Our People

At Modalus, we take pride in our exceptional team of dedicated professionals who bring a wealth of experience and expertise to the table. Get to know the driving force behind our success.

Nathan Cairney
Director

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Kieran Mooney
Director

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Brad Moody
Director, Advisory

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Tom Harkin
Associate Director

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Marc Ragowski

Marc Ragowski Associate Director

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Selwyn Rees Program Manager

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Mark Hughes Technical Advisor, Industrial

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Jason Edwards Senior Project Manager

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Chris Cranswick-Smith
Senior Project Manager

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Chris Gardner Senior Project Manager

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Fei Chen
Project Manager

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Michelle Feng
Project Manager

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Syne Ding
Project Manager

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Nabiha Haque
Project Manager

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Alex Sampson Project Manager

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James Planner
Project Engineer

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Vedant Maheshwari
Project Coordinator

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Vedant Maheshwari Project Coordinator

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Nathan Cairney

Director

Nathan Cairney is a dedicated and motivated project management professional with a wealth of experience in strategic advisory and project delivery roles. With a proven track record in managing significant projects across various sectors, Nathan possesses a versatile skill set that covers the entire project life cycle.

Take a closer look at Nathan’s qualifications and skills:

  • Master Planning: Crafting comprehensive project master plans to guide development and execution.
  • Development Applications: Navigating the regulatory landscape to secure necessary approvals.
  • Stakeholder Engagement: Building and maintaining effective relationships with project stakeholders.
  • Design Management: Overseeing the design process to ensure alignment with project goals.
  • Procurement: Skillfully managing the procurement of both consultants and contractors alike.
  • Project and Programme Management: Efficiently coordinating project activities and managing complex programs, ranging from several hundred million dollars to multi-billion-dollar programs.
  • Scheduling: Developing and maintaining project schedules to ensure timely completion.
  • Commercial and Contract Administration: Ensuring contracts are administered effectively, with commercial drivers front of mind, and overseeing project execution to contract scope.
  • Project Completion and Handover: Guiding projects to successful completion to operational readiness.

 

Nathan is known for his strong project leadership and his proven ability to form and lead high-performing teams, particularly on large-scale, highly complex projects and programs. His unique talent lies in his capacity to absorb, retain, and synthesise intricate project details while tailoring his communication to suit his audience’s level of detail and understanding.

Kieran Mooney

Director

Kieran Mooney is a seasoned project management professional with nearly two decades of specialised experience in the infrastructure sector. His commitment to excellence and unwavering dedication to his clients have earned him a reputation as an industry leader.

Take a closer look at Kieran’s qualifications and skills:

  • Terminal Strategy Advice: Crafting strategic approaches to terminal development.
  • Master Planning: Crafting comprehensive project master plans to guide development and execution.
  • Interface Management: Ensuring seamless coordination between different project elements.
  • Design Management: Overseeing the design process to ensure alignment with project goals.
  • Equipment Selection Advice: Providing expertise in selecting efficient container handling equipment.
  • Commercial and Contract Administration: Ensuring contracts are administered effectively, with commercial drivers front of mind, and overseeing project execution to contract scope.
  • Team Leadership: Leading and empowering project teams to excel in delivering their responsibilities.
  • Executive-level Delivery Expertise: Leveraging senior-level experience to ensure project success.
  • Operational Readiness: Ensuring projects are well-prepared for smooth operational transitions.

 

Kieran’s ability to apply practical, technical, and commercial acumen enables him to provide comprehensive expertise to his clients. Whether he’s serving in an advisory, program management, or delivery capacity, Kieran seamlessly integrates into client teams, becoming an integral part of their operations. His relentless pursuit of optimal outcomes and commitment to excellence set him apart.

Brad Moody

Director, Advisory

Brad has 10 years’ experience advising clients across the development of complex multi-billion-dollar capital projects in the infrastructure sector, from front-end strategy, feasibility, planning, procurement and delivery, into operations.
Brad leads the Modalus Advisory service offering, having prior long-term advisory experience at both Deloitte and Advisian.

