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Cairns, Queensland, Australia

Cairns, Queensland, Australia

Responsible for providing engineering services and project management in innovative forms of energy supply and end use, in a diverse range of areas including intelligent grid, distributed energy systems, renewable energy systems, standalone power systems, energy storage systems, energy conservation and demand management, energy advice, and building services.Demonstrated ability in the areas of complex network modelling, network planning, hardware in-the-loop testing, real-time digital simulation, inverter-based resources operation and grid connection, microgrid controller design, stakeholder engagement, providing professional engineering advice and working well in team and individual environments.

Townsville, Australia

Energy Queensland's graduate program is a three year program consisting of six month rotations in various areas of the business to help graduates gain an understanding of key areas of the power industry and give them the skills to succeed in their future roles. Whilst a graduate engineer, I completed four rotations in Townsville in the areas of network protection, network planning, field and network operations. Following this I moved to Cairns to complete my last year on the program in the substation design and the intelligent grid, new technology teams.

Warwick, England, United Kingdom

Arnhem, Gelderland, Netherlands

As a Test Engineer in Kema Labs' Flexible Power Grid Lab I am a member of the team responsible for the testing of power electronic devices such as battery chargers, EV chargers and inverters using innovative test techniques including power hardware-in-the-loop and real-time simulation.

Brisbane, Australia

A member of the Connected Services team out of Honeywell's Queensland office in Brisbane. Main roles included assisting with the installation and upgrading of Honeywell's primary building management software (Enterprise Buildings Integrator) at several sites in the Brisbane area. This required knowledge and skills relating to virtual environments, the Windows operating system, system patching specific to Honeywell software and server hardware and maintenance.Other roles included conducting ICT connectivity audits of sites in preparation for the installation of Honeywell's Outcome Based Service software. The main focus of these was around internet security, networking and knowledge of hardware and software firewalls.

Brisbane, Australia

Undertook a Master Thesis as a full-time industry placement at Ergon Energy. Under the supervision of three senior engineers at Ergon Energy the Master Thesis looked predominantly at the feasibility of introducing electric vehicle public transport buses to the bus fleet of regional cities. All currently available bus technologies, including conventional internal combustion engine and compressed natural gas, were assessed to clearly identify the advantages and disadvantages they offer to both bus network operators and power network operators. A general methodology was constructed that allows users to enter the specifics of their bus network, such as distance between stops and bus stopping frequency, in order to produce a fuel/energy consumption estimate that is calculated based on the results of numerous past and ongoing bus trials and studies. The end result is a summary that details the expected cost of each bus technology if it were to be used on the specific route entered by the user as well as a summary of the other non-cost related advantages/disadvantages of each bus technology. Benefits that increased uptake of electric public transport buses offers to power distribution network operators are also discussed and several opportunities that would arise from helping increase electric bus uptake are highlighted.Master thesis was titled "A General Methodology for Network Integration of Alternatively Fuelled Transit Buses in Regional Cities, and Cairns Case Study." A conference paper summarising the findings of this work has been attached below and a full copy of the thesis report is available upon request via email or LinkedIn message.

308 Hartley Street, Cairns

Held a summer vacation employment position as an Undergraduate Electrical Engineer with the Technology Development team in Cairns. Involved in projects relating to energy storage; in particular the testing of several residential sized battery storage systems and how these could be utilised in an average household to improve their power usage in terms of both cost (for the customer) and network optimisation (for the distribution company). Was also introduced to the distribution network as a whole and gained a sound understanding about the many operation areas and how these work together to improve and maintain the network.

Bachelor Of Engineering (Honours) And Master Of Engineering

Master Degree