Experience

Red Earth Engineering A Geosyntec Company

• Australia
• Civil Engineering
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Civil Designer

  • Jun 2021 - Present



Knight Piesold

• Civil Engineering
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Civil Designer

  • Jan 2019 - Jun 2021

  • Drafting and design for mining and civil engineering projects • 3D modelling of Tailings Storage Facilities (TSFs), embankment design and raise • Water pond design and volume calculation • Estimation of material quantities and storage volumes, as well as checking volumes against contractors’ claims • Volume estimation of waste dumps and stockpiles • Working with haul road and pipeline corridors, long sections, geometry adjustments • Spillway design • Working with large survey data – Point Cloud import/export, data clean-up, subsampling Developed software skills, such as: -­ 3D modelling and drafting – AutoCAD Civil 3D, Rift TD, Adobe Acrobat ­- ­Point Cloud survey data management – Cloud Compare -­ Data management – MS Excel



Coffey

• Australia
• Civil Engineering
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Senior Draftsman

  • Sep 2011 - Jan 2019

  • Extensive work on drafting and design for mining and civil engineering projects • 3D modelling of Tailings Storage Facilities (TSFs), embankment design and raise • Tailings beach modelling, water pond volume calculation, establishing catchment areas • Estimation of material quantities and storage volumes, plotting storage capacity curve • Design and 3D modelling of haul roads, access ramps, trenches, spillways, sumps, culverts and pipelines • Geological and geotechnical sections based on borehole and test pit data • Monitoring instrumentation and test location plans • Created various technical illustrations, schematics and diagrams • Worked with GIS (Geographic Information Systems) data • Prepared sections for slope stability analysis - Involved in work for a number of clients including Rio Tinto, BHP, Alcoa, Newcrest, FMG, Gold Fields, Ranger, Edna May, North Mara - From April to June 2017 was involved in the Forrestfield Airport Link project as part of the Coffey FAL team, gaining valuable experience in drafting rail monitoring instrumentation - Translated technical texts, including Construction in Thawing Permafrost Conditions, from Russian to English, in conjunction with assistance in written communication with Russian clients Developed software skills, such as: ­- Drafting, 3D modelling and technical illustration – AutoCAD Civil 3D, Advanced Road Design, Rift TD, 3D Max, CorelDraw, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe InDesign ­- Geotechnical and GIS software – Google Earth Pro, gINT, ArcGIS, MapInfo ­- Data management – MS Excel ­- Slope stability – Slide



SOS Print + Media Group Australia

• Australia
• Printing Services
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Pre-press operator

  • 2007 - 2011

  • Primarily worked on graphic design, digital image manipulation, file preflight and preparation for offset and digital print; imposition for Adobe PDF based workflow • Packaging design and preparation of knifelines, making and adjusting mockups • Mail merge and database linked printing - Preparation of ‘print on demand’ books for leading Australian book publishers such as Random House Australia, Allen & Unwin and Penguin - Packaging design for Cochlear and Faber-Castel Developed software skills, such as: ­- Page layout and illustration – Adobe Creative Suite: Adobe Acrobat, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator ­- Image manipulation – Adobe Photoshop



Unicorn Design Studio Ltd

• Managing/Creative Director

  • 1999 - 2007

  • Responsible for marketing, business planning, communication with clients, finding resources for big and complex projects • Design work including periodicals and paper-back books layout as well as corporate identity design, illustrations and website development - Involved in work for clients such as Mitsubishi Motors New Zealand, South Pacific Tyres, New Zealand Motorsport, Krone. • Responsible for marketing, business planning, communication with clients, finding resources for big and complex projects • Design work including periodicals and paper-back books layout as well as corporate identity design, illustrations and website development - Involved in work for clients such as Mitsubishi Motors New Zealand, South Pacific Tyres, New Zealand Motorsport, Krone.



Publishing Solutions Ltd

• Graphic Designer

  • 1998 - 1999

  • Layout and design for wide range of printing projects – from association magazines and corporate publications to technical guidelines for the dairy industry and scientific papers for the New Zealand Veterinary Journal • Scanning and drawing of various illustrations for above publications • Communication with editors and technical writers • Layout and design for wide range of printing projects – from association magazines and corporate publications to technical guidelines for the dairy industry and scientific papers for the New Zealand Veterinary Journal • Scanning and drawing of various illustrations for above publications • Communication with editors and technical writers



TBD Digital

• Pre-press operator

  • 1998 - 1998

  • Scanning reflective and transparent materials, retouching, colour correction, deep etching, digital image manipulation • Layout of advertising materials – product catalogues and real estate publications • Scanning reflective and transparent materials, retouching, colour correction, deep etching, digital image manipulation • Layout of advertising materials – product catalogues and real estate publications



Capital Times | newspaper

• Desktop Publisher/Graphic Designer

  • 1996 - 1998

  • Page layout, typesetting, scanning, digital image manipulation, front cover design, advertisements design and layout, corrections and preparation for output • Communication with the editor, advertising team and pre-press house • Page layout, typesetting, scanning, digital image manipulation, front cover design, advertisements design and layout, corrections and preparation for output • Communication with the editor, advertising team and pre-press house