EMPLOYMENT
Creative Strategist
- Served as a strategic partner to clients, embedding within senior conversations to guide campaign direction, behavioural strategy, and organisational messaging.
- Designed large-scale campaigns that strengthened safety culture and contributed to measurable reductions in workplace injuries and fatalities.
- Played a central role in sustaining high client retention through trusted strategic partnership and consistently high-performing creative delivery.
- Scaled engagement across multi-channel programs by translating complex risk concepts into accessible, human-centred narratives.
- Facilitated brand and strategy workshops for organisations including Woolworths Group, Coles, Uber and the University of Sydney.
- Partnered with senior stakeholders to align communications with organisational transformation goals.
Teaching Associate
A tutor, lecturer, and unit assessor for the Department of Education, specialising in Creative Writing, Cultural Studies, History, and Sociology.
- Designed and delivered undergraduate lectures and tutorials.
- Facilitated learning environments that translated theory into applied practice.
- Recognised for clear communication of complex concepts.
Previously Sessional Academic at Griffith University, Gold Coast, QLD (2023-2024)
Group Marketing Manager
Rhythm is an international alternative surf apparel brand recognised for premium design, global distribution, and culturally driven storytelling.
- Reported to the Director and Global Brand Manager to shape global marketing direction for an internationally recognised surf apparel company, leading an integrated team across digital, brand, wholesale, and PR.
- Owned end-to-end marketing operations spanning brand expression, global campaigns, digital channels, and wholesale support.
- Managed an annual digital marketing budget of approximately $1.5M, optimising spend to drive brand growth and market visibility.
- Elevated brand positioning through integrated storytelling and strategic partnerships.
- Built and mentored a high-performing marketing team aligned to commercial objectives.
Marketing Manager
Silk Laundry is a globally recognised luxury womenswear label known for refined craftsmanship, timeless design, and a modern direct-to-consumer growth model.
- Drove marketing strategy for a luxury womenswear label, strengthening brand presence within a competitive global fashion landscape.
- Led brand and campaign strategy to support international growth.
- Oversaw multi-channel marketing initiatives to enhance customer engagement and loyalty.
- Ensured consistency of premium brand expression across all touchpoints.
Marketing & Graphic Design Manager
Liive Vision Eyewear & FK Surf are globally recognised surf apparel, eyewear, and hardware brands, renowned for their accessibility, quality, and reliability.
- Delivered integrated marketing and visual brand strategy across surf, lifestyle, and eyewear portfolios.
- Led creative and marketing execution across digital, retail, wholesale, and campaign channels.
- Developed visual brand assets spanning campaign creative, product marketing, social content, catalogues, POS, and trade materials.
- Supported brand growth within competitive youth, surf, and eyewear markets through consistent creative direction and campaign delivery.
Marketing Coordinator
Billabong is a global surf, lifestyle, and action-sports company with a portfolio of iconic youth-culture brands. Worked primarily across the retail division, including Surf Dive ’n Ski, supporting national campaigns, store activations, product launches, and customer-facing brand experiences.
- Supported national marketing initiatives for one of the world’s most recognised surf brands, building early capability in large-scale campaign environments.
- Assisted the delivery of national brand campaigns, retail activations, product launches, and athlete-led marketing initiatives.
- Coordinated marketing assets across digital, wholesale, retail, events, and social channels.
- Supported cross-functional teams across brand, sales, creative, and retail to help deliver campaigns on time and to brand standard.
- Built foundational experience in surf-industry marketing, campaign coordination, brand storytelling, and fast-paced commercial delivery.
CORE COMPETENCIES
Brand Strategy & Positioning

I help brands find the sharpest version of what they mean, why they matter, and how they should show up in the world. From positioning and messaging frameworks to campaign platforms and tone of voice, I translate messy ambition into clear, ownable brand direction.
Copywriting & Creative Comms

I write ideas into shape — from campaign lines, brand stories and website copy to scripts, editorial pieces, social content and internal communications. My work blends strategic clarity with human language, helping brands sound less like committees and more like they have a pulse.
Campaign Thinking & Strategy

I develop creative platforms that connect business objectives with audience behaviour. Whether the goal is growth, engagement, culture change or action, I build campaigns around the human insight — then shape the idea across channels so it actually lands.
EDUCATION
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Master of Arts (Research)
Graduate Certificate in Creative & Professional Writing
Bachelor of Arts (Journalism & Creative Writing)
ACADEMIA
Editor & Web Designer
Editor and website designer for Coastlines Journal during its relaunch as a digital publication after 24 years in print, guiding editorial direction and publication strategy. Collaborated with the editorial team to shape the journal’s renewed vision, ensuring a contemporary and accessible platform for creative writing.
Co-Editor
Co-Editor of TEXT Journal Special Issue 65: Creative Writing & Surfing, overseeing peer review, editorial development, and contributor coordination. Curated a collection of interdisciplinary essays exploring the intersections of surfing, creativity, and literary practice.
