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Amanda Van Ryn
Amanda works in our Auckland office as an ICT permanent recruitment consultant. Amanda has over 20 years experience in the ICT recruitment industry in New Zealand and Asia. Her roles have included Consulting, Client Management, Team Leadership and General Management for large multinational recruitment organisations.
Amanda's career highlights have included managing start up recruitment operations, building and developing strong teams and customer relationships, and the design and implementation of best practise recruitment solutions. Amanda particularly enjoys client and candidate relationship development and management, thrives on people interaction and is committed to delivering service excellence and ensuring a ‘win win' in her business partnerships.
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Amelia Fitchew
Amelia prides herself on doing everything with a smile and is renowned for providing exceptional customer service and her follow through on commitments.
Amelia is a Client Manager with Beyond Recruitment Contracting and looks after a range of key accounts for us. She has excellent ability to communicate with people at all levels and knows the market well, so if you are looking for a new contracting opportunity, get in touch with Amelia.
Amelia has been with Beyond Recruitment Consulting since May 2006.
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Anita Matthews
Anita joined the Beyond Recruitment IT Contracting team in August 2003 and is one of our most senior recruitment consultants. Her industry and market knowledge combined with an exceptional contact network is a valuable resource for clients and contractors alike.
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Basil Varouhas
Basil has a wealth of recruitment experience spanning 11 years in the industry across Australia and New Zealand. Basil's experience as a professional recruiter commenced in 1997 with one of the world's largest recruitment practices specialising in the sourcing of contract financial executive staff. The last six years have seen Basil deliver to a wide variety of contract specifications to clients across the public and private sectors in the Executive Leasing arena. Typical assignments have ranged from interim management and general management roles programme and project management, business analysis, change and transition management, strategic and operational HR and policy based roles across the Government sector.
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Ben Pearson
Ben is very well-connected in the New Zealand recruitment industry having been involved in the Wellington and Auckland markets for over 12 years and is an experienced, successful recruiter and business manager. Ben is our Wellington General Manager, who also focuses on recruitment of senior level roles, bid management and marketing at Beyond. Ben also manages some of our large key accounts and is a Director of the company.
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Clare Lewis
Clare has been with the company since its inception in July 2003. Clare is our Billing and Credit Control Manager working closely with contractors and clients in the billing of clients, contractor payments and all aspects of the finance team. She works closely with contractors and clients ensuring a smooth billing process and payment cycle.
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Clare Saunders
Clare joins Beyond Recruitment from having worked for a leading Global Recruitment Company. Clare has 15 years expertise working within Accounting & Finance, Business Support, and Professional Services sectors as a Recruitment Specialist. Clare has worked on a number of high volume, short and long term projects across a variety of sectors over the years ensuring a successful outcome for both client and candidate. Clare's expertise encompasses a wealth of knowledge and experience around tailored candidate attraction and sourcing strategies for both permanent and contracting solutions. Clare has also successfully mentored, trained and managed a team of Candidate Managers in the Auckland area both within the permanent and contracting areas. Clare prides herself on her passion and commitment to meeting her candidates and clients expectations through a truly consultative and personalised approach.
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Deidre Rennie
Deidre is a Director of Beyond Recruitment and has well over ten years recruitment consulting experience both within New Zealand and internationally including around eight years experience in ICT recruitment in the Auckland market.
With a strong customer service focus Deidre believes in building relationships with both clients and candidates alike and enjoys gaining an in-depth understanding of their requirements and being able to deliver to those. Deidre's current focus is the building of our Auckland contracting business.
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Don Stantiall
Don is a well-connected recruiter in the Wellington IT industry and has been with Beyond Recruitment since 2005. He has over 14 years experience working for some of the better established and high profile IT recruitment organisations in New Zealand.
Don has considerable experience recruiting at all levels up to senior management and through the full range of technical disciplines and specialist roles within the IT industry. His experience includes recruiting for large corporate organisations, international and local vendors as well as major public sector groups. At Beyond Recruitment, Don specialises in IT contracting and looks after several of our largest corporate and government clients.
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Donna Learmonth
Donna joined the Beyond Recruitment team in 2007 in the role of Accounts/Contractor Billing. Donna has worked in the recruitment industry in Melbourne, Auckland and Wellington since 1992. Donna works closely with contractors ensuring a smooth billing process and payment cycle.
