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Australia, Burleigh Heads, AU

As Chief Operations Officer at Australani, I lead the organization in delivering holistic healthcare solutions that prioritize patient-centered, integrative care. My role encompasses driving the strategic vision, ensuring that Australani remains at the forefront of innovative green medicine while upholding the highest standards of clinical excellence. I.

South Yarra, Victoria, AU

Responsible for leading Cronos Australia operations as a market leader within the medicinal cannabis industry, providing patient centered care to thousands of chronically ill patients nationwide. With 100+ employees nationally the operations provides various B2B and B2C services to support natural healthcare.

Burleigh Heads, QLD, AU

• I have been cofounder of Jam Berry for over 12 years and have taken a more active role in our family business.Notable achievements:
• Business change transformation, to facilitate the scaling up on the business operations
• Rollout of new and updating of business systems and process improvement; accounting package and CRM/lead generation system

Sydney CBD, New South Wales, AU

Leading all facets of Tweed River Care Community. This comprises of operationally: clinical teams, social and recreational teams, administration team, facilities maintenance team, kitchen and food service, laundry and housekeeping, allied services. Strategically I am responsible for the P&L, future growth and the strategic direction of the home.

Reedy Creek, Queensland, AU

• The COO role required I provide leadership of all operational and business functions, ensuring that these unpinned and supported the vision and strategic direction of the College, deliverying on learning.
• Focused leader, recognized for delivering superior resultso $17.5m new build and redevelopment of learning spaces, ensuring 21st century design layout with seamless integration with technologyo Implementation of.
• Reshaped the culture and the organisation to empower positive change and innovation
• Embedded strategic planning, operational management through lean six sigma techniques
• Decision making through the use of quantitative data and analyzing opportunities.
• The development of key talent within the College embedding empowerment within teams and individuals

North Sydney, NSW, AU

• NBN construction undertook a restructure to position the business to meet the increased scale in construction required to enable the throughput planned in the integrated operating plan. This role while managing a.
• Leadership of the business through the transition and embedding of sustainable change, delivering on New Developments and program outcomes
• Output improvements through key strategic planning and execution
• Leading Queensland Regional Deployment, process improvement team – identifying issues and undertaking steps to embed positive change
• Leadership of collaborative outcomes with business partners; improved construction processes, seeing the number of defects, and variations dramatically reduce per project

North Sydney, NSW, AU

• This role was driven by the large number of issues that had arisen in New Developments and as a result of the change in construction contract – outsourcing from Fujitsu to a new delivery partner Visionstream. In this.
• Organisational restructure of the business; embedded with McKinsey Co consultancy team to review, consult, engage and undertake a restructure of the construction elements of NBN Co. The outcome was a business wide.
• Strategic refocused the effort back into getting the network (pit and pipe) correct before undertaking planning and design. As a result, this has allowed for more accurate designs which have seen “in service” lead.
• Leadership of collaborative outcomes with Visionsteam to ensure improved construction processes, seeing the number of defects, and variations dramatically reduce per project. It was not uncommon to have over 60-70.
• Managed team of Field Supervisors (23 supervisors) to ensure the build and quality was to the standard NBN Co required. I reorganised the team to allow for great flexibility in the way jobs were assigned. As a result.

North Sydney, NSW, AU

• Leadership of the New Developments National Design team (secondment)Key achievements:
• Increase in design releases volumes to business partners through reorganising people and system resources
• Process improvement initiatives implemented - quality control and improvements in designs

North Sydney, NSW, AU

• Leadership of the National Planning and Design team, for the national brownfields construction program. Key achievements:
• Significant improvement in design output and quality from the national design teams. This was the first time the monthly targets had ever been met in over 12 months with fit for purpose designs.
• Structural change management; team leaders, senior fibre planners and fibre planners
• Processes improvement initiatives to improve the quality in the design delivery.
• Improved response times back to key stakeholders

North Sydney, NSW, AU

• Responsible for managing the construction of one of the first five release sites in Australia – Townsville, for the National Broadband Network. Key Responsibilities:
• Site management – construction, HSE and quality assurance of build
• Development of construction methodologies
• Responsible for the delivery of the project
• Negotiations principal contractor
• Variation approval

• Project managing contracts, land access, design and approvals for gas, water and civil construction projects. The role entailed managing both internal and external projects; contractor management, tender evaluations.
• Proposal development
• Scheduling
• Budget development and tracking
• Managing internal external project resources
• Managing expenditure

Nerang, QLD, AU

• Managing multiple projects concurrently – commercial land development, commercial construction, commercial fit outs, residential land development and residential construction. I was involved in all the stages of the.
• $14.6 mil civil construction of a commercial multi use space (office, gymnasium, restaurants, function rooms & auditorium).
• Manage the fit out of all tenancies for the above building.
• 132 lot residential development – Qld
• 153 lot residential development – Qld
• $1.8m development of a childcare centre (74 children) – Qld

Nerang, QLD, AU

• Key Responsibilities:
• Management of the Finance and Commercial department and IT group
• Reporting companies result to the managing director
• Liaise with clients, financial institutions, accountants, solicitors and other external advisers
• Training and development of staff
• Creditor, debtors, assets and cash flow management and analysis

• BDM in the business services division.Key Responsibilities:
• Management of staff, performance reviews, objective setting, timesheets and billing
• Contract negotiations
• Establishment of the business plans for the group
• Preparation annual financial budgets and review
• Managed marketing strategies and campaigns - new business sales

• Consulting services on various finance and accounting projects and to provide consulting, support and project management services. Key Responsibilities & achievements:
• Managed the setup of an accounting team for a new office in London
• Established the standard accounting processes and support infrastructure for new office
• Managed the implementation of a Fixed Assets system in Pakistan
• Provided consulting and general accounting issues
• Support for the accounting system operations globally

• Key Responsibilities:
• Management of the accounting and IT groups
• Accounting group – Personal assistants, senior accounts, accounts payable, accounts receivable, human resources team, payroll reporting team and maintenance teams
• Information Technology – Desktop support, networks support, systems support and communications
• Provide advice to all profit centre mangers in fulfilling their financial responsibilities
• Implementation of appropriate management accounting systems and controls

• El Paso Energy had the following operations:- Philippines – Bunkering and terminal operations, power & pipeline sites, fuel distribution operations, Australia – gas pipelines, UK – crude oil trading operation, Estonia.
• Lead a team of around six accountants, 40 accounts clerks and responsible for the daily operations of the finance department out of the Philippines
• Responsible for the group consolidation and preparation of budget and forecasts
• Monthly and ad hoc financial reports to head office management
• Establish, maintain and implement internal control procedures
• Oversee all aspects of financial and management accounts from preparation to reporting to management

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Bachelor Of Business, Business/Commerce, General

Diploma, Project Management

Bachelor Of Applied Science, Information Technology