Experience

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  Medicii

  • Australia

  • Singer / Songwriter / Musician

    • Nov 2022 - Present
    • Australia

    In November 2022, I was offered a recording contract as a Solo artist with R4AMusic on the Gold Coast. After decades of writing songs, singing and playing in original bands, I have a plethora of songs to draw on. This contract will be the culmination of years of passion and my love for music. Working with producer, Nate Kohrs, based in LA, we are producing a new sound that taps into my love for art rock, pop and funk. My style is catchy, expansive and deep. Keep an eye out for my first single and music video that is due to drop in April 2023. That will be followed by more singles and an album in July. I can't wait to share my creative style as you sing along!

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  Impact Film Group Pty Ltd

  • Australia

  • General Manager

    • Oct 2022 - Present
    • Australia

    General Manager of new film production company.

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  Girl Director Pty Ltd

  • Australia
  • Advertising Services
  • 1 - 100 Employee

  • Managing Director

    • Feb 2013 - Present

    I am the founder and principle of Girl Director and Girl Director Academy with my wife and business partner, Rachel Dunn. Together we have built Girl Director into the very well known Video Marketing and Training company that it is today. We started in 2013 and continue to grow and influence women (in particular, but not only) in the online space for business growth and thought leadership.Girl Director Academy is our flagship training program. If you want to know more, please visit our site at www.girldirectoracademy.com

  • Video Expert | Director, Trainer, Editor, Lighting and Sound Guy. Video Marketing and Funnel Expert.

    • Feb 2013 - Oct 2022

    I still run Girl Director as Managing Director, but these days have team doing a lot of the day-to-day work.At Girl Director we are all about challenging the status quo of the corporate world. We LOVE entrepreneurs. It's entrepreneurs who make this world a better place. Not the minions who feel helpless, spending their lives working for the corporate machine. I've been there. I've worked for big corporations and government organizations feeling like a cog in the machinery, knowing that when I leave or burn out there will be another minion ready to take my place. It's not fulfilling. But being a video expert is!We work with the hidden change makers, those of you who SHOULD be as well known as celebrities, who SHOULD be recognized for the amazing work you do. Let's connect and start making this happen for you. https://www.girldirector.com/vpsGirl Director is the brain child of Rachel Dunn and Michael Hole. It is our prime directive to train Entrepreneurs like you to STEP UP and MAKE VIDEOS you believe in. To REALLY GROW THE BUSINESS YOU BELIEVE IN. We skill you up to become the Director of your own VIDEOS, and of your MARKETING, removing your fear of the camera, the one thing that stops most people from putting themselves out there.If you're ready to get your message out there on the web or TV, then we want to hear from you. At GD we guide you through all the processes you need to make it happen.With over 30 years experience in the Film and TV production industry between the two of us, we have clients all over the world, with countless achievements and recognition for Music Videos, Opening Titles and Commercials. We have worked with some of the biggest names in Australia from icons such as Ita Buttrose to Bert Newton and John Williamson, to Vanessa Amorosi, Ian Thorpe, Mark Holden, Human Nature, Beccy Cole, the All Saints cast and crew, Home & Away, Selwyn, Adam Harvey, Sara Storer and Luke O'Shea, just to name a few.Let's connect...

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  The Execlintians

  • Buderim, Queensland, Australia

  • Author

    • Sep 2012 - May 2020
    • Buderim, Queensland, Australia

    This novel was completed in 2020. It is currently in negotiations for publishing, but as yet has not been published. If you are interested in knowing more, please get in touch.Hundreds of millions of years ago, long before humans and way before the dinosaurs, the world was inhabited only by plants and the simplest of primitive organisms. Over millions of years the plants evolved and grew beautiful flowers that coloured the earth with their splendour, but some plants grew apart from the others and on an isolated continent in the northern oceans of the world they evolved into something different. Through the course of time these plants began to move of their own free will and when at last they pulled themselves out of the ground they found they were able to carry their bodies over the surface to find tastier, more nutritious soils. As generations passed their populations grew and speciated so that a certain few became self-aware with intelligence unlike anything the world had ever seen. For a short period in the history of our planet these creatures built a society and ruled their corner of the earth free from the danger of predators. It was a time of peace, wind and the soft rustle of leaves. It was the time of… The Execlintians.

