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Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Brisbane, Australia

CleanCo Queensland (March 2019 to present)Designed and implemented automated bidding and dispatch for several generators in NEM. Commissioned Remote Operations and OsiSoft PI deployment of CleanCo renewable generation and pumped hydro storage portfolio across the business. Design and programming of NEM data dashboards for trading operations.Dept. Natural Resources, Mines and Energy, Queensland (DNRME)Development of analytical tools for behavioural modelling and forecasting in the Australian National Electricity Market for the Queensland Government. The "Market Forecast Tool" is heuristic based modelling system using Machine Learning blended with traditional statistical analytics.

Brisbane, Australia

Bidding and dispatch of generating assets to Australian National Electricity Market. Day to day Market Operations to support a diverse generation portfolio, including coal and energy storage systems.

Brisbane, Australia

Management the Yokogawa Control Systems team delivering the upstream operations for APLNG gas processing facility. PMO management of teams in multiple countries. This is a major Information Technology (IT) project requiring significant business change across Origin and APLNG. ● Completing planning processes with project owners to define objectives, scope, deliverables. ● Determine and negotiate resource requirements and identify risks, dependencies, stakeholders. ● Monitoring and controlling medium to large projects during the project management lifecycle. ● Proactively managing changes in project scope, identifying potential issues devising contingencies and reporting these in a timely manner to steering committees and project owners. ● Collaboration with client for the implementation of major product design changes. ● Co-ordinating Factory Acceptance Testing across multiple people from two organisations.

Brisbane, Australia

Project manager in charge of engineering and commissioning of SCADA and Control Systems for diverse clients from government to industrial. Lend Lease Services deployed large complex Control Systems for clients in Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea. ● Develop project plans and associated communications documents. ● Liaise with project stakeholders, internal and external. ● Managed install and commissioning of over 30 sites. ● Supervised teams of up 20 engineers. ● Budget and time management, cost reporting. ● Manage project human resources, identify and resolve personnel issues. ● Manage staff knowledge and career development. ● Plan and schedule project timelines and milestones. ● Build and develop business relationships vital to the success of the project. ● Monitor and manage adherence to safe work practices. ● Contract negotiation. ● Integration with large EPCM. ● OHS&E, risk assessment, legislative compliance.

Bowen Basin

Field support and field supervision including manpower scheduling and sub contractor management of construction and commissioning at Broadmeadows coal mine. ● Short and long term planning and scheduling. ● Systems walk downs and final acceptance testing. ● Trouble shooting engineering and design issues plus design gap analysis. ● Development of work packages. ● Vendor relationship management. ● Leadership in safe work practices. ● Progress reporting via Primavera P6

Brisbane, Australia

Developing and implementing medium and long-term electricity trading and hedging strategy. Dispatch of generating assets to NEM and trading of energy financial products. Alinta trading is very IT centric and required all traders to have IT development skills. ● OTC derivative forward contracts / Option deals. ● Volume and Price flexible hedges. ● Spot market and derivatives gas trading. ● Building and maintaining relationships with Queensland’s National Electricity market participants including generators, retailers, traders and brokers. ● Quantitative / project modelling skills. ● Maintaining market intelligence and research necessary to support superior hedging and trading decisions. ● Senior management / Board / major customer presentations. ● Scheduling and plant optimisation during commissioning of new generation equipment.