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Curriculum Vitae

Work Experience

2024 -

DIRECTOR/OWNER

CHIEF SCRIBE

9/196 Keppel St

Bathurst 2795 NSW

Australia

Apt 27, L2

6730Hamza Ibn Abdulmuttalib St

Dhahran, Eastern Province, Al Qusur

Saudi Arabia

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CONTENT & BRAND DEVELOPMENT

  • Working on porjects for Education Centre of Australia: corporate brand and new projects including website refresh and content SEO optimisation, new content development, budgets and projections, social media strategy, UK go-to market plan and development of marketing collateral and assets

  • Team training

  • Brand positioning and marketing of exhibitions at  Galerija Prešernovih nagrajencev Kranj gallery

  • Content development for Karpinski & Co

  • ​Collaboration with Luka Dakskobler, Dax

2021 - 2025

GROUP DIRECTOR OF MARKETING

GROUP DIRECTOR OF BRAND & STRATEGY

L10, 160 Susses Street

Sydney 2000 NSW

MARKETING & BRAND STRATEGY, ACTIVATION AND OPERATIONS

I led the strategic marketing efforts for 16 ECA Group brands, including 8 university partnerships, managed campuses, higher education colleges, ELICOS and VET providers, Professional Year program, and Employability Advantage SaaS solution. I shaped and executed initiatives aligned with ECA’s and partners’ vision, elevating prominence in the competitive international education landscape. My focus was on crafting and implementing comprehensive marketing strategies that drove student enrollment, enhanced brand recognition, and positioned ECA Group and partners as higher education leaders. I excel in leveraging innovative approaches, data-driven insights, and cross-functional collaboration to achieve measurable results. Committed to team and corporate development, I implemented tailored training programs, shaped high-performing teams and contributed significantly to overall growth and cohesion.

My recent project was developing a new business initiative and model, UniQuad. I was the lead behind the business plan and brand development. 

2020 - 2021

HEAD OF DIGITAL CONTENT & MARKETING

655 Pacific Hwy,

St Leonards NSW 2065

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PRODUCTISATION & BRAND ACTIVATION:

  • design of business offerings and combos to address the buyer's digital transformation needs.

  • Brand refresh and brand activation through content and visual audit and rebuild as well as GTM campaigns, nurture, and thought leadership positioning.

  • Content strategy, curation and creation

  • Marketing automation: product & lead gen campaigns (email, social media)

  • Strategy and planning: marketing plans and budgets, CRM implementation of agile marketing

2019 - 2020

DIGITAL MARKETING MANAGER

 

HEAD OF MARKETING

Level 6/122 Walker St,

North Sydney NSW 2060

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DIGITAL MARKETING STRATEGY & GROWTH MARKETING

  • Growth marketing/lead generation campaigns: LinkedIn paid advertising, content marketing and email marketing

  • Design of annual marketing plan and budget, cost breakdown structure, cash flow; monitoring and reporting on the budget

  • Data analysis, evaluation, data cleaning health-check, segmentation and database growing

  • Ownership of company's CRM (HubSpot) with the goal to implement new functionalities and strategies, improve workflows and data management, processes and overall automation; HubSpot training for the Sales team

  • Event strategy and marketing of eftsure’s presence at conferences and tradeshows; strategies to drive traffic to the stand and increase volume and quality of leads; conception, production and marketing of internal and partner webinars

  • Website content management, building landing pages

2019

MARKETING STRATEGY ADVISOR

Suite 201 & 204 Level 2
84 Pitt Street
Sydney, NSW, 2000

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PRODUCT AND COMPANY-WIDE MARKETING STRATEGY, ANNUAL PLAN AND BUDGET & GTM STRATEGY FOR NEW PRODUCTS 

  • Development of digital marketing strategy

  • Design of annual marketing plan and budget

  • Product launch and new product go-to-market strategy development

  • Data segmentation and list growing

  • Event strategy and marketing of external and internal events (including launch&learn, meet-ups, roadshows, and partner launch events

