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Wellington, New Zealand

Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

-Develop long term asset strategy for substation primary assets and power cables. -Develop SF6 management strategy to meet emissions reduction targets out to 2030.

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

- Provide technical expertise and real time support for transmission (up to 220kV) substation asset restoration, root cause analysis, failure investigation, incident investigation, and operation and maintenance and repair of underground cable and transmission substation assets.- Investigation of asset performance, risk assessment and develop contingency plans.- Spare management- Perform annual condition assessment of substation and its assets.- Technical leader to other engineers within the team and within the organisation.- Develop and review substation asset maintenance procedure- Provide support to the asset strategy development, work plan, service specification, upgrade and development plans.

Canberra Area, Australia

Asset management of transmission & distribution overhead and underground asset- Provide technical and analytical support for asset performance trend and root causes analysis.- Apply risk management and life cycle costing principles to recommend the replace, repair, upgrade and disposal of assets.- Develop Asset management plan for vegetation management, overhead and underground transmission & distribution assets.- Develop annual budgets, ten year forecasts and program of work for overhead and underground assets. - Determine optimum inspection frequency and review pole inspection and condemnation criterion.- Develop and initiate condition monitoring program for critical and ageing distribution underground cables.- Develop and initiate special maintenance program to address public safety issues.- Develop business case to perform aerial inspection on pole top assets and using LiDAR technology to identify vegetation encroachment.- Analyse vegetation encroachment data using geographic information system.Replacement of Asset Registry/Work Management System (ArcFM/ArcGIS/Cityworks)- Provide technical advice on the data model requirements. - Provide business and technical rules to automate the data cleansing of existing database before data migration to new asset registry system.- User acceptance testing and business verification testing.- Initiate change request for further efficiency or process improvement for the new system.

Perth, Australia

• Analyse weather station’s wind speed data.• Develop wind resource assessment methodology and writing documentation• Identify and assess potential constraints at a potential wind farm site• Provide high level cost estimate for wind farm economic assessment• Prepare preliminary wind farm site reports• Develop high level cost register for high voltage power system equipments

Wellington, New Zealand

Provide condition, risk and remnant life assessment of 11 to 220kV power cables.* Developing Asset Management Plans for power cables.* Identify and implement improvements in condition assessment methods* Developing design, equipment specification and installation standards.* Developing business cases for replacement and refurbishment works.* Developing contingency and emergency response plan for power cables.* Developing and facilities deployment of maintenance and condition measurementtechniques to deliver reliability improvements.* Providing technical support of field maintenance staff and technical expertise indiagnosis of equipment condition and equipment failures.

Various Location In New Zealand

Graduate rotational program to gain experience with:- Projects, contract managers & maintenance contractors- Protection Consultants - Planning and Development- Asset Development - Transmission line - Asset Management Engineering- IT & Telecommunication Spend more than five months on site as a site engineer to inspect, monitor or witness the installation and testing of: - Gas Insulated Substation (GIS) - 220 kV cable pulling and installation - 220 kV outdoor sealing end and GIS cable termination

Master Of Engineering Asset Management, Asset Management, Distinction

Two years distance studies for Master of Engineering Asset Management (part time and outside working hours).

Bachelor Of Engineering, Electrical & Electronic Engineering

Activities and Societies: Hong Kong Engineering Student Association

Education record

Activities and Societies: School Badminton Team, Librarian