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Tianca McHenry	Honorary Chairperson
Tianca McHenry originally comes from Geelong, and completed her Building Engineering degree and post-graduate diploma degree in Building Fire Safety & Risk Engineering at Victoria University of Technology, Melbourne and Werribee respectively. Tianca is a Fire Safety Engineer with over 10 years experience in Fire Safety Engineering and is currently employed with Mott MacDonald London. Valuable knowledge was also gained with Norman Disney & Young in Melbourne and in London. Her wide range of experience includes assessments in the areas of fire engineering and production of fire safety strategies for government buildings, educational establishments, retail, residential and commercial buildings. Tianca also has experience in Fire Services systems design. Tianca has been in the United Kingdom since 2005, and as per most Aussies in London, Tianca enjoys travelling and experiencing the delights of Europe and the UK. She also enjoys playing sport (basketball, tennis, softball in the park, etc), socialising with friends, theatre, music and trying anything new!
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Peter Walsh	Honorary Secretary
Peter Walsh graduated with a BEng (electrical) and BSc from the University of Queensland in 1991 and an MBA in 1997. Peter’s professional working life was focussed on building services engineering and facilities management area until 2002. After completing a law degree at the University of Queensland, he was admitted as a solicitor in 2003 and after a short period in private practice working in Construction and Commercial Law, returned to the engineering field working in power generation and industrial engineering. Peter relocated from Brisbane to the United Kingdom in May 2008, and is currently working as Commercial Manager and Corporate Counsel for GBM Minerals Engineering Consultants Limited. Peter is a Chartered Professional Engineer with Engineers Australia, Registered Professional Engineer Queensland, Chartered Engineer UK and is admitted as a Solicitor to the Supreme Courts of Queensland, NSW and England and Wales.

Kristy Chandler	Honorary Treasurer
Kristy Chandler graduated from the University of Western Australia with a BEng (hons) in Environmental Engineering and a BCom (HRM) in 2000. Kristy moved from Perth to the UK in 2003 and currently works as a Principal Environmental Engineer for Capita Symonds with their Flood Risk and Water Management Team. Kristy has been involved with the IEAust UK Chapter Committee for 3 years, including serving in the position as Honorary Treasurer. Her interests include travelling, fishing, cricket, art, gardening, SCUBA diving, camping and general outdoors.

Tien Kho	Honorary Auditor
Koey Tien Kho was born in Indonesia, and went to Australia to study. He completed a degree in Mechanical and Production Engineering at Caulfield and Swinburne Institutes of Technology in Melbourne. Tien is a Chartered Professional Engineer with Engineers Australia and a Chartered Engineer UK and Member of the IEE. He has been in the United Kingdom for 37 years now. In 2004 he retired from his position as UK Production Manager for Siemens Postal Automation. Tien now spends his time improving his Spanish language, fundraising for FARM Africa, restoring a 1955 BMW motorcycle, as well as his work with the IEAust UK Chapter committee, which he has had an involvement with since 1988.

Tregan Ru	Assistant Treasurer
Tregan Ru was originally from Canton, China. When she was 11 years old, her whole family migrated to Wanganui, New Zealand where she undertook her education and early working career. Tregan graduated with an Environmental Engineering Degree from Massey University (NZ) and worked in the water industry for the past eight years (3 in NZ and 6 in the UK). Roles undertaken in the past have included hydraulic modeller for flood alleviation schemes, lead design engineer on pipeline projects, construction engineer and project manager’s representative on water treatment projects. Tregan has recently started a new role as Project Definition Engineer for Thames Water. During her spare time, Tregan enjoys cooking/BBQs as well as the latest technology gadgets, clothes shopping, visiting museum exhibitions, hot spas, learning to dance and having a good old laugh at comedy shows/cinema with friends. She is also passionate about justice and water and sanitation for 3rd world countries,and has participated in fund-raising events like washing portaloos, leading a raft racing team to raise funds for Water Aid and speaking to school children on water conservation.

Raymond Lowe	Committee Member
Raymond Lowe has been working in the UK railway signalling industry as a signalling systems engineer since arriving in the UK in June 2002. Initially working on secondment to Alstom Transport UK on a train control system project, he then joined Ansaldo STS where he has worked on a number of Network Rail re-signalling projects. Typical duties have involved project engineering, tendering, installation supervision, site testing and commissioning, and operations and maintenance support. Prior to leaving Australia, Raymond worked with Alstom Australia in Sydney on automation and control systems for the 2.5 years after completing his degree in Electrical Engineering at the University of New South Wales. Raymond has been involved with the IEAust UK Chapter for a number of years, most recently serving as Honorary Chair for 2 years in 2008 and 2009. In addition to travelling around the UK and Europe, Raymond’s other interests include theatre, musicals, watching sporting events (cricket, rugby, AFL), skiing, hockey, squash and touch footy..... and riding on trains.

