Dannielle Finlay-Jones: Typo-riddled resume of ‘flaky’ tradie accused of teacher murder, Cranebrook

The former boss of alleged dating app killer Ashley Gaddie has revealed that the tradie was a flaky employee who outshone the company after a few weeks.

Gaddie, 33, was arrested on top of a cliff in the Blue Mountains Tuesday night after a tense 12-hour standoff with police.

The tattooed shopkeeper was wanted in the alleged brutal murder of soccer teacher and administrator Dannielle Finlay-Jones, 31, whom he met on a dating app.

Gaddie had allegedly been on the run since she was found dead with serious head injuries at a friend’s house in Cranebrook in western Sydney on Sunday afternoon. He is expected to be charged with murder in the next few hours.

Details of his employment history obtained exclusively by Daily Mail Australia show that Gaddie was a temporary worker unable to hold down a job.

Prior to his recent stints in drilling, Gaddie worked as a forklift driver, personal trainer, tree trimmer, mechanic, and garbage collector.

New details have emerged about Ashley Gaddie’s fragmented employment history. She appears at a workplace in a photo she posted to her Tinder profile of hers.

Dannielle Finlay-Jones, 31, (pictured) was found dead at her friend’s home in Cranebrook on Sunday, prompting a manhunt for her suspected killer.

In a resume riddled with typos, Gaddie boasted of his “excellent communication,” “self-motivation,” and his ability to “plan, prioritize, and schedule workloads and assigned tasks.”

His former boss said he hired the driller last year at a regional site in far western New South Wales after he sought employment.

“He was deployed from Sydney to Broken Hill and made two changes,” he told Daily Mail Australia.

“He worked both periods for four weeks and then he didn’t show up.”

Another former colleague from another drilling company said Gaddie was “quiet and reserved” and tended to “be reserved” on sites.

Gaddie’s resume was riddled with spelling and grammatical errors like the ones pictured above.

Gaddie’s resume said he was also a personal trainer, forklift driver, and tree trimmer.

According to his resume, he held several licenses and certifications.

On Tuesday night, response squads invaded an area in the Blue Mountains with specially trained police negotiators confronting the suspected fugitive who was perched atop a precarious cliff at Fletcher’s Lookout.

“I only worked with him for two or three weeks, but he was nice and seemed fine,” the co-worker said.

‘He was a ‘get it alone’ type of person, but he was good at what he did. He would show up and do his job.

The colleague said he didn’t mix with Gaddie outside of work and that he was “just another one of the guys who came and went” in his revolving door industry.

“When a friend texted me details about his arrest, I was shocked,” he said.

“I feel very sad for the woman’s poor parents – losing a child, especially just before Christmas.”

According to Gaddie’s resume, he was an assistant driller from July 2019 until September of the following year, when he became a trainee driller at the same company.

After five months in that role, he left the company and has since hopped between drilling jobs around the state for at least three different companies.

Before drilling, he held a number of jobs, including as a garbage collector, auto mechanic, forklift driver, personal trainer and tree trimmer.

At the top of the resume, he wrote that his career goal was to “pursue a long-term and successful career.” [sic] career in a challenging work environment’.

“My goal is to do this by using the skills and knowledge I’ve learned over the past 10 years to achieve my personal, professional, and organizational goals,” he said.

In the skills and attributes section, he also boasted of his ‘excellent communication’, ‘self-motivation’ and ability to ‘plan, prioritize and schedule workloads and assigned tasks’.

Pictured: Specially trained police negotiators engaged Gaddie, who was perched on top of a precarious cliff at Fletcher’s Lookout (pictured taking a selfie in the same spot)

Gaddie was detained Tuesday after response squads invaded an area in the Blue Mountains with specially trained police negotiators engaging the suspected fugitive who was perched atop a precarious cliff at Fletcher’s Lookout.

Photos posted to his Tinder profile, where he wrote that he was a nature enthusiast, showed a photo of him at the same overlook and other locations in the Blue Mountains.

Seven images show police holding down the suspect who had been climbing the rock on the other side of a security barrier wearing an orange high-visibility jacket.

After a marathon standoff, he was hauled up the cliff and arrested shortly after midnight.

The police said they would assess him and then take him to the Katoomba police station where he would be charged with murder.

Ms Finlay-Jones hooked up with Gaddie on a dating app in early December, before meeting up at the Marsden Brewhouse in Marsden Park on Saturday night, where the teacher introduced her new date to her friends.

It is understood that Ms Finlay-Jones and Gaddie met at the Marsden Brewhouse on Saturday night before going to friends’ house.

The couple then allegedly returned to their friend’s Cranebrook home in western Sydney during the early hours of Sunday.

Police will allege that Gaddie killed her sometime between then and mid-morning and then ran away from the house before her friends found her body around 2:30 p.m. when they came into the room to check on the two of them. .

Meanwhile, tributes have rained down online for Ms. Finlay-Jones, who was revered in her community as a pioneer of women’s soccer and is credited with encouraging dozens of women to take up the sport.

She worked as a support officer with the NSW Department of Education and was Director of Women’s Football.

She was also coordinator for Ramsgate RSL Football Club, in Monterey, south of Sydney, and spoke on behalf of the club in videos on its social media pages promoting women’s sports.

One friend described her as an “incredible person inside and out,” while another said she had a “heart of gold.”

“She is cherished by everyone who knew her and words cannot describe the shock this has happened to,” a friend said.

“She didn’t deserve this and she will be sorely missed.”