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Canberra, Act, Au

Barton, Act, Au

Develop and lead the implementation of AGD’s Data Strategy 2022-2024, data governance capabilities and associated policies as well as build data visualisation capabilities throughout AGD. I am also responsible for establishing and building AGD’s first centralised evaluation team.

Barton, Act, Au

Sydney, New South Wales, Au

Sydney, New South Wales, Au

Responsible for overseeing Austrade's MYEFO and Budget submissions and coordination with portfolio and central agencies.

Sydney, New South Wales, Au

Canberra, Act, Au

As part of the Analysis and Insights Division at the Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources (DISER), my team manages the department's Evaluation Strategy, conducting evaluations throughout the department and the DISER's Evaluation Ready process - a process which helps ensure that our programs are designed and implemented with evaluation in mind at the outset. My team is also responsible for evaluation-related capability building within the department.

Canberra, Act, Au

As part of the Analysis and Insights Division at the Department of Industry, Innovation and Science, I lead the unit responsible for the department's Evaluation Ready process - a process which helps ensure that our programs are designed and implemented with evaluation in mind at the outset. This means working with program policy and delivery teams to ensure that the right data is being collected at the right time and is outcome focused. My team is also responsible for evaluation-related capability building within the department.

As part of the Analysis and Insights Division at the Department of Industry, Innovation and Science, I lead the unit responsible for the department's Evaluation Ready process - a process which helps ensure that our programs are designed and implemented with evaluation in mind at the outset. This means working with program policy and delivery teams to ensure that the right data is being collected at the right time and is outcome focused. My team is also responsible for evaluation-related capability building within the department.

In this role, I manage evaluations conducted by my team, and manage the Evaluation Ready process (developing monitoring and evaluation frameworks) within the Department of Industry, Innovation and Science. I also provide advice to other teams regarding program and policy design from an evaluation perspective.I also helped design and deliver the 'Evaluation Ready and You' workshop series to help build evaluative capability across the department.

Phillip, Australian Capital Territory, Au

The Regional Patent Examination Training (RPET) program is a competency based training program delivered in a Blended format to several ASEAN and African countries. The 2 year program requires me to develop and deliver of training material for Virtual Classrooms, face-to-face, discussion boards, and self-paced online modules as well as establishing and maintaining productive Communities of Practice. Participants are mentored and progressively assessed against defined skill sets and international standards of practice.Other roles and responsibilities:• Establishing various Communities of Practice across multiple sections and different groups within IP Australia to help establish, promote, and maintain a culture of learning. This included designing and developing Confluence-based web-sites, establishing and promoting various Discussion Boards, facilitating group sessions. • Developing Blended Learning Programs. These programs required me to undertake Training Needs Analysis, and to develop Virtual Classrooms, face-to-face sessions, Assessment tasks and tools, and Discussion Boards. • Project managing the build of eLearning Modules;• Storyboarding and building Adobe Captivate based eLearning Modules;Recent RPET awards:• Gold Brandon Hall Excellence Award for Best Advance in Custom Content (2016) • Silver Brandon Hall Award for Best Use of Blended Learning (2016)• Prime Minister’s Innovation Award for Excellence in Public Sector Management (2015)• Prime Minister’s Silver Award for Excellence in Public Sector Management (2015)Personal Awards:• 2016 Australia Day Medallion for my outstanding contribution to the RPET team, my exemplified team work and commitment to customer service in delivering the program; and • AGM Award (Oct 2016) for the development, design, and delivery of an innovative Blended training program incorporating the 70:20:10 learning model for both in-house and out-posted employees.

Phillip, Australian Capital Territory, Au

• Examiner of Patents with Acceptance Delegation in Pharmaceutical technologies;• Specialise in pharmaceutical, immunology, biotechnology, gene therapy, cosmetics, fertilisers, lipids, and cutting edge therapeutics;• Highly experienced IP searcher including gene and protein sequence searchers; and• Trainer for various chemical IP sections for implementation of the Raising the Bar Act which came into effect in April 2013.• Awarded the 'Mortar & Pestle Award' for outstanding contribution to the Pharmaceutical section's overall performance and in recognition of my extra additional training roles.

Phillip, Australian Capital Territory, Au

Manage a team of 5 Patent Examiners ensuring productivity targets are achieved. This role also required the management of 1 Team Member on an Early Intervention Action Plan (EIAP). EIAP management included daily workplace conversations, monitoring, and establishing realistic weekly workload planning. Also required, were weekly reports on this Team Member's progress.

Phillip, Australian Capital Territory, Au

This role required me to manage a team of 5 patent examiners to ensure that they all achieved their productivity targets. One of my team was a trainee which saw me in a supervise, coach, and mentor. My team also included one member on a Return to Work Plan (RTW) as the result of a workplace injury. RTW management required almost daily conversations and assessments as well as me providing a formal evaluation of this Team Member's to Workplace health.

Phillip, Australian Capital Territory, Au

Managing a team of 5 Patent Examiners including 2 trainees requiring me to be supervisor, mentor, and, coach. One of my team members were also transitioning off of a Return to Work Plan. This required regular conversations and working together to establish realistic workload planning and management.

The University Of Sydney, New South Wales, Au

• Genetic modification of various immunologically relevant cells as a potential treatment for autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis.• Supervision, mentoring, and training of PhD students.• Method development (in-vitro and in-vivo immune models)• Cell culture (hybridoma and ex-vivo)• Undertake experimentation, analysis, overall planning, and direction.

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Ca

• Examining the role of the chemokine receptor CCR4 in various aspects of immunity.• Method development • Supervise and mentor research assistants and University students• Project guidance, direction, and planning.

• Develop, perform, analyze and troubleshoot experimental and analytical methods. • Computer Programming (wrote Circular Dichroism analysis program, “PEPFIT Analysis” using VBA (for Excel), currently in use in over 25 laboratories world-wide, including the NIH and several ‘ivy league’ universities.• HIV infection assays• Small rodent surgery (survival and non-survival)• Stem Cell isolation and use• Student teaching, supervision, and guidance (Master’s students, PhD Students, Post Docs, and Medical Registrars)

Diploma, Project Management

Diploma, Training Design And Development

Credit, Facilitating Elearning And Design And Develop Elearning Resources

Credit, Online Communication And Facilitation

Certificate Iv, Training And Assessment (Tae40110)

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Medicine (Immunology)

Bachelor’S Degree, Biochemistry And Molecular Biology

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), Biotechnology