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Sydney, Nsw, Au

• Created and implemented foundation-to-market strategic plans for new media start-up organisation.• Established communication strategies with clients, suppliers and stakeholders to achieve company goals.• Built and implemented financial plan permitting organisation’s operation until revenue-positive status achieved.• Prepared and implemented strategic marketing plan permitting suppliers to reach an underserved network of advertisers, allowing suppliers’ continued financial viability and continued ability to provide firm with content.

• Provided expert advice regarding tender strategy, evaluation and management, including drafting of documentation and management of the tendering process.• Constructed operational business models and project assessments to highlight growth and development opportunities in competitive markets.• Monitored the alignment of incentives with internal and external stakeholders and recommended strategies that reduce opportunism and exposure to management risk.• Prepared strategic and game-theoretic reviews of participant interactions in analysis of negotiated situations to provide structure for negotiations in pursuit of corporate objectives.

• Prepared brand strategy, competitive environment and strategic alignment and governance assessments of corporate clients with concrete recommendations to ensure growth in difficult markets.• Researched, prepared and drafted thought leadership papers for national research organisations.• Monitored the alignment of incentives with internal and external stakeholders and recommended strategies that reduce opportunism and exposure to management risk.

• Established and managed expenditure and funding reviews across multiple government agencies with billion dollar budgets. • Established and assisted in implementation of new funding models to eliminate nine-figure annual overspends. • Proposed, reviewed and promoted policy throughout Treasury and to agencies • Assessed cabinet proposals, policy, projects and funding requests providing detailed assessment, improvements and recommendations to ministerial level. • Established and maintained relationships with clients to improve policy outcomes and provide best possible outcomes for residents of New South Wales.

• Maintenance and updating of exisiting database, with regard to Australasian data• Establishment and maintenance of relationships with Australasian customers, advertisers and content providers• Logistical management of Australasian operations (currently limited to Sydney metropolitan area), reporting to central office• Responsibility for Australian operational compliance and risk management relating to systems and data collection, collation and publication as well as provider and advertiser relationships.

• Ran small team to redetermine and convert market monitoring principles from reactive/forensic basis to proactive/preventive basis, requiring fundamental changes in methodology to gain substantial control over defence of national markets.• Conceived, prepared and implemented new system of market limits that have been the subject of international papers as “Australian limits”.• Managed small (<$100,000, <10 staff) projects, consistently to time and under budget.• Instrumental in creation of new contracts, including liaison with potential market users and higher-level regulators (ASIC, RBA). • Liaised regularly with senior executives including CEO and boards to enable timely decision-making and action relating to extremely large holdings across futures markets, including preparing board papers detailing and explaining technical market activities.• Drafted operating rules, procedures and policies, as well as drafted market notices for public release• Drafted, implemented and enforced policies relating to futures market risk exposure, implemented and enforced central counterparty (clearing house) risk management policies.

Mba (Exec), Management

Bachelor Of Commerce, Business Economics & Finance