Drawing upon over 40 years experience (!) I try to help resolve my client's difficulty by taking three steps:1. define the question in a form that I can answer,2. design the approach that will address the question, and3. deliver the results as client ready product.Instructions have included the management of protected trees and the control of development for two local planning authorities, individual tree assessments for domestic clients or multi-site multi-national organisations, monitoring the work of civil engineers in sensitive streetscenes, carrying out enterprise-wide tree surveys, drawing up specifications for work, managing green infrastructure, and so much more.I also try to share my hard gained experience with others through ProArb magazine http://proarbmagazine.com/category/magazine/ If you think I can help, all you have to do is call!

I was the Head of Arboriculture, specialising in hazard tree evaluation and risk assessment, green infrastructure, woodland management, tree and woodland ecology, and the interactions between trees and the built form, until the role was made redundant on 30 September 2011.

A board level appointment with full operational responsibility for a national tree care business with a turnover of around £3M.

I was the first Technical Director to be appointed by the Arboricultural Association.