- Played a pivotal role in the identification and management process for strategic risks, working closely with the Executive leadership team to ensure effective risk mitigation strategies were in place.- Supported the Executive leadership team in managing strategic risks, providing advice and guidance to facilitate informed decision-making. - Management of the strategic risk register, to ensure robust risk management practices and that all top and strategic risks were identified, assessed, and appropriately managed. - Development of the strategic risk management systems and tools to align mitigation plans and processes with the identified risk and the council’s risk appetite framework. - Developed and maintained the Audit and Risk Committee reports, collating relevant risk-related information and providing clear and concise documentation for discussion and decision-making processes. - Creation for risk assessment tools to analyse and quantify the enterprise risks against the council risk appetite. - Regularly reported to the Mayor and elected members on Strategic and Emerging risks, keeping them informed about potential threats and vulnerabilities that could impact the local government's strategic objectives. - Actively contributed to the maintenance and currency of the risk appetite framework, collaborating with executive leadership to inform and develop risk appetite statements that accurately represented the organization's tolerance for risk.- Provided coaching and guidance to the executive leadership team to enable them to understand and articulate risk appetite statements effectively, empowering them to present the statements confidently to elected members. - Experience of bringing a risk lens to contracts risks, infrastructure development risk and programme risk.

- Effective member of the Beca Auckland structural engineering team, specilising in the seismic assessment of existing building for the purpose of analysing health and safety and commercial risk. - Worked with multidisciplinary teams in designing and implementing seismic strengthening schemes to ensure cost effective solutions and the minimising of disruption to clients. - Portfolio management of client's seismic portfolios including, advising clients on their seismic risk and reviewing other consultants seismic assessment and strengthening schemes.- Lead engineer in the design and seismic strengthening design projects in both healthcare and commercial retail. - Wrote and presented a paper at the 2019 SESOC engineering conference titled “Learning on the job – Detailed Seismic Assessments and Seismic Strengthening”.

Graduate Structural Engineer - Residential Design