Charles Casuscelli | |
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Member of the New South Wales Parliament for Strathfield |
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In office 26 March 2011 – 6 March 2015 |
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Preceded by | Virginia Judge |
Succeeded by | Jodi McKay |
Personal details | |
Born |
Rome, Italy |
22 October 1956
Nationality | Australian |
Political party | Liberal Party of Australia |
Spouse(s) | Maria |
Residence | Russell Lea, New South Wales |
Occupation | Politician |
Religion | Roman Catholic |
Website | charlescasuscelli.com.au |
Charles Casuscelli (born 22 October 1956), an Australian politician, was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing Strathfield for the Liberal Party of Australia from 2011 to 2015.
Casuscelli was born in Rome, Italy and emigrated to Australia in 1963, aged seven years. His family established their home at Blacktown in Sydney's west and he was a student firstly at Blacktown North Public Primary school and then Blacktown Boys High School. At 16 years of age he opted to enter the workforce as a Trainee in the Postmaster General's Department.
He has been married to Maria for more than 31 years and is the father of two daughters.
Casuscelli completed his technical training as a telecommunications technical officer just as the Postmaster General's Dept was split into Australia Post and Telecom Australia.
He advanced to the role of project manager developing computer systems to enable real-time management of telecommunications services. He left Telecom Australia and undertook continuous full-time service as an officer with the regular army from 1988 to 1992. He was appointed as a staff officer (captain) at Headquarters Australian Defence Force and later as a major on the Headquarters of Land Command. He was responsible for the planning and implementation of command, control and communications systems within the combat elements of the Australian Army.
Casuscelli's first senior management appointment in the private sector was with the market research company AC Nielsen, he had two roles the first as national operations manager for the Media Research Division and later as director of business re-engineering for the Australian business. Many years later he returned to the company as director of operations for the Pacific region.
Casuscelli joined the NSW Roads and Traffic Authority in October 1997. Holding a dual role, he was the NSW Transport Management Centre’s project director responsible for establishing the new facility,