Joshua Stark	Committee Member
Joshua Stark completed an Electrical Engineering degree at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. He majored in Telecommunications and Signal Processing, completing his degree with a thesis on "Hardware encoding of JPEG2000". Joshua worked for LogicaCMG in Sydney as a telecommunications engineer for 5 years, then moved to the UK in 2006 and worked as a IT Engineer in London in the telecommunications industry. In 2007, he moved to Airwide Solutions located in Reading. He is working as a deliveries engineer to provide mobile phone equipment that runs services such as SMS and MMS, to companies all over Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Africa. Joshua served as the Honorary Secretary for the IEAust UK Chapter in 2008 and 2009. Outside of work, Joshua enjoys a number of outdoor activities, such as, SCUBA diving, underwater photography, snow skiing, camping, hiking and 4WD.

Craig Giaccio	Committee Member
Craig Giacci comes from Adelaide. He completed a base degree in Structural Engineering at Adelaide University before going on to complete a PhD at Monash University. He is a Chartered Professional Engineer with Engineers Australia, and has been involved with the UK Chapter Committee for 7 to 8 years on and off. Craig has been in the United Kingdom for about 4.5 years, and is currently working as Associate Director, Transportation with AECOM.

Michael Short	Committee Member
Michael Short completed a Bachelor of Engineering (Civil) at the University of New South Wales, and has since gained 30 years of experience in project management and site construction on a broad range of projects, including the last 25 years on the engineering, design and construction of gold and copper/lead/zinc ore treatment plants in Africa, Central Asia, Russia, Europe, Asia and Australia. Michael is a Chartered Professional Engineer with Engineers Australia, a Chartered Engineer UK and Fellow with the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, and a Fellow and Chartered Professional with the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. Since March 1994, Michael has been Managing Director of his London-based consulting company, GBM Minerals Engineering Consultants Limited, and while he has been an active participant with the IEAust UK Chapter for many years, he is a new member on the committee.

Meelit Shah	Committee Member
EurIng Meelit Shah is a chartered civil engineer and has worked on water resources projects around the world. He was born in Tanzania and after obtaining his bachelors degree from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, India went on to do his postgraduate studies at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa. He is a member of a number of professional institutions including the American Society of Civil Engineers, Engineers Australia and the Chartered Institute of Water and Environmental Management. He is also registered with FEANI and the international register of professional engineers IntPE(UK). He has previously served as a member of the water panel, Queensland Division whilst he was based in Brisbane. He is a new member of the IEAust UK Chapter committee. Meelit is a principal engineer with Halcrow and is currently based in the UK although he spends significant time working on projects overseas.

Sally Parker	Committee Member
Sally Parker completed her Bachelor of Engineering degree (Environmental/Civil) at RMIT University in Melbourne Australia. Sally worked for South East Water Ltd in Melbourne for 6 years in water, wastewater, and energy infrastructure projects before moving to London in 2006. Since arriving in the UK, Sally has worked for a design and engineering consulting firm, Atkins Ltd on a range of projects. Sally is chartered in Environmental and Civil Engineering through Engineers Australia, and has worked on projects including water, wastewater, and rail infrastructure projects in southern England, London and the Middle East. She is currently working for Atkins on the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics Games, in the design of civil infrastructure which involves some of the most significant design and investment in London in the last few decades. Sally has travelled Europe and UK extensively over 2.5 years since arriving in London and enjoys exploring the continent, and London’s cosmopolitan city. She enjoys travelling to new countries, and London’s arts, music, cultural and sporting events. Wimbledon tennis tournament and visiting Europe to see the northern lights is a must for 2009/2010.

Clinton McHenry	Committee Member
Clinton McHenry is a Structural Engineer who hails from Geelong, and is now Director of McHenry Structures Limited which was established in 2006 to provide consulting structural design services. He initially set out to explore Europe on a 2 year working holiday visa which has turned into 11 years (to date) including 3.5 years in Dublin, Ireland. He is married with two English-born boys (though Aussie passport holders) aged 3 and 1. The family really enjoys living in the UK, and particularly London, where the nature of engineering projects have provided opportunities that one may not face elsewhere, including having Europe on the doorstep for short breaks and holidays. Clinton is a Chartered member of Engineers Australia and a Chartered Engineer UK and member of the Institution of Civil Engineers UK. This is Clinton’s first year being involved with the IEAust UK Chapter committee.

Jason Adcock	Committee Member
Jason Adcock completed a degree in Micro Electronics and Computer Systems at Griffith University. He hails from either Brisbane or Melbourne, depending on the day of the week, and has been in the United Kingdom for 3.5 years. Jason owns a clean tech startup and a consultancy, so is to some extent his own boss. He has been involved with the IEAust UK Chapter for around 3 years.

David Rasmussen	Committee Member
David Rasmussen comes from Gatton in Queensland. David completed his Mechanical Engineering degree at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane and has subsequently gained Chartered Professional Engineer status with Engineers Australia. He now works in London with Norman Disney & Young Consulting Engineers. He has been in the UK for 9 years, and has been involved with the IEAust UK Chapter committee for the last 5 years.

Arthur Richards	Committee Member

Nicola Woolford	Committee Member