“Dynamic and results-oriented event and program manager with over twenty years of experience in event planning, organization and execution. Skilled in budget management, customer service and software systems. Proven ability in event concept development, event acquisition and project management, delivering a strong economic benefit and ROI for host cities."
Managed event registration systems, small business server and ICT
systems, directly managed over 250,000 event competitors. Role
involved supervision and mentoring a day to day team of 17 staff and
several hundred onsite event volunteers.
Key achievements include
• Appointed Project Manager for the inaugural Great Barrier Reef
Games overseeing overall project plans, staff, budget, sports
management and overseeing implementation of on ground
operations
• Growth management from 9500 to 28199 Marathon entries with
the same staff resource base
• Streamlined financial management operations and increased
accounting efficiencies for multi-million-dollar annual turnover.
• Complex statistical analysis which has enabled valuable
marketing data mining, market definition and monitoring
• Custom software development Project Manager
• Overseeing transition from 100% paper entries to greater than
90% online for Gold Coast Marathon and Pan Pacific Masters
Games