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Edward Rouse
Ed is our dedicated consultant specialising in Engineering, Construction and Operations recruitment across all regions of New Zealand. Ed has a BSc (Hons) in Construction Management and started his career in the UK construction industry. He has successfully managed several industrial and housing projects before moving into the recruitment sector.
This background means Ed can talk to clients and candidates with a strong knowledge of the sector and gives him an edge in sourcing scarce resources in a highly competitive market.
Furthermore, being an immigrant himself, Ed understands the attraction of New Zealand and able to advise overseas candidates on a personal level about what to expect when immigrating to New Zealand.
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Elizabeth Francis
Elizabeth is our Payroll and Accounts Clerk. Elizabeth has worked in payroll and accounting for many years including with one of NZ's largest companies. More recently, Elizabeth worked in the UK with a large recruitment company based in London where she was responsible for a global payroll. Outside of work Elizabeth enjoys travel, music, sport, movies and good food and wine shared with family and friends.
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Emily Horsefield
Emily is the Contractor Manager within the IT Contracting team in our Wellington office. Her role as Contractor Manager is to build ongoing relationships with contractors following placement, to be a consistent contact for them at Beyond and implement any necessary changes to their contracts. She is very much a people person and really enjoys the side of her job that gets her out of the office, meeting our contractors regularly for a coffee and catch up.
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Emma Wadsley
Emma is our Auckland Office Manager. Emma has previous experience working in office administration roles in the UK. After her time in the UK, she returned to New Zealand to begin a career within recruitment. Prior to joining Beyond, Emma worked as a recruitment consultant for an international recruitment company. Having worked in the recruitment industry for several years, Emma brings invaluable skills and knowledge to the Beyond team. Emma's positive, energetic and "can-do" approach is reflected in the support she provides to both the permanent and contracting consultants, as well as ensuring a welcoming experience to our candidates.
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Emma Hodgson
Emma is one of our Resource Managers in the Wellington IT contracting team and manages a pool of experienced professionals looking for their next assignment. Her key skills include relationship management, communication and strategic thinking.
Emma’s focus is to minimise the time her contractors are between assignments and that they all receive the attention and service they deserve. Emma has a strong background working extensively in the Wellington Government and not for profit sectors.
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Freeman Tong
Freeman holds the position of Accounts Clerk at Beyond Recruitment within the Finance team. He completed his BCA Degree at Victoria University of Wellington in 2006 majoring in Accounting. He is very passionate about accountancy and his new role at Beyond Recruitment.
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Gemma Jones
Gemma, a temporary services specialist is part of the Beyond Temp team, providing high calibre temporary business support professionals into a variety of assignments within the Wellington market.
Gemma brings with her a diverse range of recruitment industry experience gained from over five years experience within the international recruitment markets of the UK, Australia and New Zealand. Her career to date spans temporary recruitment, specialist engineering and construction recruitment and more recently professional services recruitment within Wellington.
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Harry Hall
Harry is a Director of Beyond and manages our corporate and financial operations. He has a broad business background and has in depth knowledge of contracting and recruitment in the technology sector. Harry has other business interests in the security and tourism sectors and is also Chief Executive of Beyond's sister company Starfish Consulting.
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Hugh Riley
Hugh is the Client Relationship Manager for Beyond Recruitment.
Hugh is a highly experienced sales professional, executive recruitment consultant, manager and business owner with over 16 years experience in recruitment. Prior to that worked for 9 years in sales in the IT industry. Over the past 16 years he has undertaken executive level recruitment assignments and managed and owned several recruitment companies servicing clients in Wellington and Auckland. He has held leadership roles with The Doughty Group, Candle Recruitment, LaceyLee and Hudson Recruitment.
He is widely known and respected throughout this sector of the market and is passionate about creating service companies that deliver high quality human resource services and strategic value to customers.
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Jacqui Smith
Jacqui is a dedicated recruitment professional who joins Beyond Recruitment as an ICT Client Manager and brings with her over 13 years experience within the recruitment industry. She has supplied high calibre personnel across a variety of industries and sectors, specialising in end to end IT recruitment for the last 8 years, in both New Zealand and the United Kingdom.
Jacqui has a consultative approach to provide solutions across the board at all levels within an organisation, and she has successfully developed and maintained both client and candidate relationships throughout her career.
