After graduating with a Masters Degree in Civil Engineering from Bristol University in 2000, I started my career with Halcrow in London as a design engineer, site engineer, Chartered Civil Engineer (in 2004) and then spent about 8 years working on infrastructure contracts and procurement – mostly transport: highways, railways, bridges and tunnels.
I gained early experience in project management and business management within the infrastructure sector and augmented this with an MBA from Imperial College (in 2006). At this time I was inspired by systems thinking and an understanding that infrastructure is not just about delivering capital projects – it’s about sustaining and improving the quality of people’s lives. 1
In 2007, I moved to the USA – Washington DC and California – to work on several major ‘public-private-partnership’ projects, programs and transactions, working closely with project finance and legal professionals.
I moved to Perth in 2011 and have since continued to work in all types of transport infrastructure as well as mining, oil & gas and social infrastructure (hospitals and schools). Between 2011 and July 2020 I worked with:
- Evans & Peck (now Advisian),
- PwC Capital Projects & Infrastructure and
- EY Infrastructure Advisory.
I am still a Chartered Civil Engineer, Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers and involved in the WA Chapter.
I am also a Member of the Australian Institute of Traffic Planning and Management (AITPM) and an Associate Member of the Institute of Asset Management (IAM). Between 2008 and 2016 I was a qualified Project Management Professional (PMP).
While at EY I was a member of the Committee for Perth ‘Reshaping Working Group’ and I have previously attended Chamber of Minerals and Energy WA Infrastructure Committee meetings.
Footnote:
- “Sustaining and Improving the Quality of People’s Lives” was Halcrow’s purpose, I still think about it because, for me, infrastructure is not just about physical assets, it’s about the services and outcomes that those assets enable