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Mandy Fallon

Thornside,QLD

Summary

I am the CEO and founder of Point 2 Point Surveys, Registered Surveyor with a Cadastral and Consulting Endorsement. My passion is to promote surveying along with empowering and enabling surveyors, with the knowledge and tools to perform their jobs professionally whilst upholding and improving the integrity of the cadastre and titles registry.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience

Work History

CEO

Point 2 Point Surveys
07.2021 - Current
  • Developed key operational initiatives to drive and maintain substantial business growth.
  • Built productive relationships with industry partners and competitors to support strategic business objectives.
  • Established foundational processes for business operations.
  • Managed partnerships and strategic business relationships by negotiating contract terms and handling conflicts.
  • Directed market expansions to propel business forward, meet changing customer needs.
  • Negotiated with suppliers and delivery workers and ordered materials according to forecasted customer demand.
  • Analyzed and tracked business metrics and made appropriate adjustments to meet supply and demand needs.
  • Engaged positively with staff and leadership colleagues, soliciting and encouraging feedback and collaborative spirit.
  • Made large-scale financial decisions and supervised company spending to reduce material losses and maximize profits.
  • Procured and coordinated new resources to achieve sales targets within optimal timeframes.
  • Established and maintained strong relationships with customers, vendors and strategic partners.
  • Collaborated with legal, accounting and other professional teams to review and maintain compliance with regulations.

cadastral surveyor

AJS Surveys
07.2020 - 07.2021
  • AJS Surveys
  • All tasks related to boundary surveys, including searches, locate survey marks, reinstate boundaries, prepare sketch.
  • Performed field calculations to complete assessments

Senior Surveyor

Saunders Havill Group
11.2019 - 05.2020
  • Senior cadastral surveyor, Saunders havill group
  • Project management and scheduling
  • Mentoring graduate and student surveyors
  • Supervising and training staff in cadastral surveys
  • Ensuring projects are kept on time and in budget
  • Plan Auditing
  • Providing quotes and tenders to clients for all projects from initial set out, contour and details, civil set out, identification surveys, subdivisions, road resumptions and other property development matters relating to surveys.

cadastral surveyor

Sonto
10.2018 - 11.2019
  • Sonto (previously all points surveys)
  • Business System – assisting and providing input into the development of business systems, along with developing and implementing procedures and processes
  • Research and implement new software and provide training to all team members
  • Keeping well-informed of standards, legislation changes and policy that relate to cadastral surveying and passing on information to the team
  • Project management and scheduling
  • Business Development
  • Establishing Cadastral Business Division
  • Mentoring graduate and student surveyors
  • Supervising and training staff in cadastral surveys
  • Ensuring projects are kept on time and in budget
  • Project managing Plan Sealing Applications
  • Providing quotes and tenders to clients for all projects from initial set out, contour and details, civil set out, identification surveys, subdivisions, road resumptions and other property development matters relating to surveys.

acting prinicipal surveyor

Titles (Department Of Resources)
01.2018 - 09.2018
  • TITLES REGISTRY
  • Manage relevant Registrar of Titles projects
  • Keep the Registrar’s directions up to date, relevant and easy to understand
  • Advise Registrar on survey related legislative amendment proposals and process enhancements/reforms
  • Engage/consult with profession on proposed changes
  • Provide input on behalf of the Registrar in relation to external proposals and reviews involving titling and survey related issues
  • Review current and upcoming legislation in conjunction with current Cadastral Survey Requirements and recommend changes
  • Support Surveyors Board Queensland – advise registrar if any referrals to SBQ required and research and investigate as needed
  • Delegation decision making in relation to relaxation of the Registrar of Titles Directions for the Preparation of Plans
  • Assist Titles Registry staff with survey related interpretation, questions and examinations
  • Answer complex survey-related enquiries
  • Internal departmental surveyors
  • Other departments
  • LGAs
  • Solicitors
  • Public
  • Represent registrar/Titles Registry at survey related forums as requested by registrar or manager
  • Cadastral QLD Transformation Project
  • Surveying Business Forum (Review)
  • Lead in sub projects for Advice Service Delivery and Communication and Education
  • Ongoing review and improvement of internal business processes
  • Liaise with departmental surveyors and titles examination officers on survey related requisitions on lodged SPs
  • Provide draft ministerial for approvals.

