Dan Lao

Experience

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  Teknologisk Institut

  Jan 2012 - Jan 2013

  Conference Interpreter

  • Interpreter for conferences, events and meetings between the Danish Technological Institute and local Chinese firms.

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  ESS-FOOD A/S

  Dec 2012 - Jan 2013

  Intern

  • Rotated between different teams including sales, procurement and finance.

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  交通运输部公路科学研究院/Research Institute of Highway (RIOH), Ministry of Transport

  Nov 2015 - Jan 2016

  Transportation Engineering Intern

  • Crash reduction study of G20 QingYin State Highway and G6021 HangChang State Highway• Drafting the Offer of service for crash reduction study of Provincial Highway and Prefectural Highway connected to the G107 JingGang State Highway in DongGuan

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  WSP in New Zealand

  Jan 2017 - now

  • Mentoring young professionals • Road traffic signs and Pavement markings design for Fiji Road Authority (FRA)• Road safety audits on the Auckland Network• Crash reduction studies in the Auckland and Waikato region

  • Transportation Engineer

    Feb 2021 - now

  • Graduate Transportation Engineer

    Jan 2017 - Jan 2022
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  Auckland Motorway Alliance

  Jan 2017 - Jun 2019

  Transportation Engineer

  • First order macroscopic flow model for motorway analysis• Network bottleneck analysis via probe vehicle data• Capacity analysis via detector data and traffic flow theory• Traffic impact assessment• Network performance monitoring post Waterview Tunnel (WVT) opening

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  Auckland System Management

  Jul 2019 - now

  • Advise the Alliance of the impact to the movement of people, goods, and provision of services due to incidents, unexpected asset degradation and planned maintenance works • Implement a range of managed motorways tools to optimise motorway operations• Road network performance monitoring via interactive dashboards• Collection, processing and analysis of transport data• Monitoring and assessing network impacts due to events such as Covid-19, Liberate the lane rally and Auckland harbour bridge truck strike

  • Journey Optimisation Team Manager

    Aug 2021 - now

  • Transport Data Analyst

    Jul 2019 - Jan 2022