Nathaniel Janke-Gilman Email & Phone Number

Wellington, New Zealand

Technical Writer and Knowledge Manager in Meridian's Quality Assurance Team

Wellington, New Zealand

• Led a program to prevent catastrophic failures and "keep energy inside the system" for complex generation plant, using process safety methodology including bowtie analysis.• Increased business ownership of major incident hazards and management of safety critical elements, and facilitated stakeholders in developing a new Major Hazard Framework which addresses three pillars of: Process Safety, Dam Safety, and Major Business Impact Hazards.• Emphasized effective governance and facilitated redefinition of key metrics for business reporting.• Increased general understanding of process safety by creating engaging educational videos, presentations, and case studies. Built tools for knowledge sharing among plant operators, engineers, and everyone else who has a role in "keeping energy inside the system" for electricity generation plant.

Wellington, New Zealand

• Championed disability/neurodiversity inclusion at Meridian, formed a team of Access Champs to create and progress an Accessibility Action Plan. • Under my leadership Meridian incorporated accessibility/disability as a key pillar of Diversity Equity Inclusion, and earned the Accessibility Tick.

Wellington, New Zealand

Lead Technical Writer in Meridian Energy's Wind Engineering Team. • Working from a blank slate, designed and wrote Meridian's system of Wind Turbine Safety Rules documentation for wind turbine maintenance, based on a ‘Safety 2’ approach and the principles of human error. • Developed training courses for wind technicians which are now recognized as NZ Unit Standards.• Implemented ‘single source XML’ to achieve consistency in a large and complex set of documents, merged contributions from multiple authors working in parallel using Git version control.• Implemented document control processes to track reviews of critical documents, oversaw data migrations, created metadata and custom views to help users find published content in SharePoint.• Managed a small team and mentored a new hire into full solo competency as a technical writer.• Occasionally engaged in tactical engineering work such as component inspections and root cause failure analysis.

Lower Hutt, New Zealand

Technical writing - commercial and research proposals, report writing, editing;Management of small and large projects, client relationship management;Research, data analysis, prototype technology development;Materials consulting for industry: metallurgy, condition assessment, non-destructive testing, failure analysis, remaining life assessment.

Melbourne, Australia

Postdoctoral researcher in the group of Prof. John Riley.Synchrotron research into electronic structure of thin film alloys, mostly conducted using the Latrobe Toroidal Electron Analyser based at the BESSY synchrotron in Berlin, Germany.I taught a graduate level class in electromagnetism.

Halle, Germany

Postdoctoral researcher under the direction of Wulf Wulfhekel, in the group of Prof. Juergen Kirschner (Experimental Abteilung 1).I designed and built a prototype spin-polarized scanning tunneling microscope (SP-STM) capable of measuring in-plane magnetic order of surface atoms with atomic precision in ultrahigh vacuum and ultralow temperatures.

Phd, Physics

Activities and Societies: Member of No Refund TheaterThesis title: Magnetism in Thin Transition Metal Alloys I taught lectures.

Certificate In Technical Communication

Bsc(Hons), Physics

Activities and Societies: Student President of Rochester and Rutherford Hall, 1993