• Current principal role: Senior Heritage Advisor; Department of Conservation DOC
• Original professional training: Civil Engineering, Auckland University, career tracked into NZ Government heritage programs 1982-1997
• Department of Conservation: National Manager of Heritage Program, 1998-2012, DOC manages 100+ industrial heritage sites open to visitors and with interpretation.
• NZ World Heritage Tentative List: project manager for DOC, the NZ State Party, 2007-08 • UNITAR World Heritage Site Nomination Training Course (Hiroshima): resource person/tutor 2008-17 (7 courses)
• Heritage organisations: NZ Oral History Assn (founding member, past President); Engineering NZ (Heritage Board 1988-now); NZ Rail Heritage Trust (founding member 1990); Federation of Rail Organisations NZ (representative 1997-now); ICOMOS NZ (founding member-now); TICCIH (2012-now, 5 international conference papers on industrial heritage); Asian Network for Industrial Heritage ANIH (member 2017-now).
• World Heritage industrial projects consulting 2013-now (mainly mountain railways + forest industry): Japan; India; Iran; Taiwan; Indonesia; Chile; Romania;
• Industrial Heritage specialties: Expert level global: railways (main line, industrial, forest), forest industry; Competent level: roads, bridges, gold mining, coal mining, farming.
• Heritage management scientific tools (three) developed to aid industrial heritage: (1) Comparative Analysis MCDA method; (2) World Heritage Value Framework SOUV method; (3) Story Pyramid. Recent international papers below demonstrate applications of MCDA & SOUV scientific methods.
2014 ICOMOS Florence: Methodology for Global Comparative Analysis.
2014 Engineering NZ Christchurch: Sawmill Engineering in New Zealand.
2015 TICCIH Lille: Pick the Best: The World Heritage of the Timber Industry.
2017 ICRH Mendoza: Railway World Heritage: An Opportunity for South America.
2018 TICCIH Santiago: Mountain Railway World Heritage;
2018 TICCIH Santiago: Global Wood: All aspects of wood use in all places in all ages.
2018 UNESCO: Comparative Analysis of Mountain Railways in East Asia.
2020 ANIH (On-line): Forest Railways of the Asia-Pacific Region, an Industrial Heritage.