Mark Woods

Mark started his career as a soldier in the Australian Defence Force where he was primarily employed as a specialist in communications and operations planning. Leaving the Army after 21 years of service (12 months with the United Nations as a contractor) he was employed in the Australian Public Service. Mark’s career saw him undertake a number of significant and complex roles, including Operator, Instructor, Team Leader, Manager, Auditor, Security Advisor and IT Security Manager.

Notably, he was deployed overseas to former Yugoslavia, Somalia and  Bougainville in various specialist roles including as Frequency Manager with the UN. Mark was also involved in frequency planning for the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games where he was responsible for managing risks, threat assessments, management of finite resources, stakeholder engagement and strategic planning.

As a Security Adviser, Mark has provided hundreds of travel risk assessments to people in Defence, shipbuilding and science and technology programs, with the objective to keep people and business from harm. His specialist security and project management skills saw him working in Defence as an Operations Officer for the $8 billion ship building program. During his career Mark has also been responsible for the management of classified assets and in corporate life he has continued to utilise his skills in investigations and digital investigations, including high level skills in open-source intelligence. Mark’s current work sees him training, developing and mentoring investigation students across the country.

Mark is a licenced Investigation and Security Agent in South Australia and is a member of Australian Institute of Professional Investigators has has previous been a member with ASIAL, ASIS International, National Safety Council Australia, Australian Information Security Association, Australian Institute of Project Managers and the Australian Institute of Management. He enjoys being able to bring together and share his knowledge, experience and skills that result in a positive outcome for people and business.