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Phil is currently employed by the NSW Department of the Arts, Sport and Recreation in its Sport and Recreation division where he is the Director of Commercial Services. Despite the title using the term ‘Commercial’, the Directorate is far from being focused on commercial activities. In fact, the Directorate is responsible for the operation of 11 Sport and Recreation Centres across NSW whose core programs are in outdoor and experiential education, the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Program within the state, Centre and business development initiatives, the Client Services Centre and the business systems area.
Phil’s undergraduate training was in geophysics and education and after some 14 years as a senior science teacher, head teacher within the NSW public schools system and master teacher in the Macquarie University Teacher Education Program he moved to the Jindabyne Field Studies Centre in 1989 as Principal. Since that time, he has moved more into the areas of management and business systems obtaining post-graduate qualifications in accounting and business systems and an MBA along the way.
A number of years as the General Manager of a Sport and Recreation Centre, 3 years as a Regional Director and another few as the Manager of Corporate Services and Business Information and Strategy for the Department of Sport and Recreation led to Phil being appointed to the position of Director, Commercial Services last year. This role interestingly brings him back to having a lead a role in the areas of outdoor education, outdoor recreation and in the development of the individual and the community.
Phil has a deep love of the outdoors having been an avid bushwalker and dabbling in climbing, caving, cross-country skiing and canyoning (all in a previous life). He jokes that he now has more metal joints than the bionic man but he still managed to walk the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu last year and the trails along the length of the of the Cinque Terre in Italy in 2005. Phil now limits sport and recreation activities to walking, alpine skiing and golf – a pursuit that he says provides even greater challenges than the Inca Trail.
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