Alan’s reputation for delivering high quality, best practice solutions is the consequence of his enterprise and experience across multiple industry environments. With a background in electrical engineering, and a career that spans over 40 years, Alan has gained a wealth of knowledge that he applies to managing his projects.

With a keen interest in electrical resilience, Alan has utilised his skills to a range of diverse disciplines to deliver outcomes that meet business case needs. Whether it is civil, structural, mechanical, or electrical, Alan enjoys applying his skillset to the task at hand.

Having worked in multiple sectors including infrastructure, healthcare, education, industrial, buildings, and telecommunications, Alan enjoys the challenges of managing stakeholders, problem solving, design, risk management and meeting financial targets.

Alan's portfolio:

Infrastructure

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• 11kV and 33kV Substation and cable replacement projects, Auckland CBD, Vector Ltd.

• Asset Management for High Voltage Switchgear and Low Voltage Systems, Transpower (NZ) Ltd.

• Rangipo Substation – Gas Insulated Switchgear replacement strategic planning, Transpower (NZ) Ltd.

Healthcare

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• 11kV Substation Remediation - Programme Manager for substation upgrades for Auckland City Hospital, Auckland District Health Board.

• Substation P - emergency standby generation and integration, Auckland District Health Board.

Education

• Data Centre Resilience Upgrade, generator, controls upgrade, The University of Auckland.

• Inorganic Chemistry Electrical Infrastructure Upgrade, University of Oxford, UK.

• Shared Data Centre Infrastructure Improvements, University of Oxford, UK.

• Political Studies Refurbishment, heritage building, The University of Auckland.

• Acoustic Facility Emergency Lighting Upgrade, The University of Auckland.

• Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Emergency Lighting Upgrade, University of Oxford, UK.

Telecommunications

• Chorus Papakura Implementation Project, emergency standby generation, Chorus Ltd.

Industrial

• Project Century – 11kV and low voltage electrical reticulation for relocation of ‘The Pride Brewery’, Lion Nathan.

• Pipe Mill Safe Access Guarding implementation, New Zealand Steel.

• Iron Plant hydraulic system upgrade, electrical and controls, New Zealand Steel.

• Co-extrusion Project, Resin Coating machine, Kodak Ltd., Harrow, UK.

• Curtain Coating machine controls implementation, Kodak Ltd., Harrow, UK.

• Fixed Rail Crane extension, Christian Salvesen Ltd., London, UK.

• Coating Line Upgrade commissioning, Kodak Ltd., Melbourne, Australia.

• 11kV Switchgear Upgrade, Alcan (NZ) Ltd.

• Process Control Upgrades, Eastman Kodak Ltd., Shantou, China.