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Sydney, Australia

• Developed strategic plans and assisted in their execution for organisations in the manufacturing, wholesale, retail, finance, banking, defence, packaging, fashion, information technology, government, sport.
• Preparing a business plan for a civil construction company and increased revenue from $ 30 m to $ 50 m in one year.
• Working with private equity firm to prepare a business plan for the sale of a mining equipment company. The sale transaction was successfully completed 3 months later.
• Developing a number of business plans for steel company to launch a steel facade product and new construction method using steel framing. This is now a multi-million dollar business.
• Recruited by a bank to devise a turnaround plan in the sporting industry.Short Executive MBA style courses have been delivered to time poor Chief Executive Officers who want to acquire management skills. Textbooks in.

Sydney, Australia

• Lectured in Strategic Management in MBA program from 2001 to 2005. Consistently achieved top 10 ranking for lecturing in the graduate school of business. Grew student enrollments in subjects taught by 3 times.
• Lectured in Entrepreneurship and Commercialisation and Applied Financial Management in Engineering and IT faculty from 2004 to 2016. Consistently achieved 4.5 out of 5 in student feedback ratings.Grew student.
• Wrote and published 2 textbooks to support both subjects.
• Taught over 5,000 university students entrepreneurship and finance.
• Each semester student teams worked with around 80 commercial opportunities. Since 2005 we delivered over 1,300 business plans in a wide range of industries. Notable organisations that we have worked with are Coca Cola.
• The business plans have led to a number of start-up ventures and international expansions.

Sydney, Australia

Since 2007, I steered this company in an advisory capacity, from a revenue of $ 17 million to $ 65 million and grew the number of employees from 120 to over 600 staff. In 2007 Planit had offices in Sydney and Melbourne. The company was highly profitable and I recommended that we reinvest these returns in its business model by expanding geographically..

Sydney, Australia

Spare Room Self Storage was established as a 5 star quality, high security storage facility offering drive-through service. The storage facility was positioned at the premium end of the market, attracting the highest storage rental rates in Australia. I was appointed to develop a business plan for the new storage facility and transition this new service.

Sydney, Australia

Equant Application Services (EAS) was an information technology, solutions provider, which provided customised connectivity solutions to the air transport industry since 1989. The company’s main focus was to build air cargo community systems for Asia, the US, South America and a number of European countries.The company expanded into the airline passenger.

Melbourne, Australia

Coastal Express Line operated 2 container freight ships across Bass Strait, between Melbourne and Devonport. The business was under threat from a competitor, Brambles Shipping, who also operated 2 older ships but were about to replace them with 2 new ones which were faster and larger. I was sent in to devise a strategy to protect the market share and.

Orange County, California Area

Catalina Cruises, a joint venture between a Californian consortium and Holyman Limited, operated a passenger ferry service between Long Beach, California and Catalina Island. Holyman had been in the venture for 12 months but had no visibility of their financial situation. I was sent there to repair the accounting systems, and develop a plan to turn the.

Greater New York City Area

Express Navigation, owned by Holyman Limited, operated a commuter fast ferry service between Wall Street, Brooklyn, and New Jersey targeting the financial Wall Street traders. The company operated the service profitably for 8 years in a monopoly situation, however was under attack, in 1997, from a competitive ferry service attempting to establish a.

Kent, UK

Holyman Limited had made a decision to take over the operations of two passenger and car ferry companies that provided services across the English Channel. The companies were Sally Line, based in the UK and RMT, which was owned by the Belgian government.Holyman appointed me to a project team of 4 people to rationalise and merge the two ferry companies.

Sydney, Australia

Laminex Industries, owned by BTR Nylex, manufactured and distributed laminate and board products to the Australian building industry. At the time of joining Laminex the building industry was in a cyclical downturn and the company’s major competitor, CSR, was matching Laminex on service, quality and delivery, at a reduced price. Faced with no competitive.

Sydney, Australia

Ansett and Australian Airlines established a joint venture start-up company, Southern Cross Distribution Systems, to capture the Computer Reservation System (CRS) market in Australia. The company leased the Galileo CRS, PC hardware, software and communications networks to travel agents, which enabled on-line airline, hotel and car rental bookings. This was.

Melbourne, Australia

Responsible for distribution and promotional activities for the two way radio and paging divisions.

Melbourne, Australia

Managed materials and manufacturing lines that produced the two way radio and paging products for Motorola in Australia. During this period the Australian designed and built Syntrx two way radio was launched, taking Motorola to a position of market leadership in Australia. Delivery lead times were reduced from 12 weeks to 1 week, and inventory turns.

Melbourne, Australia

Developed new test methods and customised machinery to test the Australian wool clip.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business Administration And Management, General

Won a Commonwealth Post Graduate Scholarship in 1987 to complete the final year.

Graduate Diploma, Engineering/Industrial Management

During 1985 enrolled in both this institution & M.B.A. concurrently.

Bachelor’S Degree, Science, Honours

Achieved 1st position in order of merit in the school of chemistry in 1981.