Nearly thirty proud years of working in health and community services in direct service delivery, management and sector development/policy roles to improve the lives of people living with mental health conditions, both in Australia and the USA. • Mental health sector reform and National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) knowledge and experience.• Ethical and values based professional working to address complex and diverse health and social experiences of people affected by mental health conditions and emotional distress.• Personable, resourceful and productive with the capacity to work effectively under pressure and in high demand situations.• Ability to synthesise complex information and communicate it to others effectively.• Produced major written reports addressing the unmet mental health needs of people with mental health conditions and other complex health and social problems. • Successfully wrote large grants securing budget to expand community services for adults with psychosocial (i.e., psychiatric) disabilities.• Ability to work with varied populations from the private, government and community sectors.• Experience working with diverse client populations and issues.• Extensive knowledge of health and community service delivery with an emphasis on mental health, homeless, drug and alcohol, disability, rehabilitation and recovery services.• Effective manager and administrator: supervised multidisciplinary teams; prepared reports; maintained records and statistics; wrote grants; budget development and oversight.• Experience in community planning and development, staffing committees, and providing leadership on special projects.• Skilled vocational trainer and assessor with competencies related to mental health and substance use workforce development and learning.• Proficient in assessment, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of individuals with psychiatric diagnosis and/or psychosocial disability.