Mark Brown Email & Phone Number

Queensland, Australia

Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia

As the Director, I have overseen the management and technical direction of the FRI, FIRC and AFORA which includes strategic plan development, research partner development, funding opportunity development and industry and end-user engagement.

Sippy Downs, Queensland, Australia

Oversee the management and technical direction of the university research centre. Responsible for strategic plan development, research partner development, engagement with industry/end-users and develop funding opportunities.

Sippy Downs, Queensland, Australia

As a Professor, I lead research and have built and managed a strong industry-collaborative research programme for Australia in the area of forestry operations.

Sippy Downs, Queensland, Australia

Oversee the management and technical direction of the university research institute. Responsible for strategic plan development, research partner development, engagement with industry/end-users and develop funding opportunities.

An independent non-executive director contributing to the leadership and governance of AFCA, who are engages with government, industry sectors and the community to represent the interests of our members. AFCA plays an important role in ensuring members, the forest industry and supply chain as well as governments aware of developments and the best practices.

Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia

The Therapeutic Gourmet recipes were originally a collaborative project between a professional chef and naturopath. Together they sought to create healthy granola products that would combine sublime flavours with natural medicine. The duo worked together to create a gluten free, low GI, high protein, delicious snack that not only tasted great but was quick.

Australia

Filled a vacancy in the board on invitation.

Sippy Downs, Queensland, Australia

Oversee the management and technical direction of the industry research alliance under the direction of the alliance management committee. Ensure deliverables are achieved and meet industry needs, ensure on going active engagement with industry and develop funding opportunities.

Australia

Creswick, Victoria, Australia

• In these roles, I coordinated research activities focussed on improving industry productivity, including the optimisation of multi-rotational plantation management and supply chain planning; and managed the Harvesting.
• Managed the strategic direction and daily operations of the CRC Forestry, Harvesting and Operations programme, including budgets, the strategic work plan, programme agreement, resource management, quality assurance and.
• Developed and implemented an efficient technical research project report review process, effectively engaging industry end users in the review of over 30 technical reports while retaining academic robustness.
• Partnered with the communications manager, to set strategic communication strategies ensuring research results were clearly articulated and transferred appropriately to industry. This included developing and.
• Established and developed the role of industry engagement manager for the whole of the CRC for Forestry on the back of the industry engagement success of the Harvesting programme. This included creating and.

Pointe-Claire, Quebec, Canada

• I managed large-team research and implementation projects, developing and supporting major project proposals and securing key project funding centring on the exploration of alternative cost-saving transportation.
• Designed, developed and delivered the nationally recognised forest truck fuel efficiency programme funded and endorsed by Natural Resources Canada, the Commonwealth government department for natural resources and.
• Transitioned the transportation and roads research group from being 90 per cent internally funded to being over 80 per cent external competitive grant funding through the development of funding relationships with.
• Designed the research nationalisation structure and approach that was subsequently used as the template for nationalising all research programmes.
• Produced the costing and implementation models for a barge transportation system, delivering 10 per cent in cost savings; eliminating 18,000 truck trips per year; and reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 9,000 tonnes.
• Won an SAE International Environmental Excellence in Transportation (E2T) Award 2004.

Pointe-Claire, Quebec, Canada

Provided key technical support to FERIC research staff. I also planned, implemented and managed research projects, field research activities, data collection, data validation, data analysis and project reporting.

Provided labor support in all sawmill undertakings, including maintenance, customer service, product sorting, forklift,delivery, edgerman, tallyman and planner mill operations.I also provided labor support in silviculture operations, including tree planting, helicopter ground crew, pre-commercial thinning block layout, and pre-commercial thinning.

Australian Institute Of Company Directors Course

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Phd, Forestry - Application Of Research Results

Thesis - "Forest Transport Payload Management in the Delivery of Efficient Forest Supply Chains"

M. Eng, Civil Engineering

Masters Thesis: "Managing the Rehabilitation of Forest Roads using Historical Daily Roughness Data Collected by the Opti-Grade System."

B.Sc.F.E, Forest Engineering

Included 3 months; as part of the UNB/SLU Exchange Program in Sweden.