Escient is an exciting digital and business advisory firm with leaders and employees who are fully committed and passionate about building a highly successful company, founded on the three values being, creative, courageous and selflessness. We have a relentless focus on our clients, which is strengthened by our approach to partnering and builds on our foundations of bringing creativity and fresh thinking to all business problems. We work across a variety of sectors (Critical Infrastructure, Government, Health, Education and Financial Services amongst others) with key strategic clients, to provide advisory and high impact implementation services, using best practice methods and frameworks and applying them through experience.Escient recognises the true importance of people, and recruits only the best in the market that share our values and goals. Through our unique ownership structure and employee value proposition, we ensure our people are motivated and set up for success from the outset.

Lord Coconut is a retail and online store focused on Handmade jewellery, objet d’arts and design items for men. Featuring 40 Australian artists and designers, Lord Coconut supports the Australian industry through regular exhibitions and events aligned to major Melbourne festivals such as Midsumma, Melbourne Fashion Week, Melbourne Fringe Festival and many others.An active participant at Lord Coconut for in-store events as well as leading customer engagement at wedding fairs and specialist events that Lord Coconut presents at.

Cofense®, formerly known as PhishMe®, is the leading provider of human-driven phishing defense solutions for organizations concerned with their susceptibility to sophisticated cyber-attacks. Cofense delivers a collaborative, cooperative approach to cybersecurity by enabling organization-wide response to the most used attack vector— phishing. Cofense serves customers of all sizes across multiple industries including financial services, energy, government, healthcare, technology and manufacturing, as well as other Global 1000 entities that understand how engaging user behavior will improve security, aid incident response and reduce the risk of compromise. Focussing on critical infrastructure, telecommunications and Government sector.

Established in 2006 and with a singular focus on "Information Security", TrustedImpact prides itself on delivering demonstrable business outcomes by applying an independent perspective and by leveraging senior security consulting professionals. Simply put, we help our clients understand, prioritize, and secure sensitive information. Our team of cybersecurity specialists consults to clients in Government Departments, Agencies and Statutory Authorities, Health, Education, Financial services, Retail and Entertainment amongst others. Core Competencies include:- Cyber Risk, Maturity and Strategy- Penetration Testing and Technical Insights- Security Awareness and Culture- Cloud Security Validation Assessment- Crisis Response Preparedness- Security Policy and Frameworks [VPDSF, Essential 8, NIST, ISO27001]Works hand-in-glove with the Managing Director, Heads of Practice and Principal consultants for Advisory, Awareness and Assurance when responding to tenders, positioning engagements, structuring Statements of Work and ensuring quality outcomes for TrustedImpact clients.Delivered security awareness and education programs to TrustedImpact clients across Government, Education and Financial Services sectors.

Ampion unites 26 years of combined engineering excellence from award-winning technology service providers Revolution IT and Shelde. With a local team of more than 600 technology specialists delivering across software assurance, technology security and digital transformation, Ampion has the experience, know-how and capacity to scale up and accelerate your digital initiatives.As Account Director, I work across key accounts in Telco, Utilities and Critical Infrastructure as well as select others in Government and Financial services.

Shelde is a recognised specialist security, digital engineering and data analytics provider to corporate and Government clients. Initially focusing on digital engineering and data analytics within Victoria clients, my role expanded to all Shelde services to my Key accounts.In September 2020, Shelde re-branded to Ampion, after a merger with Revolution IT.

Driving continued growth and deeper partnerships with customers, partners and vendors such as Telstra, Google, Amazon, Azure, Palo Alto Networks, NetApp, Veeam and Equinix amongst others. Managing a team of account managers focused across different portfolios and territories in Australia (Vic, NSW, SA) and Asia Pacific for Australian clients. Working with clients who are moving from on-premise to Public Cloud (Telstra's CSX, Google GCP, Amazon AWS or Microsoft Azure) or Private Cloud (Equinix, NextDC) or to multicloud.

Oreta is focussed on guiding organisations to transform their businesses to be the best in their field. We seek to gain a deep understanding of the businesses of our customers and bring their ideas to life by bringing technology to bear. This includes measuring Cloud Readiness, developing Cloud Roadmaps, implementing and managing this ongoing. Oreta can cover all aspects from the design, architecture and implementation of infrastructure services in the Cloud including Security & Identity, Network and Data considerations, Business Continuity (backup) and Disaster Recovery to managed services. As a leading cloud integrator, we know and work with every aspect of the different clouds, choosing the “right fit” cloud environments suited to the business needs of every single customer. We are able to build architectures that combine legacy systems and existing hardware with the swift, seamless cloud-based world.We’ve also built meaningful relationships with many other top-notch cloud and software companies, Google, NetApp, Veeam, Palo Alto, Equinix, Microsoft, AWS, Cisco and Microland. This enables us to be on top of the changing landscape of the cloud world, so that we can bring you the best of the innovation and value right to your door step.