Brad works with clients to optimise the development of major projects, through advising on where and how to deploy capital, and providing commercial rigour to assess, procure and deliver projects aligned to strategic business. objectives. Brad has worked with both public and private sector clients across a diverse portfolio of major multi-billion-dollar capital projects, with a focus on the transport, freight and logistics and industrial property sectors. He has played a leading role in the development and delivery of major rail, intermodal freight terminals and industrial precincts across the East-Coast of Australia.

Brad’s expertise spans the complete project lifecycle:

  • Project Selection: Mapping alternate project options and pathways and coordinating multi-criteria assessments to establish a preferred strategy.
  • Project Feasibility & Business Case: Developing robust business cases and cashflow assessments to establish project feasibility for executive decision making.
  • Commercial Models & Strategy: Designing commercial models and structures to meet business objectives.
  • Planning & Stakeholder Approvals: Strategically navigating approvals processes and developing proposals and advocacy documentation aligned to key stakeholder narratives.
  • Development Strategy: Designing commercially optimal packaging, staging and delivery strategies.
  • Procurement & Transaction Management: Coordinating robust and efficient procurement processes.
  • Contract Negotiations & Commercial Management: Negotiating strong contractual outcomes and providing commercial rigour in delivery.
  • Delivery Models: Designing, establishing and leading effective team structures, including people, processes, systems and governance.
  • Financial Management & Reporting: Designing and implementing governance and reporting processes to provide visibility on key information for decision making.
  • Executive Level Expertise: Documenting, communicating and presenting information targeted at the Senior Management, Executive and Board Levels.

Tom Harkin

Associate Director

Tom is an energetic, engaging and highly capable Associate Director and team leader with over 13 years’ experience in commercial, industrial, and residential construction, with a focus originally on building services and facilities management across each.

Tom’s background stems from working in a hands-on capacity, where he has successfully led teams to deliver large-scale projects in both Australia & the UK. As an Associate Director, Tom manages the full project lifecycle from the authority approvals and design phase, through tendering, contract execution, and superintendency of the contract through construction and onto handover.

Having developed and refined his project management skills through a mixture of hands-on construction, operations management and formal education, Tom thrives under pressure and adapts quickly to any challenge and environment. Complimentary of his technical skills, are Tom’s strengths in stakeholder management. Tom is renowned for building long-standing relationships with clients, key stakeholders, and contractors alike.

Tom’s broad range of experience offers a versatile skillset, including:

  • Commercial and Contract Administration: Ensuring contracts are administered effectively, with commercial drivers front of mind, and overseeing project execution to contract scope.
  • Development Applications: Navigating the regulatory landscape to secure necessary approvals.
  • Stakeholder Engagement: Building and maintaining effective relationships with project stakeholders.
  • Design Management: Overseeing the design process to ensure alignment with project goals.
  • Procurement: Skilfully managing the procurement of both consultants and contractors alike.
  • Project and Programme Management: Efficiently coordinating project activities and managing complex programs.
  • Team Leadership: Leading and empowering project teams to excel in delivering to their responsibilities.
  • Project Completion and Handover: Guiding projects to successful completion to operational readiness.
  • Agreements for Lease: Assisting developers in the preparation of their AFLs to achieve successful commercial outcomes that can sit back-to-back with D&C Contracts.
Marc Ragowski

Marc Ragowski

Associate Director

Marc is a diligent project management professional with over 15 years of experience in sectors such as roads, rail, ports, and environmental rehabilitation. Marc has a great understanding of the stakeholder complexities and nuances working in a client-side role whilst also having significant construction direct experience to enable effective construction delivery management.

With experience in all stages of project delivery from authority approvals, design, procurement, construction and commissioning; Marc always keeps the broader project goals in mind. His greatest value add comes from his ability to view and solve problems with a practical, technical and commercial lens. Overall project success needs to be achieved by both the client and contractor.

