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Newcastle, Australia

Project Management / Business solutions delivery / Data Analysis / Process Change• Providing project life cycle management, process consulting, data analysis and software development to deliver business critical solutions to senior managers for some of Australia’s leading companies including: Sanitarium Health and Wellbeing, Mars Food, The Australian Reinforcing company, Liberty Reinforcing, Commonwealth Serum Laboratories, Schiavello• Benefits delivered to my customers include decreased inventory levels, increased customer service levels, reduced write-offs, better decision making, early notification of impending issues, more efficient operation of key assets, longer planning horizons with more detailed visibility• Managing a software development team that usually delivers the first working version of a new solution in just a couple of weeks and fully develops new systems in a month• Projects are delivered quickly by keeping initial solutions simple and adding additional features in later project phases only if they are truly necessary• Automating data manipulation tasks thereby freeing up managers time and giving them reliable up to date information whenever they need it• Working closely with IT to ensure solutions integrate seamlessly with and enhance rather than overlap ERP, MES, WMS functionality. Integrations include SAP, MS Dynamics, Cincom, SYSPRO, JDA, FactoryTalk, OSI PI, Arma+, In-house developed systems

Newcastle, Australia

Project Management / Software solutions delivery• Delivered software solutions in Finite scheduling, Inventory and logistics planning, and Labour planning using commercial off the shelf software (Preactor) with custom enhancements. Solutions were provided to some of Australia leading companies including: Veolia, One Steel, Sanitarium Health and Wellbeing, Karara Mining, Wespine, Health World, Regency Media, Gladstone Ports Corporation, Teck Coal (Canada)• Typical benefits included longer more detailed planning horizons, significant time savings from automation of data gathering and transformation, reduced reliance on key individuals by incorporating operating rules into solutions, consistency and accuracy of outcomesBusiness Development• Established close working partnerships with local offices of global ERP and MES software vendor partners including: SYSPRO, Cincom, QAD, Exact, Sage, Invensys• Established close working partnerships with other resellers of the Preactor software from around the world in locations including: Australia, New Zealand, England, America, South Africa, Brazil, Italy, India

Asia Pacific Region

Strategic Thinking / Process Transformation / Continuous Improvement• Redefined Global Best Practice Demand Planning processes for Mars Asia Pacific• Transformed Demand planning roles from non-value adding data transformation to value adding analysis and continuous improvement focusProject and Change Management• Implemented Mars best practice Demand Planning processes across 6 business units in China, Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand. Business units were involved in the production of Pet food, Confectionery, and Human main meal food products • All Implementations went live with no disruption to normal business operations and immediate benefit realisation with the potential for further benefit delivery in the future• Improved Demand Forecast accuracy and employee efficiency in all implemented markets

Hackettstown Usa

Project and Change Management / Strategic Thinking / Process Transformation• Led a multi-cultural team of representatives from Mars business’ worldwide and developed a Global Best Practice solution (processes and systems) for Factory Scheduling• Implemented the scheduling solution at the Global Lead manufacturing site in Elizabethtown Pennsylvania. (Now implemented into more than 30 manufacturing sites worldwide) • Member of very successful business integration team responsible for linking processes and systems up and down the supply chain. This team was showcased as the model for cross program functional groups within the Global transformation initiative for the Mars CorporationCommunication and Technical Translation / Creative Solutions Design• Worked collaboratively with Software Vendor to enhance their solution by designing and incorporating FMCG functionality into their commercially available factory scheduling product

Wyong Australia

Creative Solutions Design / Project and Change Management / Continuous Improvement• Initiated and managed projects that delivered 10 – 20% annual improvements in the areas of Manufacturing product quality, Quality control systems, Material losses in production, Factory throughput rates• Responsible for investigation into and permanent resolution of issues arising in manufacturing quality, raw material quality, material losses and plant efficiency.Communication and Technical Translation• Responsible for the design and development of management decision support systems• Managed a team responsible for the operational delivery of manufacturing quality control, plant scheduling, material conversion efficiency, inventory control, raw material conformance, environmental compliance• Integral part of the development of the annual financial plan for the manufacturing division

Australia, Japan

Worked in 7 Roles across 4 Business units, 5 Locations and 2 Countries