1. PERSONAL DETAILS
Name: Alan Bullen
Address 8 Yarak Court
Morwell 3840
Telephone 0418341097
CAREER OBJECTIVE
To challenge my extensive human resources management experience within the
electricity generation industry to assist senior management teams build their strategic
business proposition that delivers improved outcomes and value to their organisation.
KEY COMPETENCIES
• Driving for improved employee productivity through managing culture change
programs at the operational level of a mature organisation.
• Managing developing and implementing management programs to achieve key
strategic objectives.
• Maintain effective/trusting professional relationships
• Provide sound leadership and mature judgement in employee relations
negotiations
QUALIFICATIONS
2009 Graduate Diploma in Business Administration (Executive) Melbourne
Business School, Mt Eliza Executive Education, Mt Eliza, Melbourne
1997 Gippsland Community Leadership Program (GCLP)
SCOPE Quality Learning
Morwell
1995 Diploma in Communications and Public Relations
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT)
Melbourne
1984 Technician Certificate in Mechanical Fluid Power
Yallourn College of TAFE
Newborough
1980 Certificate of Competency, Mechanical Fitter and Turner
Yallourn college of TAFE
Newborough
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
2013 CEB Leadership Academy
2010 Leadership Development, Extended Leadership Team, Loy Yang
Power
Albion Consulting, Melbourne

2. 2009 Fair Work Australia 2009 Act, The Resource for successful
Negotiations,
Arnold Block & Leibler Lawyers and Advisors
Melbourne
2006 Effective Recruitment and Selection Techniques (update)
ValueEdge Consulting
Southbank, Melbourne
2005 Workplace Investigations
Freehills Lawyers, Australian Based International Law Firm
Melbourne
2002 Job Analysis and Documentation
Mercer Human Resource Consulting
Melbourne
2002 Job Evaluation System
Mercer Human Resource Consulting
Melbourne
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
2009 Alumni, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne Business School
2008 Alumni; Gippsland Community Leadership Program
2006 National Electricity Industry Employee Relations Forum
CAREER - SUMMARY TABLE
Date Role Company
Aug 2014 - Employee Relations, Business Partner, AGL AGL
June 2012 –
Aug 2014
Lead Business Partner, People and Culture
Loy Yang power station & mine
AGL Loy Yang
July 2001 -
2012
Human Resources Manager, Generation Loy Yang Power Ltd
July 1999 –
June 2001
Human Resources Executive, Corporate Loy Yang Power Ltd
Jun 1994 –
May 1999
Community Relations Manager
Corporate Affairs and Communications
Loy Yang Power Ltd

3. EMPLOYMENT – PROFESSIONAL
Company – AGL has established itself as one of Australia’s largest retail and
operational energy businesses in Australia.
In 2014, AGL took on its largest expansion into the energy sector with the purchase
of Loy Yang Power; Victoria’s largest electricity generator and open cut coal
mine. Then in 2014, AGL further enhanced its electricity generation capacity by
purchasing Macquarie Generation in the Hunter Valley.
Over this period AGL transitioned from a very mature retail business into one of
Australia’s largest electricity generation business with very little management
capability to manage an industrial workforce within power generation and
mining.
Being a part of the former Loy Yang Power management team, I was heavily
involved in the transition to AGL ownership and appointed to the lead People
and Culture business partner role during the initial two years of the transition.
Due to my knowledge of the local power industry and site industrial experience
I then transitioned into the Employee Relations role on site to assist AGL
Corporate in preparation for Enterprise Bargaining negotiations set for
commencement in 2015.
Role: Business Partner, Employee Relations, AGL
Date: Sept 2014 - current
Duties: Reporting to the Group Head, Employee Relations, AGL Corporate
• Actively participate in development and implementation of the AGL industrial
relations strategy for enterprise bargaining negotiations.
• Assist in the preparation and facilitation of employee relations activities;
including dispute resolution and representation through Fair Work
Commission conciliation conferences.
• Maintain professional relationships with key maintenance contractor
organisations to ensure minimum industrial disruption while on site.
Key Achievements;
• Key site leadership role in the transition of Loy Yang Power to AGL Energy.
• Heavily involved with a small professional team to successfully complete the
2008 and 2012 Enterprise Agreements.
• Human Resource Manager through a period to transition from an analogue to
digital power station control system. Total project cost of $50M over an eight
year period.

