CUTTRISS - Key Persons


Amelia Kirisome

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Surveyor

Angus Morton

Job Titles:
  • Trainee Surveyor

Ashleigh Wharam

Job Titles:
  • Senior Planner

Bede Mackle

Job Titles:
  • Survey Technician

Brett Horne

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Senior Surveyor
Brett is a senior surveyor at Cuttriss. His work includes small to large scale urban and rural land transfer surveys, and easement, topographical and rentable area surveys. Brett graduated from Otago University in 2001, and has over 10 years' experience in the Wellington region. He is based at the Lower Hutt office.

Chris Barber

Job Titles:
  • Civil Engineer

Colin McElwain

Job Titles:
  • Director
Colin has over 25 years' experience as a registered surveyor. He works on a wide range of projects, and has particular expertise in cadastral surveying and subdivision design. Colin has worked at Cuttriss since 1985, and has been a Director since 1998. He is based at the Lower Hutt office.

David Beachen

Job Titles:
  • Senior Civil Engineer

Dominic Scahill

Job Titles:
  • Surveyor

Elliott Thornton

Job Titles:
  • Principal Planner
Elliott is a Principal Planner at Cuttriss with over 15 years resource management and planning experience across both public and private sectors in Australia and New Zealand. Elliott has worked on a wide range of award-winning projects varying in size, complexity, and budget.

Emma Bean

Job Titles:
  • Planner

Emma Neal

Job Titles:
  • Senior Planner

Finley Deller

Job Titles:
  • Surveyor

Finn Landacre

Job Titles:
  • Trainee Surveyor

Fiona Robertson

Fiona joined Cuttriss in 2011. She is involved in a broad range of projects, including project management, land transfer surveys, engineering design, cross lease updates and easement surveys. Fiona manages subdivisions, and a range of other projects, from start to finish. She is based at the Hutt office.

Jack Mawdesley

Job Titles:
  • Surveyor

Jamal Rautao

Job Titles:
  • Civil Engineer

Jan Bell

Job Titles:
  • Office Manager

Jeff Macphail

Job Titles:
  • Survey Technician

John Butler

Job Titles:
  • Civil Engineer

Jonathan Wu

Job Titles:
  • Civil Engineer

Josh Goodman

Job Titles:
  • Trainee Engineer

Kevin Alkema

Job Titles:
  • Project Manager for Carrus Corporation
Cuttriss have been providing planning, civil engineering and surveying services for our Aotea subdivision over the last eight years. During this time we have developed some 250 high quality sections over six stages. We have built a great relationship with the Cuttriss team and are very happy with the efficient and professional services they provide us.

Kieran Liddicoat

Job Titles:
  • Civil Engineer

Kris Gough

Job Titles:
  • Associate
Kris's work includes small- to large-scale urban and rural subdivisions, topographical surveys, and setting out of construction works. After graduating from Otago University in 2001, Kris has worked for Cuttriss, as well as two years in the UK as a senior surveyor. He is based at the Lower Hutt office.

Libby Antunovic

Job Titles:
  • Surveyor

Liz Morgan

Job Titles:
  • Landscape Designer / Kapiti Reception

Lynette Chin

Job Titles:
  • People and Culture Lead

Marco Subtil

Job Titles:
  • Trainee Surveyor

Mitali Mistry

Job Titles:
  • Civil Engineer

Naomi Hough

Job Titles:
  • Civil Engineer

Neil Johnstone

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Chartered Professional Engineer
Neil is a chartered professional engineer at Cuttriss. He has over 20 years' experience in civil engineering, including national and international work experience. He manages a wide range of civil engineering projects, and consults on a range of infrastructure projects for the local council. Neil has been a Director at Cuttriss since 2007. He is based at the Kapiti office.

Nick Taylor

Job Titles:
  • Director
Nick is a Registered Professional Surveyor , and re-joined Cuttriss in 2015 after working overseas. His wide range of work includes land transfer surveys, project management and subdivisional engineering design. Nick manages a variety of projects, including subdivisions. He is based at the Kapiti office.

Nicola Todd

Job Titles:
  • Director
Nicola has over 10 years' experience as a Licensed Cadastral Surveyor. She has expertise in project management, small- to large-scale urban and rural subdivisions, cross lease surveys and engineering-related surveys. Nicola has worked at Cuttriss since 2005, and has been a Director since 2007. She is based in both the Kapiti & Lower Hutt offices.

Oliver Clausen

Job Titles:
  • Intermediate Planner

Rhiannon Evans

Job Titles:
  • Surveyor

Rob Holmes

Job Titles:
  • Associate
Rob specialises in 12d computer-based civil design and contract management for land development and infrastructure projects. Rob has over 12 years' experience in civil design and project management. He started working at Cuttriss in 2001, gaining his NZDE qualification in 2003. Rob also has international experience, having worked as a project engineer for a London civil design consultancy from 2007-2010.

Robbie Columbus

Job Titles:
  • Surveyor

Ryan McNie

Job Titles:
  • Surveyor

Sam Godwin

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Chartered Professional Engineer
Sam became a chartered professional engineer after joining Cuttriss in 2019. He graduated from Canterbury University in 2017 and has over 6 years' experience in the industry. Sam has skills in project management and civil design, with a particular focus on multi-unit developments. He manages a wide range of engineering projects while overseeing the engineering team in the Lower Hutt office.

Scott Oldham

Job Titles:
  • Trainee Surveyor

Scott Turkington

Job Titles:
  • Surveyor
Scott is a Surveyor who has been at Cuttriss since 2007. Scott heads up our drone survey team and he is involved in a wide range of work including topographical surveys, boundary marking surveys and construction/building set-out. He is based in the Kapiti office.

Sheryl Barker

Job Titles:
  • Senior Civil Engineer
Sheryl is a senior civil engineer at Cuttriss. She is a experienced drainage engineer who has worked in the Wellington region for over 25 years, predominantly with Wellington City's stormwater and wastewater networks. She has a strong understanding of council's standards, consenting requirements and engineering design to draw upon in order to achieve the best solutions. She is based at the Hutt office.

Steph Roberts

Job Titles:
  • Trainee Surveyor

Tom Schrader

Job Titles:
  • Licensed Cadastral Surveyor

Tyrone Hall

Job Titles:
  • Surveyor

Will Gregory

Job Titles:
  • Trainee Surveyor