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Brisbane City, Qld, Au

Australia

Partners in Performance (acquired by Accenture in 2024) is a Tier 1 boutique management consultancy; a leading global player in driving operational effectiveness and organisational excellence for complex organisations. Selected experienceLed review of fixed plant shutdown performance to identify improvements at all stages from planning to close out. Identified $300m p.a improvement opportunities for a global iron ore miner. Led productivity improvement and operating strategy transformation at a major Autonomous Haul Iron Ore mine. Client site increased production by 31% over 5 months.Led commercial strategy review for a global diversified miner’s Seaborne Met Coal JV company. Partnered with the client to deliver a strategy to add billions of dollars in value and map the owners' potential exit pathways from coal. Led benchmarking and production optimisation review for a multi-site met coal miner in Australia. Identified $600m in production uplift opportunities across multiple underground and open cut sites with improvement opportunities found in all value chain areas (development to processing).Led strategic assessment to develop supply chain resilience strategies and procurement and productivity improvements for a $3B+ utility project in the energy sector. Identified 30+ key schedule and cost risks and >$200m in procurement and construction productivity savings. Led development of the Residential EV product offering strategy which enables demand smoothing for an NZ power company to mitigate $800m forecast network spend required to handle otherwise unabated peak load increases.Led Maintenance improvement work-stream for a business improvement engagement with an underground copper mine. Increased fleet availability delivered $30m p.a. production uplift.

Australia

Global MRO Inventory Strategy lead, accountable for the inbound supply chain digitisation roadmap developing opportunity assessments and progressing investment business cases.In this role I also directly managed a program of work to standardise processes, reduce costs and uplift performance in the Nickel West Warehouse, Inventory and Logistics team and transition tactical work to global shared services.

Australia

Acting role / extended Step-up leader accountable for Inventory at all Australia based mining assets across Iron Ore, Nickel, Metallurgical Coal and Copper commodities.Led 40 person team (15 direct reports) with US1.1B inventory under management.

Brisbane, Australia

Acting position(s) to cover extended leave.Led two teams concurrently. Accountable for supply chain strategy development for the maintenance center of excellence and BAU operational inventory management for the Nickel West Asset.Led team of 12 direct reports.

Brisbane, Australia

BHP Commercial Function Logistics Leadership team, Principal Planner to the Vice PresidentDirectly supported the executive team in a coordination and facilitation capacity, including deployment of executive level standardised work practices and routines, functional business planning and performance appraisal preparation.Responsible for global team culture, inclusion and diversity aspirations and strategic alignment for inbound supply chain and operations teams in Australia and the Americas.

Brisbane, Australia

Initiative lead in a global functional transformation programme - my team delivered global minimum contracting standards and tools to automate the identification of non-compliant materials.I also provided my expertise in Inventory Management in an SME capacity to support the definition and implementation of a higher performing and lower cost global MRO inventory management strategy and organisation structure. The outcome was 50% reduced personnel costs and a 5% service level improvement.

Brisbane, Australia

Continuous Improvement role in BMA Playbook 2.0 program which delivered substantial operational behaviour and process changes to optimize Truck and Shovel operations productivity.In addition to developing and delivering improvement initiatives within individual operations I was responsible for coordinating all work stream reporting and developing Asset wide productivity benchmarks.

Brisbane, Australia

Identified and delivered cost reductions saving BMA (Coal) and WAIO (Iron Ore) Assets US 200M in external spend by automatically sourcing internal surplus inventory from alternate locations in preference to triggering external procurement.Directly managed supply chain service level and US150M+ inventory for multiple open cut mining operations.

Brisbane Area, Australia

Graduate, Consultant and Senior Consultant at EY in Advisory in the Supply Chain and Operations Performance Improvement team. I supported clients in health and aged care, government, banking, utilities, agriculture, mining, FMCG and logistics.Promoted from graduate to Senior Consultant within 15 months of joining the firm due to consistent high performance and significant contributions to EY winning major on-sell projects.

St Lucia, Brisbane

Part time teacher for undergraduate level mathematical analysis and optimisation techniques, thermodynamics and process design for the School of Chemical Engineering.

Melbourne, Australia

During my internship I delivered two related projects which: optimised pump and pipe system configuration to reduce offshore pump opex by US 2M p.a. and developed a fluid dynamics model to monitor and provide ongoing performance insights for the fire suppression system of Esso’s largest production platform in Bass Strait.

Bachelor Of Engineering With Honours (Be, Hons)

Bachelor Of Commerce (Bcom)

Scx Bootcamp

Micromasters

Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt