Experience

Landcare Australia

• Australia
• Environmental Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Native Seed Collector

  • Oct 2011 - Present

  Collect native seeds with good provenance to supply native nurseries. The nurseries then proprogate the seeds to become tube stock which can be used in Landcare revegetation projects. Work involves correct identification, harvesting, and preparation of seeds for storage.

• Weed Researcher

  • Feb 2011 - Present

  Analysing research results of community-based social marketing of environmental weeds. How behaviour has changed in the local community, what are effective methods, and how this can be applied to weeds. Published research results in July 2011.This research is part of a 4 year program and was presented to the 25th Anniversary Landcare Conference in November 2011. Further research is scheduled to be presented to the Australasian Weed Conference in October 2012.



Ventia

• Australia
• Facilities Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Engineering Document Control

  • Jul 2001 - Aug 2010

  Manage all documentation for Engineering Group. Distribution of documents to Field Technical staff, Operations and Maintenance staff, Service Implementation staff. National engineering knowledge collection.

• Records Management Specialist

  • Aug 2003 - Dec 2009

  Designed and created the directory structure for storing the Asbuilt documents and drawings produced from construction of 7,800 km Nextgen Network. These base records were used for managing the ongoing Operations & Maintenance of the Nextgen Network. As the network infrastructure grew, developed and enhanced the directory structures and provided ongoing housekeeping.Documented the directory structures.

• Systems & Process Specialist

  • Jan 2004 - Jun 2009

  Initiated and developed workflows using RMTrack (Canadian system) to match the growth of telecommunication infrastructure construction for Nextgen Networks, a national telecommunications carrier. Provided ongoing system administration for Engineering, Planning, Construction, Provisioning, Operations & Maintenance, and Customer Service users of RMTrack nationally. Documented and distributed RMTrack workflows which recorded critical business processes for Nextgen Networks.Developed and documented workflows using @Task (American system) for capital planning proposals for Nextgen Networks. Provided ongoing system administration for Engineering users of @Task. Show less

• Design Program Manager

  • Jul 2001 - Jul 2003

  Managed the Design Program (scheduling, planning, tracking and completion) for the Engineering Design Phase being 132 technical design document deliverables for the construction of 7,800 km optical fibre network for Nextgen Networks. Distribution of design documents to the Certifier (representing the Banks) and the customer Nextgen Networks. Managed the distribution of Test records to Certifer and Nextgen Networks.



Fujitsu Asia Pacific

• Australia
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Systems Coordinator

  • Aug 1995 - May 2001

  Specification, design, implementation, testing, deployment and maintenance of customisations to ADRIC, an automatic document register input and control system. Liaised with management within Design Engineering and Production Engineering at the manufacturing facility on issues of production documentation process. Provided ongoing support for the ADRIC system to ensure the Design Engineers, Document Control and Production Engineering were able to create, distribute and efficiently process all documents required for manufacture or purchase telecommunications products.Implementation, documentation and maintenance of Sales Order Administration and Financial Statements on BAAN, a fully integrated manufacturing package. Analysed requirements and wrote specifications which were submitted to Info Systems Dept to program and I acted as an interface between Info Systems Dept and users of BAAN. Coordinating and training a variety of people in many different departments and locations. Show less

• Projects Coordinator, Optus

  • May 1993 - Jul 1995

  Focus on customer satisfaction through timely delivery of products in concert with installation and commissioning services. I was a single point of contact between:Optus as the customer ; Fujitsu Dandenong as the supplier of manufactured and purchased products; and, the Installation and Commissioning Teams.

• Project Administrator

  • Apr 1992 - Apr 1993

  Established a project library and assist in defining and selecting the equipment quickly expanded to include facilities management and LAN administration and support. Project Axis was a software development project in collaboration with CBIS (an American software developer) to provide billing software for Telstra with each additional phase of the project requiring different facilities. This involved leasing four floors and fitting out the entire space with everything from photocopiers to fridges, 200 PC’s, 300 chairs, plants, coat cupboards etc. Show less

• Systems Engineer

  • Dec 1990 - Mar 1992

  Coordinated the delivery of PC equipment valued at $1.5 million to 200 Dealers nationally for a high profile mainframe customer Toyota. The project consisted of preparing the PCs at a Fujitsu warehouse, integrating third party hardware, loading software and testing a security code, boxing and labelling. Each Dealer was expected to follow the instructions to connect the PC and shortly afterwards receive an invoice for payment.

• Retail Systems Engineer

  • Mar 1988 - Nov 1990

  Coordinated the preparation and installation of 800 point-of-sale terminals at 80 stores nationally for Venture Stores valued at $1 million. Venture Stores was the first retail customer for Fujitsu Australia. In addition, I provided presales retail support for a variety of prospects.



AWA Technology Services

• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Senior Analyst/Programmer

  • Jan 1987 - Feb 1988

  This role included programming in Basic and systems analysis for a library application called Urica Library Management System. This was a well established package installed in 30 sites. The software ran on AWA Sequel computers and the users were librarians who were very experienced in records management and computer systems. This role included programming in Basic and systems analysis for a library application called Urica Library Management System. This was a well established package installed in 30 sites. The software ran on AWA Sequel computers and the users were librarians who were very experienced in records management and computer systems.



King-Smith Holland Systems

• Senior Analyst/Programmer

  • 1985 - 1986



Computer Technology

• National Point-of-Sale Consultant and Analyst/Programmer

  • 1982 - 1985



Price Waterhouse Associates

• EDP Consultant and Programmer

  • 1981 - 1982