See more about Marc’s end-to-end project delivery skillset:

  • Interface Management: Ensuring seamless coordination between different project elements.
  • Stakeholder Engagement & Relationships: Building and maintaining positive relationships with project stakeholders beyond the completion of projects.
  • Contract Administration: Ensuring the contract is administered effectively and to assist the managing contractor in following and meeting the contract requirements.
  • Program Development and Management: Efficiently coordinating activities across projects and external interfaces. Tracking and maintaining project schedules to ensure timely completion.
  • Construction Delivery: Proactively work with the managing contractor to ensure the project is delivered on time and to the highest quality.
  • Project Completion and Handover: Guiding projects to successful completion to operational readiness, including defect inspections and closeout to ensure the finished product surpasses client expectations.

Selwyn Rees

Program Manager

Selwyn Rees is a chartered engineer and seasoned project manager with a wealth of expertise in the infrastructure and construction industry. Selwyn offers a distinctive skill set, blending a successful consulting career with hands-on construction experience across Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia.

Key Skills;

  • Managing projects across all phases of the lifecycle—design, procurement, construction, and handover—ensuring alignment with project objectives, accurate cost forecasting, resource optimisation, and proactive risk mitigation. 
  • Conducting in-depth project feasibility studies and technical options analysis to support informed decision-making.
  • Facilitating effective stakeholder engagement, balancing diverse priorities and commercial interests to drive consensus and maintain project momentum.
  • Overseeing successful project completion and handover ensuring operational readiness.
  • Reviewing contracts, designs and specifications, offering strategic technical insights to optimise construction costs and timelines.
  • Wide range of sector experience, including power, utilities, buildings, industrial and transportation, ensuring a tailored approach to meet the unique challenges of each industry.


Selwyn is highly regarded for his project leadership and demonstrated ability to build relationships with project stakeholders and teams.

Mark Hughes

Technical Advisor, Industrial

Mark is a highly experienced and credentialed construction professional with a wide diversity of experience across many Industry sectors including industrial, commercial defence, oil & gas, health and residential, and has worked in both client side and contractor roles. Within the industrial sector Marks projects include pharmaceutical, food production, cold rooms and freezers, fully automated warehouse and distribution for fast moving consumer goods, and the integrated and standalone fitout elements of each.

He recently managed the delivery of two co-located automated Warehouse Distribution facilities for Woolworth’s at Moorebank in Western Sydney under a multi-staged D&C contract that required significant ongoing design input and hand on contract management to mitigate impacts from Covid and the resultant material cost escalation challenges. With over 35 years in the building industry, Mark’s has honed his analytical, design and problem-solving skills, and has a proven ability to manage in dynamic, fast-changing environments. Experienced in creating and leading teams from multiple disciplines, Mark is known for his willingness to go the extra mile for clients by understanding their key project requirements and incorporating feedback from user groups who understand the project intangibles to enable him to make impactful contributions to every project. Mark’s keen eye for detail also ensures that the projects he is part of are held to the highest of standards and meet and exceed stakeholder and client expectations.

Mark brings a wealth of experience to our industrial team that makes him a valuable addition to not only our clients, but to guide our team through challenging situations by enabling them to draw on his extensive base of situational experience garnered through his impressive back-catalogue of projects.

Mark’s broad range of experience offers to our clients and our team alike the following versatile skillset:

  • Contract Procurement & Negotiation: Procurement and negotiation of various contract types including D&C, GMP, fixed price, managed-cost, and early works contracts.
  • Contract Administration: Ensuring the contract is administered effectively and to assist the managing contractor in following and meeting the contract requirements.
  • Authority Applications & Conditions: Obtaining the required authority approvals and ensuring the correct management of authority conditions are carefully considered and appropriately managed.
  • Stakeholder Engagement: Building and maintaining effective relationships with project stakeholders.
  • Design & Value Management: Overseeing the design process to ensure alignment with project goals and requirements, including value management of the design to ensure the project budget is achieved.
  • Contractor Tendering & Procurement: Liaise with short-listed contractors to drive the Early Contractor Involvement (ECI), contract tender, contract negotiation, and award process.
  • Schedule Management: Efficiently track project progress, milestones, and managing complex programs.
  • Project Completion and Handover: Guiding projects to successful completion to operational readiness, including defect inspections and closeout to ensure the finished product surpasses client expectations.
 

