Seconded to the Digital Work Placement Project Team to provide SME insights regarding workflows and processes across NSW to inform the design and build of a digital solution within the Early Childhood Education and Care discipline using project management tools and disciplines.

TAFE NSW is Australia's largest vocational education and training provider with an annual student enrolment of 500,000+ students.Lead the centralised Professional Experience team, building strong influential relationships between internal and external stakeholders to support 3,500+ professional experience placements and improve outcomes for students.Implemented data-driven decision making resulting in the redesign of the placement pipeline to stabilise staffing levels and support an annual growth rate of 25% across eight campuses in the Sydney Region.Resolved multiple pain points (people, process, compliance, document management, communication channels) by introducing an ethos of continual improvement, centralized archiving, transparent processes and redirection of the flow of internal communications.

As parents and children move into a new way of working, many questions need to be asked... What is the role of parents in raising 21st century individuals? How can parents help facilitate change? Where do parents start - with themselves or their children? How can parents build a robust 21st century strategy for the entire family? How can parents positively influence the education sector and industry? The list of questions is endless.■ Future Fit Families translated the latest research about the future of work into simple and practical advice to support parents and families who are seeking answers to the above questions.■ Built awareness of the key 21st century skills to enable parents to make informed and proactive choices about their families' future.■ Empowered parents with relevant, timely and practical information to support decision-making in relation to the development of their own careers and the education/career path of their children.

Goodstart is Australia’s largest a not-for-profit organization provider of early childhood care. It operates 644 early learning centres in all states and territories of Australia, caring for 70,900 children from 59,500 families and employing 14,900 people.Redesigned the process and delivery of tri-annual Summative Assessments to ensure consistent quality of reporting to families and supported Educators, with English as a second language, to exceed programming requirements.Acted as the nominated work placement assessor for VET students undertaking Certificate III and Diploma.

The Family Day Care (FDC) network provides early childhood education to 20,000+ children, aged 0-5 years, across Australia. It follows the principles of the National Quality Framework and complies with the Education and Care Services National Regulations.For ten years, I ran a successful FDC business which consistently operated at maximum capacity and actively worked to market and promote FDC services in the community. ■ Received an Outstanding Accreditation for my service within the North Sydney Family Day Care Scheme. ■ Nominated as the scheme Industry Supervisor for professional experience students.■ Established a mentoring network for new and existing scheme Educators on process, policy, programming and planning, business systems, managing stakeholders (parents, children, extended family, council, etc.) and conflict resolution.■ Cared for over 70+ children and developed deep, trusting relationships with families spanning several years and nurtured each child through every stage of development. Those relationships still hold fast today.■ Designed and delivered workshops for FDC educators to develop a scheme-wide marketing strategy for individual FDC businesses and to strengthen the ‘scheme’ brand. Produced marketing literature for individual FDC services.

B2B events company providing information management and social media conferences, workshops and masterclasses to business professionals working within the areas of IT, information architecture and social media.Applied extensive conference industry experience and expertise to establish Key Forums Australia and ran it successfully as a boutique information management enterprise producing 30+ commercially viable events.■ Negotiated with international experts, in the field of information architecture and UX, to host workshops in ANZ.■ Identified new conference opportunities, for example, Key Forums Australia was the first conference company in Australia to produce events on Blogs, Wikis and RSS, and later Cloud Computing.■ Sole responsibility for creating external networks to support business functions including accountants, printers, bookkeepers, hotels, etc.■ Skillfully coordinated all stakeholders (producers, speakers and delegates) in conference production from ideation of conference topic to post event evaluation.■ Successfully negotiated ongoing mutually beneficial marketing contra deals with associations, publications, charities, organisations and industry press.■ Generated website content and managed copywriting for conference literature, websites, email campaigns and advertorials.

An international subsidiary of Ark Group UK Ltd.This leadership role carried a high level of responsibility and required me to be resourceful, creative and adaptable across all business functions. Using my extensive event management experience and innovative approach, I was able to shape our events strategy around emerging trends in the local market, notably in the areas of knowlege management, online presences (website and intranet development including SEO, usability, content management, UX) and internal communications.I established a profitable Australian subsidiary from the ground up within eighteen months. From setting up the physical infrastructure (IT, business networks, etc.) and business systems, recruiting staff across several disciplines (marketing, production, sales, administration and sponsorship) to establishing key supply networks.