Marc Fletcher

Australian Marine Debris Initiative (AMDI) - Technical Project Lead (Contract) at Tangaroa Blue Foundation
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Alasdair Moodie

Marc is the sort of person you dream of having on your team. He's passionate and committed to delivering outcomes that improve lives, He thinks deeply and is not afraid to act. I'd have no hesitation in bringing Marc in on a project, He is immensely capable of converting concept to action, a valuable skill in in any environment!

John De Losa

Marc demonstrates excellent leadership skills. He is collaborative, empowering and encouraging. He outlines the work required, trusting those he works with to shape their work and mange their time. Marc's focus is solely on the work delivered. He critiques work constructively and seeks to provide opportunities to those with whom he works to develop their skills or explore new skills. He also demonstrates excellent entrepreneurial skills, noting opportunities, conducting small experiments and scaling and refining ideas to meet those opportunities.

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Credentials

  • ISO 20252 Internal Auditor
    CRUSE Partnership Australia
    Jan, 2009
    - Oct, 2024

Experience

  • Tangaroa Blue Foundation
    • Australia
    • Non-profit Organizations
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Australian Marine Debris Initiative (AMDI) - Technical Project Lead (Contract)
      • Mar 2022 - Present

      Tangaroa Blue Foundation is a not-for-profit dedicated to the removal and prevention of marine debris across Australia. Using the AMDI citizen science and monitoring database, a network of communities, volunteers and over 2,000 partner organisations contribute data on fresh and saltwater marine debris to inform and monitor solutions to stop the flow of litter at its source. Jul ’22 – present • Project management of the design, build, test, and deployment of Tangaroa Blue Foundation’s new Marine Debris tracking app (iOS, Android, Web), administration console and supporting technical infrastructure (AWS). Mar – Jun ’22 • Consulting to partner organisations on data-driven methodologies to support marine debris source reduction projects (e.g., ReefClean), including geospatial data analysis • Engagement and facilitation of community members, partner organisations, councils and corporate clients in coastal and estuarine clean-ups, including training on the identification, classification, and data entry of marine debris into AMDI (citizen science)

  • Sea change - Agnes Water, QLD
    • Travel - 1 Year
      • Jan 2021 - Dec 2021

      Relocated from Melbourne (Jan 2021) to a small coastal community in QLD via a road trip up the NSW coast and 6-month pandemic lockdown in Sydney. Motivation for the move based on a desire to reset before moving into a career focussed on helping the global community mitigate/ adapt to climate change. Currently building on my clean tech social enterprise experience with formal study in Sustainability at UTAS (Feb 2022 onwards). Relocated from Melbourne (Jan 2021) to a small coastal community in QLD via a road trip up the NSW coast and 6-month pandemic lockdown in Sydney. Motivation for the move based on a desire to reset before moving into a career focussed on helping the global community mitigate/ adapt to climate change. Currently building on my clean tech social enterprise experience with formal study in Sustainability at UTAS (Feb 2022 onwards).

  • Australian Bureau of Statistics
    • Australia
    • Government Administration
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • 2021 Census Field Officer
      • Jul 2021 - Jul 2021

      Trained on identification and classification of dwelling types for the distribution of census material in Agnes Water/ 1770 to help ensure the integrity of population and housing census data. I envisioned this role as a way to explore the community I had recently moved into. I was in Sydney pandemic lockdown (Jun-Dec 2021) for the duration of the contract (Jul-Oct 2021), so the scope of my involvement necessarily became limited to remote training only. Trained on identification and classification of dwelling types for the distribution of census material in Agnes Water/ 1770 to help ensure the integrity of population and housing census data. I envisioned this role as a way to explore the community I had recently moved into. I was in Sydney pandemic lockdown (Jun-Dec 2021) for the duration of the contract (Jul-Oct 2021), so the scope of my involvement necessarily became limited to remote training only.

  • Rapid Circle
    • Netherlands
    • IT Services and IT Consulting
    • 300 - 400 Employee
    • Cloud Consultant
      • Aug 2018 - Sep 2020

      Helping organisations get more out of their Microsoft 365 and Azure technology investments. I delivered end-to-end consulting services for Australian organisations in energy, emergency services, higher education, recruitment, two Victorian state government agencies, and one Department. My areas of responsibility were dependent on project size, and typically covered proposal writing/ quotation, project management, solution architecture/ design, documentation, change request management, and training. For small projects I undertook build and test activities, but generally worked with my colleagues (Melbourne or Pune) to deliver those outputs as a team. I specialised in solutions using the following SaaS and PaaS technologies: • Power BI (reporting), to give organisations a dynamic, living insight into business metrics • Power Apps (web forms), to make the input and validation of operational data easy and straightforward • Power Automate (integrations), to make sure systems can speak to each other • Azure Data Factory (data orchestration/ transformation), to automatically extract, combine, and transform data from across the client's organisation • Azure SQL (database), for scalable and performant data storage • Microsoft Teams (collaboration), a communication platform within the client's organisation, or as a webinar-hosting (broadcast) tool to reach their customers

