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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.

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.

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.

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.

• 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.

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

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.
• 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