Greater Perth Area
I am an innovative person who, when a challenge arises seeks to analyse and explore the situation, to create a solution that is new and challenges the norm. Upon the completion of high school, I had the ambition of being a pilot. However, after gaining my commercial pilot license, I realised that aviation was more suited as a hobby in my life than as a career path. This led me to pursue other fields and ultimately resulting in me undertaking my engineering degree. In 2018 I returned from a semester abroad where I was granted a scholarship to attend the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, in Chennai. I learnt a lot from this experience. I found it challenged me to work in an environment that was substantially different from my home university. This experience has given me a greater understanding of different cultures, allowing me to be more receptive to a diverse range of communities.
I was employed as an undergraduate civil engineer at CPB Contractors in the Perth HQ office in the CBD. I was tasked in assisting on the Robe Valley Sustaining project for Rio Tinto and working on the site mobilisation and procurement with the team. Additionally, I helped with the South Flank project for BHP.
Work experience – Extra curricula activity – Forrestfield-Airport Link virtual project Over the period May – July 2019 Robert was one of 13 students in a virtual work experience program designed to mirror components of a construction contractor’s tender for the Forrestfield-Airport Link (FAL) project. The program, developed by Curtin University, in conjunction with various industry representatives and the Public Transport Authority, was designed to create a virtual work experience environment while following the FAL project. The scope included various multidisciplinary aspects of projects including dealing with client’s confidentiality arrangements.
Developing client focused garden designs that are innovative and practical whilst maintaining a balance between initial and ongoing cost.