  • Angazia
    • International Trade and Development
    • Co-founder and Director
      • Oct 2014 - Feb 2020

      A project-based social enterprise to make energy technologies affordable to low-income consumers in rural Kenya by using savings-led credit. My co-founder and I started developing this for-purpose social enterprise in 2012. With a team of six local staff we completed a series of pilots across six communities in Kenya and Tanzania, impacting over 500 households and 2,000 individuals. We founded Angazia on the belief that health, education, and environmental outcomes could improve by swapping out harmful and polluting appliances, like kerosene lamps, with simple but sustainable technologies like pico solar lights - if the upfront cost could be made affordable. The key was to provide the solar lights upfront, and ask the households to make regular repayments using the savings generated from eliminating expenditure on kerosene. Pooling households into self-selected groups was the motivator for regular repayments to Angazia, until the light was repaid, after which the solar energy was free. Many groups persisted beyond the repayment term, using their social capital to fund other purchases for the community (e.g., outdoor chairs they could lease to local church groups). We concluded the projects in Feb 2020 because the effort to reach the poorest 10% would have required additional investment that wasn't justified. This was for two reasons - firstly, that households were willing and able to sacrifice to pay upfront for goods they considered essential (e.g., adults skipping meals to save money so they could afford to buy a mobile phone), and secondly, the cost of pico solar was reducing so rapidly that we believed eventually even the lowest income households would be able to self-fund an upfront purchase. * On top of solar lights, we also trialled solar mobile phone chargers, composting toilets, and clay water filters, all of which would displace something less desirable - for example, the cost of firewood to boil water - or generate value themselves, eg., humanure.

  • Public Transport Victoria
    • Transportation/Trucking/Railroad
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Business Analyst
      • Nov 2016 - Jul 2018

      Engaged as the Analyst on the Better Contract Management project, a whole-of-organisation change initiative to improve the agency’s ability to drive value-for-money outcomes from multi-billion dollar contracts with the state’s private sector transport operators. The role was based in Finance and was primarily commercial in content. I interviewed contract managers and performed analysis of contracts and contractual spend to determine the factors contributing to the risk of unforeseen contractual commitments (payments) arising in the future. I reported to the Senior Project Manager, with accountabilities to the inter-agency project steering group headed up by the Department of Economic Development (DEDJTR) and chaired by the Department's CFO. Outcomes included an improved contract management framework to help contract managers better manage the factors giving rise to payment risk across major contract types.

  • Department of Sustainability and Environment
    • Australia
    • Environmental Services
    • 300 - 400 Employee
    • Lead Business Analyst
      • Aug 2011 - Apr 2016

      Leading a team of 7 BAs in Systems Branch, Land Victoria, my role was to provide analysis and support for enhancements to the Victorian Land Titles Register and four integrated Land Information systems. The objective was to provide effective property markets in Victoria, and to deliver liveable, inclusive and sustainable communities across the state. Activities included business case writing, functional and non-functional requirements workshops/ elicitation, change request (CR) scoping, cross-system CR impact analysis, review and validation of vendor-provided technical solution designs, user training, and Level 3 support. I consulted with inter-agency stakeholders, e.g., state water utilities and the State Revenue Office, to scope and document inter-operational changes and impacts. Our team provided the analysis necessary for the Victorian Register to integrate with the national electronic conveyancing system, PEXA, in development by a private sector entity. Based on my performance, I was selected as Victorian representative at the Change Control Subgroup (2015), a national forum of Australian Land Registrars to assess and prioritise on-going changes to the PEXA system. I held an internal advisory and accountability role to the Land Victoria Executive, with an external facing influencing/ negotiation role with other jurisdictions. I was competitively selected as acting Application Services Manager (June 2014, 2 months), where I project managed the multi-million dollar systems development lifecycle activities for the Land Register and integrated systems. This covered release management, stakeholder management, coordination of internal SDLC activities including UAT, and engagement of three technology vendors for delivery of builds within agreed timeframes.

  • Caucasus, ex-soviet Central Asia, China/ Tibet, Nepal, India
    • Travel - 1 Year
      • Feb 2010 - Jan 2011

      This self-supported journey catalysed my interest in small scale sustainable cleantech and consumer financing models. In Jun 2012, my investigation into microfinance in the Philippines (hosted by Grameen Foundation Australia) led to an invitation to Kenya, and co-founding of social enterprise Angazia (2014). This self-supported journey catalysed my interest in small scale sustainable cleantech and consumer financing models. In Jun 2012, my investigation into microfinance in the Philippines (hosted by Grameen Foundation Australia) led to an invitation to Kenya, and co-founding of social enterprise Angazia (2014).

