| Sam has worked extensively within the resource sector, conducting project risk assessments for developments in oil and gas processing, iron ore beneficiation and smelting, and coal resource development, mining, handling and processing. He has worked with resource owners and contractors at all stages of major projects, including tender assessment, pre-FEED, FEED, EPC, commissioning and operations. Sam is a skilled and adaptable facilitator, and well able to extract key technical information from project teams with minimal briefing or desktop research. He is also an accomplished quantitative analyst, with more than 15 years’ experience in Monte Carlo simulation and expertise in cost and schedule range analysis for major projects.
Within Broadleaf Capital International (Broadleaf), Sam has been responsible for maintaining the company’s climate change risk management portfolio. This has included a wide range of climate change risk assessments and adaptation action planning studies for local government, state government and industry. Sam has also provided overall project management of a flagship Broadleaf-SKM initiative to support the Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency in developing a new Australian Standard for climate change adaptation in the infrastructure sector.
Sam drafted and revised Biosecurity Australia’s Guidelines for Import Risk Analysis, which continue to provide the basis for all of Australia’s import risk analyses for animals, plants and products. On the strength of this, he worked for the Gorgon LNG FEED contractor (Kellogg Joint Venture Gorgon, or KJVG) to develop the quarantine protocols that now underpin the movement of human resources, materials, equipment and modules to the Class A nature reserve on Barrow Island from the mainland or overseas. The logistics of this (approx) $AU15 billion on-island development are conceivably the most complex of any project undertaken in the Australian resource sector.
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Sam’s Masters and Doctoral postgraduate training lie in biosecurity, epidemiology and spatial modelling and analysis, stemming back to an undergraduate degree in veterinary science and an early career as a large animal veterinary surgeon. He was for 6 years the Head Examiner in Epidemiology for the Australian College of Veterinary Scientists, and was the nominated epidemiologist on a Reference Group tasked by the Primary Industries Ministerial Council (PIMC) with oversight of Australia’s National Animal Health Surveillance Strategy (NAHSS).
Sam has brought his skills in spatial modelling and analysis to bear in climate change adaptation action planning studies, where many risks (in particular, sea level rise and riverine flooding) are spatially determined. Sam also led the development of AUSFLU, a spatial simulation model for pandemic influenza. This 2-year collaborative project was undertaken with funding from the Australian Biosecurity CRC for Emerging Infectious Disease and partners in a range of state and Commonwealth government agencies and two Australian universities. Sam was the sole programmer and modeller for the AUSFLU project, and the lead author of the research papers arising from it.
For more details, please click here to go to Broadleaf's AUSFLU web page.
Click on the image on the left for details of Sam's course,
Spatial Simulation Modelling for Animal and Public Health.
Sam has exceptionally strong skills in technical writing and the development of effective communications materials, tenders and reports. He is also an experienced presenter and teacher, and has developed and led numerous training exercises. Sam has successfully managed many project teams, including inter-company teams and teams including government and academic stakeholders. He understands the importance of client and stakeholder engagement, and has worked within a range of cultural settings in Australia and overseas.
Sam's impressive list of publications and presentations can be viewed here. |