Jason Edwards

Senior Project Manager

Jason has a wealth of knowledge and experience in client-side project and development management extending most sectors with an impressive project portfolio encompassing industrial estates, sports stadiums, luxury residential developments, commercial builds, retail fit outs, and health projects.

He has delivered projects of all scales and showcased his exceptional skills through his contributions to multiple award-winning projects. Jason’s collaborative approach and results driven mentality is spoken to by clients, noting his impactful contributions are demonstrated from his understanding of key project requirements and his willingness to go the extra mile to deliver the desired outcomes. His skills are complimented by his technical expertise, having completed an Honours Degree in Civil Engineering and Finance.

See more about Jason’s end-to-end project delivery skillset:

  • Project Feasibility Studies: Assist with project feasibility and due diligence studies to provide additional information and confidence to clients, including coordinating consultant review and inputs.
  • Authority Applications & Conditions: Obtaining the required authority approvals and ensuring the correct management of authority conditions are carefully considered and appropriately managed.
  • Contractor Tendering & Procurement: Short-list and liaise with contractors to drive the Early Contractor Involvement (ECI), contract tender, contract negotiation, and award process.
  • Design & Value Management: Overseeing the design process to ensure alignment with project goals and requirements, including value management of the design to ensure the project budget is achieved.
  • Contract Procurement & Negotiation: Procurement and negotiation of all contract types including D&C, GMP, fixed price, managed-cost, and early works contracts.
  • Contract Administration: Ensuring the contract is administered effectively and to assist the managing contractor in following and meeting the contract requirements.
  • Program Management: Efficiently track project progress, milestones, and managing complex programs.
  • Construction Delivery: Proactively work with the managing contractor to ensure the project is delivered on time and to the highest quality.
  • Project Completion and Handover: Guiding projects to successful completion to operational readiness, including defect inspections and closeout to ensure the finished product surpasses client expectations.
  • Stakeholder Engagement & Relationships: Building and maintaining positive relationships with project stakeholders beyond the completion of projects.

Chris Cranswick-Smith

Senior Project Manager

Chris is a results-driven Senior Project Manager with over 15 years of experience leading transformational global projects across diverse industrial, transport, commercial, defence, and health sectors. As a trusted advisor, he shapes complex infrastructure portfolios, integrating commercial advisory with technical and delivery expertise to create shared value for clients. 

Key Capabilities:

  • Authority Approvals: Navigating the regulatory landscape to secure necessary approvals, including Development Applications (DAs). 
  • Procurement: Managing the procurement of consultants and contractors through effective RFT processes. 
  • Design Management: Overseeing design management processes to ensure alignment with project objectives. 
  • Project Controls: Developing schedules, budgets, risk assessments, and reporting mechanisms for effective project assurance. 
  • Contract Administration: Administering construction contracts and Agreements for Lease (AFLs) with a focus on commercial drivers. 
  • Project and Programme Management: Coordinating activities and managing complex programs ranging from tens of millions to multi-billion-dollar projects. 
  • Contamination Management: Overseeing remediation and contamination management strategies. 
  • Stakeholder Engagement: Building and maintaining strong relationships with clients, contractors and stakeholders, including steering groups and project control groups (PCGs). 
  • Project Leadership: Empowering teams to excel in their roles and deliver on project responsibilities. 
  • Project Completion and Handover: Guiding projects to successful completion and operational readiness.

Chris is recognised for his dynamic project leadership and his ability to cultivate high-performing teams, particularly in the realm of large-scale, complex infrastructure projects. He excels at distilling intricate project details into clear, actionable insights, adapting his communication style to engage diverse audiences. This approach ensures that all stakeholders are informed and aligned, fostering collaboration and driving successful project outcomes.

