Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
I am a highly motivated Engineering Geologist with a proven track record in providing sustainable solutions and leading teams to achieve high-level results. My passion is learning new skills and adopting them in innovative ways to problem-solve and tackle climate change.
AFRY Team Player of the Year 2022-2023 Consulted on multi-billion euro projects internationally, working towards providing risk-averse and sustainable solutions using forefront scientific knowledge to minimize climate effect. Projects ranged from Hydro-power Pumped Storage modeling, to on-site tunnel construction, to what is currently the world's largest underground high-voltage power cable project. • 3D modelling software (Leapfrog) and statistics. • Presented innovative ways of rapid data capturing using remote sensing techniques. • On-site project supervision and Geological documentation. • Automation of statistical calculations using Python and Excel macros. • Presented workflows to senior management ensuring strict governmental guideline adherence. Youth Panel Project Leader: • A young-professionals initiative of 400+ members engaged in climate action and sustainability. • Personally led the initiative with 7 other voted-in project leaders from 2022 - 2023 organizing monthly presentations, workshops, and seminars. • Conducted annual survey to quantify global employee satisfaction, analyzed and presented results to senior management to find solutions. • Interviewed the company CEO and EVP Strategy & Sustainability with questions posed by young employees, producing a high-quality video to share internally within the company.
For this experience, I was invited to help supervise a preliminary ground investigation over a few days for a new structure to be built at the Watford General Hospital. This opportunity gave me an additional chance to put into practice what I had learned during my time spent as an M.Sc Engineering Geology student. The work I helped supervise consisted of the following: • Helped liaise and supervise the geophysical investigation (GPR) for charting the location and depths of important service utilities. • Helped in the decision-making process of deciding the exact position of all the exploratory boreholes • Analyzed and described the extracted soil/rock core • Undertook soakage tests
For this position, I was tasked with the responsibility of managing a team of 20+ people (waiters, bar staff and kitchen staff) whilst ensuring above satisfactory customer service at all times. This role demanded 17+ hour shifts every alternative day, and truly highlighted the importance of good leadership skills, independence, initiative, and communication skills with people of all sorts of ages, cultures, and backgrounds.
This three-month internship was spent in a remote location near the city: Xayaburi, during the mid-phase of construction of a 1.3 GW Hydroelectric power project (more information here: http://www.xayaburi.com/index_eng.aspx) under the supervision of the Head Engineering Geologist on-site. This project boasts what is currently (2023) the largest radial gates in the world. During this internship, I was exposed to the practical geological demands and real-life situations one is faced with, on and around site. My responsibilities included: • Organizing the project's aggregate processing plant data files, with implications tying directly to the concrete dam wall structure. • Undertook weekly site inspections, focusing on both the underlying geology and the structure itself, and their interference behaviour.
Working in a student-led team of three, with a close partnership to the school's Physical Education Department. For this role I was responsible for the following: • Helping organize the logistics of International Sports Tournaments (at the Middle East South Asia Conference (MESAC) level) • Liaise with official referees and cross-school sporting coaches • Emergency fill-in's for refereeing and score-keeping for all age group sporting events