Experience

CPS Technology & Infrastructure Pty Ltd

• Australia
• Telecommunications
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Planner

  • Jul 2023 - Present



Ventia

• Australia
• Facilities Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• National Planning Manager

  • Jul 2022 - Jul 2023

  As the National Planning Manager I am in charge of all planners on the Telstra Wireless Project and ensuring that key deliverable are met according to internal and Client timeframes and quality requirements. As part of this role I give technical advice to Planners across Australia, review all key deliverables including reports and timeframes, manage workloads across the Planning team and interface with the Clients representatives. I also manage my own projects, including those of particularly high sensitivity. Show less

• Senior Planner

  • Oct 2018 - Jul 2022

  One of two (2) senior planners within the Telstra Wireless area, managing teams and deliverables for various Telstra and Amplitel projects. The role requires a detailed knowledge of planning and environmental legislation across Australia and the ability to lead a time to ensure that at the outside due diligence is undertaken to a high level so that work can be effectively managed internally and externally, and then that the project can be delivered to the end Client.

• Senior Planner - National

  • Oct 2018 - May 2022

  I manage a team of planners across Australia undertaking a range of projects for Telecommunication Carriers. My primary role is in the Federal Government Mobile Black Spot Program, undertaking site acquisition for Telstra. Through my role at Visionstream I am responsible for:managing a team of planners across Australia, including assisting with their training and reviewing their worktendering for upcoming projects, including standard due diligence checks and writing tailored stakeholder engagement strategies for clientsundertaking all regulatory Planning work under various Local, State and Federal Planning requirementssetting and managing team priorities for clients across multiple projectscommunity and stakeholder management, including organising and being a key representative at hostile community meetings on contentious projectsproviding information and advice to key stakeholders such as Federal and State members on Telstra projectsThe wide-ranging work as part of the Mobile Black Spot Project has allowed me to undertake planning in every State in Australia. I have worked through complex Native Title, World Heritage and Cultural Heritage considerations, key deliberations with senior Council staff and elected representatives, and legal challenges to particular projects. My key achievements in this role are:a 100% success rate on all major projectsestablishing clear communication and due diligence processes for major projects that were then rolled out across the company Show less



Department of State Development, Manufacturing, Infrastructure and Planning

• Gold Coast

• Senior Planning Officer

  • Oct 2017 - Oct 2018

  A senior member of the busiest planning-based regional office. I am tasked with managing a wide array of complex development applications, assessing plan-making matters, providing comprehensive planning guidance key stakeholders and supporting key team initiatives. Key achievements • Providing guidance and technical assistance to local governments on statutory planning matters. • Preparing high-quality briefing notes and similar documents to the government of the day • Assessing complex development applications and several important and contentious local planning instruments. • Negotiating mutually agreeable outcomes in development assessment and plan-making. • Leading team responses to planning-related policies and documents being developed by the State Government. • Representing the department at community events. • Developing new policies to increase team and inter-departmental cooperation. Show less



Department of Infrastructure, Local Government and Planning

• Senior Planning Officer

  • Oct 2016 - Oct 2017

  A member of the team responsible for creating ShapingSEQ, the new statutory regional plan for South East Queensland.

• Senior Planning Officer

  • Sep 2015 - Oct 2016

  A senior member of the busiest planning-based regional office, delivering departmental priorities in development assessment and plan-making while responding to the needs of key stakeholders.



Department of Infrastructure and Planning

• Gold Coast

• Planning Officer

  • Jul 2013 - Sep 2015

  A planner in the busiest planning-based regional office, delivering state assessment and referral agency goals and assisting senior staff. A planner in the busiest planning-based regional office, delivering state assessment and referral agency goals and assisting senior staff.



Department of State Development, Infrastructure, Local Government and Planning

• Australia
• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• Program Support Officer

  • Jun 2013 - Nov 2013