  • Website review, content curation; Google Analytics Implementation

  • Organic social media campaigns; adding new social media channels

  • Liaising with marketing agencies and partners

  • Coaching and team building

2018 - 2019

MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER

 2/802 Pacific Hwy,

Gordon NSW 2072

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MARCOM TEAM MANAGEMENT & PROGRAM & PARTNER MARKETING

  • Marketing Strategy and Planning: email marketing, partners marketing, digital campaigns, social media, print, website; PR, video, radio

  • Reporting and analysis of marketing and communications campaigns

  • Managing the MarCom team: Digital Marketing Specialist and Designer

  • Writing media releases, writing and editing articles, advertorials, blogs and ads for internal and external newsletters and print; conducting video interviews and interviewing for written profile and opinion pieces

  • Strong focus on Channel Partnerships and partner marketing

  • Event marketing and operations: speaker events, opening ceremonies and awards dinners, launch events, participation at channel partners’

  • events, school evenings, prep days

  • Full marketing and PR coverage of the NASA Space School expedition in December 2018 Houston, USA) 

2017 - 2018

MARKETING MANAGER

Suite 801, Level 8

99 Mount Street

North Sydney NSW 2060

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EVENT MARKETING: B2B, B2C, SpexProm, VisProm, ConProm

  • Events Marketing using a wide range of marketing channels and tools:
    email marketing, partners marketing, digital campaigns, social media, print, website, display;

  • Focus on Data build, data segmentation;

  • Reporting and analysis;

  • Events Budget and marketing strategy ;

  • Team Management: Social Media Co-ordinator, Data researcher, Marketing Specialist, Designer, Web Specialist

2015 - 2017

HEAD OF EVENTS

EVENTS MARKETING MANAGER

UK

100 Cambridge Grove
London
W6 0LE UK

Australia

Room 105, Floor 6,
333 George Street,
Sydney NSW 2000

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POSITIONING EVENTS AS LEAD GENERATION, RETENTION, AND  THOUGHT LEADERSHIP MARKETING CHANNEL

  • Events strategy and content for UK, Australia, Asia, Middle East and EU 

  • Planning, project management, and production of company’s own events: Annual Learning Conference (500+ delegates), Asia Conference
    and Junior Users’ Group as well as show & tells and roadshows

  • Marketing strategy for events and branding (including social media campaigns, eDMs, website content, print)

  • Events marketing budget creation, financial and MQL projections, cost breakdown structures and post-event analysis

  • Conception, execution, and marketing of client retention Regional events

  • Team management: including remote teams (Australia, Singapore)

  • Team training for large tradeshows and conferences; show flows and scripts, stage management on the day

2010 - 2015

HEAD OF MARKETING

 

PRODUCT MARKETING MANAGER  

 

PRODUCT PROJECT SPECIALIST 

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BRANDING, ACTIVATION, AND MARKETING OF NEW PRODUCTS

  • Strategy and marketing budget development, including positioning in-house
    events as a lead generation and thought leaderhip channel

  • Managing relationships with sponsors, key partners and media

  • Branding, re-branding and launching new brands and product lines

  • Lead generation and retention marketing activities

  • Team management: social media intern, 2x sales reps, website specialist

  • In charge of communications (B2B, B2C, internal) and content

  • Core website redesign and launch

  • Launch of brands Ecobeton, Polyurea and Korund  – increasing the company’s revenue by 18% in the first year

  • ChemDry European Summit 2014

  • Rebranding of ChemDry franchise in Slovenia and increase of the number of franchisees by 50%

As Product Marketing Manager:

  • Go-to-market strategy for new products including launch campaigns and branding

  • Liaising with internal and external stakeholders

  • Development of marketing plan for individual products and brands

As New Markets & Product Project Specislist:

  • Research and relationship building with new and prospective brands and partners

  • Implementation and project management of new pilot product lines

2005 - 2010

HEAD OF MODERN LANGUAGES

 

COMMUNICATIONS & PR OFFICER  

 

