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Auckland, New Zealand

Leading the Pipe & Infrastructure Ltd (P&I) team importing and distributing to the Civil and Infrastructure Three Waters (drinking water, wastewater and stormwater) sectors.

Auckland, New Zealand

Working with Design Consultants, Mechanical Contractors and Facility Owners to meet their heating, ventilation, cooling and acoustic needs. Cooke Industries is a NZ family owned HVAC manufacturer and supplier that has been operating in NZ since 1923.

Calgary, Canada Area

Alberta Commercial HVAC Manufacturers Representative – Daikin, Taco, Modine, Peerless Boilers, Novatherm, IEC, Aermec, ClimaCool, ClimateCraft, Mafna.

Calgary, Canada Area

• Advised clients in the mining, oil & gas, commercial and transportation sectors, on areas of importance to capital projects, such as: cost estimation, budget, procurement, scope creep, project controls, scheduling.
• Project Audit and Framework Review of capital projects ($300 million) - Supported the development of improvements in project governance and management processes, project controls (especially estimating and cost.
• Organizational Structure Review of capital project program ($3 billion) - Improved the governance mechanisms and organizational structure of a major oil and gas company’s capital project program by facilitating the.
• CAPEX Review of mine site concentrator ($350 million) - Identified costs incurred to-date, potential construction risk and price escalation, concerning the CAPEX estimate for a new concentrator. The review included.

Kigali, Rwanda

As part of the Said Business School’s MBA Strategic Consulting Project, acted as sole consultant on behalf of African Entrepreneur Collective to Great Lakes Energy, a Rwandan solar power design-build engineering firm (rev: $1M USD). Built and implemented an operations tool to support communication, quality and continuous improvement - reduced procedural.

Winnipeg, Canada Area

• Worked with owners, engineers, suppliers and contractors throughout design and construction, to reduce the energy consumption of buildings and improve future occupants health. LEED and BOMA BESt are two client facing.
• Led the Buildings Group in delivering energy saving analyses and recommendations to clients.
• Directed government, architects, engineers, suppliers and school boards through a group design process. Reduced project energy and water metering costs by 30% while increasing metering points by 60%Internal Stakeholders
• Initiated a national collaboration on technical protocols by leveraging relationships with company-wide program leads. Reduced estimate variations from 20% to less than 1%
• First in the province of Manitoba to enter an emerging consulting market, worth revenues of approx. $120M/yr and 25% growth/yr in North America.

Winnipeg, Canada Area

• Completed the mechanical design and contract administration, of heating, ventilation, and air conditioning, plumbing, and fire protection systems, for buildings projects ranging from schools to healthcare facilities.
• Initiated and developed a design framework that addressed engineers’ and architects’ coordination problems, to reduce labour hours by up to 30%. Subsequently presented at the corporate level for company-wide adoption
• Designed novel heating and ventilation systems which reduced the client’s energy costs by approx. 45%, saving $6M over the life of the system
• Improved the quality and financial performance of engineering consulting work through internal audits of Stantec's buildings projects - worth a total annual revenue of approx. $3M

Auckland, New Zealand

• Highlights include:
• Led clients, engineers and architects to deliver New Zealand’s first building built to comprehensive green building standards. Presented the lessons learnt at New Zealand’s premier green building conference (audience.
• Collaborated with international experts to write performance metrics for New Zealand’s largest solar power installation.

Education record

Founder Catalyst, Winter 2024

Master Of Business Administration (Mba)

M.E.Mgmt., Engineering Management

B.E., Mechanical Engineering