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Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Applying and reviewing Australia’s sanctions framework

Australia

Implementing the Agreement between Australia the US on Access to Electronic Data for the Purpose of Countering Serious Crime

Advancing Australia’s international crime cooperation objectives within the International Crime Treaties and Policy Section.

Canberra, Australia

In the International Crime Cooperation Central Authority I:• assessed in-coming Mutual Assistance requests;• identified request deficiencies and drafting correspondence;• liaised with enforcement agencies including the Australian Federal Police and Australian Border Force.

Canberra, Australia

I am part of the National Offshore Petroleum Data Integration Project team, facilitating the availability of technical data from offshore surveys and wells. This has involved:• database interrogation and management;• categorisation of data in accordance with the Offshore Petroleum Act 2006 (Cth);• digitisation and quality control of State data.

Canberra, Australia

During my time as an intern in the Sea Law, Environment Law and Antarctica Section of DFAT I conducted research on legal aspects of utilising unmanned aerial vehicles in Hot Pursuits on the High Seas. This work included:• assessing the likely nature of Australian maritime enforcement activity;• legal analysis of international case law and treaty interpretation;• liaising with departmental and external supervisors.

Melbourne, Australia

A wide ranging commissioning role on a range of projects:• Barwon Water Biosolids Management Project – process analysis of the generation of biochemical byproducts, utilities design review and optimisation.• Toyota Australia – trade waste system design, commissioning and operator training.• Lend Lease / Mulwala Redevelopment Project – commissioning activities on the newly constructed explosives (propellant) plant including optimisation and troubleshooting of processes, equipment and DCS systems in a high hazard environment (ie. energetic materials, solvents, concentrated acids).

Melbourne, Australia

Engaged as a Project Engineer with technical and management responsibilities across a number of projects of varied scale and complexity, particularly in the mining and petrochemical sectors. The current suite of projects includes those where Ultraspin are the OEM (~$200k projects), as well as subcontracting to lead contractors where we are suppliers of the core technology (~$10M total project value). The requirements of this position included:• Project Management – responsibility for the control of cost, schedule and quality for a range of projects, liaising with stakeholders both locally, interstate and internationally. Emphasis was placed on scope definition and management throughout the project lifecycle. • Project Engineering – development of technical solutions to satisfy clients’ treated water requirements, ie. translating process design to real world applications. • Procedure Development – generation and review of company procedures where none existed or those that were obsolete.

While nominally employed as a Chemical Engineer, circumstances necessitated involvement in a range of areas. These included:• Site Management - more often that not being the sole company representative on site, I was responsible for liaising with local (ie. Irish) contractors and our client, managing the site workforce, maintaining appropriate feedstock, fuel, and storage levels, and providing feedback to head office.• Project Management - responsibility for the management of various re-engineering and modification works was distributed amongst the engineering group, and I was involved both as manager and team member. • Process Engineering - during trials/operations I was responsible for managing successful plant operation as well as the training of the local operators.• Design Engineering - as part of the engineering team I was involved in design work for the re-engineering of the existing plant, as well as working on the broader re-design work for subsequent plants including mass and energy balances. This also consisted of design, sizing and procuring of equipment and instrumentation.• Miscellaneous - satisfying the requirements of CE Compliance and Hazardous Area regulations, participation in HAZOPs, organising transcontinental transportation of Dangerous Good and other process instrumentation and equipment, developing and presenting training programs for plant operators and technicians, development of a Plant Operations Manual.

During my time at Thales I was part of the Product Development section, with key projects focused on the productionisation of novel gun propellant variants in addition to various propellant production support roles. Key responsibilities here included:• Project Management - each development project I was responsible for was conducted in accordance with project management principles.• Experimental Design/Analysis - the efficient utilisation of facility material and resources was critical, and it was thus essential that all trials (eg. pilot scale processing) produced results in an optimal manner.• Auditing - team members were regularly engaged in auditing other projects and processes, including site safety procedures, proposed modifications and analysis of results.

While the Australian Pulp & Paper Institute is based at Monash University, there was extensive collaboration with industry during my involvement in the investigation of fundamental paper physics, the Kraft pulping process, and the de-inking of newsprint as part of the recycling process. Experience was gained in:• Experimental Design/Analysis - the development of robust experimental methods and procedures to optimise the results achieved with respect to the time and money expended.• Design - I designed and managed fabrication of a pilot scale flotation deinking rig to satisfy the requirements of of both my, and subsequent, experimental programs.• Laboratory operations - I conducted a range of laboratory work, including confocal scanning microscopy, UV absorption analysis, physical property analysis and nitrogen absorption analysis.

Juris Doctor, Law

Masters Of Engineering Science, Pulp And Paper Technology

Activities and Societies: Postgraduate Representative - Engineering Faculty Board, Australian Pulp and Paper Institute Green Office.

Bachelor Of Engineering, Chemical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Winner Kvaerner-Chemeca Student Design Prize (joint recipient,1998)