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Ultimate IT (1998 – 2015)
Ultimate Mining (2006 – 2009)
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Since 2015 I have operated my own consultancy business as a principal consultant. During this time I have held various positions across a variety of industries. Small to large organisations engage me to either provide fixed term professional services, project delivery, or ad-hoc fee for service.
The industries I have worked in include technology, mining, transport, manufacturing, construction, professional services, not for profit, human services, health, and government. I also have experience working in First Nation and culturally diverse workplaces.
Some of the professional attributes I have include:
- Experience in corporate leadership roles for non profit organisations, small business and Company’s that turnover more than $50M per year.
- Ability to think strategically, obtain and analyse information from diverse sources to identify and escalate risk, and produce sound conclusions and recommendations.
- Provide expert advice and navigate complex legal issues and legislation including Fair Work, Work Health and Safety and Coal Mining Safety and Health laws
- High level of experience and capability in risk management and compliance
- Influential and responsive communication skills, both written and verbal, can gain agreement to proposals and ideas
- Produces well-written reports with clear, factual, and relevant information informed by research and analysis
- Specialist knowledge in multiple areas, adept at analysing and assessing potential business security threats and risks
- Strong investigative skills built through extensive experience conducting complex investigations
- Vast experience leading and managing teams, including mentoring, and developing staff. Strong level of emotional intelligence
- As a self-starter, is able to work autonomously to achieve high-quality and timely outcomes while also holding capabilities to enable effective leadership and collaboration
- Advanced technical understanding built through a 20-year ICT career ensures awareness of opportunities alongside the limitations of technology solutions
- Interpersonal strengths to establish a vast network of relationships that promote cooperation, information sharing, and mutually beneficial outcomes
- Conducts self with professionalism and balances everyone’s interests and rights without compromising integrity, ethics, and outcomes
Investigations
Completed over 100 complex investigations including workplace and domestic disputes.
Fair Work Commission
Appeared in more than 200 Fair Work Commission conciliations for both Employers and Employees. Experienced in both applications and responses with a strong emphasis on advocacy and early resolution.
Cyber and computer expert reports
As a Cyber Crime Expert, I provide cyber-investigation services and deliver consultancy on cybercrime evidence and offences, including appearing as an expert witness.
My experience includes several engagements by various law enforcement agencies. Additionally, I have worked with legal professionals, businesses and individuals.
I provide expert reports to assist with civil and criminal legal matters. I’ve appeared as an expert witness in various jurisdictions, covering a wide array of legal matters.
- Determine the authenticity of online accounts, such as email addresses and Facebook pages, in Family and Domestic Violence disputes. The conduct I usually investigate relates to individuals impersonating another person for the purposes of circumventing a domestic violence order or an unauthorised disclosure of personal information.
- Review a police brief of evidence relating to an unlawful stalking charge. My expert report caused the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecution to withdraw the charge.
- Provide expert opinion on the Facebook algorithm and its relationship to reach with respect to damages in defamation proceedings (called the grapevine effect).
- Provide expert opinion on Police issued briefs of evidence for computer and cyber related offences such as computer hacking and misuse and expert opinion on digital evidence.
Technology Project – Rocky’s Own Transport Company
I spearheaded the development of a system for data gathering to improve safety and compliance in transporting explosive materials. At the time, no national database existed to support hazard identification and route planning. During this project, I interpreted and applied laws across multiple states, including workplace health and safety, road transport, environmental protection, and chain of responsibility laws. I also had to consider other regulations, such as dangerous goods regulations and regulations related to the storage and handling of explosives. Ultimately, I delivered a system that provided the transport company with critical data for transportation planning that was compliant and optimised for safety and efficiency. The Company mostly benefited from a reduction in operational costs and improving its compliance to a vast array of laws.|
The project concept can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2sttYGvmRU
Technology Project – Young’s Bus Service
I lead the project team that invented and implemented Queensland’s first public transport ticketing system and Student Information Tracking system called TranSIT. The Company wanted to identify opportunities for growth and improvement. It already recognised that passengers wanted more information at their fingertips such as knowing the approximate arrival time of the next bus. This project was a completely new idea and process which benefited the company with increased revenue and compliance and was a significant value add for its eventual acquisition by a multinational provider.
The project can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YF7HLrJuh1Y).