After graduating from Curtin University in Western Australia, I moved to Darwin and worked for three years consulting as a sports dietitian at the Northern Territory Insititue of Sport, and running my own private practice. From there I moved to Canberra to work at the Australian Insititue of Sport for over two years. After a couple of years working in Melbourne for SDA and as a consultant with the Victorian Institute of Sport and the Richmond AFL club, I moved back to Perth and spent some time working at the Western Australian Institute of Sport, and the Western Australian Cricket Association.

Current Position: Consultant Dietitian

• Services provided to local sporting groups, health oriented groups and corporate groups.
• Consultant Dietitian to a sports nutrition website: www.topendsports.com/nutrition
  

Previous Employment

• Consultant Dietitian for the Western Australian Cricket Association
• Consultant Dietitian for the Western Australian Institute of Sport
• Consultant Dietitian for Richmond Australian Rules Football Club
• Consultant Dietitian for Victorian Institute of Sport
• Consultant Dietitian for Tenpin Bowling Australia. In this role I presented at the Asian National Tenpin Bowling Symposium in Hong Kong plus annually to coaches and national squad members.

General Work Skills:

• Over 20 years of practical experience working with elite and sub-elite athletes.
• Management of sports nutrition support programs for a variety of elite, professional and sub-elite athletes and sporting teams, involving planning, implementation and evaluation of programs.
• Theoretical and practical activities engaged for nutrition servicing; athlete screening, individual consultation (face to face and email communication), food diary analysis, recovery nutrition, supplement usage, bulking up, weight/fat loss, fluid balance and hydration monitoring, shopping excursions and cooking classes.
• Coordination of food provision for travelling athletes as well as attendance at training camps and national and international competition.
• Coordination of food service at live-in athlete residence to ensure quality and appropriate food and nutritional balance.
• Major planning, coordination and involvement in research projects at the AIS, WAIS and RMIT University, with elite and sub-elite athletes.
• Experience of and indulgence in international foods and diets, resulting in a web record of this information.

 

Sports Institutes:

• Six years with the Western Australian Institute of Sport, working across all athletes and sports
  • Track & Field for six years
  • Cycling, Rowing, Kayak/Canoeing, Sailing and Swimming for four years.
  • Swimming, Diving and Gymnastics for two years.
• Three years with NTIS; working solely with all sports including hockey, AFL, NRL, RU, cricket, tenpin, track and field and netball. (2000-02)
• Two years with VIS working as one of two in-house senior dietitians doing mainly individual consults for a range of sports, netball, soccer, triathlon, cycling, rowing and hockey. (2006/07)
• Two years with AIS working in a department of other sports dietitians, personally covering basketball, swimming, winter sports and camp based sports such as NRL, RU and motor sports. (2003/04). 2003 I undertook the Nestle Fellowship, and 2004 I was employed as the Food Service Dietitian and as a Sports Dietitian.

Other Sports Consultancies:

• Three seasons working with WA's elite cricketers; male, female, one-day and T20 teams (2017-20), and with Cricket Victoria 2006-08.
• Three seasons with Richmond (AFL) Football Club (2006-08).
• Six years for Tenpin Bowling Australia conducting mainly group sessions for both athletes and coaches.
• Two years with the Victorian Jockey Association doing group sessions with apprentice jockeys. (2006/07)

Sports Dietitians Australia:

• Program management for design of a sports nutrition course aimed at coaches, athletes and sports trainers. This involved coordination of course work material, editing, artwork and formatting of final material, running Victorian state based courses and lecturing of topics for the course.
• Coordination and attendance at a Media Training Day, with follow up media work and coordination of interstate media jobs.
• Other work included coordination of the annual dietitian attended Sports Nutrition Course, website assistance, organising board teleconferences and official SDA events, coordinating dietitians for a range of job opportunities, and general administrative work.

Private Practice:

• Consulting to general athletes in the community, general population on a variety of health issues, Australian Defence Forces, nursing home patients
• A wide variety of lecturing from a basic level for young groups through to conference presentations.

Food Service Dietitian

• Menu Planning for a four-week cyclic menu catering for over 200 athletes at the AIS.
  
• Regular consultation with contracted catering Chef’s to maintain high quality and appropriate food service.
  
• Regular dealings with food company representatives to cordinate best possible food supply.
  
• Management of all on-site AIS food provision to ensure appropriate nutritional balance.
  
• Cordination of all travel nutrition supplies for teams travelling nationally as well as internationally.
  
• Managament and upkeep of the AIS Sports Nutrition Department nurtition analysis program, Foodworks, including updating with all new avialable foods and recipes.

 

Online Resume

• Work Skills
• Work History
• Qualifications
• Presentations
• Media
• Publications