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James Terry
James is a Client Manager at Beyond and has recently joined us after spending the last 2.5 years in the UK where he worked for a leading IT Search Consultancy. He has 8 years recruitment experience and has built divisions for a Global Recruitment Consultancy in this time both here in NZ and the UK. James has worked extensively with leading CIO's and IT Directors in forming partnerships to understand their recruitment needs, so as to aid him to provide a first rate delivery service. James prides himself on understanding that while a candidate may have the technical skills to do a specific job, it is also imperative to understand the culture and environment of where they are to be placed.
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Jane Barratt
Jane provides support for the Wellington IT Recruitment team. Jane has several years experience working in the Wellington recruitment advertising industry and before moving out here from the UK has worked in design and marketing roles for some large UK companies. With a strong eye for detail and high energy levels, Jane is a great addition to the Wellington Team.
Jane loves exploring New Zealand and is a keen half marathon runner. -
Jane Reddiex
Jane is currently employed by Beyond as National Manager Business Support and Contact Centre recruitment. Managing teams of recruitment specialists in Wellington and Auckland. Jane also delivers temporary and permanent recruitment solutions to her clients in Wellington.
Jane’s recruitment history spans over a decade, 2 continents and RPO, In-house and Agency settings. Starting her recruitment career in 1997 with a national airline in the UK, Jane immigrated to New Zealand in 1999, where she has held a variety of Business Support and Contact Centre recruitment roles and since 2004 in a senior leadership capacity. Jane has a reputation for placing the highest value on her relationships with clients and matching her candidates to the very best roles.
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Jo Allen
Jo works in the Wellington IT Contract team as Team Leader, Resource Managers. Aside from her team leading responsibilities Jo acts as a main point of contact for people seeking contract work in the greater Wellington region. Jo has a background in both recruiting, HR and EA for some large and well known multi-national IT vendors. Jo is also studying towards a Diploma in Business Studies, Human Resources.
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John Lacey
John Lacey is Chairman of Beyond and is primarily responsible for driving overall company strategy and governance. John has worked for over 20 years in senior leadership and directorship roles in the recruitment, consulting and services industries. He has an in depth understanding of the NZ business scene. Outside of work, John's interest include jogging and fishing (a recent convert) and spending time with his family. He also has a Labrador named Ruby and a mischievous Bulldog named Reggie.
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Jonathan Hay
Jonathan is a Client Manager in our Wellington based ICT permanent recruitment team. He comes with over 15 years sales and recruitment experience in both the UK and NZ job markets. Since arriving in NZ in 2005, Jonathan has managed to develop a strong network of clients and candidates in Wellington’s private and public sectors and has a particularly good knowledge of NZ’s telco business sector. He describes his style as a hardworking passionate sales professional with strong morals and excellent relationship management skills.
Outside work Jonathan is a keen sports fan and supporter of Wellington’s local sports teams including the Wellington Phoenix and is looking forward to supporting the All-Whites and England in this years’ world cup in South Africa.
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Judith Gray
Judith is a member of our fantastic reception team. She has worked in the Food and Hospitality Industry for many years as a Company Director and Conference Coordinator.
She is studying part time for a Diploma of Business Management and is on the Board of Governors for a Wellington independent school. Judith enjoys entertaining as well playing Mah Jong and golf occasionally in her spare time. Bringing her experience and people skills to this position Judith hopes to make clients feel welcome and at ease.
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Kylie Smeaton
Kylie is our Team Manager, Shared Services. Her team provides operational business support, front of house and looks after the administration requirements of the recruitment teams across all of our Business disciplines.
With a substantial background in providing high quality business support, she has held previous roles in the Financial Sector, Health Services & Legal environment, which has allowed her to develop strong business relationships across a number of different business environments. She has recently completed extramural legal studies to gain her Legal Executive qualification.
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Lee-Anne Thomson
Based in our Auckland office, Lee-Anne is a Client Manager - ICT for Beyond Contracting. Lee-Anne started her career in the technical IT arena as a software developer and implementation consultant; and she then moved into ICT recruitment and contracting, where she has remained for 12 years.
With a strong understanding of the nature and business of ICT, Lee-Anne has an excellent track record of success in building long-term partnerships with clients and contractors, and being solution focused in all of her interactions. She is committed to the universal principles of success - delivering a high quality service and making every conversation count.
