Jonathan (Jon) Lewis

Jonathan joined the Royal Australian Navy in 1981, working within the Supply and Secretariat branch and specialising in the areas of payroll, personnel, and accounts. He served in the RAN for 8 years with a main highlight being a circumnavigation of Australia completed in 1983. Jon completed many other sea voyages to ports in New Zealand, Tasmania, Fiji, and Singapore. He left the Navy in 1989 and after completing a year at the University of Tasmania travelled to Rockhampton, QLD to work in the mining industry specialising in the area of purchasing, supply, and logistics. Jon and his wife left Queensland in 2008 to travel to Melbourne and commenced a new stage of his supply career as a procurement and supply chain specialist in the energy industry working for Suzlon, an Indian company specialising in the manufacture and installation of wind farms. On 15 December 2010 he joined AusNet in the role of Purchasing Services Team Leader. He is still employed at AusNet in the procure to pay operations area with a strategic focus on procurement systems development and management. He lives with his wife in Kilsyth, Victoria, and they are both keen amateur photographers. They are enjoying the many varied and interesting activities that Melbourne and Victoria has to offer and are looking forward to many photo opportunities while they travel around the state.