Senior Project Manager for Australia's premier niche print publisher.

Heading up QLD for RenoExchange.com.au, my role primarily focussed on supporting bricks and mortar retailers by helping them increase sales. Making it easy for the retailer to advertise and sell successfully online without the hassle and time spent building and maintaining a website. By letting retailers do what they do best – selling great product and giving even better service.

Faircount is a multi-national custom publishing and events company (see website for full client list - www.faircount.com). Here in Australia, clientele includes; The Royal Australian Navy (100 Years of The RAN, the annual Navy Outlook, 100th Anniversary of the International Fleet Review), The ADF (100th Anniversary of Gallipoli, 60 Years of The Royal Australian Regiment), The Australian Olympic Committee (producing the official team-guide for the past several Olympic Games), The Australian Year of the Farmer (Producing the official centerpiece for the year's celebrations). Also, in-house publications (Rebuilding the Nation's Infrastructure & Transforming the Nation's Healthcare - Produced alongside the Dept. of Infrastructure & Dept. of Health & Ageing respectively. These official publications are distributed both on a complimentary basis whilst some are also sold in newsstands across the country. My role encompassed all aspects of the sales cycle, from lead research and generation, account management and database maintenance, re-bookings and upgrades throughout the booking/distribution process, to cold calling and client presentation at an executive level. The companies I worked with during my time here were the top players in both a global and national stage such as NAB, Suncorp Group, Macquarie, Commonwealth Bank etc. Universities across the country, ABC, John Deere, Simplot Australia, Unilever, Diageo, CommSuper, SAAB, Volkswagen, MLA, down to a broad, extensive range of SME's.

I worked as business development manager at Ouffer, sourcing and acquiring new leads and accounts whilst also ensuring that all relations ran smoothly for the duration of these partnerships or relations. My main focus or responsibility was high-end luxury hotels, resorts, and restaurants throughout Sydney, catering for clients such as mirvac hotels, accor hotels, the shangri-la hotel, restaurants as exclusive as bondi social, the merivale hospitality group, coogee bay hotel, the nick's seafood chain, peter doyle's at the quay, the list is rather extensive these are just the most prominent names of the group. All of these companies can vouch for my attention to detail, care for the satisfaction of all parties involved and my level of utmost professionalism at all times throughout our relationships.

The I Wanna Corporation is a high-end multimedia design studio, providing customers with all of their marketing requirements. It produces website design/optimisation, viral video marketing, quality television commercials, printed marketing aids such as business cards, flyers, pamphlets. It also designs car decals and shopfront advertising to attain maximum visual impact for its clients. A complete campaign management and event co-ordination is another service the Corporation provides, having recently run several successful harbour cruises. It is closely affiliated with festivals such as Signature Music Festival (Tasmania), Defqon (Sydney International Regatta Centre), GodsKitchen (Sydney - Horden Pavilion) and also nightclubs, to name a few, Zen Favella, Sublime/Home Bar and Name This Bar. Examples of some of the more 'prominent' recent clientele I was successful in bringing to the company are:- Hako Australia (a leading international manufacturer of superior sweepers, scrubbers, footpath and street cleaning equipment, etc), Queen Street Customs (a world leader in car customisation/performance modifications), Butcher2u (voted by industry experts as 'Best Butcher' and 'Best Online Business' NSW 2010 - also meat supplier to the popular TV show 'Ready, Steady, Cook').

In the above position at Sharples, my role was to work in close affiliation with most of Australia's largest Real Estate Agencies to link their new customers with local businesses and services via presentation folders, window cards, business cards and most of their graphic design requirements. This was achieved by a team of appointment setters cold calling and setting up meetings for me that I would see on the road and close throughout the day. I began working for Sharples in South East Queensland before being transferred to NSW to take over their largest grossing market of any state of Australia.

Coldwell Banker is the world's largest Real Estate company in existence and operates in an extremely fine-tuned, high-tech environment with complete virtual desktops and extensive intranet. My duties included the viewing and appraisal of properties, the ensuing marketing and sale of the properties. I attended numerous training courses delivering specific marketing techniques including the use of Internet and media advertising, negotiation skills, phone speech techniques and body language training, efficient diarisation, professional photography training, etc. Sales consisted of prestigious, high density residential properties which included Aurora QI at Surfers Paradise (the highest residential tower in Australia), M on Mary, Charlotte Towers, Casino Towers, Skyline and Felix. An expansive market range spreading from the Gold to the Sunshine Coast was in our portfolio.

In this position I performed various tasks including assisting other salespeople with computer presentation for advertising of properties, viewing and appraising properties on our stock list, handling phone calls, roster duties to handle new clients, operation of an enormous email distribution service, assisting with Open Homes and rental viewings for prospective tenants. I attended many training sessions provided by First National and delivered by prestigious people, such as Jim Midgley, who was the past owner of Ray White Surfers Paradise and who now delivers specialised, successful industry training to agents and licensees, enabling his students to consistently earn in excess of $100,000 per annum.