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Saint Lucia, Qld, Au

Saint Lucia, Qld, Au

St Lucia, Queensland, Australia

• Provided forensic materials engineering consultancy services for external clients including law firms, government organisations, mining companies and various asset owners.• Hold discussion with external clients and stakeholders to extract pertinent information, determine client needs, assess cost constraints and formulate an appropriate scope of works.• Teamed together with other specialists across the university to deliver a rigorous and cross-disciplinary problem-solving approach• Where necessary, developed novel test techniques and methodologies to achieve the understood purposes of a consultancy project• Undertook systematic failure investigations including non-destructive macroscopic visual examination, fractography, metallography, microscopic examination, micro-analysis, characterisation of composition and material properties and stress/fracture mechanics analysis.• Reviewed of results and data, identify failure mechanisms and research available literature and case studies. • Communicated conclusions, recommendations and findings to clients via formal reporting and/or teleconference.• Designed and maintained, client database, quality management and project management systems, timesheet and expense logs and facilitate project reviews.• Liaised with in-house legal advisors to facilitate agreement over project terms and conditions• Managed existing clients for continued repeat business and contributed to identification and pursuit of opportunities for new markets and clients.

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

• Served as a consultant among a group of senior specialists experienced in various fields including concrete technology, corrosion, cathodic protection, coatings technology, durability planning and composites. Ray also provided materials engineering advice for other disciplines across GHD.• Planned and undertook numerous condition assessments and remediation planning of civil structures including bridges, reservoirs, dams, marine structures, pipelines, road structures, drainage, sewerage structures and buildings.• Gained experience in field testing including, ultrasonic thickness testing, ground penetrating radar, concrete sampling, coating thickness measurements, durometer hardness testing, Wenner resistivity testing, Bresle testing, surface profile testing and others.• Provided inputs into materials selection and durability design for various small and large projects including the Cooroy to Curra Bruce Highway Upgrade, Arrow Energy LNG Marine Facilities, Moreton Bay Rail Link and QCLNG Pipelines.• Prepared numerous technical reports, specifications, tender documents and cost-estimates for various clients including government and private asset owners. • Fulfilled the role of job manager to successfully scope, cost and deliver small projects (< 30K). The job management role included cost control, quality management, client communication, risk management as well as forecasting and invoicing.• Attained various safety permits and access qualifications (listed below) to meet requirements for conducting high risk inspections.• Fulfilled the role of business group representative on the Health, Safety and Environment committee.

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Materials Engineering

• Topic: A study on the sintering of titanium for cost-effective net shape manufacturing • Conceived, planned and conducted high-quality.

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Materials Engineering