International WaSH Expert - 25years - Joined the Royal Engineers aged 16yrs - 22yrs, returned to study, gained BSc(Hons) International Disaster Engineering & Management, then started out as a VSO Watsan Engineer - rehabilitating boreholes and hand pumps in north west and north east Nigeria for a couple of years. After that, spent a few years with IRC doing watsan, covering Kosovo & Macedonia conflicts, DR Congo cholera and camps, and Ivory Coast & Liberia civil wars including Guinea as the West Africa Environmental Health Emergency Response Coordinator. Switched to Oxfam GB for a year for the Aceh Besar Tsunami Response as the Team Leader Public Health Engineer, and 6 months in Pakistan doing the same after the 2005 earthquake. Then a 7yrs stint as the WASH consultant in PNG for a EU programme, during which time facilitated a two weeks emergency response training in Madagascar, and 2mths as a consultant in Myanmar for Cyclone Nargis response. Then deployed with the Australian Civilian Corps as Unicef WASH cluster M&E in Rhakine State, Myanmar. Now the WASH Practice Lead for the Australian Red Cross, covering Asia & the Pacific. More recently supporting projects in Lesotho, Myanmar, Kiribatis, Bangladesh & Nepal. For the next few years I'm piloting a WASH framework that fits in with the region, pushing hard on quality WASH programming for several more countries.
Listed skills include Wash Development, Program Coordination, Capacity Building, Technical Water Supply Design, and 10 others.