  • AMR Australia
    • Australia
    • Market Research
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Quality Manager, Operations
      • Feb 2009 - Jan 2010

      Achieved AS ISO 20252 (Market & Social Research) certification for IT and Operations business units. Working with the Research Director, we achieved company-wide certification for the first time (2009). Activities performed:• I analysed business processes in IT and Operations to define the scope of a Quality Management System (QMS)• I established and managed a working group of business unit SMEs to provide input into the structure and content of standardised, low maintenance, fit for purpose business process control templates to form the basis of the QMS.

    • Operations and Business Systems Analyst
      • Jul 2006 - Jan 2009

      I was responsible for driving operational efficiencies by identifying and implementing frameworks, methodologies and technologies to support the business and its stakeholders. Activities included:• Lead BA/Project Manager role for the analysis, design and development of a bespoke operations management system by a team of 6 BAs, Developers and Testers, using linear optimisation algorithms to improve the project scheduling of 200 call centre staff.• Requirements gathering from Research Operations Manager and Senior supervisory staff via workshops, interviews, and observations. Included process modelling and functional/ technical design using wireframes and data models.• Provided strategic input to the group Finance Director for target IT infrastructure and application architectures. This was based on analysis of current and projected business needs, including requirements elicitation for a multi-site wide area network project.• Managed vendor relationships with telcos and ITC service providers, including vetting of new suppliers.

    • Data Systems and Programming Analyst
      • Jan 2005 - Jun 2006

      Activities undertaken included:• Development and delivery of bespoke market research insight dashboard for telco and financial clients, with reporting automation for high throughput projects• Engaged directly with a major Financial client to undertake system analysis, functional design, development and testing activities for a small database application (MS Access/ VBA) to manage contact data for their clients, reducing the scope of errors due to manual data management, and improving client servicing.This role was performed while I was completing my studies at university.

  • AMRi New Ventures
    • Senior Supervisor
      • Jan 2004 - Dec 2004

      Project scheduling and KPI management of customer experience tracking campaigns in this joint venture between AMR Australia and a major Australian bank. Responsibility for 4 shift supervisors and 60 telephone interviewing staff. Interviewed, recruited, trained, and coached staff to ensure project compliance with industry data collection quality guidelines (AMSRS). Developed a systems-based tactical reporting framework to streamline communication of customer experience tracking outcomes to the client. This role was undertaken while I was studying at university.

  • Sydney Harbour Kayaks
    • Australia
    • Spectator Sports
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Customer Experience Associate
      • 2002 - 2003

      Sea kayak retail sales and hire fleet operations on Middle Harbour while studying at university. Selected as Assistant Tour Guide for on-water corporate team-building events based on my customer service skills. Sea kayak retail sales and hire fleet operations on Middle Harbour while studying at university. Selected as Assistant Tour Guide for on-water corporate team-building events based on my customer service skills.

  • AC Nielsen
    • Australia
    • Market Research
    • 300 - 400 Employee
    • Senior Supervisor
      • 2001 - 2002

      Project scheduling and KPI management of outbound calling campaigns (market & opinion telephone survey research), including the Fairfax-Nielsen political poll, and performance management of 10-12 call centre supervisory staff and 180 call centre staff. Responsible for client servicing of researchers. Prior to this role, during my initial university studies I spent 3 months as a casual telephone interviewer (end of 2019) conducting surveys, where I was responsible for eliciting and inputting data from respondents within industry data collection quality guidelines (AMSRS). I was offered a casual Data Analyst role in the Business Systems unit for a short period (3 months), where I undertook SQL database administration and published project reports to the organisation's intranet. Back on the fieldwork side, I was promoted to a casual Field Supervisor role (mid 2000) where I worked in a team of 2-5 shift supervisors managing 30 phone room staff. I had responsibility for quality control and quota management of the telephone research projects assigned to me during the shift. Based on my performance (approx. 1 year) I was offered the full-time role of Senior Supervisor, described above.

Education

  • University of Sydney
    Bachelor of Science (Mathematics); Bachelor of Commerce (Econometrics)
    1998 - 2004
  • University of Tasmania
    Diploma of Sustainable Living (Remote)
    2022 - 2022
  • University of Technology Sydney
    Graduate Certificate in Information Technology
    2007 - 2008
  • Canberra Grammar School
    Higher School Certificate (HSC)
    1992 - 1997
  • Ecole française de Port-Vila Vanuatu
    1990 - 1991

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