FIRE RISK CONSULTANTS - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Company Director
- Principal Consultant
- PRINCIPLE CONSULTANT, OWNER and MANAGING DIRECTOR
Graeme Taylor has extensive strategic and operational management experience and a strong focus on leadership and critical decision making, in an emergency management environment.
Graeme provides support to agencies, local government and industry before, during and after emergencies. He is able to lead the development of risk reduction and fire protection planning, including fuel modification and management. He prides himself on his ability to promote planned burning as an effective risk reduction method. Alongside this, he also assists in preparing communities and other stakeholders for natural disasters.
Job Titles:
- RISK and EMERGENCY PLANNING LEAD
Mark Potter is a proven executive with experience in providing leadership across complex and diverse roles. He has a strong background in developing internal and external relationships, operating in complex and technical environments, leading teams through significant change and steering strategy into action.
He has extensive experience in assessing bushfire risk from landscape level to individual properties and turning this into bushfire management plans that when implemented reduce the risk to life and property through practical and effective methods. He has the ability to work with clients to achieve satisfactory solutions that do not impede day to day operations.
Melanie Taylor is the Business Manager at Fire Risk Consultants. She has extensive experience working in the finance and payroll sectors and looks after all sales, purchases, employee related matters and financial modelling.
Melanie enjoys working alongside Graeme and his dynamic, hardworking team. In her spare time Melanie enjoys walking, reading and hanging out with her family and animals.
Job Titles:
- SENIOR CONSULTANT BUSHFIRE RISK & TASMANIAN PROJECTS LEAD
Rob Whittle is an experienced land and forest fire management practitioner with over 15 years' experience working in leadership roles including strategic land management, strategic business planning and communication, project management, planned burning, mechanical fuel reduction, fire trail management, training, forest assessment, and specialised community engagement.
Rob gained much of his experience working within the Tasmanian forestry industry and over 10 years within Local Government and has held management roles within Local Government, the State-Government's Fuel Reduction Program, and the State Fire Management Council.
Rob has a strong passion and knowledge of forest and fire management and has extensive experience working within the State Government's bushfire planning framework and Local Government's asset management systems.
Rob is known for his mechanical works planning and works implementation and extensive collaboration with stakeholders to achieve strategic outcomes whilst balancing bushfire risk reduction and maintaining ecological values.
Job Titles:
- SENIOR CONSULTANT BUSHFIRE RISK
Tim Wearne is an experienced land and fire management practitioner with over 15 years' experience working in fire suppression, planned burning and vegetation management activities, including extensive experience in a variety of operational leadership roles.
Tim has highly developed community engagement skills, responds well to complex and challenging environments and always maintains a ‘safety first' approach to his work.
During his time as a Senior Manager at DELWP Tim developed strong people management skills and was responsible for managing high priority projects and services.