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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Leading and reshaping an organisation providing best-in-class ecolabel standards and certification services. Current priorities include reshaping the culture, developing a growth focus that prioritises the organisation’s strengths, and designing and delivering on a new strategic plan in partnership with the board..

Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia

• Built a new team to proactively identify emerging challenges and opportunities facing NSW small businesses. The team’s operations include an ongoing schedule of deep interviews and regular surveys culminating in.
• Established the Business Insights Initiative, a regular series of in-depth interviews with small businesses, industry associations and supporting experts to identify trends and test theories
• Oversaw a monthly survey of 2000+ small businesses, and moved the competency in-house
• Orchestrated new processes to better integrate insights from different parts of the Commission
• Co-chair of NSW Treasury’s Gender Equality policy development team.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

• Headhunted to fill the role at short-notice. Managed all briefs needing the Secretary's approval, reviewing for quality and appropriateness and managing associated relationships with internal and external stakeholders..
• Consistently delivered excellent work in a high-pressure and fluid environment
• Flexibly adapted work priorities and style to accommodate regular changes within the office
• Provided exemplary stakeholder management and support.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

• Appointed to oversee the advocacy unit during a period of significant change. The team moved offices, wound down existing projects, reduced staff numbers and changed executive leadership in an environment of low staff.
• Successfully coordinated the advocacy response to the COVID pandemic, reprioritising workstreams and resources in line with the daily changing priorities
• Shifted the team’s work processes to working from home during COVID while growing morale and delivering key outcomes
• Organised for the advocacy team to temporarily suspend BAU to help the mediation team address the surge of urgent small business enquiries that accompanied COVID lockdown
• Represented the Commission on key projects including building new cross-government data analytics capabilities and reviewing the small business customer experience
• Started building the foundational operational systems (such as Salesforce) for long-term, systemic approaches to advocacy that align with state priorities and key Treasury outcomes.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

• Headhunted to step in and lead a team delivering high-profile components of the Commission’s “Easy to do Business” project: Agritourism and Outdoor Dining. Coordinated three streams of work between four government.
• Reviewed the projects using the Deliverology framework to ensure the project met funding guidelines and delivered maximum results in the limited remaining
• Implemented an agile project management system and trained the team on its use.

Sydney, Australia

• Managed the team of 10 responsible for vetting and processing 13,000 annual lodgements and claims, and 100 unique weekly enquiries, relating to the $190 million Retail Security Bond scheme. Handled workload management.
• Reduced standard claim completion time from 10 to 2 working days
• Led the team through a complete change of IT system and related business processes, including transforming all processes to digital workflows
• Identified the opportunity to improve the return on investment of $190 million bonds held in trust to boost average revenue for the unit, then facilitated the change process
• Acted as operational subject matter expert for the design of the “Trust Management” component of the WeAgree platform over two years
• Selected to participate in the NSW Leadership Academy’s “Leading Managers” program (one of approximately 30 participants in 2017).

Sydney, Australia

• Led team of 25 that support small businesses by providing dispute resolution services. The team annually handled approximately 18,000 strategic enquiries, 1000 mediation matters and 13,000 bond transactions. Acting.
• Led a workshop reviewing the Mediation team’s goals and growth opportunities and turned the outcomes into pilot projects assessing new approaches to our work including: o expansion and normalisation of additional.
• Facilitated a managerial team review of unit’s personnel and operating structure and recommended structural changes to promote ongoing innovation and growth
• Established and lead a team to assess and test how the Commission engages with regional customer groups to maximise the effectiveness of outreach activities
• Represented the Commissioner at meetings with ministerial offices and the Department of Industry Cluster Leadership Group.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

• Selected to lead an internal management consulting team reviewing the value and efficacy of two statutory bodies. Directed the team of four experts from different departments to complete rapid reviews including.
• Completed two full reviews in 11 weeks with no pre-existing process framework
• Implemented and refined an agile framework for managing Treasury projects going forward
• Received unsolicited feedback from stakeholders about the high quality of the work and processes.

Asia

• Responsible for all major board communications with the membership of over 120 organisations in 15 countries.
• Balanced the organisational budget and developed new membership fee structure.
• Moved the headquarters from the Philippines to Thailand: transitioned all office processes, negotiated with partners and recruited a new executive director.

Hong Kong

• Managed all personnel, operational and budgetary matters with the executive team.
• Transitioned the organisation from a society to a registered non-profit company, supervising the legal, structural, and operational changes.
• Instigated the establishment of a Fairtrade Marketing Office in Hong Kong to support local industry growth, and saw licensing income increase 200% in first two years.
• Spearheaded revamp of fund-raising operations.

Hong Kong

• Developed Crossroads’ Fair Trade division from inception. Responsible for all strategic planning, customer acquisition and relationships, operational management, procurement, budgeting and administration. Member of the.
• Built the largest fair trade retail operation in Hong Kong, both in size and product diversity, which was voted one of the city’s best 100 places to shop, as a self-sustaining business
• Developed Crossroads’ “Social Premium” grants programme including establishing the funding source; application, assessment and feedback processes; plus training and publicity materials
• Designed Global Handicrafts’ quality control and customer insights processes
• Appointed Crossroads’ designated spokesperson and trainer on fair trade issues
• Principal data modeller for Crossroads’ USD 150 million Global Village project

Hong Kong

• Renovated a former army barracks provided by the Hong Kong government for use as Crossroads’ headquarters. The site comprised 40 buildings on 14 acres; the work included the creation and equipping of warehousing.
• Completed the major renovations in a 4-month timeframe, ensuring repair projects in 63 apartments and over 150 offices and work areas were ready for its move-in date
• Administered, tracked, and reported against the USD 500,000 grant including all budget tracking, variance analysis, funding reallocation requests; completed the project under-budget
• Managed an on-site team of up to 60 people
• Singled out by the staff for the excellent spirit with which the project was conducted.

Hong Kong

Organised events and communication tools to help keep supporting members engaged in the growth of the movement.

Hong Kong

Brought together a disparate group of activists, organisations and businesses and to establish a framework for growth of Fair Trade in Hong Kong.

Colorado Springs, Colorado Area

Taught students to fly, both theoretically and practically while exploring available employment opportunities.

Waco, Texas Area

Represented the Baylor MBA program on a corporate recruiting team assembled to encourage participation in the university’s career services activities through on-site corporate presentations; assisted career services with technical and administrative tasks including scheduling visits, researching opportunities, and maintaining contact databases.

Houston, Texas Area

Selected from more than 500 applicants for a paid internship in Houston, Texas, as part of the MBA programme. Worked with the airports and inflight finance departments. Responsible for projects dealing with labour utilization, cost consolidation and analysis, airport audits and compensation benchmarking: constructed databases, developed models and reports.

Waco, Texas Area

Assisted with the gathering, reduction, validation, and quality-control of air pollution data; coordinated a team of student data reducers and evaluated their work; responded to prospective student inquiries and conducted tours; provided computer development and support; performed various administrative tasks as needed. * Baylor’s principal data reducer.

Mba, Business Administration, 4.0/4.0

Activities and Societies: Beta Gamma Sigma, Golden Key Honor Society Member of winning team at KPMG NPO case competition held in.

Mediation

Week-long mediator training programme

Bsas-Honors With Distinction, Aviation Sciences, 3.86/4.0

Activities and Societies: Mu Kappa “Third-Culture Kid” Member & Vice-President, International Student Week Co-director, Community.