While working at FuturEcology, Alvin gained experience both on the ground, and in the office providing planning and design solutions for ecological restoration projects. Alvin was able to expand on my plant knowledge working under Rob Fryer who has a wealth of hands on experience in ecological restoration and in particular, the botany of the top of the South Island. Combining on the ground experience with technical engineering principles, we tackled some regionally significant ecological restoration projects including Ruapaka wetland and Challies Island Wetland. For both projects, Alvin led planning and documentation with six figure budgets. Alvin also established GIS within the business to improve transparency between field staff and the office, enhance data capture and consistency and improve efficiency and quality of deliverable data to clients.
At Morphum Environmental, Alvin gained experience working on water sensitive urban design, reviewing design guidelines and using GIS to solve land and water challenges. Highlights included giving design input into a number of constructed wetlands around New Zealand from Porirua, Te Ahuriri, Waikane, Belmont and Auckland. Alvin also contributed to Auckland Council's Freshwater Management Tool (FWMT), New Zealand's largest digital water-quality planning platform, mapping 5,000km² of the Auckland region across 100+ rural and urban land uses, and underpinning $452 million of council-funded water quality improvements over 10 years.
Desktop tools include ESRI suite (ArcGIS Pro ArcGIS Online etc.), QGIS, PostGIS, MapBox and Koordinates. Mobile/field tools include QField, QField Cloud and ESRI products Field Maps and Survey123.
Alvin has experience building data management systems that connect field and office teams, improving the speed and reliability of project reporting.
Available on request, including Rob Fryer (Director, FuturEcology) and Stu Farrant (Southern Sector Manager, Morphum Environmental).
