Roy Chandler (Australia)
Roy’s experience in Information Technology and Telecommunications spans 26 years and includes senior through to executive level management roles at two International banks.
At one of these bank’s, for several years Roy held global responsibility for technical hardware and operating systems at their branch locations in London, Paris, Madrid, Brussels, Frankfurt and New York.
For the last fourteen years, Australia has been Roy’s home and from a variety of high profile IT&T roles, Roy has achieved a track record of leading, directing and managing capital and resource through to successful delivery.
The first of these roles was as Director of IT at what was then the largest casino operation in Australia (Conrad Jupiter’s); subsequently Roy went on to run applications development at the Totalisator Administration Board for Queensland.
Seven years then followed within the telecommunications industry, the last two of these as CIO at CoMindico (now Soul Telecommunications) and the former five in a variety of senior management positions at Vodafone. Two more years as Director of Services for Avnet and Roy then accepted an offer of a role at Infostream.
Roy’s long list of role achievements includes developing a global exposure and risk management system used by an international bank, development of new gaming machine monitoring and patron recognition systems at a casino, delivery of a new customer care and billing system into Vodafone and the architectural design, control, build and deploy of all business and network application systems and related infrastructure at a national telecommunications carrier.
While at Infostream, Roy recently achieved final acceptance against delivery of a project worth several tens of millions of dollars. This project involved delivery of strategic major components of a new ‘000’ Emergency Alerting System to be used by the State of Victoria in Australia.
Today over 30,000 end users utilise Infostream pager hardware in Victoria on this new EAS system. Emergency messages are dispatched, user profiles managed and SLA reporting is all performed through 999.99% available Infostream personnel emergency response software (VIPER). Control and disaster recovery site hardware was designed and then supplied and installed by Infostream. Many other Infostream devices can be found as critical components in every base station which forms part of this new network across Victoria.
Roy initially started with Infostream as the EAS Software Project Manager, took on the role of EAS Project Director and was then subsequently invited to accept the role of CEO. Having held the CEO role for eighteen months, Roy now relishes growing the business globally and his new title reflects this, as he is now the Director, Global Business Development.
