Howard Spry Email & Phone Number

Brisbane, Australia

Non-government, statutory authority responsible for protecting the public by registering and regulating more than 820,000 health practitioners in Australia, in partnership with 15 National Boards.Accountable for leading and managing the monitoring of health practitioners and students with restrictions on their registration, or whose registration has been suspended or cancelled to protect the public and manage risk to patients.

Brisbane

Accountable for the leadership and management of Board Support Services, Human Resources Management, ICT, Information and Records Management, Freedom of Information, Complaints and the Customer Contact Centre and the regulatory Compliance function.

Brisbane, Australia

Accountable for maintaining effective relationships with key industry and government stakeholders and stewardship of the professional culture of the Queensland office.

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Brisbane, Australia

Accountable for the leadership and managent of regulatory operations including Notifications, Registration, Legal Services and Compliance, stakeholder and government relations, Board governance and corporate services for the office.

Australia

I provided strategic advice on commercialisation activities, strategy, risk, finance and governance for Optii throughout the development of the world’s first housekeeping technology solution that forecasts hotel room cleaning time based on guest profiles and dynamically optimizes the housekeeping schedule on real-time progress. The value proposition to hotels is reduced check-in times, ease of room tasking and quality control, targeted staff development and a 10-20% annual saving on housekeeping payroll.

Australia

Strategic and governance advice, developing competitive advantage through people and performance improvement programs, enhancing online presence, and sourcing IT solutions for the advancement of organisations in the public and private sectors, including the tourism and hospitality and healthcare sectors.Projects include:> Turnaround management of strata-titled resort portfolio (1,100 apartments), doubled online sales, removed a layer of agents' commissions, increased RevPAR by 31%> Development of strategic online marketing presence and mobile quality management systems for a leading housekeeping contractor> Employee Engagement and Operational Effectiveness Questionnaire> Distribution of Guest Self Service technology solutions> Project Management

Sydney, Australia

Asia Pacific’s largest provider of premium conference facilities and computer-based training solutions with 12 locations and over 200 hundred rooms, predominantly serving the needs of the top 200 companies in Australia.I had full accountability for the delivery of over 8,000 event days per year, maintaining industry- leading facilities and service and full financial management through to EBITDA. In response to the market changes in November 2008 the State Manager role was removed from all sites.

Gold Coast, Australia

Wyndham is the largest vacation ownership provider in Asia Pacific. During my tenure, I contributed to the growth in operations from four to 13 resort locations, with 750 apartments across Australia, New Zealand and Fiji, servicing more than 30,000 members.My accountabilities included business unit strategic and business planning, start-up operations for greenfield sites and business acquisitions, revenue generation and yield management, human resource management, service quality, all rooms, food and beverage and property operations and cost control to achieve budget profit.

Sydney, Perth, Brisbane, Australia

Mirvac Hotels was Australia’s leading four and five-star hotels and resorts company, and sold its 48 properties to Accor in 2011. Commencing in October 1990 I was promoted and positioned through various properties, culminating in the roles of General Manager of three properties in Perth, Sydney and Brisbane.I was accountable for business unit strategic and business planning, revenue generation and yield management, human resource management, service quality, all rooms, food and beverage and property operations and cost control to achieve budget EBITDA.

Company Director’S Course, Governance

Mba, Business Strategy & Human Resource Management

Academic Prizes: TMP Worldwide Resourcing: Human Resources Excellence Award (2001) Institute of Management Consultants Prize (2004)