AMEX America's CUP 1998-2000

In 1996 I Contracted by The Amex Village Hospitality Providers to Design and build all the Hospitality venues in the village. I had 18 months to design and build venues at 5 specific locations within the village, the budget was capped at $5m With the assistance of manufacturers RCP (Napier) we created 

1. Floating AMEX Yacht club – capacity 800 $2.5m budget, 

2. 9 Corporate Chalets 60 quests per site $1.0m budget 

3. 20 Boat parties – individual mooring sites for day trips

4. The Public canopy and Bar – capacity 1000 per day

5. The Entertainment stage and seating 500 capacity

Budget Limit achieved and last venue opened a week early.

AIR NEW ZEALAND Terminal Developments

Contracted in 2016 to rebuild all of Air New Zealand North is Regional FOH Terminals - 9 in total - at approx. $950k per terminal and to manage the reimagining of Air NZs terminals and sales offices in Australia, Japan, Singapore and Taiwan. Taiwan was a new destination for AirNZ and I was responsible for finding locations and securing contractors for both the Sales office and the Departures Terminal - Budget $1.8m program 3 months to design/build before the first flight arrived.

AIR NEW ZEALAND Self Service Kiosks

In 2008 AirNZ became one of the first International Airlines to install self-service Ticketing Kiosks. I was contracted to survey all 25 airports within NZ to ensure an end-to-end service could be achieved and to oversee the installation of the first Kiosks. 8 Years later I was contracted to remove the now aging kiosks and replace with new $25,000 French built kiosks –Project Budget $4m program 18 months.

BNZ / ANZ Bank reimaging

In 2010 -2011 RCP contracted me to role out the new BNZ bank interiors for the East coast of the North Island – Tauranga to Hastings. I was asked to establish an Office in Tauranga as a base and over the 18months rolled out some 35 bank interiors at an average fitout of $500k each. At the end of 2011 my contract was extended to include similar work for the ANZ relocating the ANZ into the newly acquired National bank locations facilitating the same region.

TELSTRA Australia

In 2009 Telstra Became the first chain of Telco stores to roll out retail outlets with all displayed phones in live mode. The initial 3 months I was contracted to review the proposed interior design and to consider options to reduce costs from the original $500k budget- We reduced the cost to $425k. The remaining 18 months of the contract I was employed as a senior Project manager to manage a team of 6 PMs to roll out some 200 stores across Australia.