IMPROV LEAGUE MENTOR 

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BRANDING, ACTIVATION, AND MARKETING OF NEW PRODUCTS

  • Teaching English in various programmes and stages

  • Managing a team of modern languages teachers (8), and strategy and professional development of the department

  • Assessor and examiner at vocational matura exams

  • Mentor of ŠILA (School Improvisation Theatre League) team

  • The Duke of Edinburgh's International Award (named MEPI in Slovenia) activity leader, organization of international expeditions to
    the UK, Serbia, Mauritius

  • Head of Modern Languages department for 2 years

  • Author of the catalogue of knowledge for open curriculum – Technical English

  • Regional Meeting of Young Researchers at TŠC Kranj

  • Increased traffic at open days

  • Co-organizer and participant in the project Leonardo CNC and Robotics Partnerships

  • Mentor to students at national competitions in English Poliglot (5th and 3rd place) and Organiser of Poliglot in 2009

  • The highest average at School Leaving Examination – English

2003 - 2012

INTERPRETER

INTERNATIONAL OFFICE ASSISTANT

  • Translations of public tenders and all corresponding documentation

  • Translations of plays and scripts produced during international workshops

  • Interpreting international meetings, conferences, and workshops 9Slovenian - English - Serbian - Croatian)

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Education

1998 - 2004

UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA

Faculty of Arts

Bachelor's degree 

English Language and Literature

Ljubljana, Slovenia

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Modules, Lectures & Tutorials:

British Cultural Studies 

British Cinematography

Translating Slovenian to English and vice versa

Modern American Literature

English Novel in the 19th century

Overview of Modern and Old English Literature

William Shakespeare and its Dramatic Opus

English Poetry post-19th Century and between 16th and 19th Century

Australian Literature

Canadian Literature

Amae5rican Novel of the 20th Century

English Verb I and II

English Phonetics and Phonology

English Morphology

Language in Use 1, II, II & IV

English Historical Grammar I & II

English Syntax

Intro to Lexicology

1998 - 2004

UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA

Faculty of Arts

Bachelor's egree 

Philosophy

Ljubljana, Slovenia

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Introduction to Philosophy

Antique Philosophy i & II

Logic and Argumentation I & II

Philosophy of the Early Modern Ages

Ontology

Epistemology

Philosophy of the Renaissance and the Middle Ages

Philosophical Anthropology

Structuralism, Psychoanalysis, Philosophy

Basics of Analytical Philosophy

Philosophy of History

Hermeneutics I

German Classical Thought

Esthetics

Asian Philosophy, Religion & Culture

Practical Philosophy between Kant and Hegel

Man and Cosmos in the Renaissance 

Ethics

Social Philosophy

Philosophy of Religion

Philosophy and History of Science

Modern Analytical theory

Phenomenology

Metaphysics

2003

DARTINGTON COLLEGE OF ARTS

Diploma in Performance Writing

Diploma in Performance Writing:

Writing not merely a means of communication but a medium, to an asset as the core of the performance, installation, or piece of art. 

Final diploma project: Erosion of Though

A clay bust of Aristotle surrounded by book covers, water slowly dripping on the bust melting the status and also eroding the classics (books)

Dartington, Devon, UK

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Professional skillset

Entrepreneurial Mindset: high-level to execution; results-driven, data-based decision maker

Go-to-Market Strategy: Audience targeting, Customer Life cycle and Buer Personas

Team Management & Collaboration; agile, teamwork, partnerships

Marketing: Digital, Content, Lead Gen, Growth, Sales Enablement, Advertising; B2B2C, B2B, B2C, Retention, Branding, Communications; email, social media, ads, search, web, displayt

Languages

English (educated native speaker proficiency)

German (fluent)

Slovenian (native speaker)

Serbian/Croatian (fluent)

Certifications & Licences

HubSpot Academy:

  • Content Marketing Certified

  • Email Marketing Certified

  • Inbound Marketing Certified

  • Social Media Certified

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