Experience

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  Road deveoplment authority, provincial director's office

  Jul 1996 - Oct 1996

  Graduate engineering trainee

  Key Responsibilities:
  •Project management for construction and maintenance projects for district road network.
  •Managing the maintenance works and works management systems to achieve agreed targets,standards and timeframes within the agreed price.•
  Handling the issues and complaints within the area to provide safer road network.•
  Ensure all quality management procedures are adhered.
  •Teamwork with project members in a positive attitude and achievement of organisational objectives.
  •Project management for road resealing works and district road network development.•Maintain and apply all relevant standards policies, guidelines and legislative requirements.
  •Set up setting out of road surface and done asphalt premix paying.
  •Supervised Bridge construction site at Lewalla. Show less

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  Samuel sons & company (pty) ltd

  Jul 1998 - Oct 1998

  Graduate engineering trainee

  Key Responsibilities:•
  Supervised construction activities for construction site of five-story building
  •Ensured proper setting out of structure.
  •Approved bills for payments•Done drawing up work programs and schedules and site monitoring.
  •Labour control and management.
  •Preparing initial estimates for infrastructure such as roads, drains, water distribution system, earthworks and retaining walls.•Preparing estimates for Client Supplied Materials for houses, preparing estimates for customers’ extra works and checking of contractors’ bills and payments. Show less

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  Central engineering consultancy bureau

  Jun 1999 - Aug 2000

  Project engineer

  Key Responsibilities:
  •Project Management including document control, cost reporting, planning & scheduling of works,drawing up programs for work for monitoring.•
  Involved in the project development stage liaising with consultants and architects
  •Supervised construction activities and done setting out of structure.
  •Prepared taking off measurements for payments and sub contractor’s payments.
  •Organising Client Supplied materials, handling customer’s extra work & their issues.•
  Employing contractors and sub-contractors for works.
  •Organising and handling direct construction by the company (Roads, drains earth works and infrastructure related to initial development and subdivisions).
  •Coordinate, monitor & control of all construction activities on site.
  •Preparation of master programs, progress & other reports for senior staff of the company.•
  Completed structural designs of buildings for Chest Clinic at Kagalle, Base Hospital at Karawanella.
  •Quality Assurance works relating to all construction works on site. Show less

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  National water supply & drainage board

  Sept 2000 - May 2005

  Civil engineer

  Key Responsibilities:•Involved as a counterpart Project Engineer in GIS project management activities.•Identification of the existing system performance based on current and future demand and planning of trunk infrastructure, priority infrastructure area and Infrastructure charge schedules.•Responsible for monitoring models to ensure the ongoing calibration of the network models and facilitate development of new models.•Used WaterCAD for water network designs, SewerCAD for Sewer network design, Prockon for structural building designs, water retaining structures design using 12D and CivilCAD. •Manage data, edit data, Geoproces data for water and sewer network asset management and used ArcGIS applications and its extensions for spatial analyst and 3D analyst. •Prepared digital maps using AutoCAD, AutoCAD MAP and ArcGIS software and Developed geo-referenced scan maps.•Developed several program applications for the GIS network system sustainability.•Participated as a lecturer to familiarise the GIS technology within the organisation. Show less

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  Emerald shire council

  Apr 2007 - Mar 2008

  Engineer

  Key Responsibilities:•To assist the Infrastructure Manager in developing and managing Infrastructure Capital Works Programs.•Develop and manage Infrastructure Maintenance Programs.•To provide technical support to the Infrastructure Manager.•To assist with Councils GIS and Asset management Systems for Water and Sewer.•Responsible for produced trunk infrastructure network for wastewater network update its data model using GIS to assist with the priority infrastructure plans. •Calling quotes and tenders for Council operations.•Develop and manage the Infrastructure Maintenance Programs.•Project Management, planning and scheduling of various project assigned. Show less

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  Central highlands regional council

  Mar 2008 - Jul 2014

  Major achievement:I have awarded the winner of Local Government Managers Australia Queensland Association’s State Award for Excellence Women in Local Government for year 2013.I developed and demonstrated competence in managing several infrastructure projects, planning and scheduling of works organising and executing major works. I worked collaboratively with Council infrastructure capital works delivery team, suppliers and contractors ensuring value for money and timely & efficient work delivery within budgets. Council presented special appreciation award for waste levy project implementation. I have developed Employee Information Management System to manage employee training, tickets and licence requirements. I did a technical paper on local solutions to global issues, employee information management system at a Central Region Engineering Conference 2009 in Rockhampton. Submitted report recommendation for identify and resolve technical and institutional barriers to successful GIS deployment and to plan for technical, staffing, and resources necessary to support GIS effectively. I have developed water & sewerage intranet for centralised information management.Key Responsibilities:•Maintain and update Council’s asset management systems and GIS systems. •Development of funding strategies and securing funding through annual planning and asset management processes.•Deliver Infrastructure Capital Works Projects.•Design and document projects including required management plans for both internal and external delivery, obtain best value under Council guidelines, supervise contracts, and inspect works.•Maintain, update and manage Council infrastructure registers and processes. Show less Major achievement:During this time I was given the sole responsibility to provide detail designs for various projects such as Powel Street Road upgrade, various places drainage issues, Lochlees Landfill, Blackwater PCYC car park, BMX track and bicycle training track, Esmond and Borilla Street roundabout design, various road widening and upgrade projects. I created Council standard template to use for design drawings. I developed an access database to record all designs to record centrally. This database allow anyone to download concept reports, Project estimates, Site plans and survey files, detail design drawings, project approvals or any other documents attached to it. I registered all detail design drawings for construction. Key Responsibilities:•Engineering investigation, planning and Design.•Assisting with the Council planning process.•To assist the Infrastructure Manager in developing and managing Infrastructure Capital Works Programs.•Document projects, obtain best value under Council guideline, supervise contracts..•Calling quotes and tenders for Council operations.•Engineering survey including use of Council’s Total Station equipment.•Preparation of design specification reports and cost estimates.•Project Management, planning and scheduling of various project assigned. Show less

  • Manager Compliance & Planning

    Aug 2009 - Jul 2014

  • Design Engineer

    Mar 2008 - Aug 2009
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  Department of transport and main roads

  Jul 2014 - now

  Key Responsibilities:•Apply methodologies and processes, including computer-based engineering and economic planning models for the determination of future road maintenance and construction needs, developing strategic options for road network planning, and for road funding purposes. This may extend to other transport assets in the future.•
  Collect and analyse data to determine relationships and trends for input into the prediction of future road infrastructure needs and impacts of alternative strategic options.
  •Contribute to the ongoing development of processes and systems to guide those managing road networks in a way that meets the needs of road users and stakeholders.
  •Provide support to Manager (Network Analysis and Moderation) to manage activities related to MPO elements, funding allocation and other tasks undertaken by the NA&M team.
  •Prepare and provide training to regional/district staff on the planning techniques and models developed for collecting, analysing and reporting data for strategic planning purposes.•
  Liaise with and provide advice as required to personnel in regions/districts, other divisions of the department and external organisations (Austroads, ARRB) on matters concerned with condition and performance of the road network involving computer based inventory systems managed by TSAM unit.•Assist in the preparation of written reports on a variety of strategic issues such as the engineering aspects of submissions for Federal and State funding, road network investment strategies, andperformance reporting. Show less

  • Principal Engineer (Estimating & Risk)

    Oct 2023 - now

  • Senior Engineer (Network Analysis & Moderation)

    Jul 2014 - Oct 2023