WAUGH INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT - Key Persons
Andy has developed his career in multi-disciplinary consulting engineering and local government, from technician level to a key position as a trusted infrastructure design engineer and Asset Management professional, over the last 20 years.
His breadth of experience across infrastructure, roading, and road safety engineering - gained in the UK, New Zealand, and Australia - enabled him to excel in technical and leadership roles within project teams.
He rapidly acquires new skills, knowledge, and working methods - applying this to the successful planning, management, and delivery of infrastructure projects. He is an articulate communicator, proven through his level of responsibility in developing organisational projects and strategies, client liaison and stakeholder engagement in his recent career.
He has followed a varied tertiary and professional study programme, focusing on asset management and road safety.
Courtney is a highly motivated and hardworking individual with over two years of experience as a Three Waters Engineer. She was involved in the day-to-day management of the local council's services.
She provided technical support to the contract manager to lead an operations team and ensure excellent service delivery.
Courtney is passionate about progressing her career in the Three Waters profession. She wishes to use the skills and experience gained to develop as a professional engineer.
She is looking forward to a challenging and varied role within the company that values hard work with personal and professional growth opportunities.
David is a Utilities Engineer with over 30 years of experience in a wide range of engineering positions both with local …
David has 25 years of experience in water services management and project delivery.
He has comprehensive skills and in-depth knowledge of the local government water services business.
His expertise includes
Job Titles:
- Asset Management Specialist
Grant is an Asset Management specialist with over 20 years of experience in a wide variety of municipal and local government asset management and engineering experience.
Job Titles:
- Asset Management Specialist
- Infrastructure Advisor
Hugh has 25 years of experience in all water services management and project delivery "wai kotahi" - including rivers management.
Having worked in local government and operations/maintenance contracting, he has in-depth knowledge in water services strategy, planning and delivery, including water and wastewater treatment.
His expertise includes
Hugh is an Asset Management specialist with a wide variety of experience in local government asset management …
Job Titles:
- Quality Assurance Consultant
Jenni has over 10 years of experience working as part of the Waugh Infrastructure Management team.
Jenni's background is in Quality Assurance - systems, audits, documentation and process management.
Job Titles:
- Asset Management and Systems Integration Specialist
Jennifer is an Asset Management and Systems Integration specialist with over 20 years of experience in local government asset management and engineering.
She has a desire to see systems implemented robustly, but smoothly to ensure efficient management of assets.
Job Titles:
- Researcher
- Web Content Writer
Jewel worked as a web content writer, crafting articles and blogs on various topics using keywords to promote businesses online.
With her varied work experiences, knowledge, and skills, Jewel searches for materials and coordinates with the team to create the stream of blog posts and articles on the Climate Adaptation Platform and Inframanage.com websites. The two websites are Ross Waugh's special projects.
She finished BS in Commerce and did administration work for several years. After completing her Master of Arts in Psychology degree, she worked as a guidance counsellor at the Central Philippine University primary school.
While working as a guidance counsellor, she conducted and published research on parental involvement and children's academic achievement. Moving to Timaru, Jewel studied Cookery at Ara Institute of Canterbury. After finishing the course, she started her own café business and operated it for four years.
Katherine is a passionate civil service professional with eight years of experience within local and central government.
She is committed to supporting local decision making and achieving sustainable environmental outcomes through integrated planning.
Katherine's studies have centred upon environmental protection, policy and governance, tikanga Māori and cultural engagement.
Her career progression thus far has encompassed environmental management and planning, project leadership, and policy development with a particular focus on civil defence and emergency management and integrated planning.
She particularly enjoys working with various stakeholders to deliver environmental and community-focused outcomes.
She is a skilled communicator who enjoys working collaboratively with colleagues and stakeholders to achieve sustainable outcomes for communities.
Katherine is a passionate civil service professional with eight years of experience within local government.
Kierie is a technical specialist with over 25 years experience in a wide variety of experience in municipal and local government asset management and engineering.
Job Titles:
- Consultant - Asset Information
Kurt has 12 years of experience with the Local Government technical asset management sector delivering value to people in the Timaru District. He brings a unique combination of IT and engineering skills, which result in real-world solutions that are fit for purpose.
He is driven in all that he does, both personally and professionally. He always strives to achieve the best solution and sees obstacles as challenges to develop personally and in systems and processes.
He enjoys working with people and technology and seeing a positive impact on people in the business and the wider community.
Kurt is incredibly passionate about developing communities and enjoys opportunities to impact all aspects of life positively. In his personal life, he is a father, a runner and a hobbyist.
For six years, Jonan has supported the Director, Ross Waugh, to develop and manage Waugh Infrastructure Management's website and the Inframanage.com project as a contractor.
His more than ten years of online marketing experience and search engine optimisation skills helped improve its online presence.
During that time, Jonan has had to proofread, watch videos, transcribe and review almost all the Waugh Infrastructure Management and Inframanage.com articles on infrastructure management practice.
This has provided Jonan with a good base level of knowledge on asset management practice and its practical application.
Before he migrated from the Philippines to New Zealand in 2011, Jonan was involved in process documentation research for six years on the national irrigation, agrarian reform, implementation of the local government code, and village-level development planning.
Ross is the founder of Waugh Infrastructure Management and is an Asset Management and Systems Integration specialist.
For the past 6 years, Jonan has supported the Director, Ross Waugh, in developing and managing the website …
Tina has been with Waugh Infrastructure for over 12 years and is the friendly voice that answers the telephone when you phone in.
Tina's background involves 23 years as a Clinical Secretary before joining the Team as Personal Assistant to Ross.
As well as her PA duties, Tina ensures the formatting of documents is up to a high standard and is also responsible for Invoicing and all the day to day activities that make the office run so well.
Job Titles:
- Asset Information Consultant
Vaughn has over 10 years of experience working as part of the Waugh Infrastructure Management team to meet the clients' technical needs.
He brings a background in Computer Science and Business Computing.
Vaughn's broad Information Technology knowledge combined with his Business experience provides a fresh approach to evaluating and implementing solutions.
Vickey has seven years of experience developing and implementing systems against various ISO standards and meeting regulatory compliance within various sectors. She had applied all these within the three-waters sector in local Government.
Vickey has an environmental science background, focusing on Three Waters.
She is passionate about the technical details and Management Systems and compliance with an interest in implementing and evaluating procedures and systems against regulations.
With her training and mentoring skills that help build Water team competence and capability, she enjoys working collaboratively to achieve the best practical solution to meet compliance requirements.
She is excited to learn from the rapidly evolving water industry and share and apply her experience from other sectors to add value.
Job Titles:
- Administrator
- Business Support Assistant
Zelda has a long career in Local Government and Central Government administration. Her legal background has helped form her decisions and ability to research and apply legislation to the task at hand.
She enjoys problem-solving, building relationships and analysing data and processes. A positive, self-motivated individual, she can identify and implement strategies with enthusiasm and success.
Zelda is an excellent administrator with many years of experience in communications at various levels. Her abilities over the past years include attention to detail, reliability, hard-working and dedication to the task at hand.
A flexible hard worker ready to learn and contribute to team success. She is a well-balanced individual with high integrity.