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Acountable for overseeing the planning, delivery and safe execution of all maintenance and minor capital field work across Water Supply, Sewerage, Drainage, Waterways and Catchments for Melbourne Water, ensuring optimisation of internal and external resources, and efficiency of delivery.

Accountability to develop and drive the Enterprise Power Strategy for the business. The areas include Power Resilience, Network Power Sustainability, Operational Power Costs and Compliance. The team is responsible for managing the 57,000 grid connections across 16 distributors and 6 retailers, with annual expenditure in excess of $70M.

With a national network servicing over 8.4 million customers, the role was accountable to ensure that the network was able to recover and withstand escalated incidents. The role had 5 teams which included Power Strategy & Relationships, Power Continuity, Power & Aerial Engineering, National Emergency Management, and Network Recovery & Temporary Network.

With a team over 300 field personnel, the role was accountability to service 700,000 customers on the United Energy Distribution Network across Construction, Operations and Maintenance of Overhead, Underground and Substations assets, and Faults & Emergency. The role included leading the digital transformation and fostering HSE among the team members by.

Accountability to develop and deliver the Electricity Portfolio within Major Projects across unregulated growth opportunities for Corporate Development and Ovida (unregulated entity within the group) in Grid Connection Assets, Solar PV Farms, Wind Farms, Pumped Hydro Energy Storage (PHES), Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) and Synchronous Condensers.

Melbourne, Australia

Accountability for all project development (Front End Engineering and Design) within the business to investment decisions across Gas Transmission, Gas Distribution, Electricity Distribution and Water Distribution projects, except for Major Projects. This was an annual program in excessive of $150M p.a.

Broadmeadows/Mount Waverley

Accountability for the delivery of the Network Initiated sub-program valued at approximately $50 million annually. The program was comprised of Asset Replacement and Demand projects with projects up to $22M in value.I had a team of 14 direct reports; a mix of Project Managers (11) and Construction Managers (3).

Accountability for the delivery of the Jemena Electricity Networks (JEN) Works Program valued at over $150M annually. The network delivers electricity to more than 370,000 homes and businesses in north-west Melbourne. I led a team of 5 managers and over 40 staff members in Network Projects, Customer Initiated and Maintenance teams.

Clayton

Accountability for the project management of network initiated and customer initiated projects throughout its project lifecycle. At any one time I was directly managing 10-14 projects at different phases in the lifecycle. These projects included:- Full Substation Rebuild- Voltage Transformer and Circuit Breaker installation- Full and Partial Secondary.

Mount Waverley

• Two year rotational graduate program at Alinta Asset Management (now Jemena) which involved:DMS Administrator (SCADA Technical Services) - 6 monthsResponsibilities:
• Manage the delivery of Master Station SCADA & DMS for UED OPEX/CAPEX projects
• Documenting steps involved in delivery of OPEX/CAPEX projectsAsset Engineer (Asset Performance, Alinta Energy) - 6 monthsResponsibilities:
• Provide engineering support for Alinta Power Stations
• Manage OPEX/CAPEX projects throughout its project lifecycleProject Manager (Major Projects) - 1 YearResponsibilities:
• Manage UED CAPEX projects throughout its project lifecycle

Melbourne Area, Australia

• Responsibilities:
• System incident investigation involving modeling the event and comparing the simulated data to the actual recorded data
• Presenting findings to management

Melbourne Area, Australia

• Responsibilities:
• Load duration analysis of the zone sub-stations
• Hot spot temperature analysis of transformers at sub-stations at risk
• Financial analysis of introducing a second line from a terminal station to zone substation
• Fault level analysis of the system, both minimum and maximum fault levels

Bachelor Of Engineering (Beng) With First Class Honours (Hi), Electrical And Computer Systems Engineering

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), Double Major In Computer Science

Diploma Of Project Management

Diploma Of Management