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Perth

Provide expert advice on management solutions especially in community driven and supported health transformation and fisheries management.Author major report on Recreational Fishing 2031.Examine transformational and innovative solutions to cultural or structural impediments to change.Prepare inter-generational training, mentoring and development programs.Address natural resource management challenges.Examine new methodologies concerning social and economic benefits of recreational activities.Fishing writing and new angling technique development - especially finesse fishing hardbody lures for trout.

Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Bentley Campus

Undertaking teaching and research activities. Working on optimising resource allocations based upon community returns from fish resources, improving total mortality estimates, community stewardship and citizen science projects, socio-economic and activity decision modelling, and improved engagement of the community in research planning and extension.

Perth, Australia

Made significant advances in addressing the many challenges and many opportunities for health professionals, carers, patients and the health system to work more on making people 'better' rather than just fixing up a part of the human 'machine' that needs 'repair'.The Health Consumers' Council has three main program areas, 1. Working on health policy development at national, state and local levels; 2. Improving health advice through consumer representatives and in facilitation with other health related NGO's; and 3. Providing an advocacy service for individual health consumers who have had difficulties in some part of their experience. We have a successful Aboriginal advocacy service.The Health Consumers' Council has been completely re-branded and positioned to make a greater difference in strategic policy matters. There will be a need for strength, courage and cohesiveness to address the resistance to change which exists in some areas. There is also a need to ensure that consumers recognise they have a part to play in their own health care,and to work with the system as best they can. I was able to identify service gaps and seek improvements. Strategic areas include mental health care, oral health reforms, training more GP's, improving informed consent, incorporating consumer experiences and journeys in innovation planning, and access for health care in regional Western Australia. We had a vital role to play in improving communication between primary and tertiary health care, public and private systems and improving systems.

Lead an organisation representing 623,000 Western Australians.Liaise with politicians, diverse stakeholders, government, media and funders to develop policy, advocacy and representation to ensure needs of recreational fishers are best able to be met.Public officer of organisation whose funding expanded by 10 times under my stewardship.Twice Chairman of Recfish Australia, National peak body.Board member of Fisheries Research and Development Corporation.Member National Oceans Advisory Group.Inaugural winner Mal Ramsay Award for Lifetime Achievement to benefit recreational fishing.Winner Australian Sports Medal.Develop award winning fishing clinics program and Young Future Leaders program at state and national level.Co-host Hook, Line and Sinker Radio Show on ABC 720 Radio for three years. Back-up Host Boat, Dive and Fishing Show on 885 6PR Radio for 5 years.Publish multiple books, papers and articles on fishing, natural resource management and Sports Management.Oversee funding projects from Healthway, Lotteries Commission, FRDC, WA government, Commonwealth government, Woodside and others.

Canberra

Was responsible for the assessment and development of research and industry development applications to benefit the commercial fishing, aquaculture, recreational fishing and marketing of Australia's seafood.Visited with fishers and industry representatives from Darwin to Hobart and Narrandera to Wellington NZ to ensure that research was outcome focused and cost beneficial. My particular strength was in people development and strategic succession planning to ensure that sustainable fishing practices were able to evolve to meet community expectations.

Subiaco

On management placement program run by WA Government - six month secondment.Task was to determine the risks and benefits of the NBL moving from a winter to a summer competition. Determined the sustainable competitive advantage for basketball and the Wildcats, competitors, opinions of members and non-members and initiated a number of corporate and game night changes to meet needs and expectations of members and casual fans.Ultimately resulted in being appointed to the Board of Wildcats 2000 and implementing further changes that re-invigorated basketball in Western Australia and resulted in a National Championship while I was a Board member.

Oversee management of commercial fisheries in Western Australia.Management responsibility for the western rock lobster fishery, regarded at the time as the best managed fishery in the world.Formalise Developing New Fisheries Policy.Support and manage staff, budgets and inter-departmental management issues.Ensure consideration of wider and downstream implications of management decisions.

Perth

Duties:- Responsible for the management of recreational fisheries in Western Australia.- Liaise with the Minister, recreational and commercial fishing groups.- Prepare and administer direct Trust fund budget of $1.3 million.- Prepare publications, appropriate press releases, liaise with media on policy issues.- WA representative on second National Recreational Fishing Policy committee. Co-editor of final National Recreational Fishing Policy Document.- Act as Director, Fisheries Management Policy; Ministerial Liaison Officer in Minister’s Office; - Establish 11 Regional Recreational Fishing Liaison Committees in Western Australia.- Prepare policy papers for Recreational Fishing Advisory Committee (RFAC), Department and Minister for Fisheries. Initiate outcomes, including write legislation.- Chairman of Charter Boat Management Workshop at First National Fisheries Managers Conference - Terrigal NSW September 1993.- Western Australian coordinator for national and state Fishcare initiative 1995/96.- Chairman of "Best Available Information - Its Implication for Recreational Fisheries Management" Pre-workshop at Second National Fisheries Managers Workshop.- Prepare curriculum for Australian Maritime College (AMC) course on recreational fisheries management. Lecture to students at AMC.- Organising Committee for third National Fisheries Managers Conference - Rottnest Island. Co-ordinate workshop on recreational fisheries "Same fish - Different rules."- Founding coordinator of the National Recreational Fisheries Management Network 1994-96.Conduct policy reviews on management of - * Recreational netting, recreational rock lobster, Australian Salmon and Herring Resource Allocation Committee, bag and size limits, metropolitan recreational abalone, trout stocking and translocation, recreational marron management.

Sydney, Orange

Australia’s first dedicated recreational fisheries manager.- Improve two way flow of information between the Fisheries Department and the 1.75 million recreational anglers in NSW, industry worth approximately $1 billion dollars.- Prepare Ministerial correspondence, press releases, Ministerial briefing notes, Ministerial question time responses. Conduct media interviews to promote accomplishments of Department.- Representative on recreational fishing committees including Recreational Fishing Advisory Council (RFAC), Institute of Freshwater Anglers (IFA), Acclimatisation Societies, Pro-Am committees, commercial fishing groups.- Departmental coordinator for adult and children's fishing clinics committee.- Write and edit Department publication "Between the Lines", Fishnotes and Fishfacts.- Prepare native fish and salmonid stocking priorities for NSW.- NSW representative on National Recreational Fishing Policy committee. - Interviewed on 'Today' national current affairs TV program and National News. Prepare and implement policy reviews on all recreational fisheries: Two major reviews of bag limits for recreational anglers on marine finfish species and further protection for endangered species; Trout closures and angling laws; Native fish angling regulations; Trout and native fish hatchery production policies; Invertebrate harvesting in intertidal zones. Bag limits, harvesting method controls, Intertidal Protected Zones for Sydney region implemented.

Muswellbrook, Singleton Nsw

Ranger duties involving the running, management and compliance in National Parks, Nature Reserves and the State Recreation areas for Upper Hunter District (approximately 600,000 ha NPWS Reserves).- Co-ordinate plan of management for Burning Mountain Nature Reserve.- Liaison with park neighbours and groups to raise opinion of NPWS in local area.- Rehabilitation of logging and quarry areas. Advise on aquatic habitat maintenance.

Master Of Business Administration - Advanced (Mba), Strategic Management; Human Resource Management

Activities and Societies: Winner - Award for best result in Strategic Management - capstone unit. Certificate of equivalence to Advanced.

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Ecology

Activities and Societies: External, mature age student. Marine biology, ecology, fish, geomorphology.

Ecology

Activities and Societies: Wesley College