Reviewers

Jeff Lamond, General Manager and Principal Reviewer - Canberra

Jeff Lamond joined CPM as Principal Consultant and General Manager of CPM Reviews in June 2008 following a 33 year career in the APS, with the last fourteen years spent at the SES level. Jeff's areas of professional competence centre around public sector ethics, accountability and reviews of employment action, the APS Values and the APS Code of Conduct. He also has a real depth of experience in broader public sector employment policy. more...

Joanne Blackburn, Principal Reviewer - Canberra

Joanne has a legal background and has had a 30 year career in the APS, including 20 years experience as an SES officer, most recently in AGs where she was a Division Head. Joanne has specialised in public administrative law and has broad international and national policy and legal experience in criminal justice.. She has had extensive involvement in staffing, recruitment, performance appraisal and grievance processes. more...

Boris Budak, Senior Reviewer - Sydney

Boris has a legal and accountancy background and over 40 years experience in the public sector, the last twelve in the Australian Public Service Commission. Before joining the Commission, Boris worked in a number of other Australian Public Service agencies, including the Australian National Audit Office and the Attorney-General's Department. more...

Mike Stone, Senior Reviewer - Canberra

Mike Stone has 26 years experience in both central and service delivery Commonwealth agencies focusing particularly on employee relations and review of action investigations. He has had extensive experience with a diverse range of workplaces – industrial, clerical, technical, professional and scientific. more...

Gwyneth Thompson, Senior Reviewer - Canberra

Gwyn provides management consultancy, employment reviews and misconduct investigations to a wide range of public and private sector organisations throughout Australia. This follows a 30 year career in the Australian Public Service, latterly at the SES level. Gwyn's expertise encompasses corporate governance and all aspects of people management and development. more...

Geoff Cameron, Senior Reviewer - Canberra

Geoff Cameron has over 30 years experience in the Commonwealth public sector, mostly within the Commonwealth's central HR agencies, the Public Service Board (PSB), the Merit Protection and Review Agency (MPRA), the Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) and the Public Service and Merit Protection Commission (PSMPC). more...

Jane Bateson, Senior Reviewer - Canberra

Jane Bateson is an experienced human resources management consultant with 19 years public sector experience across central agencies, human resource management and program areas. She has variously occupied positions as Personnel Manager, Employee Relations Manager and has been involved in workplace conditions and workplace reform. more...

David Callan, Senior Reviewer - Canberra

David Callan has some 40 years Public Sector administrative and management experience. As well as having hands on experience he has managed human resource related areas, such as recruitment, organisation and classification review and development, industrial relations, grievance resolution and security. more...

Gail Kinnane, Senior Reviewer - Adelaide

Gail Kinnane has had a career of over 30 years in the APS and has worked in various Commonwealth agencies, spending the last six years with the APSC at the Executive level. Gail's areas of professional expertise include public sector ethics, accountability and reviews of employment action, the APS Values, the APS Code of Conduct and the Public Service Act. more...

Clive Haggar, Senior Reviewer - Canberra

In 2008 Clive completed a 25 year career in the Australian Education Union—including 13 years as chief executive of the AEU's ACT Branch. This involved him in the development and negotiation of industrial relations and professional agreements in the ACT. His key interests are in advocacy, negotiations, dispute resolution and mediation. more...

Glyn Tomlinson, Senior Reviewer - Queensland

Glyn Tomlinson has 36 years experience in the Commonwealth public sector across a range of large and small agencies. Glyn also managed a private sector IT firm for 12 years providing services to the public sector. His principle specialism has been in management reviews and reform, with a special interest in organisational culture, Code of Conduct and the APS Values. more...

Alison Byrne, Senior Reviewer - Melbourne

Alison Byrne has 26 years public sector experience across a range of APS agencies. From 2001 to 2009 Alison worked as a Regional Adviser with the APSC undertaking statutory reviews on behalf of the MPC. Alison is also an experienced facilitator in areas such as conduct and ethics and administrative investigations. more...

Tony O'Brien, Senior Reviewer - Canberra

Tony has 31 years of APS experience, most recently with DAFF's Integrity Unit and the Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands. He has extensive workplace relations and HRM experience, has managed compliance and industrial relations policy advisory sections. He was a Commonwealth Advocate for 9 years. more...

Peter Long, Senior Reviewer - Canberra

Peter Long has 34 years public sector experience, including 15 years as a Police officer with the NSW Police, primarily as a detective working on criminal investigations. Peter moved from the NSW Police to the APS where he conducted investigations into various forms of staff misconduct across a range of agencies. more...

Alf Bock, Senior Reviewer - Perth

Alf Bock has more than 20 years experience in the public sector, working both in central and service delivery agencies. Most recently Alf was with the APSC undertaking Code of Conduct and other investigations for the Merit Protection Commissioner. Prior to that he was involved in a range of recruitment and selection practices across the APS. more...

Sue Balnaves, Senior Reviewer - Canberra

Sue joined CPM in March 2011 as Business Manager of the Reviews function, and also as a Reviewer, after a 28 year career in public administration. Sue had diverse roles in Defence, the Australian Public Service Commission and the ACT Government, with most time as an experienced HR Director with a focus on people and program management. more...

Michael Lawless, Senior Reviewer - Canberra

Michael has extensive public sector experience, across several departments covering strategic policy, public sector legislation, litigation program management, development and delivery. Michael joined the APS in 1972 and was an SES officer managing legal, policy and program branches in the Departments of Immigration and Prime Minister and Cabinet for over 15 years. more...

Sandy Nix, Senior Reviewer - Brisbane

Sandy has over thirty years experience in HR Management in various Commonwealth agencies.  Her specific expertise is in the areas of misconduct investigations, grievance reviews of employment related matters and management of employee underperformance and workplace disputes. Sandy is highly skilled in ethics training and leadership development particularly as it relates to improving workplace culture and performance. more...