Experience

Association of Consulting Architects

• Australia
• Architecture and Planning
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Committee Member of the VIC/TAS Chapter Association of Consulting Architects

  • 2018 - Present



Kirby Architects

• Australia
• Architecture and Planning
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Architect

  • Jan 1998 - Present

  Business, financial and project, planning and management.Identify and develop risk management plans for work site and business operations.Occupational health and safety legislation, policies, procedures and activities.Project Architect and Contract Administration.Compliance and statutory issue investigation resolution and implementation.Staff and consultant coordination for drawing, specifications and contract preparation. Business, financial and project, planning and management.Identify and develop risk management plans for work site and business operations.Occupational health and safety legislation, policies, procedures and activities.Project Architect and Contract Administration.Compliance and statutory issue investigation resolution and implementation.Staff and consultant coordination for drawing, specifications and contract preparation.



Great Balls of Wire

• Director, CEO, Architect, Office Manager at Kirbys Design Architects Pty Ltd

  • 2010 - Oct 2012

  Successfully founded Great Balls of Wire, a small boutique up-cycling design company, specializing in the transformation of discarded objects into desirable handmade forms Establishing legal, administrative, business development.Instigated web site and retail on-line and in a growing number stores throughout AustraliaFinacial, Business, Marketing and Strategic Planning for Kirby’s Design, Great Balls of Wire and MapInfo Melbourne. Successfully founded Great Balls of Wire, a small boutique up-cycling design company, specializing in the transformation of discarded objects into desirable handmade forms Establishing legal, administrative, business development.Instigated web site and retail on-line and in a growing number stores throughout AustraliaFinacial, Business, Marketing and Strategic Planning for Kirby’s Design, Great Balls of Wire and MapInfo Melbourne.



Consultant Architect to Alpine Shire, Mt Beauty Secondary College and Private clients

• Architectural Consultant

  • 1994 - 1998

  Project brief and budget establishment and management.Project Design Architect: design, documentation and project implementation.Conduct client presentations and negotiations with tenderers. Project brief and budget establishment and management.Project Design Architect: design, documentation and project implementation.Conduct client presentations and negotiations with tenderers.



Teilion Pty Ltd Architects

• Architect

  • 1993 - 1995

  Design team member, site meetings, consultant coordination, detail design and material selection.Client representative in obtaining bids and awarding construction contracts. Involved in all aspects of Architectural role with an ability to conduct meetings with body corporate, statutory and individual clients to listen, prepare and implement a brief. Develop the information into a unique design; structure specifications establish costs, and construction time frame. Design team member, site meetings, consultant coordination, detail design and material selection.Client representative in obtaining bids and awarding construction contracts. Involved in all aspects of Architectural role with an ability to conduct meetings with body corporate, statutory and individual clients to listen, prepare and implement a brief. Develop the information into a unique design; structure specifications establish costs, and construction time frame.



Peripheral Systems Pty Ltd, MapInfo Australia

• Business Development Manager

  • 1991 - 1993

  Establishing and managing Melbourne office of MapInfo Australia, to develop and grow the company’s profile, consumer awareness of the product and increase turnover.Focused on increasing brand awareness, bringing in new customers, and coordinating public relations.Securing and working with major clients including, Telstra, Australia Post and local governments to build key integrated systems of special management of data. Establishing and managing Melbourne office of MapInfo Australia, to develop and grow the company’s profile, consumer awareness of the product and increase turnover.Focused on increasing brand awareness, bringing in new customers, and coordinating public relations.Securing and working with major clients including, Telstra, Australia Post and local governments to build key integrated systems of special management of data.