These duties required travel to offices in Port Moresby and meetings with supplier representatives across Asia. I built business communications channels and balanced stakeholder requirements to drive sales, installations and post-launch support of complex infrastructure.
Most of my content production and stakeholder engagement required confidential business-to-business marketing with customer-specific solutions.
My photos in the gallery below illustrate the working environment.
These satellite dishes connect to a network of 20 satellites that orbit at 8,000km altitude, and provide backup connection to the internet if the primary links fail. The three dishes are constantly moving as they need to track the nearest satellite.
We met with our failover internet connection providers, SES, in Singapore
This LAN cabling runs the data in our building.
This staff member is connecting an upgraded power converter to a subscriber module (SM.) The SM sends a microwave link to the antenna at the top of a nearby hilltop, allowing connection to the internet via the local backhaul of antennas.
Two kids looking out over their home suburb in Port Moresby
This is the antenna at the top of Burns Peak. It provides direct line-of-sight to our microwave link from the rooftop, allowing us to connect to the "backhaul" of similar antennas around Port Moresby that run the chain of connections to provide subscribers with data access. The antennas send microwave-linked data connections back down to the individual premises via subscriber modules (SMs.)
This is one of the more seaward sections of Hanuabada, the Port Moresby suburb on the sea. The entire community is supported by tree trunks that are drilled into the mud.
Stakeholder meeting in Bangkok. I attended a conference with approximately 500 representatives from the Asia Pacific region. These gentlemen are from the Philipines, Australia and South Korea.
The whole suburb is elevated above the water by tree trunks. When the trunks have rotted, a specialist comes around in a rubber suit to replace the stump, which takes about a week as the tides must be perfect. The community's toilets empty into the water underneath the houses, which means that it is best not to swim in the water.
This workshop in Bangkok related to infrastructure security and staff best-practice techniques
The Papua New Guineans are some of the friendliest people I have met. This lady was keen to talk about her baby's upcoming education, and whether or not the All Blacks can win the next World Cup.
These ladies run the local betel nut desk. Betel nuts are mildly intoxicating and probably not too good for your dental health. Six nuts are approximately one Australian dollar.
These satellite dishes connect to a network of 20 satellites that orbit at 8,000km altitude, and provide backup connection to the internet if the primary links fail. The three dishes are constantly moving as they need to track the nearest satellite.
This is the primary unit for connecting our failover connection to the O3B satellites
Alex on a million rung ladder - climbing up to the top of the satellite array. (A climbing harness is around my waist.)
This gentleman is a valued member of the team.
