I have 18 years in construction. I started on the tools at 16 as a formwork carpenter, completed my apprenticeship with CPB and John Holland on major infrastructure, and progressed through to project management. I went from formwork to running some of Queensland’s largest rail accessibility programmes.
At VelpasConn, I run the construction delivery. I manage projects directly, attend site, chair meetings, and review every Status Line before it goes to the client. If the programme is slipping, I catch it on site before it shows up in a report.
My career spans major infrastructure programmes, hospital developments, and complex civil works across Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia, and New Zealand.
Highlights from prior roles:
I have spent my career in live rail corridors, operating hospitals, and on remote islands where the nearest help is a barge ride away. You learn to plan like there is no room to get it wrong.
My focus is programme and site. I read a project through what is happening on the ground, not what is in a report. If something is drifting, I pick it up from the sequence of work, the pace of trades, or the state of the site before the data confirms it. That is what years on large-scale programmes teaches you: the instinct for when something is off, and the discipline to act on it before it compounds.
What I took from those jobs wasn’t just technical knowledge. It was structure: how to break a complex programme into manageable packages, how to coordinate dozens of trades without bottlenecks, and how to keep accountability tight without creating overhead. At VelpasConn, I bring that same discipline without the layers between me and the project. I am the person making the call, not escalating it.