Chris Gardner

Senior Project Manager

Christopher Gardner ChPP is chartered project manager with a diverse background having worked in five continents (Europe, central Aisia, central Africa, South America, Australia), across different sectors in both infrastructure and buildings. He brings a wealth of experience in leadership, management and delivery expertise, providing a unique service offering to clients. With a proven track record in managing mega projects and forming successful teams, Chris has a history of success across the whole project life cycle.

Take a closer look at Chris’ qualifications and skills:

  • Project and Programme Management: A chartered project manager (ChPP) with the Association for Project Management, recognising a career of successfully managing a diverse range of international projects valuing hundreds of millions.
  • Association for Project Management’s Project Management Qualification (APM PMQ): The UK’s leading project management assessment and qualification.
  • Leadership: Premier leadership training as an officer in the British Army, developed over operational deployments and honed working in complex teams within the construction industry.
  • Stakeholder Engagement: Building and maintaining effective relationships with project stakeholders.
  • Design Management: Coordinating and managing the design process to ensure alignment and support delivery.
  • Procurement: Managing the procurement process of both consultants and contractors, providing value and transparency.
  • Scheduling: Developing and maintaining project schedules to ensure timely completion.
  • Commercial and Contract Administration: Effectively managing contracts, from supporting Clients in selecting the appropriate form to delivering the works. Gained the NEC 4 Project Manager Accreditation: qualified to administer and manage the internationally acclaimed NEC suit of contracts.
  • Project Completion and Handover: “Think to the finish.” Incorporating handover at every stage, from conception to completion, improving client efficiencies and effectiveness.
  • Interface management: A series of projects delivered in live operating environments, managing the interface between Business As Usual/operations and the Project.
  • Undergraduate degree: Politics and International Relations, University of Sheffield.


Chris’ charismatic and professional approach draw together the different specialities needed for a project into one, high-functioning team, ensuing successful project delivery. He is also adept at supporting clients in the strategic management and direction of projects. Chris can successfully work and communicate across the full breadth of the project team and lifecycle.

Fei Chen

Project Manager

Fei is a dedicated and accomplished project management professional with over five years of experience in project management and project delivery. He has a proven track record in managing complex, multi-level industrial warehouses and civil infrastructure projects, demonstrating expertise throughout the entire project lifecycle.

Fei’s proficiency includes effective stakeholder management and leading project teams toward innovative solutions. He is widely recognised for his ability to cultivate enduring relationships with key stakeholders and consultants and ensure the efficient and effective completion of projects.

Fei’s versatile skillset and capabilities span the entire project life cycle, encompassing:

  • Master Planning: Crafting comprehensive project master plans to guide development and execution.
  • Development Applications: Navigating the regulatory landscape to secure necessary approvals.
  • Stakeholder Engagement: Building and maintaining effective relationships with project stakeholders.
  • Design Management: Overseeing the design process to ensure alignment with project goals.
  • Procurement: Skilfully managing the procurement of both consultants and contractors alike.
  • Project and Programme Management: Efficiently coordinating project activities and managing complex programs ranging in value from several hundred million dollars to multi-billion-dollar programs.
  • Scheduling: Developing and maintaining project schedules to ensure timely completion.
  • Commercial and Contract Administration: Ensuring contracts are administered effectively, with commercial drivers front of mind, and overseeing project execution to contract scope.
  • Team Leadership: Leading and empowering project teams to excel in delivering to their responsibilities.
  • Project Completion and Handover: Guiding projects to successful completion to operational readiness.

 

Fei’s leadership shines in his knack for leading high-performing teams, especially on large, complex projects. He excels in absorbing, synthesizing, and communicating intricate project details to suit his audience. Fei’s expertise spans master planning, stakeholder engagement, design and construction management, procurement, scheduling, and contract administration. With Fei in charge, projects don’t just get managed; they thrive, driven toward exceptional outcomes.

