Ian Watterson, CSG’s Senior Vice President and Managing Director of APAC, is based in Brisbane. Originally from the United Kingdom, Ian has over 20 years’ experience in technology and telecommunications management across operational management, corporate strategy, finance, and marketing disciplines. We caught up with him to get his perspective on the APAC region.
CSG has a strong and proud history of a presence in Australia, and Brisbane in particular. We have had an office in Brisbane for over 30 years and have had a presence in every Australian state except Tasmania. Employees specialising in R&D, services, human resources, legal, finance and marketing all call Brisbane home.
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CSG Brisbane takes on several paid interns every summer and winter. One intern came up with an innovative solution to allow development teams to quickly find where different versions of their microservices were deployed. This was a great learning experience for the intern and gave them experience with technologies and team environments outside of the classroom.
In March, twelve employees from CSG Brisbane participated in an International Women’s Day Fun Run to help support the fight against breast cancer. Software architect Ray Crilly took second place in the 10 km run. CSG raised close to A$1800 for this worthy cause.
Located at 545 Queen Street in Brisbane’s city centre, CSG’s new offices were opened to great fanfare in February 2019. Invited guests included customers from Hutchison and Telstra, and the ribbon was cut by our President of Technology and Product, Ken Kennedy. In February 2020, we celebrated our first anniversary at the Brisbane office.
CSG has expanded its relationship with Telstra to provide billing and provisioning capabilities for Telstra’s suite of managed IoT connected solutions across Asia-Pacific. Telstra has developed an ecosystem for its customers in the car industry and supports a transition for them to successfully navigate the growth in autonomous vehicles. CSG will provide both the provisioning and billing capabilities for its connected care solution suite—all led from our centre in Canberra and involving Canberra and Melbourne staff.
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