One of the greatest challenges in my life.

In addition to the opportunity, this move to the sunshine coast was motivated by a particular desire for my children's schooling. I first learnt about detailed traffic engineering, optimisation of standard processes and effective stakeholder (mostly LGAs and developers) engagement techniques. It wasn't long before I was drawn toward, in my opinion, one of the most dynamic, skilful and exciting traffic modelling teams in Australia (at the time). The combination of old and new heads being… Show more In addition to the opportunity, this move to the sunshine coast was motivated by a particular desire for my children's schooling. I first learnt about detailed traffic engineering, optimisation of standard processes and effective stakeholder (mostly LGAs and developers) engagement techniques. It wasn't long before I was drawn toward, in my opinion, one of the most dynamic, skilful and exciting traffic modelling teams in Australia (at the time). The combination of old and new heads being rigorous and hardworking toward outcomes for the district was such an inspiration. In trying to meet the needs of generating a win win situation for all stakeholder amidst growth I knew we needed to incorporate demand modelling into our practices and I was lucky enough to be given an opportunity to lead the conversion of the Moreton Bay Strategic Transport Model. Show less

At ADG I learnt how to be a consultant. I was taught how to have a high level of respect and support for any client. I learnt about water sensitive urban design, urban site infrastructure and connection design, 1D/2D flood modelling, Water and wastewater infrastructure master planning, infrastructure agreement negotiations, infrastructure staging optimisation.

At Bechtel I learnt how to eat an elephant. The scale of the system, the projects within it, and the company's ability to almost organically grow and decay in it's presence across the world to suit the needs at the time amazed me. I worked on one of the smaller jobs in the BMA hub and got to learn more in civil design (using Bentley Inroads + Microstation instead of 12D/cad now), contract administration and mining scale infrastructure planning and design.

Fresh from Uni this role taught me a great deal about geology and methods for reasoning with imperfect data. I gained this sense of making the most of what I could get and for the rest to just use my intuition and being clear and quick whenever risks are perceived. This job was my first foray into formal engineering reporting, major construction site work, but most notably for me GIS, when I pounced on on opportunity to run a large scale mining slope stability model using SAGA. Douglas… Show more Fresh from Uni this role taught me a great deal about geology and methods for reasoning with imperfect data. I gained this sense of making the most of what I could get and for the rest to just use my intuition and being clear and quick whenever risks are perceived. This job was my first foray into formal engineering reporting, major construction site work, but most notably for me GIS, when I pounced on on opportunity to run a large scale mining slope stability model using SAGA. Douglas Partners were also full of excellent people. Show less

This role taught me how to think and design in 3d and also how computer models and structured documentation are the key to facilitating coordination and communication at a great level of complexity for a large amount of essential and desired outcomes.