Michelle Feng

Project Manager

Michelle has over 6 years’ experience in the construction industry working in various sectors including commercial, residential, rail and social infrastructure. 

Commencing her career working as a structural engineer, Michelle is passionate about the built environment and the multidisciplinary aspect the industry offers. She harnesses both a creative and analytical mindset to solve problems. As a Project Manager, Michelle has been involved in the delivery of several successful education projects and has been exposed to various stages of the project life cycle, from masterplanning through to authority approvals, design, procurement of head contractor, contract execution, construction, commissioning, and handover.

Take a closer look at Michelle’s qualifications and skills:

  • Master Planning: Crafting comprehensive project master plans to guide development and execution.
  • Development Applications: Navigating the regulatory landscape to secure necessary approvals.
  • Stakeholder Engagement: Building and maintaining effective relationships with project stakeholders.
  • Design Management: Overseeing the design process to ensure alignment with project goals.
  • Procurement: Skillfully managing the procurement of both consultants and contractors alike.
  • Project and Programme Management: Efficiently coordinating project activities and managing complex programs
  • Commercial and Contract Administration: Ensuring contracts are administered effectively, with commercial drivers front of mind, and overseeing project execution to contract scope.
  • Project Completion and Handover: Guiding projects to successful completion to operational readiness.

Michelle has a demonstrated track record of delivering precise and high-quality outputs, that contribute to successful project outcomes. Her proficiency extends to effective stakeholder management, and she is widely acknowledged for her ability to foster lasting relationships with clients, key stakeholders, and contractors alike.

Syne Ding

Project Manager

Syne is detail orientated and highly committed project manager and quantity surveyor who has over 12 years’ experience in the construction industry. Syne’s experience spans the industrial, commercial, health and social infrastructure, and transportation sectors, having worked with consultancy firms in Australia, Singapore & Malaysia.

The combination of Syne’s project management and quantity surveying background provides Syne with a strong foundation of experience in procurement, construction contract administration and superintendence, and cost management, and when coupled with her exposure to process improvements and change management the result is Syne’s well rounded capability. Her experience in delivering projects within operational environments has strengthened her stakeholder and change management skill set also and enables Syne to always places the end user’s needs at the centre of mind when considering the solution to issues.

Syne’s broad range of experience offers a versatile skillset, including:

  • Stakeholder Engagement: Building and maintaining effective relationships with project stakeholders.
  • Design Management: Overseeing the design process to ensure alignment with project goals.
  • Procurement: Skilfully managing the procurement of both consultants and contractors alike.
  • Commercial and Contract Administration: Ensuring contracts are administered effectively, with commercial drivers front of mind, and overseeing project execution to contract scope.
  • Project and Programme Management: Efficiently coordinating project activities and managing complex programs.
  • Project Completion and Handover: Guiding projects to successful completion to operational readiness.

Nabiha Haque

Project Manager

Nabiha is a seasoned and ambitious project management professional with robust infrastructure experience across a diverse range of projects. She is recognised for her ability to consistently deliver successful project outcomes and drive strategic initiatives. With a proven track record in managing significant transport and civil infrastructure projects, Nabiha effectively engages stakeholders to ensure positive project results. Her proficiency in project and program management coupled with strong engineering and commercial acumen has led to the successful delivery of complex infrastructure works safely, on time and within budget. Nabiha excels in leading multi-disciplinary teams and tailoring her communication to resonate with all levels of project organisations. 

