Greater Perth Area
A proactive approach and future-oriented mind make me a valuable asset for progress. I embrace change with enthusiasm, and I am passionate about finding solutions and exploring new possibilities. This attitude is contagious, creating a synergistic effect that benefits everyone involved. My balanced and calm behaviour inspire focus and puts people at ease, inspiring trust in my work and leadership. My strong analytical, logical, and problem-solving skills are a consistent source of improvements, and my ability to bring people together and keep the strategy at the core is key for my projects' effectiveness.
Leading the strategic planning and execution of global IT initiatives for Operations. My role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive value stream improvements, ensuring alignment with business objectives, and enabling application performance optimisation for enhanced value delivery. I am dedicated to delivering innovative solutions that enhance operational efficiency and support organisational growth. * Strategic Planning: Develop and implement strategies for global application initiatives to align with business objectives. * Stakeholder Engagement: Maintain transparent and visible linkages to IT, business owners and stakeholders. * Value Stream Management: Identify KPI's, monitor and optimize application performance, and drive improvements across value streams. * Cross-functional Collaboration: Work closely with various departments to ensure seamless execution of projects.
Executing the appropriate technology and change management strategy for product implementation according to business vision approved by sponsors. • Product development life-cycle: "Jobs to be done" identification, strategy alignment, supplier selection and project management of digital products as CDMS, Poka, Planner, Best Practices Management. • Strong engagement with global business owners in Operations, Centre of Excellece, consultants, suppliers (tendering) and other support departments ni Alcoa, driving successful delivery of projects. • Identification and promotion of product development tools (brainstorming, task management, roadmapping, communications) in the Portfolio, improving problem solving and effectiveness.
Consultant role responsible for engaging with engineering teams across global operations. Project lead and technical support for Spanish, Saudi Arabian, and Brazilian refining operations. Leading and managing a team of highly skilled engineering contractors on new projects and support activities for overseas and Australian locations. Key Achievements: * Successfully led Advanced Process Control (APC) projects in the period (Spain, Brazil), including a new process control technology for site wide optimization in Saudi Arabia. * Leading two innovative projects (APC in mine site washing plant and Smart APC Supervisor integration to Wagerup refinery in Australia) to deliver new value. • Refocused the Global Process Control community of best practices towards improving information sharing, focused on building locations capabilities by transferring knowledge from CoE and empowering locations teams. * Adapted team interactions to a work from home set up, successfully using a mix of digital solutions to coordinate a team geographically distributed (Western Australia, Queensland, and Japan). * Led culturally diverse teams on audits and technical training delivery during Clarification community of best practice events in Australia, Brazil, and Spain.
Hired as technical assistant in the technical department.Job rotation through quality control, product development, costumer technical services. Extensive knowledge of polyethilene and polypropilene extrusion and co-extrusion, packaging printing and lamination.
Completed a Master's in polymer materials from UNIFE and Basell poliolefine (now LyondellBasell). Worked on Spheripol Process pilot plants for a month and developed a thesis on Spherizone heat/material balances using ASPEN PLUS and Excel. Used ASPEN Tools extensively and learned about LyondellBasell polymer production technologies (Spheripol, Spherilene, Spherizone).
Marketed research on industrial paints industry for four months, learned about their technology and production, conducted regional market research, and updated product safety data sheets.
Research Assistant with 2 years of experience in environmental engineering. Conducted studies on advanced oxidative processes for industrial wastewater treatment at Federal University of Santa Catarina. Tutored undergraduate students in "Unit Operations I" unit of the chemical engineering course. Skilled in photocatalysis, Fenton reaction and laboratory techniques.