She has an MA in Psychology, loves Harley-Davidsons and the Kiwi sunshine.
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Liza Viz
Liza is a Director of Beyond Recruitment and holds the position of Chief Executive Beyond Services. Liza has over 25 years business experience encompassing a successful career in General Business Management, Human Resources and Recruitment.
Liza's expertise includes recruiting at Senior Management levels across the disciplines of General Management in Accounting and Finance Auckland across all sectors and disciplines. As an experienced business leader she understands the importance of sourcing, placing and retaining good talent in an ever-tightening talent market and economic shifts.
With a strong strategic and analytical approach Liza works closely with her clients to offer tailored solutions that will meet their unique recruitment requirements. Equally, Liza places a high value on job seekers, taking ownership to coach them in achieving their career aspirations.
Liza has a Bachelor of Arts majoring in Law and a Postgraduate business diploma in Human Resources and Training and Development.
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Lynn Miller
Lynn is a Recruitment Specialist in our Auckland Accounting, Finance and Professional Services Team. Lynn's career began as a secondary school teacher before moving into sales and Recruitment over 15 years ago. Lynn has been a top performer for both boutique and multinational recruitment companies and prides herself on her tenacity, work ethic and professionalism. Lynn has worked in a variety of sectors across a wide range of disciplines including office support, finance, generalist recruitment and IT. Lynn has also been highly successful in project managing large recruitment campaigns for contact centres and sales forces whilst maintaining a hands on approach with her clients. Lynn's strong performances are based on a passion for recruitment and in providing a service to her clients and candidates second to none.
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Matthew Shortt
Matt specialises in Accounting and Finance recruitment in our Auckland office and is focussed on locating talent for the Chartered Accounting sector.
A Qualified NZ Chartered Accountant with eight years accounting and auditing experience working across NZ, UK and Cayman Islands, Matt seeks to provide his clients with a leading level of service combining his strengths of holding a good understanding of the role of accountants and his passion to ensure top service delivery. Matt is dedicated to providing a totally professional level of service, committed to exceeding his client expectations, and delivering on promises, every time.
Outside of helping his clients, Matt enjoys hitting the surf and devouring good seafood.
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Mhairi Kerr
Mhairi is one of our senior recruitment consultants in the IT permanent team in Wellington. Mhairi's client base includes some of our largest key clients across the public and private sector. Mhairi has many years recruitment experience and an earlier career working in sales and account management for a global IT vendor.
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Nadine Kellett
Nadine is our Team Co-ordinator for the Accounting and Finance Team in Auckland. Her background includes business support and event management for a range of NZ-based technology companies. Nadine has recently spent six months travelling in South Africa and a year and a half in the UK where she did various temp assignments.
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Nicole Le Claire
Nicole has worked in the recruitment industry for several years and has solid experience of both business and ICT-related talent management. Nicole works in our IT contract team as a Resource Manager and is responsible for managing a diverse portfolio of contractors. Those registered with Nicole are accustomed to someone who will work hard to understand your unique skills and experience then find you your next assignment. Contractors often comment about Nicole’s focus on quality and real passion for her work.
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Peter Lucock
Peter joined the Beyond Recruitment finance team in Wellington as Accountant in 2007. He absolutely believes he was meant to be a "Beanie" and intends sticking with the profession for life. Peter offers strong financial accounting experience to the business, having spent 20 years plus in numerous enjoyable roles through his career.
His family is his true love, and he spends as much time as possible with them, in between daily bicycle commutes.
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Riyaz Hussain
Riyaz is a senior recruitment consultant in our IT Contracting team and has around five years experience in IT recruitment and IT & T sales roles based in Wellington. His previous IT recruitment role was for large Fortune 500 Silicon Valley IT vendor clients and start ups in Tokyo, Japan, where he placed all levels of positions from software developers to country managers. Riyaz works with several of our largest clients and is a well-connected contract recruiter in the Wellington market.
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Rob Butler
Rob has a wealth of executive recruitment experience to having spent nine years in the industry. Rob specialises in Human Resources and Senior Management roles, supplying quality candidates for both Private and Public sectors. He also works on senior Accounting and Finance roles.
Prior to recruitment Rob has spent 18 years in the business community working in Telecommunications, Banking and Primary Industry sectors in both New Zealand and UK.
