Experience

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  Marlborough District Council

  • New Zealand
  • Government Administration
  • 200 - 300 Employee

  • Senior Development Engineer

    • Mar 2022 - Present

    Waters Supply, Irrigation, Waste Water: Planning, Development & Operation.• The primary objective of this role is to review existing networks and the design of new, upgraded and extended networks for: Irrigation, Water supply, and Waste water through the application of hydraulic & loading models and associated data analysis. • Includes: development of Design Metrics, Methods & Policy and associated guidelines and training, growth projections, and Climate Change aspects. • Supervision, guidance and training of staff who report directly to the Position• Management and reporting in relations to modelling: workload, tasks, staffing & consultants

  • Services Development Engineer

    • Aug 2004 - Present

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  Malborough Disctrict Council

  • Information Services Manager

    • 2000 - 2003

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  Malborough District Council

  • IS Manager

    • 1992 - 1999

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  TC Consultants NZ

  • Palmerston North

  • Principal Consultant

    • 1986 - 1992
    • Palmerston North

    Strategic Planning of Technical Computing - especially Engineers, Surveying and Small Business.Piped Water System modelling.Software Development.GIS

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  Beca Worley Int.

  • Bangkok Thailand

  • Computer Aided Mapping Expert

    • 1989 - 1989
    • Bangkok Thailand

    Responsible for mapping portion of feasibility study and for integration of mapping systems with management information systems and accounting information systems.(secondment)

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  Royds Garden Ltd

  • Palmerston North

  • Branch Manager, Director, & Corp Computer Manager

    • 1978 - 1986
    • Palmerston North

    Professional Engineering Consultancy Services and Computer Section Mgmt.Branch Management.Project Management.Water, Civil and Structural Engineering.Negotiation, mediation and expert witness work.System analysis and software designComputer system management and training

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  Royds Sutherland McLeay - Consulting Engineers

  • Christchurch NZ

  • Senior Engineer

    • 1975 - 1978
    • Christchurch NZ

    Computer software design, development and usage.Urban and rural water supply and irrigation system design, construction, management operation, and maintenance consulting.Electrical control system analysis, design, and testing.Preparation of operational manuals and guides

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  Computer Sciences of Australia

  • Sydney, Australia

  • Engineering Computing Consultant

    • 1972 - 1974
    • Sydney, Australia

    Technical support for applied science, engineering, local govn, and business computer users incl:Training, software development and marketing, Environmental and flooding studies for coastal rivers: NSW (Aust) & Pinang(Malaysia).

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  Private

  • North America, Europe, Middle East, Afganistan, Pakistan, Africa and Australasia

  • Trans Global Vehicular expedition leader

    • 1971 - 1972
    • North America, Europe, Middle East, Afganistan, Pakistan, Africa and Australasia

    Planning, Sponsorhip mgmt, International documentation, driver, guide. Metrics: 100,000km, 45 Countries, 1.5yrs

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  Underwood McLellan & Assoc.

  • Calgary Canada

  • Systems Specialist and Computing System Developer

    • 1970 - 1971
    • Calgary Canada

    Engineering systems study & mathematical modelling of large water supply storage and distribution system for City of Calgary incl Software development & Operations Research Studies.

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  Underwood McLellan & Assoc

  • Winnipeg, Canada

  • Design Engineer and Computer System Developer

    • 1967 - 1970
    • Winnipeg, Canada

    Water system design in delicate ecosystems and perm-frost.Structural EngineeringSoftware development and usage for hydrological and statistical analysis and predictionsDevelopment and usage of computer programs for mathematical modelling and simulation of hydro-electric system