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Sydney, NSW, AU

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Senior Leader position responsible for changing business process & team culture, delivering the program of business improvement projects, and ensuring delivery of high quality services to our clients. This incorporated Software Development & Support, IT, Technical & Machinery services.

Collaborated clients in Eastern region to grow sales and business performance through facilitation of strategy development workshops and development business improvement plans. Developed a simple & practical Productivity Improvement toolkit utilising Lean Six Sigma principles to be used by clients seeking performance improvements.

Completion of a series of short business courses offered by AGSM in order to attain Certificate in Executive Management & Development.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Responsible for planning & execution of projects on Capital Investment & Business Improvement Program for Viridian. Delivered a complex change project requiring the design, planning, and delivery of a new processing plant and processes into an existing Sydney site. This required relocation of existing plant & equipment from ACT. This was a significant.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Responsible for leading a Sydney based glass processing operation of approx 70 staff, which required rapid turnaround in performance. The safety & financial performance of the plant was significantly improved through application of lean manufacturing principles and effective change management strategies.

Responsible for leading the customer service teams across several locations in Australia, and shifting the culture to become a more customer centric focussed business. This was achieved through appropriate measurement of performance & impacts to customer, introduction of a new customer feedback tool & NPS score, design & introduction of new processes to.

North Ryde

Responsible for facilitating & collaborating with the leadership team to develop strategic plans for the commercial business. Prepared the business case and plant design for a new glass processing plant in Sydney, which was reviewed and approved by executive team. Role was also required to ensure delivery of initiatives on the strategic improvement plans.

Wetherill Park / Erskine Park

This position was responsible for the Wetherill Park operations which was a diverse team of 70 employees. Achieved successful delivery of a major project requiring the relocation of existing operations to a new facility in Sydney. Plant & process design was completed utilising lean manufacturing principles. Careful change and project management allowed the.

Wetherill Park

Sydney, Australia

Wetherill Park NSW Australia

Ingleburn, NSW Australia

Graduate Certificate, Corporate Management

Organisational Behaviour | Financial Accounting & Analysis | Business Strategy | Innovation

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Industrial Chemistry, Honours