"Die ganze Welt mein Arbeitsfeld!"
(The whole world is my place of work)
My father passed away in January 1984, at which time I was still living and working in Greece which allowed me to attend his funeral. I may not have done so had I already been back in Australia, as he had been a distant father to me, and not only geographically.
As distant as he was, he would not have objected to my plagiarising his letterhead motto "Die ganze Welt mein Arbeitsfeld". Alas, he was never able to put the motto into practice, as he had grown up at a time when most Germans were visiting foreign countries only to invade them.
I have since made up for his omissions with bells on, and would like to think that he would've got a kick out of my even greatly abridged c.v.:
Curriculum Vitae (or "Have pen, will travel!")
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Personal
Name:
Goerman, Manfred Peter
Email:
riverbendnelligen@mail.com
Age:
80 years
Occupation:
Chartered Management Consultant /Accountant
(now retired)
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Experience
1960 - 1965
Hamburg-Bremer Fire Insurance,
Germany,
Articled Clerk
1965 - 1969
Australia & New Zealand Bank,
Australia,
Bank Clerk
1970
Hancock Woodward & Neill,
Chartered Accountants,
Papua New Guinea,
Audit Clerk
1970 - 1974
Bougainville Copper Project,
Papua New Guinea
Bechtel Corporation,
Senior Auditor
Camp Catering Services,
Group Financial Controller
PDF Holdings,
Senior Accountant
1975
Total - Compagnie Française des Pétroles,
Burma,
Chief Accountant
1976 - 1986
Peter Goerman & Associates,
Management Consultants
Self-Employed and Short-Term Contracts
1986 - 2000
Traded as "Canberra Computer Accounting Systems"
and specialised in computerised accounting systems
both off-the-shelf
ATTACHE,
SYBIZ,
TAS,
MYOB and EXOGEN
and writing custom-made applications, together with
training and ongoing support for both hard- and software,
including
NOVELL and
LANTASTIC networking
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Short-term contracts
Major Assignments:
- Set up the internal audit department for
AIR NIUGINI
in
Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea
- Introduced a retail pricing inventory control system in a chain of stores
headquartered on Thursday Island and operating
throughout the Torres Strait of Australia
- Assisted in the formation of the
Pacific Forum Line in Western Samoa
- Led a team of economic and financial consultants to the
Penang Port Commission in Malaysia
- Designed and implemented all accounting and administrative systems for the Ok Tedi Copper Project's
Tug-and-Barge operations
jointly operated by Steamships Trading Company
in Papua New Guinea
- Completely overhauled financial control and reporting systems for a major commodity dealer and ship owner in
Jeddah in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
- Set up and operated offices in Athens/Greece
and Singapore for shipowners and charterers
- Designed and wrote in the PICK language a stock control,
despatch, and accounting system for a large mail-order house in Australia
- Rehabilitated a bankrupt college at a major university in Australia
and returned it to greater profitability than at any time in its 30-year history
- Numerous other smaller assignments with commercial companies, public utilities, and construction projects
in Australia, South West Africa,
the Middle East, the Solomon Islands
and other Pacific Island nations
Qualifications *
- Chartered Management Consultant
- Diploma in Accountancy
- Certificate of Chamber of Commerce
- Member Institute of Internal Auditors
- Fellow Taxation Institute of Australia
- Member Federation of Australian Accountants
- Fellow Institute of Administrative Accounting
* memberships requiring a financial contribution have not been kept current in retirement
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I'm now resting on my laurels, the first rest I've got after I had a career which was so exciting and challenging that I sometimes doubt I had it.
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