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Sally Jackson
Sally has over 13 years industry specialisation experience in ICT recruitment consulting, predominantly in the Auckland market. Sally undertakes a Senior Client Manager role. Sally focuses on senior sales, marketing and management functions as well as ERP and Supply Chain Consultants, presales, functional and technical consultants. As a mature, intuitive and well-networked recruiter, Sally has a great reputation for accurate job-seeker and employer matching. Many of her clients and candidates are like rubber bands - they keep coming back, which is the ultimate accolade.
Relaxation for Sal is spent boating and fishing with her partner Steve, and also travel when time allows. She also spends time mentoring women.
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Shane Burton
Shane has 2 years experience as a specialist Legal recruiter built upon his experience as a practicing Solicitor with experience in employment law. This background and knowledge of the ins and outs of legal practice allows him to fully understand the requirements of employers and candidates alike.
Shane works at a national level across the entire spectrum of professional legal roles, from Partners, Consultants and Special Counsel to graduate and junior Solicitors. He has also recruited for in-house legal teams in the private and public sectors, from junior to senior level.
Shane prides himself on being able to understand business not only from a needs perspective but also from a strategic perspective. He has advised law firms in terms of partnership diversification, strategic development and general practice management. He takes this same approach with candidates, able to understand their needs and help them map out their career path.
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Shane Rangihaeata
Shane has spent 16 years in sales roles, building trust and rapport with his clients, and finding solutions to their business needs. He has held positions in leading technology and business solutions companies in New Zealand and in the United Kingdom.
Shane has been with the Beyond Recruitment team since May 2006 and is a Client Manager in our IT Contracting team.
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Siobhan Porter
Siobhan has joined the Beyond Temporary Team as a specialist in providing temporary services at short notice and for high volume projects across industries. She has a strong belief in providing high service standards for both her registered temps and her clients. Siobhan will be helping to establish the Temporary Business for Beyond in Auckland. Prior to this, she graduated with a conjoint BA/ BBs, followed by a Master of Management at Massey University.
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Stephanie Batchelor
Stephanie is the Auckland office's Receptionist and Office Assistant and contributes to the general administration and front-line support. Stephanie always provides friendly service to candidates and clients, taking great pride in her work whilst displaying a high level of care and efficiency. Stephanie has a strong interest in recruitment and finds that at Beyond she has a perfect opportunity to develop new skills and further her learning in the industry.
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Steve Willoughby
Steve works in and manages our Wellington IT Contract recruitment team. This large team is made up of Client Managers, Resource Managers, a Contractor Manager and Administrators
Steve has extensive recruitment experience within the Wellington market including managing a recruitment advertising agency.
Steve has worked in Wellington for over 14 years and has significant knowledge of both the private and public sectors.
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Suzanne East
Suzanne is a Client Manager in our Wellington-based IT permanent team and has been with us since 2007. Suzanne has more than 12 years IT/Telecommunications industry experience working in New Zealand and United Kingdom.
Suzanne has excellent all round recruitment experience having worked within a major banks IT Project Office before becoming their internal Recruitment Consultant, which she maintained for more than three years. This gives her a strong business focus and an understanding client's requirements particularly in the banking/finance sector. She builds ongoing relationships with her clients and candidates and has a strong network of contacts that she can draw upon.
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Tenille Emmett
Tenille manages our IT permanent recruitment team and is one of our most experienced permanent recruiters delivering to a select number of our key clients. Tenille looks after senior IT appointments and also recruits in our IT sales space. Tenille has worked across both the Melbourne and Wellington markets and has successfully recruited for some of Wellington's largest organisations in the Government, banking and IT sectors over the last five years. With over eight years total IT recruitment experience, Tenille has built up a strong network of IT contacts throughout Wellington, proving to be a good person to know for both jobseekers and employers.
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Tracey Petrie
Tracey has more than nine years IT Recruitment experience in Wellington and almost 20 years within the IT industry both here and in Australia. Tracey works with clients in Government, Banking, Telecommunications and the Vendor sectors. Tracey joined the Beyond Recruitment team in December 2005 as an IT Contracting specialist.
Outside of helping her clients find the right people for their contracts, Tracey is often seen flying about on her motorbike or waterskiing in the harbour.
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