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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Driving the product development of Nine's editorial and newsroom platforms across the Sydney Morning Herald, Australian Financial Review, The Age and nine.com.au.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

The Australian, News.com.au, Vogue, GQ, Body and Soul, Kidspot

Sydney, Australia

Sydney, Australia

In October 2011 The Australian successfully launched premium subscription based news. The first broadsheet to do so in Australia. A senior member of the digital team recruited to deliver this ground-breaking initiative, my role as a lead producer was to bring all the production elements together to make it happen. In addition, my ongoing role is to drive the transformation of a print-focused newsroom to one able to meet the challenges of producing consistently high-quality digital news media. This involves, training, coaching, product planning and development, managing stakeholders, and project schedules. Not to mention site-building, and content planning.Part of the team nominated 'Finalist' in the 2014 News Awards for the digital execution of The Australian's 50th Birthday celebration in July 2014. www.theaustralian.com.au/50. More recently, winner PANPA 'Mobile News site of the year', and nominated for two 2017 Walkley Awards for digital executions.Successfully led the transition of theaustralian.com.au CMS from Fatwire to Wordpress, and lead producer on The Australian's digital coverage of the Federal Election 2016. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/federal-election-2016

For over 10 years, I provided affordable web design solutions using customised Joomla templates for small businesses and organisations.Successful establishment and ongoing maintenance of The Australian Ceramics Association digital presence, evolving from print to online with; Website, Artist directory database, E-Commerce platform, digital archive, a thriving discussion list and the implementation of a CMS.Co-developed the creative ‘look and feel’ for a start up wine merchant The Wine Point in 2005, encompassing a logo, point of sale material, wine labels, brochures, and online presence (CMS and E-commerce), and e-marketing templates.

Senior producer for VHA encompassing the Three and Vodafone brands, working on key campaign and project executions in the online space with aggressive turn-around times.Lead production contributor to overall strategic planning and scoping for both projects and campaigns on Three and Vodafone brands.Consistently executed quality campaigns on three.com.au utilising Fatwire CMS and Adobe web suite according to brand and online styleguide.Forged solid working relationships within wider online team and business stakeholders. Managed External agency relationships in delivering many crucial campaign/projects for three.com.auAdept with Omniture Site Catalyst to track success of campaigns and site content leading to E-store sales conversions, identifying further opportunities for campaign and content optimisation.Manager of daily BAU (Business-As-Usual) tasks and requests relating to Three and Vodafone brand websites, and extranets. Initiated an online request form to ticket system greatly enhancing the workflow processManager of web team staff and contractor recruitment, mentoring junior associates and handling team issues.

Managed a small team of Digital producers and front-enders in daily maintenance and campaign execution of three.com.au. KPI's included; Improve overall site traffic and conversions. Deliver fresh campaigns maintaining global brand guidelines. Efficiently schedule BAU work and improve processes. Liaise with internal stakeholders and external resources to ensure timely delivery.

Responsible for maintaining the content, campaign landing pages and EDM's of 3 mobile, three.com.au.

Online and print designer for International Veterinary industry company (IT division). One of 2 designers managing BAU updates of existing Vet sites and producing new designs for bespoke CMS. Produced new designs for CMS content migration. Also responsible for producing quarterly company magazine.

Bachelor Visual Arts Honours (Class 1), Photography

Ba Communications, Journalism