My experience, leadership and contribution during tendering stages enables win strategies and proposals that achieve successful results.A professional career spanning engineering tradesman to operations director for a software company enables me to engage people at all organisational levels, comprehend essential information and means I can respond to a wide range of writing requests. Currently, my work is centred around RFP and tender submissions, creating business documents and copy for websites.

Nearly all companies have the potential to greatly increase their profitability and success, but need the additional expertise and knowledge of a focused “Third Party” to look from the outside in.I add value in the areas of sales strategy, business strategy and risk management, talent strategy and retention, leadership, culture building, general HR practice, and operations management. I have turned around unprofitable business operations, developed cohesive team cultures and HR strategy, and implemented successful business growth strategies.

Lightspeed Graphic's software is shaping the future of design tools and visualisation. The vision is to bring advanced cloud based design capability to everyday people empowering them to design environments, create, visualise, share and make purchasing decisions.Our team are providing the technical software platforms and design features to support this vision. My role in involved working closely with the principle Shareholder to organise and develop the company. I created the operational frameworks that support an environment of innovation within which the talented people I worked with can be their best - everyday. Achievements includeFinancial ManagementManagement of all day to day and financial operations - forecasting,planning and reporting Establishment and management of annual budgetsEstablishment of financial records and monthly reporting Award of Callaghan Funding R&D Growth Grant - $1.5 MillionHuman Resource Management EX18 Awards - Employee Initiative of the Year award Winner Development of Health & Safety Policies and practice Development and implementation of a full program of HR policiesDevelopment of the recruitment and on-boarding programDevelopment and implementation of retention strategiesDevelopment of the Academy Learning and Development practiceEstablishment of employee performance assessment and development systemEstablishment of a cloud based HR management platform (Bamboo HR)OperationsEstablishment of the leadership teamEstablish and implementing the company Vision, Mission and ValuesAnnual strategic plans and risk mitigation plans Contribution to product design and management

Responsible for the turn around of Enterprise Recruitment's Auckland CBD operation which provided specialist talent for the Information Technology, Business Operations, Sales and Technical domains.The turnaround was based on developing an outcomes focus, shared participation in business objective and goal setting and creating team values. The CBD operation became the most profitable of the company's operations for the year ending March 2016.

Tomorrow provides professional services to organisations undergoing significant change. I had the privilege to work with the experienced Tomorrow team and network to accelerate delivery, improve time to benefit and reduce risk for clients in their transformation initiatives.Areas of company specialty - IS strategy, technology strategy, enterprise architecture, Project management, shared services models, ERP implementation and change management.

My role involved designing and implementing the national sales strategy for Kelly Services. I introduced innovative approaches to tender responses and customer workforce solutions for key national accounts.Strategic consulting with industry leaders at the C suite and govt. levels, and best practice development within the Kelly sales division.

Responsible for the co-ordination and delivery of Kelly Services business development at the national level. Key accounts included national telecoms providers, national retail chains, national manufacturing companies and government departments. A key outcome that I provided was to redesign Kelly's presentation documents for tender and proposal responses. This including tailored engagement and presentation strategies for each opportunity as it presented. This greatly increased the company's success in winning national preferred supplier contracts.

As NZ Manager of Professional & Techinical Recruitment for Kelly Services, I took on this struggling division on at the beginning of the 2008 Global Financial crisis (good timing!) :-).However, I was instrumental in building a team of experienced consultants and developing Kelly's business proposition for this division which focused on identifying passive talent in competitive technical domains. I got the division to eventual break even and profit before moving to the role of Strategic Customer Solutions Manager.