Experience

NZ Pork

• New Zealand
• Farming
• 1 - 100 Employee

• National Industry Support Manager

  • May 2021 - Present

  In this role I am building and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders throughout the supply chain and central government to increase consumption of New Zealand born and raised pork. Manage branding, consumer messaging and digital activity. Support farmers by providing employment, recruitment and health and safety advice. Manage industry training including National Certificate Pork Production, PigCare and related ITO courses. NZ Pork is a statutory producer board whose objective is to help obtain the best possible net ongoing returns for NZ pigs, pork and co-products. Show less



eCampus NZ

• New Zealand
• E-Learning Providers
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Contract eCampus Facilitator

  • Jan 2021 - Apr 2021

  Facilitated student online learning Facilitated student online learning



DairyNZ

• New Zealand
• Farming
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Project Manager, Farm Performance

  • Apr 2013 - Dec 2020

  As a project-manager/developer at DairyNZ, I worked with farmers, rural professionals, researchers, and communication staff successfully promoting farm system changes to meet environmental regulations, use homegrown feed effectively and staying profitable. DairyNZ is the industry organisation that represents all New Zealand dairy farmers and invests in practical on-farm tools, science, resources and support and advocacy to ensure farmers have a profitable, sustainable, and competitive future. I have a personal interest in building farmer resilience, by introducing farmers to the concept of wellbeing and increasing farmer awareness of mental and physical health. When leading DairyNZs Farmer wellbeing project, the above was achieved by; delivering farmer tailored wellbeing workshops, organising Health Pitstops at Farm Source stores and developed social media promotions. Show less



beef + lamb new zealand

• Christchurch

• Research Manager

  • Jan 2010 - Mar 2013

  I was responsible for managing the research investment portion of farmer levies to develop a growing sheep and beef industry. My key responsibilities, were setting research priorities through regular consultation with industry stakeholders, contracting, managing and successfully delivering research projects, managing the annual research budgets and representing B+LNZ on Industry Advisory Groups. I was responsible for managing the research investment portion of farmer levies to develop a growing sheep and beef industry. My key responsibilities, were setting research priorities through regular consultation with industry stakeholders, contracting, managing and successfully delivering research projects, managing the annual research budgets and representing B+LNZ on Industry Advisory Groups.



QEII National Trust

• Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

• Field Operations Manager

  • Jan 2009 - Jan 2010

  As the Field Operations Manager, I managed three technical staff and twenty-seven regional representatives (annually contracted staff), to secure long-term protection of natural and cultural features on private land. In this role, I managed meeting contracted targets, developed and maintained stakeholder relationships from regional and district councils, research organisations, government departments and NGOs with external organisations. Oversaw the team writing business cases for new covenants and reported quarterly directly to the QEII Board. Show less



Crop and Food Research

• Christchurch

• Project Manager

  • Jan 2006 - Sep 2008

  Project Manager of $2.5 m research project, involving four Crown Research Institutions delivering research into sustainable land use at enterprise and policy level. Project Manager of $2.5 m research project, involving four Crown Research Institutions delivering research into sustainable land use at enterprise and policy level.



HortResearch

• Research Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Project Manager

  • Dec 2003 - Dec 2005

  Project Manager of MAF biosecurity projects for Hort Research. Project Manager of MAF biosecurity projects for Hort Research.



Transport for London

• United Kingdom
• Non-profit Organizations
• 700 & Above Employee

• Client Services Manager

  • 1999 - 2001

  Responsible for looking after IT services at Baker Street. Responsible for looking after IT services at Baker Street.



ESR

• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Technical Officer

  • 1995 - 1999

  Technical officer in groundwater contamination attenuation projects. Technical officer in groundwater contamination attenuation projects.