Experience

Huon Aquaculture Group Limited

• Australia
• Food and Beverage Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Zone Manager

  • Sep 2014 - Present

  Responsible for all aspects of one of Huon Salmon's high energy offshore farming zones. Key duties include (but not limited to):-Vessel/Fleet management of work boats.-Stock Management (health, feed, mortality)-Workplace Health and Safety and Human resource management of zone crew.-Cage/ Net management (net changing, towing/mooring of fish pens, feed equipment and mortality removal)-Maintenance of mooring systems-Underwater lighting /photoperiod manipulation on high energy site

• Marine Operations Project Manager

  • Nov 2012 - Sep 2014

  Key stakeholder in the rollout of Huon's new polar circle "Fortress Cage" system, which comprised of 168m and 240m circumference polar circle ocean cages, nets, componentry and mooring systems for high energy aquaculture sites.



AgriMarine Holdings

• Food Production
• 1 - 100 Employee

• General Manager Operations- 6 month consulting project

  • Apr 2012 - Sep 2012

  Managing farm operations for China and driving accelorated expansion plans across the Northern China region to multiple new sites. Working with regulatory and planning and foreign consulate bodies to ensure all expansion is managed in a culturally and environmentally sensitive and respectable manner. Training the local work force in processes and procedures of fish health ,husbandry and site management of an intensive aquaculture operation. Created and established site personnel procedures and guidelines with the development of functional position descriptions, staff performance reviews and surveys as well as OH&S site visuals and awareness campaign. (Mandarin speaking workforce)



Sinclair Knight Merz

• Australia
• Civil Engineering
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Marine Scientist / Commercial Diver

  • Oct 2011 - May 2012

  Gorgon Marine Monitoring Project, Barrow Island. Servicing and maintenance of in-situ loggers, probes and water quality instruments. Quality Assurance Quality Control of data collected. In-situ Coral health monitoring of coral growth responses to stress and marine pests throughout dredging/ post dredging on a large scale natural gas and oil project. Gorgon Marine Monitoring Project, Barrow Island. Servicing and maintenance of in-situ loggers, probes and water quality instruments. Quality Assurance Quality Control of data collected. In-situ Coral health monitoring of coral growth responses to stress and marine pests throughout dredging/ post dredging on a large scale natural gas and oil project.



Open Blue Sea Farms

• Consultant

  • Aug 2011 - Sep 2011

  Installation of 10 cage mooring/grid system for submersible Ocean Spar sea cages on offshore lease. Construction of polar circle aquaculture cage. Installation of 10 cage mooring/grid system for submersible Ocean Spar sea cages on offshore lease. Construction of polar circle aquaculture cage.

• Aquaculture Project Manager

  • Dec 1999 - Aug 2011

  Project Manager; Mooring Installation July 2011-August 2011 Works Manager August 2008-April 2011 Fresh water /Bathing Manager August 2006-August 2008 R&D Manager March 2004-August 2006 Commercial Diver August 2006- April 2011 Fish Health Technition July 2002-August 2004 Deckhand / Farmhand December 1999- July 2002 Project Manager; Mooring Installation July 2011-August 2011 Works Manager August 2008-April 2011 Fresh water /Bathing Manager August 2006-August 2008 R&D Manager March 2004-August 2006 Commercial Diver August 2006- April 2011 Fish Health Technition July 2002-August 2004 Deckhand / Farmhand December 1999- July 2002