Experience

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  The university of auckland

  Nov 2011 - Mar 2012

  Research assistant

  The job involved desk research on gender policies in the OECD countries and designing a gender self-assessment questionnaire for local authorities. The questionnaire included detailed questions on various aspects of gender knowledge including social, housing and educational policies and urban design.

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  Auckland council

  Dec 2012 - Apr 2013

  Graduate planner

  The job involved a wide variety of tasks including administration duties, attending and minuting of pre-application meetings, Urban Design Panel meetings, writing planning reports on infrastructure-related resource consent applications, Outline Plan of Works, Variation of Condition applications

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  Auckland council

  Jul 2013 - Jan 2014

  Planner

  Resource consent planner.

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  Terra consultants ("terra group nz ltd")

  Jan 2014 - Oct 2016

  Planner and landscape architect

  As a resource management planner and landscape architect I provide planning and urban design services supporting public and private sector clients in land development projects.Responsibilities:• Meeting with clients and potential clients to discuss the planning/landscape/urban design aspects of their project based on an initial site and District Plan/PAUP rules analysis;• Identifying and discussing the project management implications of the proposed developments and giving advice on these matters;• Undertaking projects which required the preparation of planning studies and resource consent applications and liaising with external consultants such as architects, specialist engineers and ecologists; • Preparing AEE• Providing urban design input and analysis; • Development of design statements, landscape design, planting schedule and maintenance plan for landscaping projects.The projects I have been working on included:• Urban infill projects in varied scale: from two lot subdivisions to medium density residential and mixed-use developments;• Greenfield medium to large scale subdivisions• Application for Special Housing Area status for brownfield and greenfield areas; preparing strategic framework and application for these projects while advocating better urban design outcomes;• Applications within approved Special Housing Areas for land development projects under the PAUP provisions;• Other responsibilities which I executed on various projects include graphic assistance and 3D modelling for the purpose of various requirements of the clients and Council. Show less

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  Harrison grierson

  Oct 2016 - Jul 2019

  • Preparation of Master Plans for large-scale transit oriented developments including the incorporation of a future railway station, a business core and mixed-use areas• Providing urban design input into the high-level project plan “Unlock Pukekohe’ for Panuku Development • Providing development feasibility assessments for commercial, educational and residential projects;• Project managing and preparing Assessment of Environmental Effects for land use, subdivision and regional resource consent applications for medium to large brownfield and greenfield developments;• Preparation of comprehensive landscape concept plans, planting plans and landscape and visual assessments for industrial and residential medium to large scale developments.

  • Urban Designer

    Mar 2019 - Jul 2019

  • Planner and Landscape Architect

    Oct 2016 - Feb 2019
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  Auckland council

  Nov 2018 - Feb 2019

  On secondment in the urban design strategy team of the auckland design office

  1. As part of setting up a structure for Neighborhood Design Statements (NDS) I reviewed previous Structure Plans and NDS documents and prepared an overall assessment of these documents 2. Assisting with the review of Structure Plans and Neighborhood Design Statements currently in progress and providing urban design input into these documents3. Setting up a draft Practice Note for the preparation of NDS

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  Auckland council

  Jul 2019 - now

  Providing evidence-based strategic advise on the growth of Auckland through spatial and desktop research on matters of regional scale that informs the integrated development of Auckland. Providing strategic advice on urban design-related matters that included understanding the problem, identifying the issue, research, analysis and the synthesis of the findings. I also provided urban design input into the proposed resource management reform representing the Urban Design Unit.

  • Senior Strategic Advisor - Growth and Spatial Strategy

    Apr 2022 - now

  • Principal Urban Designer

    Jul 2019 - Apr 2022