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London, GB

London Area, United Kingdom

• As a member of the Transmission Investment senior leadership team, this role is accountable for the organisation’s successful entry into the UK’s large-scale contestable onshore transmission sector (CATO).Key focus.
• Leading pursuits for all CATO projects from inception to project preferred tenderer appointment, managing multi-disciplinary internal and external teams and internal governance processes.
• Managing sector strategy and CATO project pipelines and creating and managing all necessary procedures and processes to support bidding activities.
• Identifying, engaging and managing consortium relationships to ensure successful bid outcomes.

• As a senior member of the Lumea leadership team, this role wass accountable for origination, development and delivery of major transmission, energy storage and system security, offshore wind and property development.
• Contestable major transmission projects: Origination of all contestable major transmission projects to be procured under structured procurement processes and/or direct dealings, governance and oversight of major.
• Energy storage and system security assets: Strategy, origination, and project development of self-developed assets, M&A and partnering arrangements for greenfield development assets.
• Property and development: Assessing highest and best use of land available adjacent to existing network assets and subsequent development of those sites.

As a senior member of the Lumea leadership team, this role was accountable for leading the company's contestable major projects origination and delivery activities. Key focus areas of the role included development of the major projects function of the organisation, bid strategy and consortium formation, funding arrangements, consideration of regulatory.

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

• A key senior leadership role within the organisation, this role had direct responsibility for strategy, project origination, management of industry partnerships and key stakeholders, acquisition, asset development and.
• Development and implementation of renewable energy, storage and transmission asset strategies and project-specific investment cases
• Leadership of energy and utilities sector asset developments and M&A activity focused on early-to-late stage renewable energy, storage and transmission infrastructure projects
• Leadership and oversight for energy sector assets in delivery
• Maintenance and coordination of an active pipeline of current and prospective business development activities involving other CIMIC operating companies
• Establishment and maintenance of key partner and industry relationships

• A key senior leadership role within the organisation, this role had direct responsibility for energy sector leadership and strategy (key focus from 2019 onwards), project origination, developing and implementing.
• Development and implementation of energy and utilities sector strategies and project-specific investment cases
• Leadership of energy and utilities sector asset developments and M&A activity focused on early-to-late stage renewable energy, storage and transmission infrastructure projects
• Maintenance and coordination of an active pipeline of current and prospective business development activities involving other CIMIC operating companies
• Establishment and maintenance of client and industry relationships
• Selection of partners and advisers, consortium formation, governance and coordination

Brisbane, Australia

• Primarily responsible for leading bid management and other workstreams for large PPP project tenders. Responsibilities:
• Bid leadership, strategy and governance
• Management of key bid workstreams including bid management, over station development, alternative revenue streams and SPV operations set-up
• Coordination of technical, commercial and finance workstreams
• Client correspondence and clarification management
• Business development for new opportunities – rail, road and social infrastructure

Brisbane, Australia

• As a Senior Planner within the Queensland Building Group, responsibilities included:
• Management of planning / project controls team to deliver daily, weekly and monthly planning and project controls functions
• Development of detailed baseline programs in Primavera P6 (resource loaded)
• Constructability review, completions / commissioning coordination and interface management
• Preparation, analysis and defence of extension of time claims and variation requestsRole involved forensic planning and participation in dispute resolution process including international arbitration.Projects included:
• Ichthys Project Onshore LNG Facilities – EPC Building Works package (Darwin, NT) (design, construction and commissioning phases) – circa $300m project involving multiple operational and industrial buildings which.

Northern Ontario, Canada

• Assigned to the Lower Mattagami River Project – a $2.6 billion hydroelectricity project involving the construction of a new power plant and extensions to three existing power plants (additional 450 MW power generated.
• Constructability analysis and planning for the overall delivery program
• Input to coordination and sequencing of civil, generation and balance-of-plant elements to enable an efficient commissioning / completions regime to be implemented
• Maintenance of resource-loaded Primavera P6 project schedules on an ongoing basis
• Development of monthly planning reports (earned value analysis, SPI, milestone analysis, critical path analysis)
• Management and training of junior schedulers / planners

Halifax, Canada Area

• Responsibilities included:
• Provided detailed take-offs with labour and material pricing entries and extensions
• Reviewed contract documents and developed project schedules
• Hard dollar lump sum estimating and budget preparation for projects delivered under managing contractor modelProjects included various social infrastructure projects across health, defence and education sectors.

Halifax, Canada Area

• Responsibilities included:
• General subcontractor coordination and site safety / environment management
• Design constructability review / quality assurance (QA) and creation and management of work deficiency register
• Field engineering activities including quantity take-offs and layout
• Onsite services coordination issue reviews and assisted in chairing mechanical and electrical coordination/commissioning meetings
• Managed change order (variance) processProjects included:

Brisbane, Australia

• Supported Project Manager in the facilitation of the environmental impact assessment process for projects of strategic significance to the state of Queensland. Responsibilities included:
• Critical analysis of project documents, negotiation with stakeholders and preparation of timely and well-researched briefs, reports, and correspondence
• Business process improvement analysis and operational planning activitiesProjects included:
• Clem Jones Tunnel (formally North South Bypass Tunnel) (EIS coordination management during construction) – circa $3b road tunnel project under Brisbane River
• Legacy Way Tunnel (formally Northern Link Tunnel) (EIS process coordination) – circa $1.5b road tunnel project, 4.6km long from Toowong to Kelvin Grove, Brisbane

Master Of Business (Applied Finance)

Master Of Engineering Management, Engineering

Bachelor Of Engineering (Infomechatronics)