Jacqueline Comery

Jacqueline is co-founder and Managing Director of SkadiNu. Jacque is a Chartered Environmental Engineer with over 17 years experience across private industry, consulting, and government.

Jacque has strong management and organisational abilities that have been directly applied to leading and working with multidisciplinary teams across national scale engineering, infrastructure and projects.

She is adept and creative in her leadership to deliver both timely and strategic solutions to meet project challenges. Jacque is skilled at establishing collaborative teams that draw together current and relevant industry knowledge, specialist inputs, specialist peer review, to successfully deliver.

She has extensive experience in technical and merit assessment of grant funding applications on behalf of Government Funding Programmes, as well as providing grant administration and reporting services on behalf of clients and grant recipients.

Most recently Jacque applied her broad ranging technical, leadership and management skills working in Antarctica and the Sub-Antarctic, between 2015 and 2019. She held roles as the Winter Station Leader at both Macquarie Island and Casey Research Stations, where she managed scientific and non-scientific project delivery, whilst leading the station community. She also held the role of Operations Co-ordination at Casey Station, East Antarctica undertaking strategic level planning and provision of operational logistics to support project delivery. She coordinated operational planning, and resource allocation for all field-based, and watercraft activities, including fixed wing and rotary aviation activities. Jacque maintained close collaboration with aviation operations between other nation's Antarctic Stations (DDU, Dome C, Zhong Shan, Mario Zuchelli, McMurdo, South Pole).

Jacque is most passionate about working with complex multidisciplinary projects, and believes that forming a collaborative and productive team regardless of affiliation to work towards a common goal is a key to achieving project success for all.