Experience

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  Optica Capital Pty Ltd

  • Perth, Western Australia, Australia

  • Chairman

    • Apr 2021 - Present
    • Perth, Western Australia, Australia

    Optica Capital is a boutique investment management company with over 100 years combined member experience in funds management, capital raising, structured finance and innovative Indexes for ETF's.

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  Limax Pty Ltd

  • Sydney, Canberra, Los Angeles, Chicago

  • Director

    • Mar 1983 - Present
    • Sydney, Canberra, Los Angeles, Chicago

    Responsible for providing corporate development and consulting services in US, Australian, European and Asian markets. Currently focussing on triple bottom line opportunities in the food, energy and water sectors. Consulting services include executive, management and project consulting services for government and private enterprise. Industries include technology, financial services (banking and insurance), agribusiness, mining, infrastructure (port and rail), media, telecommunications, distribution, manufacturing and energy (including renewables). Also experienced in national and international business startups, business development and capital procurement. Extensive global network. Qualified introductions are available where interests and value systems are mutually aligned.

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  Australian Taxation Office

  • Canberra & Sydney, Australia

  • Business Project Consultant

    • Nov 2015 - Aug 2016
    • Canberra & Sydney, Australia

    Consulting to the ATO for several key projects under the Federal Government's Digital Transformation Agenda and Reinventing The ATO program. Includes liaising with the Digital Transformation Office (DTO).

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  777 Asset Management (HK)

  • Los Angeles and Sydney

  • Director

    • Jan 2010 - Jun 2016
    • Los Angeles and Sydney

    Project finance, asset management services and business development.

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  Australian Government Department of Finance

  • Canberra, Australia

  • Program Manager

    • Mar 2015 - Apr 2015
    • Canberra, Australia

    Supported the establishment of the One Finance Transformation Program; reporting to the Chief Information Officer.

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  CIMIC Group Limited

  • Sydney, Australia

  • Senior Consultant

    • Nov 2011 - Jul 2013
    • Sydney, Australia

    Business Consulting, Technical Consulting and Program/Project Management services for John Holland Rail and Leighton Holdings (incl. Leighton Contractors, Thiess, John Holland, Leighton Asia). Assignment included project turnarounds, Business Continuity Planning, Strategic Consulting, Global Cost Analysis, Application Migration, Infrastructure Outsourcing, Procurement and Vendor Contract management.

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  Protean Energy Limited

  • Perth, Australia

  • CEO

    • Mar 2010 - May 2011
    • Perth, Australia

    Developers of advanced ocean wave energy conversion solutions to the renewable energy market. Owners and developers of internationally patented (and pending) Protean Technology. With new board of directors: managed Protean IP assets out of administration through a Deed of Company Arrangement process, restructured and recapitalised into new company, reinvigorated international trade and development, prepared for listing on ASX.

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  Yilgarn Infrastructure Limited

  • Perth, Geraldton, Sydney, China

  • Executive Director

    • Jul 2005 - Jan 2009
    • Perth, Geraldton, Sydney, China

    Co-founding Executive Director. Board level strategic consulting. Interim Managing Director until suitable CEO engaged. High profile US$3+ Billion project. Primary business was to develop Oakajee port in Western Australia and an extensive rail network in the Midwest WA region to expand iron ore sales to Asia by 75+ mtpa. Involved 5 Chinese State Owned Enterprises (SOE's) and tier 1 Australian engineering and EPCM firms. Government bid process.

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  Universal Resource Holdings

  • Sydney, Australia

  • Director

    • 2005 - 2006
    • Sydney, Australia

    Business development, research and investment in a range of commercial projects - mining (iron ore, nickel), commercial fishing, real estate, infrastructure, product development in China.

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  Fairfax Media

  • Sydney, Australia

  • Major Project Consultant

    • 2004 - 2005
    • Sydney, Australia

    Senior contract role. Risk profiling, turnaround and restructure contract and team management for the successful implementation of replacement Payroll, Rostering and HR systems for Fairfax national operations.

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  M-Co / Retail Energy Market Company (REMCo)

  • Sydney, Australia

  • Vendor Manager

    • 2003 - 2004
    • Sydney, Australia

    Contract role. Vendor Manager of Logica CMG for The Marketplace Company (M-Co) who were contracted to the market regulator: REMCo. Managed the development of application solutions for all South Australia (SA) and Western Australia (WA) gas customers to be able to switch to a new energy provider - based on market rules agreed across all gas energy companies that were defined in parallel to systems development. The gas market in SA and WA was successfully deregulated in 1 year.