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  Symphony of the Earth - Film Project

  • Australia

  • Producer

    • Mar 2016 - Oct 2019
    • Australia

    Symphony of the Earth is a global feature film project on which I am one of the Producers. This film will bring about a global shift in consciousness and awareness through the music and voices of the creatures of the earth. My tenure as CEO (appointed by the founder of SOTE, Dr Jim Frazier) went from March 2016 to October 2019. Since then, Kerrie Robertson-Guppie has been appointed CEO. As a Producer of the film alongside Rachel Dunn, Mark Montgomery and Jim Frazier, we are currently in the process of raising funds to finance the film.This film has since been transferred to the slate of films run by Impact Film Group.

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  Ken Shepherd Management

  • Sydney, Australia

  • Commercial Feature & Extra

    • Sep 2002 - Feb 2014
    • Sydney, Australia

    My favourite jobs during this period included playing aliens in Farscape, a stripper ambulance driver in Young Lions and a hand model in an Equal ad for an awesome blind guy. I had a regular role on Home & Away as a hospital orderly, I was a commercial feature in Bing Lee, Toyota and Pizza Hut ads. And also appeared in Rake, Janet King, A Place To Call Home, Wonderland, The Code and Love Child. It was a lot of fun but more importantly gave me great on-set experience where I got to learn from some of the most consummate professionals in the TV industry. This is where I started to develop my video expert skills.I highly recommend this kind of work for anyone who wants to get into the Film and TV industry. There are countless famous actors who started this way.

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  Midia Enterprises Pty Ltd

  • Bondi Beach, Australia

  • IT Business Consultant

    • Jan 2000 - Dec 2013
    • Bondi Beach, Australia

    As a business owner and consultant to a number of other organizations, I also did more personal development during this period of my career than ever before. The best part was I got to apply this training to my businesses, and as anyone whose ever run a business knows... running a small business is just about the most powerful personal development course you can ever do! It really set up a great foundation for me to take the plunge and ultimately create Girl Director with my video expert wife, Rachel Dunn.Here is some of the consulting clients I had over this 12 year period: mortgage consultant with eWealth Finance, licensee and marketer with Redwood Anti-Ageing, business and IT consultant to Alicia Hollen Design, Y2K project manager for Optus Internet and IT consultant to a number of other clients.

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  ANZ Bank

  • Australia
  • Banking
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Business Banking Manager

    • May 2010 - Apr 2012

    Specialist relationship manager for small businesses, helping them to grow via business lending, commercial property loans and associated business banking products. This is where I really got to cut my teeth as a small business specialist, which I have applied to my video expertise as my business these days combines the need for me to be both a business expert as well as a video expert. I also really got to understand the corporate world, to know that it was not the path for someone as creative and entrepreneurial as me. When I chose to leave this role, to set out on my own, I took a gamble of freedom and self determination, and I haven't looked back since!

  • Home & Investment Lending Manager

    • Jul 2006 - Apr 2010

    Mortgage Specialist based in Martin Place, Sydney - loan writer for residential properties for the purpose of home or investments.

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  Short Motion Studios

  • Sydney, Australia

  • Business Manager and Co-Founder

    • Jul 2008 - Jun 2011
    • Sydney, Australia

    Film and post-production company specializing in Ads, Music Videos, Opening Titles and Branding Design. This was Rachel's and my first video business venture together, before we re-branded and created Girl Director the way it is today. Rachel worked full time here while I ran the business side on a part-time bases (due to my full time banking career). This is where I really started to get to know the business side of the Film and TV industry. It was also when I started learning to edit videos and was co-producer on a number of projects. Short Motion Studios was foundational experience to becoming a true video expert and video marketer. During this time we started to dabble in online marketing, but it wasn't until a few years later when we started to combine video with internet marketing that we hit on the jackpot which became Girl Director.

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  eWealth Finance

  • North Sydney

  • Lending Manager

    • Apr 2002 - Jun 2006
    • North Sydney

    Mortgage broker covering over 40 lenders, specializing in wealth creation and complex trust and investment structures.

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  Cable and Wireless Optus

  • IT Consultant / Project Manager

    • Apr 1999 - Mar 2000

    Project Manager on Y2K project for Optus Internet conversion and migration of Microplex ISP to Optus Internet.

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  CRS - Commonwealth Rehabilitation Service

  • Phillip, ACT

  • IT Consultant / Project Manager

    • Dec 1998 - Mar 1999
    • Phillip, ACT

    Migration of DEC mail All-in-1 system to Microsoft LAN system.

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  Department of Health

  • IT Network Engineer/Manager

    • Dec 1990 - Aug 1998

    LAN Engineer, then Network Engineer, then NSW State Data and Voice Network Manager.