Key Capabilities:

  • Planning: Crafting comprehensive project master plans to guide development and execution. 
  • Development Applications: Navigating the regulatory landscape to secure necessary approvals. 
  • Stakeholder Engagement: Building and maintaining effective relationships with project stakeholders. 
  • Design Management: Overseeing the design process to ensure alignment with project goals. 
  • Procurement: Skilfully managing the procurement of both consultants and contractors alike. 
  • Project and Programme Management: Efficiently coordinating project activities and managing complex programs, ranging from several hundred million dollars to multi-billion-dollar programs. 
  • Scheduling: Developing and maintaining project schedules to ensure timely completion. 
  • Risk Management: Identifying potential risks, analysing their impact and developing mitigation strategies to prevent delays or cost overruns. 
  • Commercial and Contract Administration: Ensuring contracts are administered effectively, with commercial drivers front of mind, and overseeing project execution to contract scope. 
  • Project Completion and Handover: Guiding projects to successful completion to operational readiness.

Alex Sampson

Project Manager

Alex Sampson is a highly motivated project management professional with over nine years of experience in the construction industry in both consultancy and project delivery roles. Alex’s experience in contractor and consultant roles, working on complex tunnelling and infrastructure projects, provides him with invaluable insight into the construction process from different points of interest. This background provides him with a deep understanding of the engineering complexities and technical aspects of each project.

Take a closer look at Alex’s qualifications and skills:

  • Design Management: Managing the design process to ensure alignment with project goals and quality standards are delivered.
  • Development Applications: Navigating the regulatory landscape to secure necessary approvals.
  • Stakeholder Engagement: Building and maintaining effective relationships with project stakeholders.
  • Procurement: Coordinating and managing the procurement process of consultants.
  • Scheduling: Developing and maintaining project schedules to ensure timely completion and track change management.
  • Project Leadership: Guiding teams through complex phases of projects to deliver on key outcomes.
  • Project Completion and Handover: Guiding projects to successful completion to operational readiness, including O&M manual and As-built handover to ensure client satisfaction.
  • Technical Understanding: Delivering complex engineering design solutions and providing value engineering opportunities at pre-construction stages.

Alex is well equipped to support and deliver across the full project lifecycle, particularly on highly complex, multi-use infrastructure projects. His professional and supportive approach allow him to form successful relationships with stakeholders, clients and consultants to ensure productive outcomes. His technical background provides him with the foundation to support the project team in solving and moving past obstacles.

James Planner

Project Engineer

James Planner is a Project Engineer experienced in major multi-disciplinary rail infrastructure projects. With a robust background in track design and design management, he has successfully managed and delivered significant rail projects that covers feasibility to construction phases, enhancing both metropolitan and regional passenger services.

Take a closer look at James ‘qualifications and skills:

  • Design Management: Overseeing the design process to ensure alignment with project goals
  • Interface Management: Ensuring seamless coordination between different project elements.
  • Risk Management: Identifying project risks and implementing strategies to reduce their impact.
  • Stakeholder engagement: Building and maintaining effective relationships with project stakeholders.
  • Quality Control and Assurance: Establishing quality standards and conducting inspections to ensure compliance.


James is dedicated to advancing rail infrastructure solutions, committed to delivering high-quality outcomes that meet operational needs and enhance safety. James is known for his collaborative approach and technical expertise which make him an invaluable asset to project teams and the overall success of projects.

Vedant Maheshwari

Project Coordinator

Vedant Maheshwari is a dedicated project coordinator with a formal education in mechanical engineering and project management. He efficiently applies his training to daily tasks supporting our industrial projects to ensure the machinations of daily project life are accurately reflected and up to date. He is steadily growing his experience in the industrial sector supporting multiple projects through the frton end planning and procurement phase and eagerly spending time on site to watch the construction of the behemoth facilities that never sleep to support our productive economy.

Vedant’s core competencies as a project coordinator include:

  • Project Planning and Coordination: Managing project timelines, coordinating with engineering teams, and aligning project goals with client needs.
  • Stakeholder Engagement: Building strong, collaborative relationships with consultants, and team members, fostering open communication throughout the project lifecycle.
  • Budget and Financial Tracking: Maintaining up-to-date budget documentation to provide clients with clear financial insights.
  • Documentation and Reporting: Ensuring project efficiency through comprehensive meeting agendas, real-time minute-taking, and thorough documentation.

