CURRICULUM VITAE

PERSONAL DETAILS

Bachelor of Music, University of Melbourne 1984—1988

High School Certificate, University High School, Parkville 1981—1982

Zertifikat Deutsch als Fremdsprache (Certificate of German as a Foreign Language), Goethe Institut, Melbourne 1989—1990

1st year French, University of New England, Armidale NSW (through Open Learning), 1992

CAREER OVERVIEW

1997 — 98 Finance and Administrative Officer, NSW Community Services & Health ITAB

1995 — 97 Administrative Officer, NSW Community Services & Health ITAB, Sydney

1994 — 95 Wordprocessing temp, Centacom, Sydney

1992 — 94 Secretary to Campus Coordinator, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne

1991 — 92 Toured Australia in a professional musical production (The King & I)

1990 — 91 Executive Assistant, Australian Boys Choral Institute, Melbourne

SKILLS

Typing Speed: 65 wpm at 100% accuracy

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Project Officer, National Youth Choir Australia
(Dec 2000 — present)

Achievements
This is a part-time position. National Youth Choir Australia is made up of singers from the whole country meeting for a 2 week season each year. In the short time that I have been in this position I have brought some order to the financial situation, set up an accounting system, set up a database, followed up on some outstanding debts and begun planning for the 2001 and 2002 seasons.

Office Manager/Bookeeper, PnP Solutions Pty Ltd (Melbourne)
(Sep 1998 — Apr 2000)

Achievements
As Office Manager in a lean, but geographically and operationally diversified IT consultancy, I was responsible for planning and implementing office procedures and systems, for communication within the company and amongst a panel of consultants in three states, for financial management (including budgeting, funds management, book-keeping and tax compliance) and customer and client relations. During my period of employment, the company grew from 3 to over 20 staff.

Finance and Administrative Officer, NSW Community Services and Health ITAB (Sydney)
(Jan 95 — April 98)Responsibilities

Achievements
This position was initially solely a wordprocessing function. My responsibilities were gradually increased to include desktop publishing, publication sales and bookkeeping.

Prior to my taking over of the bookeeping function publication sales, customer records and petty cash were recorded manually and by different workers. I streamlined the entire finance system by amalgamating all of the various functions with the other accounts records in MYOB while still being able to produce the desired reports. I also customised MYOB and automated many of the tasks.

Working with another staff member I designed the organisation’s website. The resulting web site may be viewed at www.home.aone.net.au/nswcsh.

Although not part of my job, my software expertise meant that I was regularly sought out by other staff to assist them with their computing problems.

The vocational education and training industry is highly complex and full of jargon. White it was not my responsibility nor indeed was it the role of the organisation, my assistance was greatly appreaciated by training providers in helping them understand the complex and bureaucratic process of course accreditation.

Secretary to Campus Coordinator, Australian Catholic University (Melbourne)
(Feb 92 — Feb 94)

Achievements
In this position I coordinated some large events, including Graduation Day. This involved among other things liaising with venues, caterers, design and production of the program, liaising with staff and students, hiring of academic gowns.

As this was a new position all the administrative systems had to be designed from scratch. I automated many of the day-to-day tasks and designed a filing system which I believe is still in use today.

My technical expertise and strong conceptual ability meant that I was sought out by staff from other departments to assist them with their computing challenges. Many of the macros that I designed to automate my own tasks were taken up and used by other staff.

Executive Assistant (Jan-Jun 90 and Dec 90 — Apr 91)

Australian Boys Choral Insitute (Melbourne)

Achievements
In this position I resurrected an antiquated computer system which was thought to be beyond repair. This enabled the Institute to computeris all its worprocessing, database and other record keeping functions, previously done manually. I also implemented a filing system which I believe is still in use today with very little change.

Strong people skills and a good memory for names and faces allowed me to manage very succussfully the complex relationships and communications between Council members, parents and teaching staff.

REFEREES

PnP Solutions (now known as Sporting Pulse)

Nicholas Maywald, Managing Director
0418 240 533

NSW Community Services and Health ITAB

Les Stahl, former CEO
0438 601 021

Australian Boys Choral Institute
Noel Ancell, Artistic Director
03 9888 4898