[ { "role": "Director, Company Secretary, General Manager (P/T)", "company": "3DM Surface Finishing", "endYear": "2025", "endMonth": "12", "location": "Melbourne Victoria", "startYear": "2019", "startMonth": "9", "description": "Director, Company Secretary and part time General Manager of 3DM Surface Finishing that has developed and patented a disruptive innovation to post-processing that delivers high-speed, part selectivity and zero contamination across a broad range of metals. We have a particular focus on the Additive Manufacturing industry." }, { "role": "Commercial Manager (P/T)", "company": "Sentient Bionics", "endYear": "2025", "endMonth": "12", "location": "", "startYear": "2021", "startMonth": "3", "description": "Part-time Commercial Director for Sentient Bionics, an engineering design company currently focused on the development of oxygen concentrators for commercial, defense and humanitarian applications." }, { "role": "Business Mentor", "company": "Victoria Government Small Business program", "endYear": "2025", "endMonth": "12", "location": "", "startYear": "2022", "startMonth": "3", "description": "Delivering coaching sessions and one on one actions plans for small business owners to address their business challenges and develop their business ideas and capabilities" }, { "role": "President", "company": "Melbourne Angels", "endYear": "2024", "endMonth": "8", "location": "Melbourne Victoria", "startYear": "2021", "startMonth": "8", "description": "Melbourne Angels is very much the quiet achiever of the Victorian Startup ecosystem investing $2-3 million in early stage startups every year. Our 90+ members are motivated by wanting to go on the journey with founders and are actively involved in the investment process. \n \nI love sharing my passion for start-ups. Some people start share portfolios - for me I started a portfolio of startup companies to create something that wasn't there before, something which I could be engaged with, which I could add value to, something that would create jobs and make the world a better place." }, { "role": "Project Director Business Engagement Strategy", "company": "Department of Economic Development, Jobs, Transport and Resources", "endYear": "2018", "endMonth": "1", "location": "Melbourne Victoria", "startYear": "2017", "startMonth": "6", "description": "Responsible for the development of a road map to make interactions between the Victoria State Government Employment Investment and Trade division and Victorian Businesses and stakeholders easier, more effective, targeted, measurable and customer focused. Produced a digital transformation strategy supported by an upgrade to the existing Salesforce platform including a move to agile development and support, an updated licensing model and the adoption of the latest marketing technology to better engage with Victorian Businesses." }, { "role": "Group Manager Online Marketing (Head of Digital)", "company": "Tourism Victoria/Visit Victoria", "endYear": "2017", "endMonth": "6", "location": "Melbourne Victoria", "startYear": "2001", "startMonth": "11", "description": "Managerial responsibility for all of Visit Victoria/Tourism Victoria’s online marketing and digital activities including websites, mobile, social media and information technology strategies." }, { "role": "Project Manager", "company": "Tourism Victoria", "endYear": "2001", "endMonth": "3", "location": "Melbourne Victoria", "startYear": "1999", "startMonth": "9", "description": "Project Manager on the $7.4m Victorian Tourism Online project with responsibilities that included:\n• Project Management tasks including contributing to planning, timelines, budgets, resource requirements, coordinating tasks, HR, team recruitment, management and leadership, mentoring and ensuring project milestones are met\n• Reporting on the progress of the project to the CEO and the board of Tourism Victoria through both written reports and formal presentations\n• Meeting product on-line signup and informational content gathering targets \n• Significant role in the selection of project partners, the management of the tender selection processes for purchasing of services and the management of contracts with successful tenders to implement the Tourism Online strategy\n• Review and acceptance of technology deliverables such as user requirements, systems architecture, systems design, process and workflow documents." }, { "role": "IT Consultant", "company": "Department of Infrastructure", "endYear": "1999", "endMonth": "9", "location": "Melbourne Victoria", "startYear": "1996", "startMonth": "9", "description": "This was a broad IT consulting role providing advice and expertise on the internet, business analysis and requirements documentation, knowledge management, business process re-engineering, network infrastructure, applications development and support. This role often involved being on selection panels for outsourcing contracts, package selection for off-the-shelf software purchases and management of a number of concurrent outsourced and insourced projects." }, { "role": "IT Consultant", "company": "Telstra", "endYear": "1996", "endMonth": "6", "location": "Melbourne Victoria", "startYear": "1995", "startMonth": "10", "description": "IT consultant covering a broad range of desktop and business systems support in the mobiles divisions of Telstra" }, { "role": "Systems Analyst", "company": "BP Australia", "endYear": "1993", "endMonth": "9", "location": "Melbourne Victoria", "startYear": "1989", "startMonth": "6", "description": "I joined the Information Services Division for eighteen months before taking up a position in the Retail Division working on the development of BP Service Station and 24 hour convenience store integrated point of sale, product scanning and back office systems. This included 7 months working on similar systems in the UK and Europe." } ]