Amanda Woods Email & Phone Number

Sunbury, Vic, Au

Australia

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Owner of the BookMuffin book review platform allowing authors to receive verified reviews on Amazon, and unverified reviews on GoodReads and Draft2Digital platforms such as Apple orKobo.

Sunbury, Victoria, Australia

Created compelling listing copy for agents, freeing them up to help more people, and sell more property! Worked remotely from client templates and proof sheets according to brand guidelines and strict word counts.

Sunbury, Victoria, Australia

Melbourne, Australia

Currently working remotely a few days per month as a casual freelancer for the Hire for Baby group. Over the past 6 years, I have rebranded Hire for Baby, grown business units, sales and market share across Australia, through driving high standards and improving the offering to customers and implementing programs, thereby adding value to the franchisee sales and profitability of the group. Establishing baseline KPI metrics and delivering results to Key Identified Metrics.Drove and implemented national marketing programs to deliver measurable improvements in the following areas:Web traffic with direct outcomesCampaigns to drive salesInbound phone traffic & salesMetro and Regional Focus for local marketing plans I have created a number of new campaigns, with our Brand Designer, Mae. Some examples are: https://www.hireforbaby.com/restraint-fitting-services/ and https://www.hireforbaby.com/your-newborn-essentials/ . I have also produced several marketing campaigns, with newly optimised landing pages, targeting specific demographics, selling the benefits of HFB services. I have implemented the Vision6 email marketing platform and produced many email marketing campaigns and most recently an online magazine for 35,000 past HFB customers. I implemented Trustpilot in November 2017 for Hire for Baby (HFB), to increase the visibility of customer satisfaction across their 70 franchises. This software was cost neutral in several months after Trustpilot enabled HFB to increase their Google Seller rating, reducing their Google Adwords costs. With more than 2200 verified customer reviews, they have achieved the No 1 position for customer satisfaction in the baby category. Sales have increased due to my efforts in lifting HFB’s status as a trusted services provider. Implementing a new performance platform, I have made an additional $30K in national sales for the group and increased business for franchises in metro and regional areas!

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Working as a freelance copywriter for Studio Caviar, a bespoke full-service creative agency, writing articles for Lowe Living and a marketing submission within a tight deadline for Burbank Urban.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Working in the Marketing and Design team for Porter Davis homes, I wrote business and technical copy for two corporate websites, social media, construction staff profiles, housing estate brochures and email marketing. I also performed online research, proofreading and copyediting in the team, according to brand guidelines.

Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia

Worked with Talbot Plumbing Services (TPS) promote their residential and commercial plumbing services across Darwin. Produced their Capability Statement, produced two Wordpress websites, GMB and business citations.Talbot Plumbing Services (TPS) & Bathrooms Darwin deliver a beautiful residential or commercial bathroom renovation that will be an asset to you. They provide a quality and reliable Plumbing and Gas service throughout Darwin, Palmerston & Rural areas, with more than 10 years experience in the Plumbing industry, TPS can offer you the right advice right through to the finished product in any of your Plumbing and Gas needs. They work with registered builders and project manage larger jobs with ease.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Prepared grant submissions for AusIndustry R&D Tax Incentives and helped engineering, precision agriculture and manufacturing companies in the pre-submission phase to understand whether they had undertaken research and development work and helped them state the hypothesis they were testing. This part-time role ended prematurely due to a death in the family, which disrupted their business, followed shortly afterwards by the start of the pandemic.

Sunbury, Melbourne

Responsible for communicating the benefits for Precision Agriculture ( Smart farming / Site specific technologies) to a broad range of audiences across Australia to increase understanding and encourage adoption of these practises and technologies. Worked to create amazing content and shared stories online through social media and through educational course content and printed magazines in the areas of horticulture, viticulture, sugar and agriculture. This role was based on performance (tied to PIs and ROIs). Formed partnerships with liked minded agencies, companies and educational facilities to raise the profile of the organisation & industry.

Sunbury

Self-sufficiency course design and development, producing support materials & advertising using brochures and social media. Designing easy experiments for citizen scientists with bacteria, yeast and fungi cultures and posting on Emu Creek Farm Sunbury Facebook page. Held several workshops on self-sufficiency involving bacterial, yeast and fungi cultures. These include making pickles, preserves and probiotics, yoghurt, growing mushrooms and cheese making. Sourdough course in development.

