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Bicton, Wa, Au

Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Perth, Western Australia, Australia

+Responsible for maintaining and updating the corporate strategy and ensuring strategic alternatives are considered and any performance gaps are assessed. Ensuring appropriate Board endorsement on strategy and communicating endorsed outcomes throughout the organisation.+Responsible for preparation of the annual corporate plan that defines activity, costs and resourcing, building on the long term financial and production forecasts as part of the annual integrated planning cycle.+Manage and report corporate performance stewardship against Corporate Scorecard and Executive priority metrics.+Contributed to Corporate portfolio analysis and evaluation of projects and business development opportunities screened against short-, medium- and long-term corporate strategic, financial and economic performance outlooks.

Perth, Western Australia, Australia

+Business Manager for Woodside’s interests in the Woodside-operated North West Shelf project, with responsibilities for Venture Management, and operational and project performance management against budget.+Responsibilities as Operator representative, managing all governance-related matters relating to annual multi-A$ billion budget approvals, key project decisions and any associated joint venture project-related approvals.+Managed a circa A$50m annual budget for Venture Management execution, managing a team networking throughout the organisation and alongside all joint venture partner representatives.

Perth, Western Australia, Australia

+Managed a multidisciplinary team (30+ team) with accountability for execution of all operations in Woodside’s operated acreage in Australia, South Korea and New Zealand.+Responsible for a circa A$110m annual budget across drilling, seismic acquisition, prospect maturation, regional new ventures studies and permit administration activities.

Perth, Australia

+Managed Woodside’s international operated and non-operated ventures and new ventures in East Africa.+Responsible for a circa A$50m annual budget across venture management including stakeholder and government relations, seismic and drilling operational planning, and new ventures opportunity screening and recommendations.

Perth, Australia

+Project Lead for asset-level to corporate-level acquisition targets aligned with Woodside’s growth strategy.+Responsible for managing and leading virtual teams assembled from across Woodside and institutional banking partners to deliver full technical and commercial assurance and recommendations to senior executives and the Board.+Assets reviewed in Australia, Canada, US, SE Asia, Africa, and South America inline with Woodside’s corporate strategy.

Perth, Australia

+Team lead for a team of five with accountability for all studies and operations in Woodside’s acreage in Brazil and Peru.+Responsible for subsurface and commercial due diligence of new ventures growth in South America, using basinwide play-based screening to high-grade acreage and opportunity recommendations for management.

+Managed Rialto’s domestic and international operated and non-operated exploration ventures including international stakeholder and government relations, work plan and budget planning and operational execution.+Responsible for internal and external due diligence with exposure to commercial negotiations and capture of world- class offshore acreage in Cote d’Ivoire and Ghana, offshore West Africa.+Managed subsurface and commercial due diligence for new ventures growth in West Africa.

Perth, Western Australia, Australia

+Responsible for subsurface, technical, and commercial assurance and recommendations for Woodside’s non-operated portfolio in Brazil and Peru.+New Ventures Team Lead managing a small team of exploration interpreters utilising play-based techniques to high- grade bid round, greenfield and M&A opportunities to grow Woodside’s portfolio in Brazil and Peru.+Managed play-based screening and high-grading of material proven-basin opportunities across all South American jurisdictions for Woodside’s nascent growth ambitions into the region. This study recommended country entries into Brazil and Peru.

Perth, Western Australia, Australia

+Responsible for screening, assurance, and capture of farmin and M&A opportunities aligned with Woodsides growth strategy.+Leveraged play-based basin-wide studies to screen exploration opportunities from NW Africa to S Africa with a bias to frontier and emerging basins in Morocco, Canary Islands, Guinea Bissau, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Cote D’Ivoire, Ghana, Benin, Togo, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, and Namibia.+Successful country entries included Canary Islands, Sierra Leone (Venus-B discovery – 2009), and Liberia.

Houston, Texas, United States

+Responsible for subsurface assurance and recommendations in relation to Woodside’s interests in non-operated ventures within the Deepwater Gulf of Mexico.+Contributed to the subsurface assurance and commercial recommendations for new venture growth via bid rounds, farmins and mergers & acquisitions opportunities.

Perth, Western Australia, Australia

+Principle seismic Interpreter responsible for prospect generation within WA-271-P, located in the Exmouth Sub-Basin.+Responsible for all aspects of prospect portfolio generation and maturation, leading to the recommendation and drilling of the Vincent and Enfield prospects which lead to two material and commercial oil discoveries that were subsequently sanctioned and developed (Vincent Field and Enfield Field) by Woodside in the early 2000s

New Plymouth, Taranaki, New Zealand

+Responsible for nearfield and infield prospect portfolio generation in Fletcher Challenge’s operated portfolio of onshore producing fields+Highlights included the recommendation and drilling of four commercial infield targets in the Ngaere-Waihapa and Piakau/Ahuroa thrust anticline complexes and a critical structural re-evaluation of the Mckee Field thrust anticline utilising all available legacy well data, to assess for missed pay opportunities.+Contributed to the regional play-based assessment and prospect evaluation within the Taranaki Basin, New Zealand for Fletcher Challenge.+Assisted the wellsite geologist at several onshore development wells drilling at Ngaere/Waihapa and McKee fields.

Company Directors Course, Corporate Governance & Directorship, Pass

Master Of Science - Ms, Basin Analysis & Geochronology, 1St Class Honours

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Geological And Earth Sciences/Geosciences, 1St Class Honours