4. Role: Business Partner, People and Culture Loy Yang
Date: June 2012 – Sept 2014
Duties; Reporting to the Lead Business Partner, Merchant Operations AGL
• Provide site leadership in Human Resources during the period of introducing
new programs and integrating Loy Yang Power into the AGL Energy
portfolio.
• Manage a small team of People and Culture professionals who worked
across the mine and power station sites.
• Manage implementation of new AGL People and Culture programs at site
o Performance Development
o Talent Management
o Annual Remuneration and Rewards review
o Annual Engagement Survey
• Provide judgement and leadership on a range of sensitive employee relations
activities.
• Provide site based support towards employee relations activities
Key Achievements;
• Assisted in the successful transition to AGL Energy ownership
• Promoted from the single focus Business Partner role in the power station to
a broader leadership role across both the mine and power station.
• Lead on the management of training and employee relations activities during
the most significant technical and operational project ever attempted at site
with the upgrade of the power station control system.
Company – Loy Yang Power operated Victoria’s largest single generation and open
cut mine assets; The Company was owned by AGL and TEPCO electric; Tokyo
The Loy Yang Power assets were valued at $3 billion and has an annual revenue
base in excess of $650M; with over 550 people employed directly and in excess of
220 contractors also employed on site.
Role: Human Resource Manager, Generation
Date: July 2001 – June 2012
Duties: (Reporting to the Executive General Manager, Human Resources)
• Working as part of power station leadership team to develop and assist implement
workplace strategies designed to ensure the power station met or exceeded its
annual business targets.
• Provide specialist Human Resource/Employee Relations advice on strategic
initiatives and negotiations associated with dispute resolution and enterprise
bargaining.
• Provide site based leadership on the Loy Yang Power Safety Management
System.
• Manage the legal and regulatory compliance associated with major workplace
employee policies and complex rehabilitation programs.

5. • Chair and manage a range of employee consultative forums:
• Operations Group Training Committee
• Power Station Health and Safety Committee
• Employee Relations activities
Key Achievements:
• Provided leadership to implement a significant restructure of the power station
management team and workgroup organisational structures to achieve a $30M
cost target.
• Heavily involved with the planning and negotiation of the 2008 & 2012 single site
Enterprise Bargaining Agreements.
• No loss of electricity generation through industrial action over a ten year period.
• Negotiated the initial Alcohol and other Drugs Policy within the Latrobe Valley
generation companies gaining company Board and union delegate endorsement.
Date: June 1994 – April 2001
Role: Community Relations Manager, Corporate Affairs and Communications
Duties: (Reporting to the General Manager, Corporate Affairs and Strategic
Planning)
• Establish a strategic plan for engagement with the local business and
environmental community group during the period of corporatisation and then
privatisation.
• Monitored community and business opinions during the transition to privatisation.
• Actively participated and managed a range of community and media activities.
• Maintained a close working relationship with external community, business and
media stakeholders.
Achievements:
• Leadership role within the management team at site during the process and
successful sale of the State Electricity Commission of Victoria; Loy Yang power
station and mine at a sale price of $4.7 billion.
• Consecutive National Serif Awards (Australian Institute of Professional
Communications, AIPC) for corporate communication and community programs.
• Latrobe City, Australia Day Honours – ‘Community event of the year 1996’ Loy
Yang Power Open Day

6. EMPLOYMENT HISTORY - detail
Date Position Organisation Accomplishment
Oct 1989 – May
1994
Executive Officer,
Human Resources,
Major Works
Section, Loy Yang
A Power Station
• Co-ordinated the employee relations
activities associated with the initial
outsourcing of power station maintenance
(+120 employees) to a global maintenance
company from America, Fluor Daniel Power
Services.
• Completed the successful transfer of thirty-
six apprentices to a group training company.
• Established a site based OH&S committee
and achieved a reduction target of 65% in
LTI incident rate over a 15 month period.
• Secured the initial industrial agreement with
unions to introduce casual employment for
mechanical and electrical trades for periods
of high maintenance activity.
Aug 87 –
Oct 89
Technical Training
Co-ordinator
SECV Production
Group of
Departments
• Management of the sub-professional
Technical Trainee program within the
Latrobe Valley with over 109 trainees in 9
disciplines.
• Supervision of the academic progress of
trainees over their three years of TAFE sub-
professional studies.
• Co-ordination and participation in the annual
recruitment program.
• Participation in the Victorian State Training
Board steering committee for transfer of
academic curriculum from a Certificate of
Technology qualification to an Associate
Diploma qualification.
Aug 1984 – Aug
1987
Public Relations
Officer
SECV Area
Administration
• Supervise the staff and public relations
functions/activities at the Latrobe Valley
SECV Visitors Centre.
• Assist in the Victorian State Government,
ENREC enquiry into planning for open cut
mines and power stations within the Latrobe
Valley.
• Produce advertising copy, media material
and public displays for a range of internal
and external communication activities.
Prior to 1984
Commenced
Apprenticeship
1977
Technical Services
Officer
Technical Services
Officer
Technical Services
Officer
Environmental
Services
Plan/Drawing Room
Officer
Mechanical Fitter and
Turner
Jeeralang Gas
Turbine Plant
Loy Yang A power
station
Air Monitoring
Group, Technical
Services
Loy Yang Project
Project
Maintenance Crew
SECV
• Range of technical positions within the
power industry while studying Mechanical
Technician Certificate (Fluid Hydraulics and
Pneumatics) at Yallourn TAFE over a four
year period of night school.