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Tamara Dinneen

Senior AI and operations leader


Two strong hires in one: twenty years of commercial and operational leadership in enterprise technology, and hands-on AI that ships to production.

  • Singapore PR
  • Australian citizen

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A rare pairing: twenty years of commercial and operational leadership, and hands-on AI that ships to production.

$100M+
Pipeline influenced by AI attribution
20 yrs
Enterprise B2B, alliances and operations
4.0
Master's GPA, doctorate in progress
AI architectureCommercial and alliancesGrowth marketingOperations and transformation

Experience


Director, Partner Marketing

2023 to present

Oracle, Singapore

aicommercialmarketingoperations

Built and deployed a production agentic retrieval platform on OCI, plus conversational AI and algorithmic attribution connecting partner activity to over $100M in influenced pipeline. Lead global partner marketing for six strategic partners: go-to-market, investment and performance.

Global Partner Marketing Operations Director

2021 to 2023

Oracle, Singapore

operationscommercial

Designed and led the global rollout of partner funding infrastructure and operations, with a heavy focus on system compliance and standards. Owned executive reporting for partner marketing.

Strategy, Planning & Performance Director

2019 to 2021

Oracle, Singapore

operationsmarketingcommercial

Regional lead for JAPAC marketing planning, KPIs and budgets across a team of over 100. Ran strategy, planning and quarterly business reviews across JAPAC and EMEA, and led the regional digital lead optimisation project. Hand-picked by the CMO for executive communications and business insights.

Sales and Marketing Performance & Optimisation Lead

2017 to 2019

SAP, Singapore

aimarketingoperations

Designed and delivered a propensity-to-buy marketing automation system, on time and 20% under budget. Built a partner reporting portal mapping spend to revenue, and a programme to close funnel leakage from awareness to cash, outperforming pipeline and revenue targets.

State Sales Manager

2016 to 2017

QED, Melbourne

commercial

Ran statewide sales for an artisan wine distributor: key accounts, events, retail training and analytics. Grew sales 25%.

Commercial Manager, Channel Ecosystems

2014 to 2016

Telstra, Melbourne

commercialoperations

Owned commercial remuneration structures for the national partner ecosystem. Delivered a $10M profitability improvement restructuring the fixed consumer portfolio and improved the complex data portfolio cost-to-revenue ratio by 30%. Designed the first advocacy incentive programme for business and enterprise partners.

Digital Adoption Lead

2012 to 2014

Telstra, Melbourne

aimarketingoperations

Conceived and built a production machine-learning model for customer call routing across 3.1M users, saving over $20M a year while reducing churn and lifting net promoter score by a full point. Ran digital adoption campaigns to move customers to online self-service.

Senior Digital Marketing Specialist

2010 to 2012

SAP, Walldorf

marketing

EMEA paid-search optimisation across 28 countries: 565% return on investment and strong enquiry growth against a reduced budget, a study in rigorous commercial optimisation under constraint.

Channel Marketing Manager

2007 to 2010

SAP (external consultant)

marketingoperations

Implemented an online campaign-execution tool across 23 countries and 15 languages, and built training programmes for agencies, internal stakeholders and partners, lifting partner activity by several hundred campaigns a year.

State Manager

2003 to 2005

Divine Image Group, Perth

operationscommercial

General manager for an end-to-end statewide business with 150 casual staff, client management and operations.

Education


Masters in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence

University of Arizona, 2024 to 2025. Graduated December 2025, GPA 4.00.

Doctorate in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (DBA)

Walsh University, 2025 to 2028. In progress.

Bachelor of Economics

University of Western Australia, 2002 to 2005. Money and banking, corporate finance, investment finance.

Technical skills


Languages

English (native), German (C2), Mandarin (HSK 2 to 3).

Programming

Python, R, Java, SQL, VBA, HTML.

AI and ML frameworks

PyTorch, TensorFlow, Keras, scikit-learn, Transformers; NLP, computer vision, LLMs, retrieval, LangChain, MCP, Pydantic, LoRA and QLoRA; vector stores (FAISS), OCI, DigitalOcean, Colab; REST APIs, Flask; Git.

Bioinformatics

ProteinMPNN, ESM-2, AlphaFold data, APBS.

Other achievements and interests


  • Designed a novel architecture and built a protein sequence prediction model, improving accuracy on highly charged interfaces.
  • Led churn prediction and next-best-offer models for 3.1M customers at a North Asian telco.
  • Built real-time audio and video tooling for social platforms, moderating brand content against trending keywords.
  • Competed in three figure-skating world championships and won numerous national titles.
  • Founded Wine Webinars, hosting virtual events for 500 participants from 30 countries.
  • Co-authored two medical papers.
  • Surf lifesaving (Bronze Medallion, St Kilda Surf Lifesaving).
  • Volunteer with Kampung Khakis, tutoring children in reading.