Inside this issue:
  Redwood New Zealand
  IBM Supplier Relationship
  Meet the Team
  Redwood places staff

Redwood Systems Limited registers as a New Zealand company

During the last 18 months, the management team at Redwood has been considering the establishment of a New Zealand office.

This vision has recently moved closer to reality with the creation of an incorporated limited company in New Zealand, and the availability of the necessary resources to support the initiative.

RSL has built a successful business model in the UK, providing high quality technical resources to various industry customers. It is envisaged that a similar model can be used in New Zealand.

With offices placed in Wellington and Christchurch, RSL believes that it is well placed to compete; providing technical, business analysis, consulting and project management skills in the IT and telecommunications areas.

Client requirements will be fulfilled by utilization of local NZ resources wherever possible, but enhanced by RSL employees and contractors spread around the globe as specific skills are required.

The New Zealand telecommunications market contains a number of key telecommunications companies. The major ones are  Telecom  New Zealand, followed by  Vodafone  and  Telstra .

The NZ market is very competitive with all telecommunications companies engaged in major projects.

Wireline and Broadband services are undergoing many changes, and the systems supporting these services are being upgraded around IP technologies.

Redwood New Zealand signs a supplier relationship contract with IBM New Zealand

Redwood Systems has recently expanded its UK relationship with IBM to include IBM New Zealand.

This means Redwood Systems can operate as a preferred supplier to both IBM UK and IBM NZ.

This gives Redwood a useful advantage over other companies as we expand our business.

Redwood will endeavor to leverage this to the maximum advantage to cement our position within New Zealand.

Meet the Team

We are a small team, but that doesn't mean we don't have experience!

Roger Lam and Brad Pearson have been contracting to Redwood for the last twenty months. Prior to that both have worked on ICMS and other telecommunications projects.

Chris decided recently to take the plunge and join the team down under, as our Business Development manager.

The most recent endeavors the New Zealand team have been involved with are ntl:, based at Hook and the Namibian ICMS upgrade project. Roger has just returned for his third visit to Namibia!

Brad has worked on ICMS in the UK (Nynex CWC), the US and Saudi most recently.

Chris has a UK background working with major corporations such as Seagram, Cable and Wireless and Scottish & Southern Energy, including US based work.

Redwood places its first New Zealand personnel

With the recent signing of the supplier agreement with IBM, we have been able to place our first person with IBM, under IBM contract to  Vodafone NZ .

A number of other possibilities exist for placements which we will work through in the coming weeks. Chris Wickham says: "This is a positive start for us and one which we intend to expand upon - I am confident we will realise our business plans for 2004/05".

Auckland (the largest NZ city) currently offers the most potential, with both  Vodafone  and  Telstra  managing large development projects from that city.

Wellington (the capital) also shows promising signs, with  Telecom  New Zealand's headquarters based there.

Overall, the potential is there to be actively involved in both development and placement activities.