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Auckland, NZ

Auckland, New Zealand

Auckland, New Zealand

For a person who gets excited about making processes more efficient I've landed in the best job ever. There have been so many opportunities to either automate processes or stop activities that were not adding value. On occasions I've had three process-improvement projects on the go at once.It's a pretty simple role with the same cycle occurring every.

Palmerston North

• On being promoted I had to consolidate two very diverse teams. My approach was to focus on the purpose and vision of our new team, which was providing the support functions for the operation. By regularly talking about.
• Lead a team of seven with responsibility for: forecasting, monitoring production performance, quality assurance, purchasing, billing, IT, building/equipment maintenance, and retail sales.
• Created a CRM/sales program and implemented stricter order-management procedures to reduce average delivery time from 17 days down to 6 days.
• Consistently managed $4M OPEX to be 3% under budget.
• Utilised Lean Six Sigma methodologies to develop testing programme using RFID and GPS technologies and analysed data to identify root-cause of mail service performance failures; improved PNth’s ParcelPost from ~60% to.

Palmerston North

I joined NZ Post at a time it was going through a large amount of change - centralising its processing operations and incorporating new technology. Although I had no experience of the postal industry, or automated mail sorting equipment, I quickly learned the fundamentals.In my role I was responsible for the automated mail sorting equipment. There was a.

Palmerston North

Five Star Pork is a farmer-owned cooperative that supplied 15% of NZ's fresh pork, a FMCG. It endeavoured to move up the value-chain by producing its own small-goods and selling fresh pork cuts.The company then entered a joint-venture with a Singaporean company to export fresh pork into the Singaporean market. At this stage the GM was spending most of his.

Palmerston North

Five Star Pork is a farmer-owned cooperative that supplied 15% of NZ's fresh pork. The main emphasis of this role was assisting the company's farmer-suppliers to improve their farm performance and the quality of the end product - chilled pork.To help improve farm production I facilitated quarterly farmer-discussion groups focussing on key performance.

Taranaki, Wanganui & Manawatu, New Zealand

The Company was one of the largest users of maize in the region. As it had had difficulty obtaining sufficient supply in previous years the owners decided it may be best to deal direct with farmers. I was employed to establish this supply from local farmers. It was necessary to supply seed and chemicals, which was difficult because of concerted opposition.

Bolton, United Kingdom

I started at this company as a cleaner, but the next day I was asked to manage the warehouse. The business created ready-made curtains for a large mail-order company.The warehouse, which contained approximately $0.5M of inventory, was in disarray with lines of the same fabric in various places. I quickly implemented an inventory system saving $50K/year.

Bachelor Of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) [1St Class Hons], Agribusiness/Agricultural Business Operations

Activities and Societies: Athletics• Majored in Agribusiness • Awarded First Class Honours • Dean’s Merit List for undergraduates (1996 &.

Education record

Activities and Societies: Too much Role Play gaming.