surveyor

South Region (Deparment Of Resources)
10.2011 - 09.2018
  • NORTH REGION & TITLES REGISTRY OFFICE
  • LEADERSHIP ROLE
  • Supervising a variety of team members including SIP capture, administration and survey assistants
  • Monitor ongoing performance of team members, including organise and hold fortnightly team meetings
  • Prepare, apply and review Performance and Development Agreements and approve timesheets and leave
  • Review policies and procedures for team members, including managing changes and implementing changes
  • Training team members in new tasks
  • Prepare business cases for purchase when required
  • SURVEYING
  • Provide expert advice on the following to a range of stakeholders including, solicitors, State Land Administration Management, Water Services, Titles Officers, external and internal surveyors and other professionals
  • Legislation, regulations, directions and standards
  • Various titling and survey topics including, community title schemes, state land actions, freehold actions
  • Issuing deeds of grants on existing state land
  • Ministerial Requests
  • Interpretation of survey plans and historical titles
  • Provide innovation solutions to complex surveying and tenure issues
  • Contract management for ATSILAB projects
  • Respond to titles examination officers on plan requests
  • Mentoring graduate surveyors and provide support towards their registration with the Surveyors Board of Queensland
  • Review and update Registrar of Titles Directions for the Preparation of Plans
  • Consult with other titles examination officers in specialised areas for their input for changes to the Registrar of Titles Directions for the Preparation of Plans
  • Consult with Registrar of Titles to gain approval for the updates
  • Investigations of historical titling records to ensure the integrity of the registry
  • Reviewing requests for exemptions from the directions and preparing letters for exemption
  • Project manage cadastral surveys, including field surveys on large State Land parcels around Townsville and Magnetic Island
  • Participate in cadastral surveys in Cape York as well as the preparation of compiled plans for lease land & state land
  • Maintain Geodetic Network including project managing the upgrade to the 100K network using the CORS network including tying in and upgrading the local Townsville region network
  • Plan examination, checking lodged Deposited Survey plans in accordance with the Form 10 and corresponding survey standards, directions and legislation and reinstatement
  • Preparing letters of noncompliance including maintaining records
  • Database Maintenance including CISP, SCDB, DCDB and SmartMap.

Surveyor

Department Of Resources
01.2013 - 01.2018
  • ACHIEVEMENTS
  • Founder and CEO of Point 2 Point Surveys
  • Consulting Endorsement -, Establish Cadastral business services Sonto
  • Chair for Land Services Commission - SSSI
  • Recommendation of digital post registration correction process to Registrar of Titles and to destroy original survey plans with other titles documents. Which incorporated digital barcodes and signatures, leading to the lodgement of digital survey plans.
  • Establish and implementation of new records management structure state wide including restructure of existing network drives and creation of a knowledge sharing tool
  • Working with a high performing project team for the Cadastral and Geodetic Services Systems Review Project –, Project managed 100K Network Upgrade using GNSS and Continuous Operating Reference Stations in the Townsville region, collaborating with departmental regional surveyors, private surveyors, local governments and other government agencies - 2012
  • Representing DNRM at monthly Town Group meetings SSSI Northern Group

Cadastral surveyor

LAND AND SPATIAL INFORMATION, CADASTRAL AND GEODETIC SERVICES
07.2017 - 10.2017
  • OPERATIONAL POLICY
  • Provide expert advice in relation to Cadastral Survey Requirements, Survey and Mapping Infrastructure Act 2003, Surveyors Act 2003 and relevant regulations
  • Investigate and provide expert advice on physical feature boundaries
  • Investigate and prepare Reserved Plan of Survey approvals
  • Research and investigate wide array of topics, including current state-wide processes, detailed historical surveyor information
  • Research historical communiques, legislation, gazettes, and professional publications
  • Review current and upcoming legislation in conjunction with current Cadastral Survey Requirements and recommend changes
  • Provide draft ministerial for approvals
  • Provide direct support to Director of Cadastral and Geodetic Surveys
  • Participate in focus group for Cadastral and Geodetic Services Systems Review
  • Participate in the Surveying Review Working Group, including lead for smaller working groups, preparing summaries for distribution to departmental surveyors, capturing and reporting details of workshops.

