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Brisbane, Qld, Au

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Sydney, Australia

Responsible for tendering activities for engineering projects-customer needs analysis, product selection, system design, costing, planning, tech & commercial risk assessment, contract formation, stakeholder engagementLeading 3 applications engineers, applying coaching and mentoring techniques to encourage career development and fulfilmentPart of the L3 management team evaluating and developing business strategy

Sydney, Australia

Led the transition of separate Spare Parts sales and execution teams into one, streamlining end to end business processes, improving customer service cultureManaged team of 7/8 through quotation and delivery of ~700 orders p.a. for compressor, fan and heater parts for Australian and SE Asian customers

Sydney, Australia

Managed team of 3 delivering aftermarket spares orders and special retrofit projects

Sydney, Australia

Point of customer contact for selected tenders for new build fan projects with values AUD 0.5m-15m, responsible for preparing all aspects of proposal, completion of sales contract and handover to operations teamApplying engineering principles of fluid dynamics to fan selection and ducting design, rotordynamics/vibration, material selection, fabrication and sourcing, bearing, coupling, motor selection, acoustics and silencer designCoordinating cross functional team collaboration to establish costing, ancillary electrical system design, project program, spec review and contract deliverablesApplications included mine ventilation, power station induced and forced draft, steel plant processes, cement, alumina and other industrial plant major processes requiring 500kW-2MW fan air power.

Glasgow, United Kingdom

A series of placements including:Howden UK-Project Management- Air heater products for coal fired power stations including GHECO-ONE power plant, ThailandHowden Australia-Sales & Applications-Turnkey mine ventilation systems including electric and diesel engine powered primary fan for Springvale Coal MineHowden Process Compressors-Screw Compressor R&D-Facilitated testing of online compressor selection program Howden UK- Product Development-Design / rotordynamics analysis of retrofit of hollow fan shaft for USA power station ID fanHowden Australia-Design Engineer-Customised design of 500kW underground axial booster fan for gold mine ventilation

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Completed an intensive teaching qualification offered by University of CambridgePlanned and delivered English language classes following total immersion principles

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Research project on micro hydro turbine applicationsDeveloped a basic understanding of computational fluid dynamics and FLUENT software

Cairo, Egypt

Internship consisting of field and office based engineering activities with Egypt's natural gas distribution company