Executive Director, Operations

• Oct 2018 - Present

Non Executive Board Member

• Aug 2008 - Oct 2018

General Manager People & Culture

• Jul 2017 - Sep 2018

Amana Living Inc. is one of WA’s largest not-for-profit providers of care and services for older people.I form part of the Executive team that is implementing a new strategic plan that will see us become the provider of choice in our industry. We have already begun our journey to deliver outstanding people and culture to our organisation through the introduction of a new education model that is being delivered by our industry leading RTO that was launched in 2017. We have revamped our recruitment and retention procedures which have reduce our time and cost to hire and will implement a new Safety, Health and Wellness Framework in 2018. The People & Culture team also play a pivotal part in helping Amana Living achieve maximum efficiency by partnering with the business to review our workforce optimisation structure and systems and then implementing the solution.

Regional Manager

• Sep 2016 - Jul 2017

Excited to take on a new challenge in leading the Operations team of approximately 250 people of technically skilled and operations workforce to safely and efficiently execute all maintenance and repair work within the Southern area of the South West Interconnective Network (SWIN). Our team manages a large area through depots located at key locations and delivers planned maintenance work in addition to responding to any fault and emergency events.We will be transforming our operations to increase our productivity and capacity to ensure Western Power becomes a top tier network operator.

Head of Work Practice, Development & Training

• Jan 2014 - Sep 2016

Operational HR leadership position as the Head of Work Practice, Development & Training accountable for the improvement in operational performance through better performance assessments, training and work instructions and equipping their leaders. Leading a team of over 120 employees including a Registered Training Organisation (Power Training Services) and network authorisation process. I established a clear and simple vision for the function, captured it in a succinct business plan and aligned this to the Construction & Maintenance and functional performance plans. This program was immensely successful resulting in: • >20% improvement in quality performance• significant reduction in high risk switching safety incidents• 10% reduction in operational expenses • >$1m reduction in rework costs

Consultant

• Aug 2013 - Jan 2014

Director

• May 2007 - Jun 2013

I am currently the Director of the Peacock Group of companies (my wife's family business) which includes our main business of Peacocks Bedding manufacturing a whole range of mattresses.We also manufacture polyurethane foam for use in our mattress production in addition to other forms of furniture upholstery.Our other manufacturing division teases and bonds polyester into air conditioning ducting, fibre filling for mattress and furniture manufacture and commerical insulation.I am also a non executive director of our industrial textile distribution business which wholesales shade sail, canvas, PVC, foam, thread, zips, ropes, carpet and basically anything for any type of upholstery including marine, automative and furniture,

Head of HR (Retail & IID)

• 2004 - Apr 2007

This was a senior strategic role part of the Retail and IID Executive Teams shaping and implementing the aggressive growth strategy within Western Australia and the East Coast of Australia. Leading a team of five HR Business Partners we provided a combination of operational and strategic HR services to a business with over 2,500 employees nationwide.

Employee Relations Manager

• 2001 - 2004

I was responsible for the development and implementation of the total group and then divisional employee relations strategies which needed to operate across all states of Australia. This included providing advice to the Executive Team on all employee/industrial relations legal matters.

Employee Relations Advisor

• 1996 - 2001