technical design, pricing, competitor analysis, successful product launches - Successfully raised company to 26K+ customers and 100+ staff • Founder and Managing Director of Ardan Audio Ltd - a high technology start-up. Created, designed, manufactured, launched globally, and shipped a high-end studio speaker stand, sold 350+ to major recording studios and audiophiles worldwide. Exhibited in Tokyo (NAB), USA (NAMM), Europe, and Canada. Product reviews: https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/ardan-audio-evp-m1 https://6moons.com/audioreviews/ardan/1.html https://ardanaudio.wordpress.com/ • Developed an advanced, sophisticated 3D brochure of advanced audio products in Spaceclaim 3D CAD and InDD. Career Experience • Senior Project Manager – Data ETL Nov 2023 – present The Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth – contracted through Auxilion IT Resources Lead PM in a sensitive database ETL project - Lotus Notes to SWING Seascape and Flex, multiple databases, and cross-department engagement. Managed project and successful rigorous data test programme. • Lead Project Manager - HRX, and Data BWG Foods – contracted through Auxilion IT Resources Nov 2021 – Sep 2023 Assisted the senior business manager to introduce a new HRX system (SAP SuccessFactors) including product development and launch for independent retailers, a very successful launch. Assisted separately in a data migration project for a major new multicountry ERP system as a member of a multi-country project management team. • Project Manager - Portal, CRM, and Interfaces Residential Tenancy Board – contracted through Auxilion IT Resources Jul 2019 – Nov 2021 Part of a management team to provide operational readiness for MS Dynamics 365 in cloud/interface to Sitefinity Portal, change management, gaps analysis, documentation, SMS, web chat, bulk uploads, interfaces, and system readiness. • Programme Management, UI, UAT and Performance Testing Apex Fund Management Ltd – contracted through Auxilion IT Resources Nov 2018 – Jun 2019 Managed product software development for an ambitious asset management tool, with a complex STLC, including Unit Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, and Acceptance Testing. …continued… • Product Development Lead eir Telecom – contracted through Auxilion IT Resources Jan 2018 – Aug 2018 Recalled (see below) as sole lead on product development and implementing a cloud unified communications VoIP IPBX product. Successfully completed trials. • Project Management, Product Development, UX, UAT and Trials Actavo Group – contracted through Auxilion IT Resources Feb 2016 – Nov 2017 Managed numerous operations, including UX training, finance, and user access streams, change transformation, user trials, and content management. Drove the internal transformation programme and managed an external vendor for a group-wide transition to MS AX Dynamics 2012 R3 ERP – involving global locations and several industry consolidations. • Project Management and Product Development, UX, UI Interfaces Virgin Media – contracted through Auxilion IT Resources Feb 2015 – Dec 2015 Delivered Horizon Set-Top Box advanced television customer product feature updates to user interface, set top box user trials, and performance trials. Steered efforts in UI and UX surveys, trials, feedback, 7-day replay, ad insertion, and video farm reinstallation. • Project Management, Product Development, UX, UI and Customer Trials Eircom – contracted through Auxilion IT Resources May 2013 – Sep 2014 Managed the build and implementation of a specific Hosted IPT, unified communications product and platform for national launch, mobility, IP VPN, and BB access. Additional Experience • Founder, MD, and CTO for Clearwire Ireland, -) and Director, New Technologies – Clearwire Europe -) • Wrote major EU PHARE infrastructure tenders and acted as Tender Award Monitor For Astec Global in Estonia (Board of Border Guard), Romania (SAPARD, and Broadcast Monitoring Agency), and FYM (Serbia – OB Van for National Broadcaster). • Managed major global satellite uplinks and event management for France Telecom including onsite management in Tierra del Fuego and Europe, and business television networks for Eli Lilly, and Zeneca Pharmaceuticals. • Designed and produced artwork, colour schemes, 28-page conference brochures, graphics, and Event Runbook for the Project Management Institute - Irish Branch National Conferences in 2017, 2018, and 2019. Education • • • MSc Computing | Dublin City University, 2023 – cloud, security, blockchain, software management tools. MBA - majoring in Finance | Kingston University, London 1st and 2nd year passes - Bachelor of Communications (Sydney, Australia) – journalism and broadcast media - New South Wales institute of Technology (incomplete for family reasons) Certificates and Memberships • • • • Certificate Python Programming for Quantum Computing Packt/Coursera UKZE3KIFRIDM Certificate Mathematical Foundations and Quantum Mechanics Essentials Packt/Coursera YUCSR0FPSIUX Certificate Product Management: Building AI-Powered Products – SkillUp Tech ID BOXFLG2K0KKD Certificate Generative AI with Large Language Models – Coursera/AWS ID EEZ9AY3GVCWT • • • • • • • Certificate in Blockchain and Use Case Fundamentals – Coursera Cert ID S7MGBND262Z6 IEEE Member No- - since 2008 PMI Member No- - since 2012 Project Management Professional (PMP) ® Certificate - 2027 Irish Institute of Directors Member No. 7353 - since 2008 Certificate of Audio Engineering, Sydney Certificate of Data Processing, Sydney Interests • Rugby coach in Ireland for 13 years (now finished), surfing, skiing, hiking, running, gym, writing (fiction and non-fiction), music production – mixed, mastered, and produced four albums (three for other artists), and video production (4k). • Several papers written on Web3 Market and Product Launch Prerequisites, Patenting, Global Finance, Open Banking API’s, Vision and Audio Cognition, Decentralisation, AI, and Quantum computing.