City of JohanesburgStrategic Urban Designer / Urban Planner
Jan. 2016 - Sep. 2021Johannesburg Area, South AfricaCurrently in the employ of the City of Johannesburg’s Development Planning Department, City Transformation as Senior Specialist: Strategic Urban Designer. My primary roles entail urban design, project management, intensive stakeholder engagement and facilitation (public and private sector), interdepartmental dialogue, strategic spatial planning, capital project implementation, budetary tracking, bid evaluation, public and private sector development facilitation and dispute resolution.
Additional roles include technical urban planning and urban design support with regards to Policy Formulation as well as private and public sector development facilitation. These skills and expertise is however also highly applicable and relevant to other cities both within and outside of the South African context. Apart from my experience at the City of Johannesburg, I also have an accumulated professional experience of just over 8 years in numerous capacities ranging from technical project coordination and management, to coordination, oversight and administrative management of teams and individual staff members.