With Paul Ah Chee Ngala accepting the 1997 NT Brolga Award for Aboriginal Tourism

Listed below are the highlights of the 286 “jobs ” that I have had in the past 49 Years

Pictured with the Australian Tourism Award and TO_DO World Tourism Award (Aboriginal Tourism ) For client; Aboriginal Art and Culture Centre Alice Springs

Marketing Achievements 1969-1990

• 1969: Working as a personal assistant to the late Sir Reginald Ansett, legendary founder of Ansett Airlines in my first job.
• 1973: Being promoted to Project Accountant on the construction of the Bougainville Copper Project (1.2 Billion dollars) at the age of 23 years.
• 1974: Being sales accountant of the largest profit ever made by an Australian company (1973 $127 million) – Bougainville Copper Pty Ltd.
• Working on a world wide information management system based in the USA (including N.A.S.A. and Martin Marietta Systems).
• Successfully marketing new frozen fruits in the USA (10,000 ,000 1 bs sales of frozen mango to the R.J Reynolds Co).
• Attracting over $500 million worth of enquiry for Queensland Real Estate investment in 1983.
• As marketing manager for CDS-TV achieved the highest growth of any second board company in Australia 1986.
• Taking the subsequent worth of CDS-TV from $600,000 to $30 million in 6 months.
• Selling 1400 wedding dresses in January 1988 over a period of 4 weeks to generate a total monthly sale of $675,000. Previous month $160,000 (320% increase).
• Successfully launching a new tourist publication “Hello Cairns” in Cairns when there were 26 publications already on the market. Sold $ 120, 000 worth of advertising in 3 weeks.
• Increasing the size and advertising revenue of “Australia’s top Newspaper”, The Torres News by 300% over a 3 month period.
• Assisting the Torres Strait Islanders with a very successful public relations campaign and also designing their logo.

PROJECTS AND CONSULTANCY CLIENTS INCLUDE

FEDERAL AIRPORTS CORPORATION :Alice Springs Airport commercial study and all retail leasing

WOODHEAD ARCHITECTS: Community Planning

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT: Community/enterprise plans

KOORI MAIL: National development Aboriginal newspaper

PARK AND WILDLIFE COMMISSION NT :Tourism research-Telegraph Station development

ALICE SPRINGSTOWN COUNCIL :Tourism study

COUNCIL OF ABORIGINAL RECONCILIATION : Aboriginal media issues-Queensland

MELANKA LODGE : Alice Springs / tourism development Back packer feasibility study

WORKZONE –ALICE SPRINGS: Employment consulting business plan

LOTTO MANUFACTURING _NATIONAL : Sales/marketing strategy

CC-TVCoralCoast Television: Cairns Tourism television feasibility study

HECRON Group of Companies : National marketing/sales strategy

TORRES STRAIT NEWS :Thursday Island QLD Newspaper marketing strategy

CONGRESS ABORIGINAL HEALTH SERVICE : Health promotion media strategy

DEPT OF EMPLOYMENT/TRAINING NT :Tourism training strategy

FEDERAL DEPARTMENT : Tourism training Centre

FEDERAL TOURISM GRANT ALICE SPRINGS :Museum development

AUSTRALIAN TOURISM COMMISSION: International Marketing

ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIA : Internet development

RED CENTRE RESORT :Tourism promotion

ARRERNTE COUNCIL : Enterprise development conference

ABORIGINAL ART AND CULTURE CENTRE-ALICE SPRINGS :Tourism marketing

ABORIGINAL DESERT DISCOVERY TOURS: Tourism development strategy

CULTURAL PRECINCT –Alice Springs Project development

TOURISM PROJECT-CAIRNS – 1995 Project Management

ABORIGINAL TOUR OPERATORS-NATIONAL-1999 Internet site /CD-ROM

ATC/QANTAS/NTTC 1997-2002 International marketing

MUSEE DU QUAI BRANDLY-PARIS-2002 Project development

WALKABOUT AUSTRALIA-NT 2003 International export marketing

SOUTHCORP WINES /DISNEY USA   2003  International marketing

AURORA RESORTS AND HOTELS   2003 Brolga Awards Entry

 SENSIS /YELLOW PAGES-NT 2003   Sales, Marketing and research

CONGRESS ALICE SPRINGS -2004  Health promotion strategy

ALICE SPRINGS HOLIDAYS -2004 Website design

BALLARAT ABORIGINAL CULTURAL CENTRE 2005  Project Management/marketing

ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIA 1996-2014 Internet development

FEDERAL Dept Health OATSIH 2006 OPAL Fuel communications strategy

PORTLANDBET 2006/2007 International internet marketing