Paul Sparks

Iron Mountain Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), founded in 1951, is the global leader for storage and information management services. Trusted by more than 225,000 organisations around the world, and with a real estate network of more than 85 million square feet across more than 1,400 facilities in over 50 countries, Iron Mountain stores and protects billions of valued assets, including critical business information, highly sensitive data, and cultural and historical artifacts. Providing solutions that include information management, digital transformation, secure storage, secure destruction, as well as cloud services and art storage and logistics, Iron Mountain helps customers lower cost and risk, comply with regulations, recover from disaster, and enable a more digital way of working.

Position:      State Manager, NSW

July 2006 - August 2008

My tenure with Iron Mountain Australia was before the Recall acquisition which took place in 2016 which changed the local footprint for Iron Mountain in Australasia and saw many of the pre 2016 assets sold off to other competitors.  

 

My position included the full financial, operational, and business development functions of the Iron Mountain’s NSW records management operations. 

This position covered the management of three facilities in NSW including two purpose built high-rise mezzanine racked hard copy records storage facilities location in Campbelltown and Erskine Park in Sydney's west and southwest, a large volume high security climate controlled media protection vault located in Erskine Park in Sydneys west, a document and media digital re-imaging operation location in Chippendale just south of the Sydney CBD, and a high security destruction shredding operation located at Martaville in Sydney's south east.  

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In this position was was responsible for the account management of the NSW high profile clients including many of the major banks, health organisations and legal firms.  I operated a management structure that included new business sales, account management,  warehousing and transport operations as well as finance and operational support staff.