My 15+ years of experience across many sectors and deep knowledge of procurement strategy and current market positions mean that I quickly understand project objectives and work effectively with project teams to achieve them.

I take pride in providing simple solutions to complex problems and delivering on project objectives in fast-moving commercial environments. I provide solutions by drawing on:

• extensive experience in a wide range of sectors and across various delivery and compensation models (e.g. recent involvement in delivery major projects through ECI, D&C, ITC, EPC, EPCM and Alliances);
• experience negotiating contract on both sides of the table – understanding key contractor and supplier concerns being critical in the current market; and
• a deep understanding of key commercial and technical issues and a willingness to take a "hands on" approach to ensure project documents fit together to deliver project objectives.

I have helped Australian and international businesses enhance their procurement processes and save money by improving how they deliver, upgrade, operate and maintain major infrastructure. I am also involved with the identification and implementation of strategies to help contractors and principals address project disruptions and achieve best-practice contract administration.

Career highlights

New Parallel Runway: Advising Brisbane Airport Corporation on all aspects of design and construction of the New Parallel Runway. I assisted the project team in delivering this major, long term project on time and within budget.

Fitzroy to Gladstone Pipeline: Advising Gladstone Area Water Board (GAWB) on the Fitzroy to Gladstone Pipeline Project.

Delivering complex major infrastructure: Assisted various clients to deliver large and complex infrastructure, including:

• BESS projects (Batter Energy Storage System): Currently advising a Queensland Government Owned Corporation relation to its procurement of a major battery storage system.
• Hydrogen: Currently advising a Queensland Government Owned Corporation relation to its delivery of a major hydrogen project.
• Yarranlea Solar farm: Led the development and negotiation of all design and construction packages for $140M solar farm in Queensland.
• Herston Precinct Redevelopment: Led and finalised negotiations of design and construction packages, including for major health and student housing packages. This project involves the circa $1.7 billion staged redevelopment of the Herston medical precinct (in Brisbane) by Australian Unity.
• Waterloo Station Over Station Development and Victoria Cross Station Over Station Development: These projects involved the development of the station and over station development at Waterloo and Victoria Cross, as part of the Sydney Metro project.
• Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games Corporation: Acted on the procurement and delivery of design and construction works as well as the arrangements for repair and maintenance of venues during the critical 'games period'.

Department of Transport and Main Roads accelerated procurement project, construction templates modularisation project and COVID-19 updates: Assisted DTMR on various projects to update and refine its template construction contracts, including to:

• develop templates and commercial frameworks to facilitate the accelerated completion of flood and bushfire recovery work;
• review and restructure the Department's construction and related templates (which was a critical project for DTMR as it involved understanding and addressing the key legal issues facing DTMR, whilst retaining a balanced risk allocation and ensuring value for money), and the assist with the successful implementation of new templates; and
• updating TMR's templates in response to the impact of COVID-19.

Procurement templates and contracts for various clients: I have extensive experience delivering 'fit for purpose' template and procurement documents for various private and public sector clients, including Gladstone Area Water Board, Queensland Rail, Stanmore Coal, Anglo American, LendLease, Australian Unity, Albermarle, Aurelia, Wilmar Sugar, Sojitz, Xstrata, Peabody, Rio Tinto, NSW Roads and Maritime Services, Rail Projects Victoria, Cobbora Coal and Cockatoo Coal.

Education
LLB (UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND, 2005); BCOM (UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND, 2005); GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN LEGAL PRACTICE, SKILLS AND ETHICS (GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY, 2006)

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