MetaPM is a specialist professional services firm working with clients in a wide variety of sectors providing expertise in Project Management, Business Analysis, Change Management and Enterprise Agility:- To drive the delivery of unique or critical projects. - To improve organisational capability.- To undertake accredited learning in PRINCE2®, PRINCE2 Agile, MSP®, P3O®, MOP, Managing Benefits, AgilePM, AgilePgM, AgileBA, Change Management, Lean Six Sigma and ITIL Foundation and ITIL Practitioner courses, delivered by practitioners, not teachers. Tamara has engaged with a variety of clients in financial services, telco, ICT, utilities, Victorian Government, NSW Government, Tasmanian Government, Federal Government and Not-for-Profit to deliver greater return on project investments.

Director of a not-for-profit organisation with key focus on commercial activities such as partnerships / sponsorship engagement, community engagement, organisational structure and networking.Running for more than 20 years, Artists for Kids Culture has established itself as an important cornerstone of funding for children and young adults who are growing up in disadvantaged economic and social circumstances. Primarily funding is directed via public housing playground facilitators in the inner suburbs of Melbourne, however we commonly support several projects during the year for both individuals and groups outside of these parameters. The organisation prides itself on maintaining a grass roots approach by maintaining close contact with the groups that we support to understand the needs in these communities and the value of the funding to making a difference in the lives of these children. Intervention via providing extracurricular activities and opportunities has proven to impact positively on behaviour and breaking the cycle of poverty. Our approach lends itself to an almost unlimited scope in the funding requests that we will consider, with our key objective being to ensure that those vulnerable to falling through cracks in our social fabric are given the opportunity to participate in extracurricular activities that fire their passion, and enjoy social and cultural experiences that will provide them with confidence and skills to forge their future. “Putting this together gives a group of artists the satisfaction of helping and empowering these kids. That’s why we started it and every year the auction gets better – and that’s what we strive for” David Larwill, 2/99Responsible for Grant Making. Working on marketing, sponsorship, event day running lists and sourcing new attendees and artists to the auction.

Tamara's role focused on utilising Citak's Headhunting methodology to deliver interim executive appointments, contracting and consulting opportunities across all practice lines. Tamara will also undertake permanent headhunt assignments in Professional Services, Digital Services & ICT covering Strategic, Architectural/ Analytical and Delivery functions. Tamara will work on engagements across Australia and into the Asia Pacific region.

Tamara managed a diverse team of Account Managers and Recruitment Consultants with experience servicing major accounts and specialist client needs. Clients are spread across Telecommunications, IT Consulting, Service Providers, Security, Risk & Governance, Finance, Banking & Insurance, Health and Retail sectors amongst others. The team provides top quality contractors and permanent staff in Victoria and partners with interstate and Asia Pacific offices for national and global accounts. Tamara's role covered sales, operations, training, strategic and business planning.

As Practice Manager, Corporate, Tamara oversees a team of account managers in the Commercial Division for contract placements and permanent recruitment.Tamara is responsible for Business Development, Key Account Relationship Management, mentoring and coaching of account managers and Business planning.

As Victorian Manager, Tamara has grown the business substantially through her leadership of the Commercial Contracting team, in contractor numbers and sales revenue since joining Clicks IT Recruitment. In 2007, Tamara took on the permanent team as well. Tamara has been positioning Clicks as a quality consultancy where Business Meets Technology and has successfully worked with leading financial services, banking, insurance, Telco, systems integrators, energy companies and IT consulting firms.

As National Account Manager for Telstra, Tamara directly and indirectly managed a team of 30 recruitment consultants working across 3 major panel agreements for services from Julia Ross (Office Personnel), Ross Calibre (Specialist) and Firstwater (Executive) business divisions. This role required extensive Business development, account management, strategic marketing planning and vendor process engagement with Telstra's Procurement divisions and executive management team. Tamara was influential in growing the sales revenue significantly in the Specialist and Executive business divisions. Tamara also increased the brand recognition for Ross Human Directions within Telstra's executive and middle management level.

Tamara's role commenced as Senior Account Manager and within 11 weeks was promoted to Victorian General Manager. Her role involved managing a team of 5 recruitment consultants covering both permanent and contract IT placements in diverse industries including financial services, banking, Telco, Software Vendors, Hardware Vendors and Management Consulting firms.

Developed a new customer base through cold calling, referrals from other Manpower business units and marketing events. Specialized in eCommerce, software development and banking sectors, handling the ANZ Bank Panel account for permanent placements. Achievements• Trained and mentored five consultants in recruitment solutions methodology, contact management database and Manpower policies. • Significantly increased revenue within ANZ Bank account through comprehensive account planning and engaging with internal stakeholders for a coordinated sales and service approach. • Attended monthly service reviews and sought ways to improve Victorian service delivery.• No. 1 Revenue Achiever in IT Manpower nationally (Q1 & Q2, 2000)