TELSTRA has sacked its chief technology officer following reports he faked some of his resume and plagiarised a presentation.

The Australian reported Telstra had sacked Vish Nandlall after he was found to have falsified some of his career history.

Telstra would not confirm the accusations but issued a statement that Nandlall, who had joined Telstra from Ericsson North America, was no longer with Telstra.

“Visa Nandlall has left Telstra after serving as the company’s Chief Technology Officer for the past 21 months,” the statement said.

“Visa launched the Gurrowa innovation co-creation lab in Melbourne, led Telstra Big Data and Machine Learning research and development, developed an internet of Things incubator to develop medium term consumer solutions and established our joint venture with Pivotal Labs.”

The dismissal of Telstra’s “telecom visionary” is the latest public embarrassment for the carrier which is still in damage control after the latest network meltdown.

Chief operating officer Kate McKenzie yesterday issued another apology for the network’s series of outages, with several thousands of customers still without internet services after a ADSL blackout a week ago.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull inducted Mr Nandlall into the “Knowledge Nation 100” early this year.

His resume lists him as a prior chief technology officer for Ericsson, with his “key accomplishment” delivering a US$3 billion growth strategy for the company.

It also lists him as previously holding the post of chief technology officer for Nortel’s Carrier Networks Group and chief technology officer for Extreme Networks.

His resume, on LinkedIn, lists his recent presentations as “Building an IoT Strategy” at MWC 2016 and “Software Defined Transportation” at the NSW Transport Summit in April.

Mr Nandlall took over the role of chief technology officer at Telstra in August 2014.