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  Commonwealth Bank of Australia

  • Sydney, Australia

  • Project Manager

    • 2003 - 2003
    • Sydney, Australia

    Contract role. Implemented Financial Services Reform for CommInsure at CBA.

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  IAG

  • Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth Australia

  • Project Consultant, Senior Project Manager

    • 2001 - 2003
    • Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth Australia

    Contract roles. Project management and consulting services for new Expense Management systems (NRMA Insurance), internet solutions for Commercial Insurance (SGIO) and Health Insurance (SGIC), Intranet (IAG) and agency solutions. Integration services for aquisition of CGU.

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  Sagacious Technology

  • Sydney, Australia

  • Director

    • 2000 - 2001
    • Sydney, Australia

    Established ITC business within new consortium. Included law firms, construction firm, change management specialists and private hospital food management. Era of dot com due diligence.

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  Macquarie Bank

  • Australia
  • Financial Services
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Project Director

    • 1999 - 2000

    Contract role. Managed development of Funds Management system.

  • Senior Project Manager

    • 1998 - 1999

    Contract role. Implemented enterprise wide PeopleSoft General Ledger, Asset Register and Reporting Systems for Macquarie Bank.

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  HIH Insurance

  • Sydney, Melbourne, China

  • Project Director/Manager, Consulting

    • 1995 - 1998
    • Sydney, Melbourne, China

    Contract role. Consulting service for Heath aquisition of CIC Insurance via EDS. Project Director for decommissioning of extensive IBM mainframe systems and replace with Unix/Oracle solutions. Mentor Project Managers for implementation of insurance applications in Australia and China (Xian). Risk advisory services for new NSW Health system. Project manager for replacement General Insurance systems.

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  Combined Management Consultants (CMC)

  • Sydney, Australia

  • Account Manager, Project Manager, Business Development

    • 1991 - 1998
    • Sydney, Australia

    Co-op specialist group. Provided value added project and account management ICT services with optional business/management consulting. Industries included telecommunications, distribution, manufacturing, banking and finance. Listed, semi-government and private entities.

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  Oracle

  • Sydney, Australia

  • Optus Project, Development Manager

    • 1993 - 1994
    • Sydney, Australia

    Development Manager for delivery of bespoke software developed by Oracle for Optus for phone bill management and presentation to top 1000 companies.

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  Berger Software

  • Sydney, National, USA, Canada, NZ

  • Account Manager, National/International Dealer Manager, Sales

    • 1987 - 1991
    • Sydney, National, USA, Canada, NZ

    Roles included Sales, Account Management, Project Management, Management Consulting and Dealer Manager for VS division of prominent Australian Wang software house for Berger's financial, distribution, customer management, manufacturing and warehouse management systems. Required strong sales, technical and business consulting skills with full responsibility for account management pre and post sales. Industries included medical supplies and pharmaceutical, wholesale foods, automotive, media/telemarketing, bonded warehousing, telecommunications and transport.

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  Crown Estate Commission

  • London, United Kingdom

  • Technical Manager

    • 1986 - 1987
    • London, United Kingdom

    Contract role. Manage implementation of new hardware systems, data centre management, office automation and communication networks for new systems to manage all the lands and properties of the Crown (Queen) - real estate management.Redesigned communications network realising significant savings and increased throughputs.

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  Data General

  • London, United Kingdom

  • Database Recovery Contract

    • 1986 - 1986
    • London, United Kingdom

    Contract role. Designed, wrote, tested and implemented an automatic "single command" database recovery application for Data General's inhouse system: CEDS (Customer Engineer Despatch System). The system was responsible for the realtime management of all Data General customer field engineers in UK, Spain, South Africa and Scandinavia. Implemented on time and budget and more importantly, worked successfully 1 year later when disaster struck.

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  Linx Computers

  • Sydney, Australia

  • NSW Technical Manager

    • 1982 - 1985
    • Sydney, Australia

    Small, national based software house. Left as NSW Technical Manager. Commenced as Senior Programmer, Project Manager, Implementation Specialist and Account Manager. Supplied and maintained Financial, Distribution and specialist Bakery Management and Factoring Finance systems in Data General midrange market.

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  State Bank of NSW (ex Rural Bank of NSW)

  • Sydney

  • Banking: Various - Analyst/Programmer, Trainer, Team Leader

    • 1978 - 1982
    • Sydney

    Industry start. Progressed to analyst/programmer and Team Leader roles surrounding deposit systems. Held Training Officer roles as well as managing tight timeframe statutory changes on Term Deposit systems (FUM $1.2 Billion).The Rural Bank of NSW became the State Bank of NSW which was acquired by the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA).