Maria Luck Email & Phone Number

Maryland, Nsw, Au

Gold Coast, Palo Alto, San Francisco, London

I lived overseas, based mostly in Palo Alto. I gained a new qualification in Interior Design and then did Interior Design projects for startups based there. I would take the brief from the client, develop a design, source and order materials, engage with trades and project manage the project to successful completion.I am now based back in Australia on the Gold Coast.

Remote Management Of Businesses In Brisbane And Stanthorpe

Ongoing management of small leisure-related businesses: a charter yacht (Curlew Escape), a country retreat (Curlew Retreat), and Quarter Horse Breeding (Luck Leisure Horses). Managed websites, sales, customer relations, marketing, contractor management, repairs and maintenance, and preparation of accounts using MYOB and then Xero.

Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia

Completed a fixed-term contract managing a team of 12 EPA inspectors on the Sunshine Coast.I had eleven direct reports. It was integrated work with SEQ Environmental Protection Group and SEQ Public Health and Food Safety Forum. Programme planning and risk management with Food Act, Accreditation for Aged Care facilities, Public Health Act, Environmental Protection Act obligations. Change management; improving team outputs and staff accountability, quality assurance, performance management. Workforce placements of students of Sunshine Coast University within my team. Reporting to Environmental Health Manager and Community Service Director.

Bay Of Plenty, New Zealand

Programme manager within public health unit for non-communicable disease. Sector engagement with the community and 7 Councils. Monitoring, evaluation, analysis and reporting, social marketing and advocacy for projects: Social environments programme design, healthy cities urban design, health impact assessment, active transport, smoke-free outdoor spaces, social marketing and SunSmart programmes, community water supplies. Manager 6 direct reports, undertook performance management. Reporting to Medical Officer of Health, Manager of Health Promotion, Director Public Health.

Bay Of Plenty, New Zealand

Tertiary programme development and lecturer for Environmental health and Maori health nurse course with Te Whare Wananga o Awanuiarangi. Indigenous University. Reporting to Director Environmental Science.

Bay Of Plenty, New Zealand

Policy development, implementation and evaluation of the Regional Plan for sustainable environmental practice. Growth management scenario planning and regional Smart-Growth for public services. Policy review through legislative processes. Water, soil, and air, sustainable management of resources. Two direct reports. Reporting to Manager Policy Planning.

Auckland, New Zealand

Environmental Health Monitoring surveys, regional health policy, local and regional government resource management liaison, submissions, and advocacy. Water and soil, contaminated sites (asbestos), vector control programmes, health impact and implications on population. Reporting to Medical Officer of Health.

New Zealand

Environmental monitoring, research and reporting. Environmental and ecological surveys. Resource Management hearings, submissions, and iwi representation. Geothermal water takes, hydro-schemes, coastal consent applications, subdivisions, client liaison and advice, landowner liaison. Business launch and development, marketing, project briefs, contracts.

Taupo, Waikato, New Zealand

Community consultation and profile report, environmental and social indicator development, community meetings, district submissions to regional plan, hearings & environment court presentations, reporting to council, public liaison, strategic planning. Reporting to Director Policy Planning, CEO and Council.

Waikato, New Zealand

Resource Management consents, public liaison, hearings, environment court evidence, monitoring, enforcement, coastal monitoring plan, regional planning, project management, coastal projects (Marinas, cannel development, coastal reclamations), energy (hydroelectric major Waikato river dams, geothermal power plant, utilities (water and waste). Reporting to Team Leader, Group Manager, CEO and Council.

Roles with National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research in Marine and freshwater ecology, eco-toxicity, water quality and sediment analysis, and Department of Conservation undertaking SCUBA transects, and marine ecology. Dairy Research Corporation laboratory technician.

Master Of Science (M.Sc.), Biological Sciences, Coastal Geology

Thesis title: The Effects (toxicology) of Dredging and Dumping on the Benthic Fauna of Gisborne Harbour and Poverty Bay, for Port.

Diploma, Interior Design, A

Public Health (Cert), Public Health

Preventive Medicine, Epidemiology, and Public Health

Certificate In Adult Teaching

Adults as learners, curriculum development

Organizational Leadership

Human Resources and Organisational Change. Development of Staff

Certificate Of Proficiency, Environment And Natural Resources Law

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), Geology, Biology