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Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Melbourne, Australia

Led the day-to-day operation and management of the Cogent Energy business, overseeing financial management, contract management, asset management, reporting, customer relationships, and contract negotiations.- Managed customer billing, collections, and administrative functions, while developing and mentoring staff.- Prepared annual budgets and half-year forecasts including ongoing management of budget and monthly reporting.- Leveraged data-driven and analytical skills to optimize the performance, efficiency, and profitability of the fleet, while ensuring effective governance, risk management, and compliance.- Turned a fleet of cogeneration plants from a deficit to a significant profit, achieving stretch financial targets since 2017.- Developed numerous customer and supplier contracts, negotiating directly with counter-parties to agree on terms and engaging legal, tax, insurance, HSE, and other stakeholders when appropriate.- Successfully delivered the Vic micro-grid Virtual Power Plant project, valued at approximately $20M, in collaboration with cross-functional teams and the Victorian government.- Fostered strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including contractors, consultants, and government entities.

Melbourne, Australia

Hired by the founders of a health technology start-up to manage and lead innovative technology projects for Curve’s major client, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. Joined the leadership team as a director after 6 months. My responsibilities included working with medical researchers to translate their research into digital health products that can be commercialised, new business development including partnering with researchers to provide input into grant applications that fund the projects, business management including business process improvement, key client relationship management, software development (web and mobile) including problem definition, business analysis and user experience design.Achievements- Product manager/development lead for projects ranging from $50k to $1M (Agile).- Implemented numerous business improvement initiatives targeting operational efficiency, accurate quoting, and customer satisfaction (NPS +50).- Acknowledged in the British Medical Journal for the successful release of a medical app called Baby Moves.

Melbourne, Australia

Engineered and managed the construction of large tri-generation installations for commercial and industrial sites. I was responsible for detailed mechanical design of cogeneration/trigeneration plants, including mechanical system design, selection of key plant and equipment such as the generator, absorption chiller and other auxiliary plant, layout of plant and equipment, and producing tender packs including Piping and Instrumentation Diagram (P&ID), general arrangement drawing, mechanical specification and equipment schedule. Other responsibilities included evaluating tender responses prior to award of contract and developing high-level control specification for the plants which covered staging of plant, interface with BMS, control logic for electro-mechanical valves, pumps and other safety devices. I also conducted technical due diligence on new plant and equipment imported from India, China & Europe and was responsible for ensuring that the plant and equipment and the installation overall was compliant with Australian standards.Achievements- Mechanical/control design for 13 co-generation/tri-generation plants ranging in size from 400kW to 6MW, with an installation cost ranging from $800k to $6M.- Developed designs that were scalable, modular and transferable to new sites, leading to short design lead times and decreased risk. - Conducted technical due diligence of absorption chillers from India, China and Europe, and worked with the successful manufacturers to modify equipment to suit Australian standards and conditions.

Melbourne, Australia

Led the mechanical design of complex electro-mechanical products for rail, military and other transport industries. Promoted to manage a team of mechanical engineers and industrial designers. I was responsible for ensuring the products were cost effective to manufacture, compliant with relevant Australian standards, can withstanding tough vibration, heat, humidity, and ingress protection requirements as well as being user friendly. I was also responsible for the development and management of a team of mechanical engineers and industrial designers. I also ensured that the manufacturing packs produced were accurate and comprehensive and included well thought-out assembly instructions to prevent quality issues arising, both for locally manufactured products and products outsourced to China.Achievements- Developed over 30 products including black box recorders, CCTV systems & LCD displays.- Adopted rapid prototyping techniques including FDM, SLA, and 3D printing to accelerate development of products.- Utilised Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) analyses to fast track the design of products to comply with tough environmental requirements.

Bachelor Of Engineering (Mechatronics)/Computer Science

- Graduated with 1st Class honours - Designed and constructed a formula-style race car as part of the 2002 Formula SAE competition..

Certificate Iv In Small Business Management

Business Plans/Proposals, Market Research, Book Keeping, Marketing, Tax.

Victorian Certificate Of Education (Vce)

Dux of Year 12.