I am from New Zealand and have lived here all of my life.
I currently live in the Waikato Region.
I am a New Zealand Qualified and Registered Electrical Inspector, and Industrial Electrician.
An Industrial specialist, that is passionate and self motivated.
I am a small business owner and founded Connect Energy in 2020.
With almost 20 years experience in marine and defence, industrial, dairy, food and beverage, oil and gas, and water industry.
Experience ranges in project installation, commissioning, fault finding and diagnostics, training and also hazardous areas.
My passion and specialty for nearly a decade is working with Variable Speed Drives, where I have been employed by two large manufacturers, ABB and Schneider Electric. I have worked on some large and small scale projects installing and commissioning VSDs and Soft starters from small kW sizes to MW.
As a certified service engineer at ABB and Schneider Electric. I have also worked on a variety of products from HV switchboards and vacuum breakers, LV switchboards and Air Circuit Breaker’s (ACBs), power factor and harmonic mitigation units, transformers, and EV charging stations.
I have provided services related to the products such as, power quality audits, thermal imaging, asset audits and data collection for discrimination and arc flash studies.
I am passionate about training the next generation and I believe strongly in electrical health & safety.
Sharing information and communication with in industry is very important to make positive change’s in our industry for the future.