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Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

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Plymouth, United Kingdom

Manchester, United Kingdom

Director of UK, responsible for business development and UK and European client relations. Particular focus on bringing integrated BIM solutions to multi-disciplinary consultants and contractors, applying learning from recently delivered large infrastructure and high rise developments in Hong Kong and Sydney, Australia.

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Developing and pursuing new project opportunities for Atlas and her clients in the South East Asia region.

School Of Architecture

Design tutorial support to Year 1 and Year 3 BA Architecture students. Co-delivery of the 'BIM at the Project Level' module to the MSc Architecture and Project Management students.

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Sustainable Futures Asia Limited (SFA) is a consultancy group of like minded professionals who have a passion and interest in the sustainable growth of society, our environment, and business through the implementation of responsible architecture, urbanism and knowledge in both the developed and developing world.Our aim and focus is to provide market led local solutions to local challenges, with academic research in to such matters being the basis of our activities.

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

• Responsible for planning and coordinating all UDWG activities in Vietnam, working in partnership with the UKTI and British Embassy in Vietnam, and leading UK businesses in Vietnam.• Providing consulting services to the British Council, designing and producing a two-day ‘Sustainable Design & Architecture Conference’ in HCMC.• Representing UDWG interests in meetings with Vietnamese Government Departments, People’s Committees, and Universities.• Assisting the RIBA in developing links with the Ho Chi Minh City University of Architecture.• Providing lectures to the Vietnam Association of Architects and the RICS Vietnam Chapter on sustainability and current energy use patterns in Vietnam.

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

• Architecture Manager: November 2004 – September 2006.• Managing residential, university, hospital and hotel project documentation teams. • Director of Architecture / General Director: October 2006 – April 2011.• Legal representative in Vietnam, responsible for all Vietnam operations and employees.• Business development, client management and sales support to the London, Dubai and Sydney client support offices.• Development of new client services to meet the evolving needs of Atlas clients, ensuring they are scalable and appropriate to the client environment. • Utilisation and resource management, reporting quarterly to the Board of Non-Executive Directors.• Establishing ISO:9001 QMS system, staff training programmes and CSR programmes, all as a part of the growth of the business from 60 staff to 370 staff in Vietnam at its peak.

- Associate leading LIFT healthcare projects in London.- Design architect on residential, commercial, sports, leisure and exhibition schemes in the UK, Germany and Israel.- Notable projects include 17-18 Dover Street and Kinnerton Street, London; Legend Court, Wales; the Bentley Pavilion, Autostadt, Germany; Nes Ziona Stadium, Israel.

Worked for APS in Hong Kong as a part of the design team on a variety of restaurant, sports & leisure, office and industrial fit-out projects. Clients included The Hong Kong Jockey Club, Jardine Pacific (Restaurants) Group, San Miguel, Leighton Contractors, and Cirque Du Soleil.

Msc (Distinction), Climate Change And Sustainable Development

Activities and Societies: Carried out a survey of over 2000 dwellings in Vietnam, recording and mapping energy use patterns.

Certificate Mba Essentials

Post Graduate Diploma, Architecture

Activities and Societies: - Key design project - The Fogcatcher - Hydrological Centre of Research, Namibia. - Winner of the Architectural.

Post Graduate Diploma, Development Practices

Activities and Societies: - Researching post conflict / natural disaster relief to development continuum. - Study trip to Cambodia.

Ba (Hons), International Architecture

Activities and Societies: Took part in a five week study tour to Egypt, based at the American University of Cairo. Research thesis.