administrative officer

contracting officer

project manager

assistant director

project officer

Australian Department of Defence

My Personality
I'm a think outside the square personality that loves to problem solve. I have an adept ability to source information and execute into meaningful business intelligence. This is testament to my analytical mind and excellent report writing skills. 

My Co-Workers
My colleagues perception of me is one who delivers outcomes. I'm considered approachable and a team player that can adapt quickly to any situation. I take ownership in dealing with requests/issues and never deflect from being accountable,


The Hardest Part of My Job
In 2012, The Federal Government enforced a recruitment freeze on The Department of Defence and there is little sign this will change soon. Ultimately this has restricted career opportunities and development, hence why I'm searching for a new role.


The Most Enjoyable Part of the Job
I'm a customer centric professional. This is highlighted throughout my resume, from handling lending complaints with the NAB to providing services to ADF Members. I excel in roles where I know I'm assisting others and there is purpose in what I do.

I have spend 6 years of career working for Ministry of Defence in Sultane of Oman including Department of Defence Randwick NSW working on armed forces building facilities. Familiar brief and it was in my fingure tips to start the project and turn it into reality within short time.
The communication with Armed forces staff at various hierarchy was a familiar process and I was comfortable with.
The staff in uniform and civil were coordinating the work process well.
Sense of humour prevails thru out of the day encouraged the productivity of work. Break times were well spent on sports avtivity or chatting to each other in a pleasant manner.
There are times change of project delivery dates, everyone of the staff were focused on the job and delivered in time followed by celebrations gave me the satisfaction.

My typical day at work is not very typical. We work very odd hours from your typical 0730-1630 to Early Morning Activity days (Monday-Wednesday-Friday) 0420-1530. We are also required for one Saturday a month till 1200 to work with recruits on remedial fitness and nutritional education. I am currently managing a team of 6 personnel with day to day requirements of Recruit School. These requirements revolve around moulding divisions of recruits from all over Australia into a extremely fit and well run team. Groups depending on time of the year can range from 70 to 150 recruits per division. We have three divisions of recruits at anyone time. Hardest part would easily be not seeing everyone achieve the aim of passing out of recruit school as a sailor and the most enjoyably is seeing the fantastic physical and mental transformations in individuals.

I learn new computer skills skills from different people everyday. The managers are excellent they are very open minded and care about their employees.
My co-workers are freindly, reliable, honest and great to work with. they ask for lots of help from me as I used to do what they are doing now in the logistics side of the trade and I can usually help them. The hardest part of the job was leaving my friends behind every three years or so, and leaving my family every time I went overseas for six months at a time.
The most enjoyable part of my job when I look back is what I accomplished over the time I was in the Army and what I accomplished in the Public Service. The Overseas trips and also the intra state and interstate trips. The friends I met every where I went.

Department of Defence is a great environment which allows an abundance of freedom for innovation. The department gave me the time required to implement innovative ideas for business improvement.
During my role, I was given many opportunities to improve my skills through courses and training seminar which further improved my financial and contract management knowledge.
The working environment is both supportive and friendly. The hardest part of the job is the learning of Navy and Defence acronym which was utilised on a daily basis. This particular part of the job requires approximately 3-4months of constant utility for familiarisation.
I enjoy the experience immensely as I was constantly challenged with new project which require problem solving and coordination.

I couldn't make through training and I saw many others not make it, be very fit and never go for the minimum work to your best. You will need to move away from home so if you get homesick easy work on that. You need to so a lot of jobs that may seem pointless, just do them you will be working for the second best trained army in the world and they want to maintain that position and get to first. They will not give you much space, comfort, time and freedom. You will have to work your best all the time. Also a small tip please know the Australian anthem it's not a good look to the corporals. Overall you'll make good friends and have fun and learn a lot quickly.

A typical day is . I get into work at 8:30 and my supervisor puts my daily workload into objective, SAP , database. Then I booked flights and accommodation. When I previous did this position . I booked all the flights and accommodation on the phone. where as now it via a direct internet connection to Defence, well when it was working that is. And Defence was still using 2007 Operating system , which I had to relearn in short time. My co-workers were generally helpful and patient with my learning curve . The hardest part of the job was to try and with the demands of the workload. the most enjoyable of the position  was chatting to clients and booking staff over the phone.

I have had extensive experience in Defence and in a Civilian working environment working with people on compliance and food safety.

I have been the Operations manager for a company in New Zealand producing ration and Emergency packs for the ADF and emergency services in Australia. I managed a team of 30 full time workers from various diverse backgrounds and nationalities.

Th hardest part of the job was being away from Melbourne, however I did enjoy every day in my job and was proud that we were able to meet the requirements of the ADF and were in the top 10 suppliers to the ADF. 

I now look forward to any new challenges and being back in the work force located here in Melbourne.

Work varies from day to day, some are very busy others are quite slow. Good knowledge base with a lot of courses to build your skill sets up. Management culture is changing with offices more into their own careers than managing / guiding soldiers careers. Co-workers are good people to work, you can trust your life with most of them. The ones you can't tend to get promoted quicker. The hardest part of the job is deploying for long periods of time, missing family, for not much in return, re: pay. Most enjoyable part of the job is doing the job you signed up for, deploying to other countries and working in your trade making a difference to those communities.

Checking on the progress of projects with team members and vendors. 

Reporting progress and status to appropriate stakeholders.

Developing and updating project plans and communicating change to stakeholders.

Encouraging project members and reassuring external stakeholders about progress and outcomes.

I learned that the potential for change  is always present and dealing with it is the most demanding aspect of project management.

The culture was supportive - we worked in highly skilled professional teams that had respected each other.

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