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Sydney, NSW, AU

Australia, Remote

Australia

Guiding and mentoring senior and executive leaders in high growth companies on how to scale successfully.Strategic planning, OKR implementation, organisation design, ways of working, systems and operations, operating rhythm design.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Partnered with exec and senior leadership to prepare the business for its next phase of growthEstablished a culture of trust, previously unattainable, enabling the entire team to work from homeeffectively and with the confidence of leadership.Created a purposeful 3 year strategy and developed plans to deliver across all functions.Redefined the approach and.

Sydney, Australia

• As Shippit's COO I have partnered with our Co-Founder CEOs to build capabilities, behaviours and structure, preparing Shippit to create and seize every opportunity.Key Results
• Increased Employee engagement scores from 65% to >85% during period when transitioning toflexible ways of working.
• Accelerated YOY revenue growth to 3x in my first 12 months through targeted segmentation.
• Pivoted to achieve profitability in June 2020 ensuring financial security.
• Delivered business proof points to secure $27m in Series B funding.Executive level ownership of business continuity, adapting working practices, team safety and wellbeing through COVID.Built the capabilities needed to.

Sydney, Australia

Scaling up a business after $60m investment and a doubling of headcount to 300 people in less than a year brings many challenges. Success means knowing where you are going as a company, your capability gaps to deliver on today's mission and preparing the teams for the scale of tomorrow.Established clarity of company direction and priorities through.

Sydney, Australia

Senior leader in the Server leadership team, driving over 30% YOY growth for the portfolio of Atlassian’s Server and Data Center products, from $350m to $640m in under 2.5 years.Responsible for managing programs with over 300 people, across 12 products with 36 distinct teams, across four time zones.Leader of critical and sensitive programs including the.

Sydney, Australia

• Responsible for managing two major programs of work, building and enabling multiple, global teams to envision, plan, deliver and execute effectively.Mobile Business:
• Leading role in establishing Atlassian’s Mobile business from kick off to a scaled team of >50people in its first year.
• Led the strategy to create a new experience for customers to make the most of mobiletechnology and deliver integrated Jira and Confluence mobile products.
• Developed the budget, recruitment and operations of the mobile business.Confluence product
• Managed envisioning, planning, tracking and execution for the Confluence team fromdeveloping long-term strategy through to delivery management.
• Transformed teams goal setting to (new) OKR framework.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Solving the problem of wasteful and expensive single use props, costumes and scenery for the film and theatre industry. We created a SaaS solution allowing companies to quickly create a digital inventory and utilise a booking and tracking system to make better use of their high value stock. Trusted companies opened their inventories to each other to hire.

Sydney, Australia

• Managed the complete production process for Opera Australia’s manufacture department with an annual budget of $4 Million.
• Responsible for operations and logistics for running over 25 productions globally.
• Successfully managed a team of up to 18 staff across multiple teams and large-scale productions with critical unmovable deadlines.
• Developed robust communication practices and workflows between multiple departments to reduce bottlenecks, duplication of documentation and improve access to product information.
• Managed business requirements, budgets, schedules and communication with stakeholders and vendors.
• Significantly increased productivity and improved the working environment.

London, United Kingdom

• Designed and manufactured props, scenery, animatronics and special effects for the theatre and film industry.
• Gave life to the concepts of creative directors, designers and producers by bringing together the skills of craftspeople, engineers and artisans to achieve every deadline ever set and build a successful business I was.
• Entertained several million people around the world by providing all the physical elements actors needed to tell their stories.