Film, Live Events & Tourism
Event & Operations Manager
I make complicated things happen. Brisbane-based, with fifteen-plus years across film and television, large-scale live events, and international tourism. I'm the person sorting the hundreds of things that have to land on the day.
ABOUT
I'm an Event & Operations Manager with a background that's wandered through festivals, film and television, and tourism operations — which sounds scattered until you realise it's all the same job: getting a lot of people and moving parts into the right place at the right time.
Most recently I worked on the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo across Brisbane and Auckland — as Accreditation Manager for the Brisbane leg, managing access for 782 performers from seven countries plus 200+ staff and volunteers, then as Performer Support Group Manager for Auckland, leading a team of 10 Group Leaders on artist liaison across each of the international contingents.
Currently I'm back in film and television, location coordinating on the ABC TV series Fortitude Valley. Over the last five years I've been location coordinator on a string of productions including Street Fighter (where I came in nearly $500K under budget), The Artful Dodger, Last King of the Cross, Mystery Road: Origin, Poker Face and Nine Perfect Strangers (where I also handled accommodation coordination for 180 cast and crew). And alongside all of that, I've been coordinating international media famils for Tourism Australia — multi-week luxury itineraries across multiple states, working directly with state tourism organisations and dozens of operators.
Earlier in my career I ran patron transport and managed staff and volunteers across Splendour in the Grass, Falls Festival and Download; general-managed Sydney City Limits; and spent five years at Moshtix looking after some of the country's biggest festival clients. Before that I was Sales & Marketing Manager at Playbill Venues in Sydney (Hordern Pavilion and Royal Hall of Industries) and Senior Account Manager at Ticketek — which is where the whole live events thing started.
The thing I love most about this work is the moment it all lands — when something huge that's been months in the planning actually goes off, and you can stand back and watch it work.
Based in Brisbane, open to roles across events, film, tourism and project management — locally and interstate.