 
Vedant’s dedication to quality and efficiency, combined with his technical and managerial skill set, makes him a valuable addition to our industrial project team. His proactive approach, keen attention to detail, and ability to adapt and communicate effectively ensures that each project achieves its objectives with his support.

Project Manager

(joining our Sydney office March ’24)

Our new Project Manager joining our Sydney Industrial team is a highly skilled project management professional, who has extensive experience delivering exceptional project and program outcomes for a range of government clients including Defence, Australian Federal Police (AFP) and Australian Parliament House (APH). She combines practical skills in communication and stakeholder engagement, with project knowledge, to lead and deliver complex activities across all aspects of the project lifecycle and is experienced as a PM/CA (Project Management Contract Administrator), working embedded as a client-side Project Manager in clients teams and in a PMO (Program Management Office) environment.

Senior Project Manager

(joining our Sydney office March ’24)

Our new Senior Project Manager joining our Sydney Industrial team is a results driven project management professional with over 12 years of industry experience spanning across commercial, infrastructure and complex construction projects. He has a diverse set of capabilities and background from having performed roles as a superintendent’s representative / engineer to contract, consultant project manager, construction project engineer, quantity surveyor, and most recently has spent the last 4 years as consortium manager of a $750m Public Private Partnership for NZ Justice Department.

Radim Heinz

Design and Engineering Manager

Radim has over 20 years’ experience in project and design management, Interface Management, Design co-ordination, construction surveillance and supervision in a wide range of transport and infrastructure projects. He has undertaken projects for a range of private clients and government agencies including TfNSW, RMS, Sydney Trains, SACL and Hutchison Ports.

Through his wide-ranging involvement on major infrastructure and building developments, Radim has gained a deep understanding and knowledge required to deliver large scale multidisciplinary projects.

Radim brings a wealth of qualifications and skills to the table, including:

  • Master Planning: Development of comprehensive and efficient project master plans to allow successful execution
  • Interface Management: Ensuring full coordination between various project consultants and stakeholders.
  • Design Management: Overseeing the design process to ensure co-ordinated design packages.
  • Equipment Selection Advice: Providing expertise in selecting efficient container handling equipment.
  • Commercial and Contract Administration: Ensuring contracts are administered effectively, with commercial drivers front of mind, and overseeing project execution to contract scope.
  • Operational Readiness: Ensuring projects are well-prepared for smooth operational transitions.

Daniel Frawley

Project Director

Dan has over 15 years’ experience as a construction industry professional working in both Australia (12 years) and the Middle East (5 years).

He has extensive experience across industrial, resource, infrastructure and commercial developments, working for D+C Main Contractors and Client-side consultancy services.

Dan’s skills and capabilities span the whole project life cycle from business case through to funding, authorities, procurement, delivery and completion.

With a background in Electrical Engineering and Building Services, Dan also specializes in providing technical solutions, integration of specialist equipment, and methodologies for delivering and commissioning complex MEP and ITC infrastructure.

Dan has also formed and managed a variety of ECI and D+C contract types for complex projects and is an experienced Project Director and Superintendent. He brings a wealth of complex technical and contractual experience, adding value across the lifecycle of your project:

  • Engineering Management: Driving the design process with technical input on services and infrastructure packages.
  • Procurement: Forming project teams with through robust consultant and contractor tendering processes
  • Complex Contracts: Create and managing complex contracts and schedules ranging from several hundred million dollars to multi-billion-dollars.
  • Operational Readiness: Ensuring projects are well-prepared for smooth operational transitions.
  • Project Commissioning and Completion: Guiding projects from construction and commissioning through to Go-Live and operational readiness.
  • Scheduling: Developing and maintaining project schedules to ensure timely completion.
  • Commercial and Contract Administration: Ensuring contracts are administered effectively, with commercial drivers front of mind, and overseeing project execution to contract scope.
  • Team Leadership: Leading and empowering project teams to exceed expectations in performing their role.
  • Stakeholder Engagement: Building and maintaining effective relationships with project stakeholders.