Vaughan Roberts Email & Phone Number

Tauranga, Bay Of Plenty, New Zealand

Tauranga, Bay Of Plenty, New Zealand

• Work across the Bay of Plenty and Waikato regions, working collaboratively with local government, consultants, and other NZ Transport Agency staff to deliver robust business cases and enable sound investment decision.
• Act as key point of contact for Bay of Plenty councils, working collaboratively with them to improve the NZTA-Council relationship, and to enable alignment and shared understanding across partners.
• Work closely with senior decision makers and internal teams undertaking investment quality assurance activities, to provide clear and consistent advice at key stages of the project approval process from Point of Entry.
• Provide assurance that investments are value for money and meeting the Agency’s strategic objectives
• Proactively seek guidance/advice/engagement from others in Waka Kotahi as the need arises for subject matter expertise, senior decision-making support, or further investment assurance.
• Take on transport planning and strategic planning tasks in the absence of other local resources in Tauranga.

Tauranga, NZ

• Act as key point of contact for Bay of Plenty councils, working collaboratively with them to improve the NZTA-Council relationship, and to enable alignment and shared understanding across partners.
• Meet regularly with councils and consultants to enable the delivery of robust business cases, providing sound investment decision making advice consistent with the business case approach.
• Work closely with senior decision makers and internal teams undertaking investment quality assurance activities, to provide clear and consistent advice at key stages of the project approval process from Point of Entry.
• Provide assurance that investments are value for money and meeting the Agency’s strategic objectives
• Proactively seek guidance/advice/engagement from others in Waka Kotahi as the need arises for subject matter expertise, senior decision-making support, or a more significant level of investment assurance.
• Engage with other internal teams to ensure Council projects move forward, taking on transport planning and strategic planning tasks as necessary.

• Manage the identification, measurement, tracking, analysis and reporting of project benefits for projects in the Healthy Together Technology (CMDHB Health IT) portfolio
• Identify potential project benefits through interpretation of business analyst process maps of current and future state, literature review, and engagement of subject matter experts
• Work with programme team to develop business cases for submission to the CMDHB Board, incorporating benefits identified
• Apply research design expertise and understanding of quantitative and qualitative research methodologies to determine most efficient and cost-effective means to obtain benefit data
• Report and present benefit findings to steering and management committees
• Completed an evaluation of the CMDHB transformation journey in 2016, interviewing key stakeholders and reviewing literature, and produced a report of lessons learned with key recommendations for future health.

Ko Awatea Research And Evaluation Office

• Collated and analysed the quantitative data analysis component of a Health Needs Assessment for Corrections New Zealand.
• Supported the Research and Evaluation Office team with other research projects.

Auckland, New Zealand

• Launched an internet-based ecommerce business selling physical products on Amazon, and then later via my own website. Ran this business full time for one year, and then part time thereafter
• Developed skills in market research, product design, international team management, sales and marketing, digital marketing, advertising, copy writing, blog writing, financial forecasting, shipping and logistics, and.

Auckland, New Zealand

• Entered the University of Auckland Spark Challenge (business entrepreneur start-up competition), with three colleagues from the University of Auckland.
• Placed second in the competition and were awarded 3 months incubation time in the ICE House.
• Gained valuable skills in market validation, strategic planning, financial forecasting, and product development.

Auckland, New Zealand

• Completed a PhD in Public Health investigating the effects of exercise on cigarette cravings and smoking cessation.
• Gained valuable skills in a broad range of research methodologies and processes. These included systematic reviews, research idea generation, study design, grant applications, ethics applications, large clinical.
• Designed and conducted a feasibility study which investigated the potential of a Kaupapa Maori-based exercise programme to help pregnant Maori women who smoke to quit smoking.
• Assisted and advised colleagues in their research projects across physical activity, nutrition, smoking cessation, obesity, and m-health research spheres.

Auckland, New Zealand

• Completed a PhD in Public Health investigating the effects of exercise on cigarette cravings and smoking cessation.
• PhD research included a large Randomised Controlled Trial of an exercise counseling intervention to aid smoking cessation (n = 906), a lab-based study of the acute effects of exercise on cigarette cravings, two.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Public Health

PhD thesis: Roberts V. (2013). Cigarette cravings, tobacco withdrawal, and smoking cessation: The role of exercise. PhD Thesis, University.

Master'S Degree, Sport And Exercise Science

Masters thesis: Roberts, V. (2007). Adolescent physical activity: an integrated social cognitive approach. (MSc Thesis, The University of.

Bachelor'S Degree, Science: Psychology, Physiology