Experience

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  Holcim New Zealand

  • New Zealand
  • Construction
  • 1 - 100 Employee

  • National Manager - Sustainable Solutions

    • Sep 2022 - Present

    Provide Guidance to the wider Holcim NZ team on cementitious products and solutions with a focus on reducing the embodied carbon within cementitious products through the use of cement alternatives, circular materials or advances within mix options. This involves the development and use of LCA and EPDs for Holcim products and assisting within industry environmental scheme calculators (i.e. Green star) I am also responsible for our IANZ / ISO 17025 certified laboratory.

  • Technical Manager

    • Apr 2020 - Sep 2022

    Management of Holcim New Zealand IANZ accredited laboratory. Provided technical guidance for cementitious materials to the wider New Zealand Business

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  Tomorrow Ready Limited

  • New Zealand

  • Business Owner

    • Jan 2015 - Present
    • New Zealand

    Assisting clients from startups to large businesses with Process Improvements, Business management system implementation, Audits to help achieve sustainable growth.

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  James Hardie NZ

  • Auckland, New Zealand

  • Quality Manager

    • Feb 2018 - Apr 2020
    • Auckland, New Zealand

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  Cement Australia

  • Gladstone, Queensland, Australia

  • Technical Manager

    • Jun 2015 - Feb 2018
    • Gladstone, Queensland, Australia

    Management of the technical oversight for the site from Quarry to final product certification, quality control and assurance as well as all technical process engineering functions including alternative fuels and raw materials integration into the cement process.My Responsibilities include ISO 9001 ComplianceISO 17025 ComplianceAlternative Fuels and Raw Material (AFR) process integrationProcess Quality Control Radiation safety

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  Holcim

  • Westport, New Zealand

  • Technical Manager

    • Mar 2012 - Jun 2015
    • Westport, New Zealand

    Technical Manager within Westport Cement Works.Responsible for ISO 9001 and 17025 within the works aswell as ensuring compliance to product certification requirements. I have overall responsibility for the quality within the manufacturing and also of the final product. This includes providing technical assistance to the plant to achieve desired outcomes based on customer requirements and product specification.lead roles with 3 major project role outs within the company, including Lean Manufacture and Transitioning to cloud computing for email and document collaboration.Represented Holcim on the national Portland cement association technical committee, and represent the committee on the Australian Standards BD-31 Technical Working group.

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  Buchanan Renewables

  • Liberia

  • Project Manager

    • Nov 2007 - Mar 2012
    • Liberia

    Buchanan Renewables - a platform for sustainable and impactful developmentFocused on growing Liberia's energy capacity using its own non-producing rubberwood resources for fuel - effectively helping it become energy independent while at the same time helping it rejuvenate one of its most important industries.As a founding member of the company, I carried out a multitude of project development and management tasks, with my main focus of creating and developing our quality systems, gis mapping functionality, it systems and environmental management. Buchanan Renewables became the first company within Liberia to achieve FSC accreditation (FSC controlled wood Certificate Code: RA-COC-006007 FSC License Code: FSC-C044138) in which I was the joint lead in the project, achieving a quality system and procedures which met FSC principles within an 18 month time frame.

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  AlControl

  • Chester, United Kingdom

  • Section Leader

    • Jul 2007 - Nov 2007
    • Chester, United Kingdom

    I worked as a section leader within the miscellaneous organics section, testing bulk gas, oils and TPH samples in water, soils and misc matrixs.

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  Bodycote

  • Runcorn, UK

  • Senior Organic Chemist

    • Aug 2006 - Jul 2007
    • Runcorn, UK

    Working as deputy section leader in MCerts & UKAS 17025 certified Lab. Testing services included a wide range of organics in water, effluent and soil matrixs, using HS-GC-MS, GC-MS, GC-FID, HPLC, SPE, FT-IR.

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  Bureau Veritas

  • Runcorn, UK

  • Analyst

    • Dec 2005 - Jul 2006
    • Runcorn, UK

    Analyst in a UKAS accredited ISO 17025 laboratory, carrying out VOC & NOx, and organic contaminates in air samples using GCMS, GCFID, colorimetry and other lab based methods

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  University of Birmingham

  • Birmingham, United Kingdom

  • Research Assistant

    • 2001 - 2004
    • Birmingham, United Kingdom

    Working with the Persistant organic pollutants group on a EU project reviewing SVOCs from ambient atmospheres