Arco Architectural Systems supplies Australia wide and Internationally. We design, manufacture and install an extensive and innovative range of commercial and industrial doors including Steel Roller Shutters, Shop Front Doors and Counterweight Doors to name some of our range. Collectively, our management team has more than 80 years experience in the industry which we apply to everything that we do. Visit our website at www.arcoqld.com.au

I was the first conservative member elected for the Seat of Bulimba in over 80 years at the 2012 State election. After serving the community for three years, I recorded the lowest swings against a sitting member in the Greater Brisbane region at the 2015 election.I thoroughly enjoyed working in the community and providing leadership and strategic direction by engaging in Government relations to ensure that community desired outcomes were achieved. This role proved that I have the adaptability and flexibility within complex environments across the public and private sectors.The role offered me a chance to further enhance my strong networks through stakeholder engagement, community consultation and facilitating partnerships between business and the community.Some of my key achievements included delivering long term sustainable solutions through working collaboratively and strategically with the community, Government departments and local Council on key projects. Developing and implementing a leadership forum to coach and mentor the business leaders of tomorrow and creating a targeted marketing initiative that drove significant corporate sponsorship that supported a local educational institution to upgrade its facilities.I was also a member of a Parliamentary committee that was able to further influence Government policy that ensured business had a more robust Workcover system, Director's liabilities were re-aligned and red tape for business was on target to have a 20% reduction.

I was a Senior Leader within Breezway and a valued member of the Executive Management Team, where I reported directly to the Group CEO.Breezway is a high valued louvre window manufacturing company, servicing the domestic and commercial building sectors. Manufacturing plants are located in Brisbane, Hawaii and Malaysia and with a distribution network across Australia, New Zealand, USA, Asia and the Pacific.I was responsible for the development and implementation of the strategic business plans for a number of our international business units, including USA, Asia & the Pacific that were focussed on growth and expansion of new and existing markets. One of the key strategies was to identify business growth opportunities through new market entry, and/or new product development. I provided strong leadership in a multisite manufacturing environment and lead the sales team that delivered sales growth, product innovation and reduced input costs, which saw both revenue increases between 20%-30% in Asia, the Pacific and the USA and improved EBITDA on a consistent basis for the business units.This was achieved through the creation of deep networks through building stakeholder relationships and partnerships and project management and governance on key business strategies including the establishment of a new manufacturing plant in Hawaii, new distribution channels in Asia and new product innovation for USA and Asia.

This Business Development Manager role laid the foundations for my key strength to be flexible and adaptable between industries and sectors in complex environments. Harada was an international financial services company, with over 120 branches located in New York, Prague, Amsterdam, Madrid, London, Budapest and Brussels. Its main activities were foreign currency exchange, software development and international money transfers, which was the business unit I was involved in establishing and implementing into new market segments.I was posted to the Czech Republic, where I successfully developed and implemented the strategic business plan that rolled out the international money transfer product across 39 existing branches.This was achieved through hands-on leadership of multi branch sites, establishment of deep networks and relationships with stakeholders, which lead to organisational success in sales revenue and market penetration.

Having worked my way from a Sales Executive to the General Manager Qld, this role laid the foundations for my strong sales focus, hands-on approach and the ability and skills to successfully develop and implement strategic business plans to drive growth and expansion into new and existing markets.Oceania Forest Products was an SME located throughout eastern Australia and the Philippines. The business activity was importing, wholesaling and exporting timber-based products to the wholesaling building products industry.Although there were many challenges in the building industry and an uncertain economic climate, I was able to continually grow the revenue of the business year on year by an average of 10-15%. This was achieved by developing strong value propositions, being customer solutions focussed and driving business effectiveness.