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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

NextGen’s builds and operates applications for the Australian mortgage market, servicing all the major banks and the broker sector. As Head of HR, supporting our CPO and exec team and working alongside our Head of Talent and Head of Learning, I develop HR strategies, implement OD, performance and employee engagement programs to mature the HR function, develop our HR tech and refine HR operations, policies and process to enable a sustainable, high performance culture.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Stewarding the organisation through an inflection point in it’s growth, establishing the HR function, delivering HR operations and coaching staff at all levels of the organisation through change.

North Sydney

I joined the business to implement a performance and development framework and to guide the business through the resolution of legacy HR issues.

Sydney, Australia

Supporting organisations growing in scale to develop and implement HR strategies systems and processes.

Chatswood

The roll out of the Optus 4G network was Australia’s largest and most complex mobile deployment project and as HR Manager for the joint venture project between Visionstream and CPB established to build it I played an instrumental role in it’s success.The JV was a $300M per annum business employing 800 people across a national footprint in engineering, project management and trade positions. As HR Manager, reporting into the Project Director and the HR General Managers in the parent businesses.My key contributions included:• Drawing together people from the parent and client businesses to form a productive project team with a “can do”, culture and maintaining that culture through the project’s operational and commercial travails.• Establishing and maintaining harmonious industrial relations over the course of the project.• Minimise distractions for both staff and management, while maintaining compliance by driving the efficient administration of the Human Resources function.• Driving workforce planning practices that gave the client and parent businesses confidence that project was dimensioned to deliver on its obligations.• Coaching operational leadership to drive safety, quality and commercial outcomes enabling the project overall to achieve industry leading outcomes in all of these spaces. These contributions where achieved with:• The assistance of an outstanding HR team handpicked and developed for their business acumen, responsiveness, energy and sense of humour.• Deep knowledge of organisational development, Industrial relations, employee retention, workforce planning and HR Administration, drawn from my professional experience and education the experience and education of my team.• A robust project management methodology that provided transparent and reliability to the delivery of HR initiatives.

Sydney, Australia

I built and led a team of generalist HR business partners, recruiters, a L&D and an Organisational Development specialist to support Kordia as it grew to become one of the leading vendor independent Telecommunication Network Services Business in Australia. I drove HR influence over the business by building a compelling HR brand that both operational management and employees liked to engage with and sought to have involve in their business day to day. Notable achievements include:Organisational Development• Co-ordinated major restructures to facilitate the Kordia’s growth• Established a unique strategy implementation model to maintain progress on strategic HR initiatives through the operational distractions of a hyper growth environment.Change Management• Managed the business through two mergers• Managed project ramp downs, including one driven by the loss of a major contract that demanded the simultaneous retrenchment of over 100 staff nationwide. Resourcing:• Delivered a direct sourcing strategy that drove brand awareness in the industry, slashed resourcing costs and accelerated time to hires drastically.• Drove proactive hiring and retention strategies to “own” strategic candidate markets enabling Kordia to out manoeuvre competitors.Industrial Relations• Established Kordia’s IR pedigree by maintaining an impeccable record on employment matters, building FCS and ISO14001 compliant HR systems and, leveraging EBAs strategically to facilitate the business’s movement into the resources sector.Business Analysis• Developed innovative methodologies for labour costing that ensured that bids and tenders were competitively and sustainably costed.• Led HR due diligence on acquisition initiatives.I also held interim management responsibility for allied business service functions including property, facilities and corporate procurement where I championed the same principles of active engagement with the operational business.

Sydney Area, Australia

Supporting the Pacific Region Supply Chain of this global FMCG business during the implementation of SAP and through the negotiation of enterprise agreements.• Integration of operational demands of SAP into ER strategy• Communication, training and induction initiatives• Position analysis and mapping exercises • Skill gap analysis

London, United Kingdom

Generalist HR support (recsourcing, training, ER, compliance, payroll interface) to operational management.

Master'S Degree, Business And Personnel Administration

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), Environmental Management