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Knoxville, Tennessee, United States

JTV is America’s leading retailer of colored gemstones, moving more than $100 million in gemstone alone each year.My role is to act as the in-house gemstone and mineral expert and to ensure appropriate due diligence and standards of excellence are maintained. I work across departments that include broadcast, purchasing, sales, quality control, laboratory.

London, England Metropolitan Area

Remarkable Rocks is a gemstone consultancy company that grew from a small supplier of Australian sapphire in early 2012, to a registered global business. Sin the early days, I sourced rough material and worked with cutting factories in Sri Lanka and Thailand as well as boutique Australian faceters. Services grew to include supply chain audits, governance.

London, United Kingdom

A role that ran the gamut of operations management within Gem-A. A significant part of my role was to engage with the industry and act as an ambassador for the company at international conferences and trade shows. I maintained external relationships and partnerships pertinent to Gem-A and to Gem-A’s peer-reviewed Journal of Gemmology. I delivered workshops.

London, United Kingdom

Nominated by the Gem-A board as Acting CEO after the suspension of the incumbent CEO. Objectives met included: maintaining student and membership numbers, retaining external relationships, looking after staff interests, managing brand reputation and playing a key role in the planning of the 2015 Gem-A conference, Gem-A's flagship event.

London, United Kingdom

I was head-hunted by the CEO of Gem-A at the time because of my passion for gemstones and my experience with technology. My unique skill set not only helped to support the business with multiple transitions in IT, including CRM and LMS procurement and delivery. But it also allowed me to build a world-class laboratory at Gem-A with the acquisition of Raman.

Hong Kong

The Hong Kong business was an important strategic step for Gem-A. Hong Kong was home to Gem-A's Asia headquarters and hosted more teaching centres than the whole of the UK. China was the manufacturing hub for most equipment sold by Gem Instruments, Gem-A's commercial arm, and the largest supplier of gemmological equipment in Europe. The Hong Kong Division.

Camden, London

Bauer is the largest privately owned consumer magazine publisher in Europe. UK IT dept approx. 100 people over 8 geographically distinct sites. 1500 Mac users on 4 sites. I held two roles during my time at Bauer: Editorial Support Manager and Publications Support Engineer. I managed service and support for the Mac estates. Provided technical, editorial and.

Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, Australia

This seemed like a good idea at the time and although it was hard work, I enjoyed my time as a diamond driller. I learned a lot about early exploration and assessment of sites as well as my part in generating the data needed for mine planning and accurate resource reporting. FIFO and Kalgoorlie-based roles. R/C, RAB, Air Core, but primarily diamond.

Bsc (Hons), Gemmology And Jewellery, First

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