Assisted to set up a policy project in the planning phase to form the new Victorian Com-mission for Gambling and Liquor Regulation (VCGLR) involving the functions of the Direc-tor of Liquor Licensing, Responsible Alcohol Victoria (RAV) and the Victorian Commissionfor Gambling Regulation (VCGR). Researched similar projects in other jurisdictions,sought approval from the new government, prepared bid for funding, wrote briefs andmemos for the Secretary and Program Board, coordinated working groups to progressthe various workstreams. Assisted on schematic and detailed design for a new buildingfitout, leading up to construction.

A three month assignment to handover the function of Trade Measurement to the Commonwealth with project and operational responsibilities. This is one of the first National Reforms projects to go across on 1st July 2010.

Project Manager for Consumer Affairs Victoria for National Reforms Implementation (NRI) of 7 in-flight projects involving harmonisation of various state and territory laws, and in several cases, transferral of power to the Commonwealth. These changes are anticipated to reduce business costs, improve consumer protection and contribute to a seamless national economy.Assist to set up the NRI Project Office, scoping out the 7 projects, providing project management support, documenting project plans and status to enable a handover to in-coming Project Office Manager. 8 week assignment for project office.

Worked at Department of Justice MPPO in Melbourne CBD to develop a central Lessons Learned register in EDRMS TRIM on a two month contract. I created an register of lessons learned in MS Excel, from previous and current projects, collated and rewrote 1000 lessons and categorised in five different ways for reporting. Revised the process for capturing lessons learned to assist PMs going forward.

Worked on a UK-wide project to increase security levels for physical and logical access in police forces. This will ensure information is being accessed by the right people at the right time and potentially allow remote access to police systems. Through implementation of new smartcards, public key infrastructure, single sign ons and digital signing of documents, we will see stronger identification of individuals, accessing police systems with improved risk management and a clearly defined audit trail.My role provided support to the Business Change Manager and project team to map & model 'as is' and 'to be' business processes, define & communicate benefits and work with the project stakeholders in the various project groups.

Teaching Business Change and Benefits Realisation Management.*Defining objectives and identifying benefits (drawing benefits grids / identifying appropriate measures);*Using process analysis to identify ‘quick win’ benefits to the business;*Helping stakeholders communicate a future state;* Suggesting Business Change activities to help embed in the change.

Worked on the Management Information Systems (MIS) project, part of the Wiring Up Youth Justice programme to improve how information is used and shared across the Youth Justice system. This is a £17m per annum programme and ultimately will allow the sharing of information to be seamless, not only within the Youth Justice system but across the whole Criminal Justice and Children’s Services community. This will ensure that practitioners in the Youth Justice system have both the tools and the information they need to improve the lives of children and young people.My role provided support to the MIS project manager and business change teams to facilitate the introduction of the new youth justice management information system (YJMIS), communicating benefits and working with the project stakeholders and software suppliers to define the set of requirements for the XML schema in the lead up to the pilot.

Provided programme management support to the teams working in the National Government sector on the CJIT Programme (total value £25 million over 4 years), mentored project managers to ensure required procedures were utilised and a consistent management approach was maintained and, had day to day responsibility for the control of the London Westminster office.

Supported 12 Project Managers across 42 projects (total value of SaTT Programme is £110 million).Assisting the SaTT PMO Head to develop and implement project control standards and processes to meet wider programme and business unit initiatives, including status reporting. Collating materials for regular programme reviews with senior stakeholders and the customer and assisting with management of two PMO resources. Responsibilities: • Monthly Information Pack & Executive Summary for the Steering Group (inc Financials) • Developing new processes and templates, using Prince2 methodology • Issues/Risks/Dependencies/Resources/Change Requests at a Programme level• Managing two Programme Administrators in the team

April 2004-May 2005Project Co-ordinator and then Junior Project ManagerWorked on projects for Affinity Health and Mayne and solely responsible for the full scale of the project to strict PMP methodologies. I managed several projects concurrently while maintaining the quality of the deliverables. I worked on a number of projects for example:1. Linacre Hospital Server Migration, Affinity Health2. Clinical Information System project, Affinity Health3. HP-Openview Monitoring project, Mayne Health4. GIS Customer Audit Program 5. Ericsson PC refreshJuly 2002 – April 2004 Service Desk/Desktop Support Analyst- Pacific Brands / Repco / Olex CablesJanuary 1999 – July 2002 UNIX System Administrator & Operations EngineerHP-UX System Administrator for many blue chip companies, performed hardware fault finding and issue resolution at third level. Worked using high volume call management systems in a critical 24 x 7 environment.

Honours, Medical Biology

Pioneering gene knockout project on IL-10 sponsored by the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute for Medical Research (WEHI). Supervised by Dr.

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