SUMMARY OF SKILLS

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES (COMPETENCIES)

Attended nine workshops and courses within three years to update my skills. For example recently, I have completed a six month part time (at 15 hours per week) course in water engineering to compliment my skills in water, wastewater and storm water management.

Specialist level skills in Risk Assessment. Experience in Risk Assessment, Process and Environmental Modelling, Process Safety and Reliability, Water, Wastewater and Stormwater Engineering, Air Quality, Contaminated Land, and Hazardous Substances Management.

Ongoing process of co-ordination with clients from various sectors such as civic bodies, government departments and commercial sector, and within the company (internal clients).

Facilitated risk assessment strategic studies for the Opus staff. Lecturer in Water/ Wastewater treatment at Opus training centre. Presentation of papers at seminars. University lectures.

Written communication skill is testified by the many reports authored by me.

Over two years, have been project managers to a number of small/ medium sized projects, in addition to carrying out the technical work required for these projects.

Successfully managed the work output of a number of subcontractor companies to ensure that they achieved the agreed project objectives.

Prepared a number of successful business proposals and bids for the clients, negotiated with diverse clients, supervised contractors, laboratories, and field technicians.

Owing to my strong computer background, I had been the business group's 'computer custodian' responsible for the liaison with IT group in sorting out routine IT problems and during installation of new software systems. Familiar with the P/C maintenance and Windows de-bugging

Strong computer modelling skills. Good programming skills in Visual Basic and Turbo PASCAL. Strong in spreadsheet programming. Working knowledge of Relational Database Base Management (presently learning SQL server). Worked in a number of application software relevant to chemical and environmental engineering.

Working knowledge and "in-context" interpretation of environmental legislation such as Resource Management Act, Health and Safety in Employment Act and Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act have been acquired.

The formulation of optimised solutions for clients, which took into consideration the legal, social and economic issues apart from technical issues. Objective awareness of the impact of environment on Socio-economic factors (community health, land usage conflicts, employment) in dealing with air quality, and land and water contamination issues.

Familiar with ISO 9001 Quality Assurance Systems. Contributed to the implementation of the ISO 9001 Quality System with the employer. Have authored manuals for the implementation of laboratory and training centre quality assurance.

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