Based Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Available now Most recently Global Client Services Manager — Aftermarket · Seeing Machines
Available for Consulting & contract
Status Conversations welcome

Operations Consultant.

Twenty years rebuilding contact centres across energy, postal, telco and technology — now available for consulting and contract engagements. I take operations that are stuck and turn them into systems that perform on cost, experience and engagement at the same time.

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01 / About

Customer operations leader. Builder of systems, not just teams.

Profile

I'm a customer-focused operations leader with 20+ years across energy, postal, telco and technology — most recently running global client services for Seeing Machines' aftermarket division, Guardian and Support Centres operating 24/7 across Melbourne, Canberra and Tucson, until a company-wide restructure concluded the role in July 2026. I'm available now for leadership roles and consulting.

Deeply experienced in leading multi-disciplinary teams, managing customer communications during critical events, and delivering measurable improvement in customer satisfaction within regulated environments. The thread through everything I've done is the same: take an operation that's stuck, and turn it into a system that scales.

02 / Numbers

The track record, in figures.

3.5→ 4.6
Product Review score lifted across the customer experience programme.
Energy Locals · Won Retailer of the Year
80%
Cut to email response time through workflow redesign and automation.
Energy Locals
60%
Reduction in customer debt via predictive analytics and rebuilt billing.
Energy Locals
25%
Lift in first call resolution via QA framework and unified service tooling.
Energy Locals
75%
Reduction in onboarding ramp time across multi-site contact centres.
Australia Post
65%
Highest sales conversion in the country, with leave under 5%, on a 220-person centre.
EnergyAustralia · Leader of the Year
03 / Experience

Where the work has actually happened.

2024 — NOW

Global Client Services Manager — Aftermarket / Seeing Machines

ASX-listed driver monitoring technology. Reports to Global Commercial Director. Global oversight of 24/7 Guardian and Support Centres across Melbourne, Canberra and Tucson, supporting fleet, automotive and aviation customers.
  • Manage day-to-day operations of the global 24/7 Guardian Centre and Support Centre across multiple regions, owning SLA performance, governance and operational excellence.
  • Standardised processes across global centres, lifting consistency in event classification and reducing handle time variability.
  • Designed an AI-enabled service stack including a Tier 1 voice assistant for first response, analyst performance dashboards, and integration with workforce management.
  • Rebuilt the operating model around event severity SLAs (fatigue 2–4 min, distraction 10–30 min, FOV 12–24 hr), risk-tiered routing and Erlang-based capacity modelling.
  • Delivering a parallel offshore support centre in Medellín to run alongside Canberra, lowering cost-to-serve while protecting service quality.
  • Built a Deputy-to-ADP rostering automation handling Miscellaneous and Clerks Award conditions, removing manual payroll work and tightening compliance.
  • Drive cost-saving initiatives without compromising service quality, with budget accountability across global client services operations.
2020 — NOW

Founder & Principal Consultant / The Mate Platform

Independent consulting practice focused on customer operations transformation and AI-enabled service design.
  • Build operating models, workforce plans, agentic service tooling and analytics for clients modernising customer operations.
  • Specialise in Erlang-C capacity modelling, omni-channel rostering, award compliance, and contact centre AI implementation.
2020 — 2023

Head of Operations / Energy Locals

Challenger energy retailer focused on affordable and renewable supply. Operational lead for both Energy Locals and Energy Trade.
  • Owned the full operational function across both brands: sales, transfers, metering, on-boarding, billing, customer service, credit management, complaints, retention and win-back.
  • Lifted Product Review score from 3.5 to 4.6 and won Energy Retailer of the Year, with measurable gains in trust and customer growth.
  • Cut email response time by 80% and customer debt by 60% through process redesign, predictive analytics and tooling consolidation.
  • Launched multiple sub-brands without proportional cost increases by industrialising the operating model.
2018 — 2019

Senior Manager, Contact Centre / Australia Post

National postal and logistics. Multi-site consumer contact centre.
  • Led onboarding and ongoing development of new contact centre staff across Melbourne and Brisbane, with 130+ headcount and 13 direct reports.
  • Cut unproductive ramp time by 75% by rebuilding induction, training and digital enablement programmes.
  • Sponsored the Future Leaders programme, building bench strength for supervisor and team leader roles.
2015 — 2018

Manager, Customer Care / Jacana Energy

Government-owned energy retailer, Northern Territory.
  • Built the customer care function from a single role to ~40 staff covering retail, voice, email and digital channels.
  • Owned site selection, IT and telecoms procurement, policy and process design, training and KPI architecture from greenfield.
  • Lifted first-call resolution by 20% during a billing system migration that ran without service disruption.
  • Awarded company-wide Leader of the Year, 2016.
2013 — 2015

Contact Centre Manager — National Sales Centre / EnergyAustralia

National energy retailer. Largest consumer sales centre.
  • Managed a 220+ person sales centre with 17 direct reports across residential, business and digital — inbound, outbound, live chat and email.
  • Delivered the highest national conversion rate at 65% while holding unplanned leave under 5%.
  • Lifted employee satisfaction by 20% and cut attrition by 15% via personalised development plans and recognition frameworks.
  • Awarded Leader of the Year, 2012.
2000 — 2012

Earlier roles / iPrimus, Telstra, Carphone Warehouse, Optus

Sales and operations roles across telco and retail, in Australia and the UK.
  • Sales Manager, iPrimus · Jan 2010 – Dec 2012
  • Sales Development Lead, Telstra · Mar 2008 – Dec 2009
  • Marketing Executive, Carphone Warehouse (now Currys plc) · Aug 2006 – Jan 2008 · London, UK
  • Business Performance Lead, Optus · Aug 2000 – Jun 2006 · Sydney, NSW
04 / Capabilities

What I'm actually good at.

Leadership
Customer operations leadership · Multi-site and multi-region team leadership · Change leadership · Critical event communications · Regulated environments · Coaching and capability uplift
Workforce & Capacity
Erlang-C and Erlang-A modelling · Omni-channel rostering · 15-minute interval forecasting · Award compliance (Miscellaneous, Clerks) · Onshore and offshore operating models
Operations & Quality
Contact centre transformation · Quality and assurance frameworks · KPI and dashboard design · Process automation · SLA and risk tiering
AI & Tooling
AI-enabled service design · Agentic workflow architecture · Voice assistant deployment · Workflow automation (Power Automate, Copilot Studio) · LLM-driven analytics
05 / Selected ventures

Things I'm building on the side.

The Mate Platform

Founder · Consulting

Independent consulting practice helping organisations modernise customer operations through AI-driven design, agentic workflows, and workforce optimisation. Where I bring 20 years of operational experience together with the new generation of AI tooling.

RosterMate

Product · WFM

Omni-channel contact centre rostering specification with integrated Erlang C/A modelling, award compliance, and a 10-stage build pipeline. Designed to give operations teams a forecast-to-roster engine that respects both staff wellbeing and the realities of award conditions.

06 / Contact

Let's have a conversation.

Get in touch
Phone
+61488774490
 
Location
Melbourne, VIC, Australia