senior surveyor

CADASTRAL AND GEODETIC SERVICES SYSTEMS
10.2016 - 06.2017
  • REVIEW PROJECT
  • Provide expert advice to the project team, including but not limited to current standards, legislation, electronic lodgement of survey plans, current development application processes
  • Provide advice to the upgrade of departmental surveying, GIS systems and critical databases
  • Engage with Stakeholders both internal and external to the department
  • Communicate facts and options to enable decisions
  • Work with other disciplines to determine costs of upgrading and decommissioning systems
  • Run transition of retiring services
  • Procurement and contract management
  • Records Management and archiving

Subject Matter Expert

Spatial Services EPlan (Department Of Resources)
01.2016 - 01.2017
  • Creation of ePlans using 12d and LISCAD for submission in eSurvey, 2015
  • DNRM Surveying Strategic Plan, 2015
  • Preparation of Ravenswood Town Reserve Survey Plan, 2015
  • Surveyor Registration with Cadastral Endorsement, 2014
  • Sole Surveyor in Townsville being a major regional service centre
  • Managing all survey related matters for Titles, State Land Administration Management, cartographers, vegetation management, water and private survey industry - 2012

Cadastral surveyor

ESURVEY
07.2015 - 10.2016
  • PROJECT
  • Provide Survey advice for the development and implementation of eSurvey to internal and external surveyors and vendors
  • Software testing for compatibility with eSurvey portal
  • Prepare Strategic Plan for ongoing department workforce planning
  • Involvement in Cadastral and Geodetic systems review
  • Liaise with the profession internally to support Cadastral surveyors to establish agreements for eSurvey portal lodgement
  • Review eSurvey procedure manuals and update to conform with latest CSR, RTDPP and vendor’s software
  • Create documents to provide evidence of how validation rules support existing policy and legislation.

surveyor

DTS Group QLD
11.2009 - 10.2011
  • Surveys including but not limited to Cadastral (Identification, Subdivisions, Building Formats, Leases), Contour and Detail, Set out, As Constructed and As built surveys
  • Including calculations, pre and post field work, preparation of plans and quality assurance checks
  • Liaise with clients
  • Financials including input in timing for quotes, tracking during project and preparation of invoices for clients
  • Attend and contribute to monthly team meetings
  • Mentor student surveyors

graduate surveyor

Ken McDonald Surveys
04.2007 - 06.2009

graduate surveyor

11.2005 - 04.2007

Education

Bachelor of surveying -

queensland university of technology

Skills

  • Verbal and Written Communication
  • Customer Needs Assessments
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Team leadership and development
  • Strategic planning
  • Complex problem solving
  • Developing content
  • Achieve and consistently meet targets on time
  • Great organisational and time management skills

Hobbies

Camping with family

Hiking in nature

Yoga/Pilates

Reading

Spending quality time with my family

Timeline

CEO

Point 2 Point Surveys
07.2021 - Current

cadastral surveyor

AJS Surveys
07.2020 - 07.2021

Senior Surveyor

Saunders Havill Group
11.2019 - 05.2020

cadastral surveyor

Sonto
10.2018 - 11.2019

acting prinicipal surveyor

Titles (Department Of Resources)
01.2018 - 09.2018

Cadastral surveyor

LAND AND SPATIAL INFORMATION, CADASTRAL AND GEODETIC SERVICES
07.2017 - 10.2017

senior surveyor

CADASTRAL AND GEODETIC SERVICES SYSTEMS
10.2016 - 06.2017

Subject Matter Expert

Spatial Services EPlan (Department Of Resources)
01.2016 - 01.2017

Cadastral surveyor

ESURVEY
07.2015 - 10.2016

Surveyor

Department Of Resources
01.2013 - 01.2018

surveyor

South Region (Deparment Of Resources)
10.2011 - 09.2018

surveyor

DTS Group QLD
11.2009 - 10.2011

graduate surveyor

Ken McDonald Surveys
04.2007 - 06.2009

graduate surveyor

11.2005 - 04.2007

Bachelor of surveying -

queensland university of technology

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