Professional Overview

Maria is an experienced professional consultant having led multidisciplinary project teams for various organisations. She has strong skills in project management, environmental planning approvals and management. Maria has comprehensive people and functional management skills, both in building and motivating teams, developing sound working relationships and providing a solid process and system improvement focus. She has delivered complex and large projects in the transport infrastructure, water, industrial and mining sectors. She has a strong statutory background and an in-depth understanding of environmental and planning issues at the project development and construction level.

Skills include:

Leadership, business and project management
Understanding business and project drivers and desired outcomes.

Business and project objectives
Successful achievement of business and project objectives. Initiated and led successful cultural change.

Business and project improvement
Driving business and project improvements utilising technologies, process and procedural reviews and continuous improvements.

Relationship management
Proactive development and maintenance of client and team relationships. Engagement and empowering the workforce to deliver interdisciplinary interfacing and team cohesion to achieve clearly defined business and project objectives and performance outcomes.

Communication
Strong ability to deliver key messages across the stakeholder base. Strategic thinking – clear ability to understand and articulate the bigger picture, set the strategic direction and implement action.

Qualifications and Memberships

• Master of Environmental Science (Environmental Toxicology & Management), University of Technology, Sydney

• Bachelor of Science (Chemistry Major), University of Sydney

• Certificate in Technical Writing

• Member, Environmental Institute of Australia and New Zealand