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Helping businesses solve problems.Working with clients to make your work-life better, by achieving interconnecting solutions through strategy and governance. Focusing on the implementation of sustainable solutions and knowledge transfer, we are an agile problem-solving management consultancy.Providing solutions in strategic governance underpinned by.

Melbourne, Victoria, AU

Support various BHP operations and functions deploy the BHP Operating System (BOS) through coaching team members and leadership team in business improvement practices and tools.

Qld, AU

Help executives target improvements in the right areas of business.Focus on supporting clients to deliver transformational change and operational improvements.Build knowledge and embed this in client organisations.

Fortitude Valley, Queensland, AU

• Revenue improvement and cost reduction through process redesign.
• Capability uplift through governance and system leadership.Key Achievements
• Enabled increased revenue of $4 million pa from increased throughput of greater than 1 million tonnes pa through reduced train turnaround time from the Operating Model implementation.
• Identified $6 million additional benefits to be delivered across 2 years by facilitating a focussed workshop with department Vice Presidents.
• Significantly improved executive-level governance processes through the Enterprise Performance Leadership system, of which the MD & CEO has noted that the process has put “process rigour into the system so we are much.

Brisbane, Queensland, AU

• Program management of transformation from a government-owned corporation to a publicly listed company.
• Capability uplift through governance and system leadership.Key Achievements
• Refocussed company efforts, identifying approximately 20 work-streams that could be stopped with no harm to business continuity through running a What Stops Workshop with senior leaders.
• Increased commercial focus of program members through ensuring project deliverables included clearly-identified value.
• Developed and implemented a business-wide Transformation benefits rack-up process and benefits calculation methodology and processes, including critical analysis through post-implementation reviews.

North Sydney, NSW, AU

• Led business improvement for the Eastern Division across 17 operating sites with diverse operations in Queensland, NSW, and Tasmania.Key Achievements
• Identified lost-revenue opportunities of approximately $1 million pa through implementation of the Operational Performance Measurement System (OPMS) and KPI dashboards across the operations of the Eastern Division.
• Identified $2-3 million annual equipment downtime lost-revenue opportunities through development and implementation of a daily and weekly operational “flash” reporting and review process, used as a key management report.
• Created a management lean thinking game representing on-site load-and-haul operations, clearly demonstrating the benefits of reduced variation through a simple yet powerful hands-on experiential approach; this won the.

• Systems and leadership governance development and implementation.
• Key Performance Indicator (KPI) and balanced scorecard reporting development and management.Key Achievements
• Enabled real-time integration and analysis of manually collected data through leadership of the team of operators and support staff responsible for the successful development and implementation of handheld electronic.
• Improved site data visualisation leading to enhanced trouble-shooting and decision-making through management of the cross-functional Lytton Refinery Information System (RIS) design team of five engineers, which.
• Redeveloped an integrated management system, incorporating elements of ISO-9001 and the Chevron Operational Excellence Management System (OEMS).
• Key development of the Caltex System Framework, as endorsed by the Caltex Leadership Team and the Board of Caltex Australia Limited.

Business Analysis across the Comalco Aluminium group

Business improvement support, analysis and advice across the Comalco Aluminium group.

Site performance improvement specialist: Comalco Aluminium (Bell Bay).Site performance improvement Engagement Manager: Boyne Smelters Limited.

Management systems development, implementation and advice: Comalco Aluminium (Bell Bay)

Leadership of the smelter metal products finished goods scheduling, warehousing and shipping to customers: Comalco Aluminium (Bell Bay)

Leadership of the smelter mainframe operations: Comalco Aluminium (Bell Bay)

SAP implementation & support: Comalco Aluminium (Bell Bay)

Smelting operations: Comalco Aluminium (Bell Bay)

Research projects in aluminium smelting: Comalco Research Centre

Master Of Business Administration, Business Administration

Bachelor Of Applied Science (Bappsc), Metallurgy