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Melbourne, Vic, Au

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

- Leading origination and development strategy to build a pipeline of renewable energy projects- Identifying M&A opportunities to grow the renewables business- Leading financing and equity workstreams from development through to financial close- Offtaker strategy and negotation

Melbourne, Australia

- Managing the delivery of Cherry Tree Wind Farm, Sunraysia Solar Farm and Finley Solar Farm from financial close through construction and into commercial operations- Managing the technical workstreams for the divestment of John Laing's Australian wind portfolio- Leading the resolution of connection issues through close engagement with AEMO, Transgrid and Ausnet- Leading the management and settlement of commercial disputes with EPC Contractors and other stakeholders- Leading the re-contracting of solar O&M services for Finley Solar Farm- Initiating business development activities to identify new investment opportunities, and supporting the development of bid proposals- SPV Director for Hornsdale Wind Farms, Kiata Wind Farm, Cherry Tree Wind Farm and Finley Solar Farm: * Regular engagement with lenders to manage concerns around project performance and cashflow * Working with equity partners to ensure stable financial performance * Oversight and management of Asset Managers to ensure strong operational performance * Supporting refinancing and restructuring activities

Melbourne, Australia

- Established a new asset management function within the Edify business to provide asset management services to the owners of 5 solar farms totalling 440 MWp- Design and implementation of systems and process to support the solar farm operations including automated reporting systems, and data integration between metering, SCADA and settlements systems- Managed the transition from construction / commissioning to operations for Edify's solar farms- Implementation of solar farm semi-dispatch systems to satisfy AEMO's requirements- Managed the registration process with AEMO and NSPs for 5 solar farms and the Gannawarra BESS

Melbourne, Australia

• Management of an Asset Management team with operational responsibility for AGL’s wind & solar fleet consisting of 7 wind farms & 2 solar farms (1078 MW of total generation capacity)• Responsible for an annual OPEX budget of $25M and CAPEX of $14M.• Commercial negotiations of O&M contracts for new and existing projects.• Cost control and revenue improvement initiatives.• Contractor management of maintenance services providers.• Strategic planning around asset lifecycle management, including development of asset management plans and maintenance strategies. • Stakeholder management of Financial investors (PARF board, institutional investors, JV partners), land owners, government agencies, and community• Co-ordination with AGL trading group for outage planning and management of market risk.• Due diligence inputs for financial transactions of new wind and solar projects.

Melbourne, Australia

• Management of an Engineering/Technical services team for Acciona’s operational wind and solar farms in Australia.• Management of a 24 x 7 remote operations control centre.• Ensuring compliance with relevant health, safety and quality standards.• Development and implementation of asset management standards for wind and solar assets. • Full roll-out of maintenance services at Royalla solar farm including ground up build of asset management and maintenance plan, and ongoing management of the sub-contractor. • Driving continuous improvement initiatives across the operations group.• Leading engineering analysis and troubleshooting for technical issues at wind and solar farms.• Leading end of warranty activities and defect remediation.• Review and implementation of updated high voltage operational procedures for Acciona’s wind and solar farms. • Development of a reliability engineering program for the Australian fleet of 159 wind turbines.

• Wind farm commissioning and energisation.• Operational engineering support including management of key technical risks such as blade defects, gearbox and generator failures, and electrical sub-systems.• Wind turbine power curve testing and warranty verification. • Availability warrantee verification.• Wind farm data mining for performance analysis and optimisation, including identifying solutions for poor performing wind turbines and investigating opportunities to improve energy yield.• Commissioning and problem solving of SCADA and communications systems.• Implementation of a centralised wind farm control centre in Acciona’s South Melbourne office.• Managing a continuous improvement program across the operations team. • Co-ordinating technical due diligence activities for wind farm financing.

Melbourne

• Project managed implementation of an IP Address Management solution for the University of Melbourne.• Development of new DNS infrastructure for the University of Melbourne.• Implemented web based account management system using Ruby on Rails.

• Development and implementation of a new staff email system (10,000 users).• Development and implementation of a new student email system (50,000 users).• Integration of Redhat with Systems’ supported operating environments.• Systems administration of Solaris and Tru64 systems.

• Developed new web publishing templates using W3C compliant XHTML, CSS and Javascript.• Developed dynamic News and Events web publishing system using PHP/MySQL and LDAP.• Provided support to CMS project, assisting with installation and testing of open source CMS products, and providing technical input during the evaluation phase.• Systems administration of Linux , OS X and Windows web servers used for University web sites and development purposes.• Delivered training and support to University staff for the web publishing templates and other systems developed by the Web Centre.

Melbourne, Australia

During this period I ran my own IT consultancy business. I worked on projects encompassing • Network design• Systems administration and implementation• Web development including front end and back end design.• IT Security analysis and configurationMy clients included the ISP’s RUCC Pty Ltd. (http://www.rucc.net.au) and Virtual Artists (http://www.va.com.au). Projects I worked on included:• Migration of servers to data warehouse• Mail server design and implementation, including anti-virus/anti-spam infrastructure.• Virtual Web hosting design and implementation, including Perl/Java/PHP & Mysql.• Customisation and extension of Open Source products to meet clients’ needs.• Developing PHP & Perl based tools for web based system administration.

Timor-Leste

My responsibilities included design and implementation of IT infrastructure in Melbourne and in East Timor. I was responsible for day to systems administration of a number of Linux servers including a dialup server providing internet access to several hundred users in East Timor. Other responsibilities included:• Consulting with the East Timorese community to establish and implement their communications needs.• Ongoing IT support for users in East Timor, Indonesia and Australia.• Technical input to funding proposals and reports.

Masters, Sustainable Energy

Bachelor, Computer Engineering/Arts