Roger Symonds

Product Engineer

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia20 yrs 8 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in AI and agentic workflows on GitHub.
  • Proven track record in training and customer success.
  • Strong background in Agile methodologies and project management.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with a focus on training and solutions engineering.

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ADDIEISDInstructor-led TrainingOnline TrainingTraining DeliveryAtlassianBoxBox.netGoodDataZendeskJIRAConfluenceAgile MethodologiesScrumKanban

About

Helping teams bring AI and agentic workflows to life on the GitHub platform.

Experience

20 yrs 8 mos
Total Experience
5 yrs 7 mos
Average Tenure
3 yrs 9 mos
Current Experience

Github

2 roles

Senior Solutions Engineer

Promoted

Mar 2024Present · 2 yrs 1 mo · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Solutions Engineer

Jun 2022Feb 2024 · 1 yr 8 mos · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Docusign

Senior Product Consultant

Nov 2020Jun 2022 · 1 yr 7 mos · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Servicerocket

5 roles

Training Practice Lead and Senior Product Consultant (Atlassian Software)

Promoted

Nov 2019Nov 2020 · 1 yr

Learndot Product Manager and Customer Education Manager

Jan 2018Nov 2019 · 1 yr 10 mos

Learndot Professional Services Manager

Jan 2015Jan 2018 · 3 yrs

  • Scope, manage and deliver concurrent projects
  • Structure, formalise and optimise ways that repeatable projects are delivered
  • Create a "Feature Acceleration" program for Learndot (that works for both customers and engineering)
  • Build and grow a professional services team
  • Deliver solutions that make customer lives 10x easier

Learndot Product Manager and Customer Success Manager

Aug 2013Aug 2016 · 3 yrs

  • Deployments and Onboarding
  • Build training program, courseware, sample data
  • Drive product adoption and consumption
  • Manage multiple concurrent onboardings
  • Plan, build and deliver ways to scale customer onboarding 10x

Training Manager

May 2013Dec 2013 · 7 mos

  • Grow customer base from Atlassian to include Zendesk, GoodData, Box and PistonCloud
  • Design and build training program and courseware for Box and PistonCloud
  • Design training program for GoodData
  • Design internal eLearning strategy
  • Convert eLearning to be SCORM compliant for MuleSoft using Captivate and Vimeo
  • Grow team from 3 to 7, moving from a "super-star" team model to "specialised" team model
  • Migrate to newly purchased LMS (TrainingRocket), provide features required for roadmap, heavily involved with development team to provide direction and implementing the solutions
  • Deliver training for Atlassian, Box and PistonCloud
  • Build and deliver custom Atlassian training to meet specifc customer requirements
  • Deliver 7 habits of highly effective people training in Sydney and Malaysia

Customware asia pacific

4 roles

Training Manager

Aug 2010Apr 2013 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Sydney, Australia

  • Grow customer base from Atlassian to include Zendesk, GoodData, Box and PistonCloud
  • Design and build training program and courseware for Box and PistonCloud
  • Design training program for GoodData
  • Design internal eLearning strategy
  • Convert eLearning to be SCORM compliant for MuleSoft using Captivate and Vimeo
  • Grow team from 3 to 7, moving from a "super-star" team model to "specialised" team model
  • Migrate to newly purchased LMS (TrainingRocket), provide features required for roadmap, heavily involved with development team to provide direction and implementing the solutions
  • Deliver training for Atlassian, Box and PistonCloud
  • Build and deliver custom Atlassian training to meet specifc customer requirements
  • Deliver 7 habits of highly effective people training in Sydney and Malaysia

Trainer

Promoted

Nov 2008Jul 2010 · 1 yr 8 mos · Sydney, Australia

  • Deliver Atlassian (Collaboration, Project Management and Agile tools) training courses online (500+ webinars) and face-to-face (to 1-50 people)
  • Deliver training to small, medium, large, fortune 500 companies
  • Build and maintain courseware
  • Upskill other trainers and consultants
  • Deliver 7 habits of highly effective people training in Sydney

Atlassian Solutions Consultant & Project Manager

Jan 2008Dec 2009 · 1 yr 11 mos · Sydney, Australia

  • Design, install and configure collaboration solutions for customers.
  • Rolled out international support system for large snackfood company (5,000+ users)
  • Designed, deployed and supported collaboration solutions for government departments (1,000+ users), SME's (5+ users), global consulting firms (20,000+ users), entertainment companies (5,000+ users)
  • Designed and implemented global wiki for software company, merge 16 wiki's into 1, (14,000+ users)
  • Project Management
  • Managing concurrent small customer engagements of software development, ranging from 1 week to 1 month duration and between 3 to 7 concurrent projects
  • Managing ongoing support contracts for deployed solution

IT System Administrator

Jun 2005Dec 2008 · 3 yrs 6 mos · Sydney, Australia

  • Managing internal systems
  • Handling any IT requests from employees
  • Managed internal applications including Confluence, JIRA, CVS, SVN, Kerio, VMWare, Asterisk, VPN, Linux, Windows
  • Rolling out IT Initiatives from C-level staff
  • Migrated company from CVS to SVN
  • Migrated company email from Kerio to Outlook
  • Rolled out Asterisk PABX across Sydney and Kuala Lumpar
  • Designed, implemented and integrated Kuala Lumpar offce systems (phone, email, networking, vpn)
  • Designed and rolled out VMWare Server solution

Education

University of South Australia

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) — Computer Systems Analysis

Jan 2000Jan 2004

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