“I enjoy creative problem solving by facilitating the skills, diversity and energy of a team of people. As an industry, we need to harness the creative strengths of teams  if we are going to find solutions to new problems.”

Jamie appreciates roles that offer opportunities to create a new facility, asset or entity, and particularly enjoys work involving improving systems or strategies and seeing them deliver quality outcomes. A particular interest in new technologies and entrepreneurship brought him to lead a team from Massey University to create the ‘Classifynder’ robotic digital microscope and to establish the high-tech company Veritaxa Limited. This project was the overall winner of the 2013 New Zealand Engineering Excellence Awards.

Jamie has experience in project management, commercial negotiations and project delivery and has led strategic capital and policy projects in the transport, construction, water infrastructure, telecommunications and energy sectors. He has also led strategic regulatory improvement programmes in the building sector and in complex procurement and commercial processes such as 21-year design, build and operate contracts for Wastewater facilities; early-stage technology investments and in multi-round auctions for radio frequencies.

Before joining Resolve Group, where he’s been since 2017, Jamie held roles as Policy Director and Change Agent for the Building Performance Group at the Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment. Since then, he has been involved in numerous project delivery, procurement and advisory services for central and local government. These have included supporting client-side delivery of several major expressway projects, establishing several local government projects funded by regional development grants, reporting on research for a New Zealand developed Intelligent Traffic System and also on CO₂ and methane adsorbents developed by Massey University. He has recommended improvements to the national roading standards system and advised on improvements to how applications by local authorities for the delegation of state highway functions are assessed by NZTA. Jamie is responsible for Resolve Group’s assessment of emerging market opportunities.

Jamie offers his clients:

• Strength in facilitative leadership and the management of cross-disciplinary teams to stimulate innovation and resolve complex issues.
• Project leadership skills.
• Procurement expertise, with commercial and intellectual property procurement experience.
• Noteworthy project development and delivery experience.

A very keen hockey player, Jamie was President of the Kapiti Coast Hockey Club from 2009 to 2013. He is also the founder and settlor of the Kapiti Community Recreational Sports Turf Trust, a charitable trust that has raised over $3M and delivered an astroturf sports stadium in Kapiti. He has two adult children and enjoys cycling and long walks with his wife, Darryl.

“I believe that only by transformational transport planning will we be able to reduce transport emissions and achieve our climate change goals.”

Stuart is a true land-use and transport-integration strategist who believes creating the most appropriate and sustainable transportation systems to support and serve land use must be at the heart of transport planning. He has found his ‘best for the project’ approach fully supported by the wider Resolve Group team, and lists this as one of the reasons he chose to join the company in 2016, and also why he has remained.

As a highly experienced engineer and transport planner, Stuart has worked with local authorities in the UK and New Zealand. Prior to joining Resolve Group, he was Regional Land Transport Plan Manager at Auckland Transport where he was responsible for the team who produced a key guiding document for Tāmaki Makaurau, the Auckland Regional Land Transport Plan. He also project managed the important Auckland Regional Arterial Road Plan, considered to be “a blueprint for roading in Auckland” by the Royal Commission.

Since joining Resolve Group, Stuart has written detailed business cases for the seismic strengthening of the Quay Street seawall and the Ferry Terminal redevelopment, among others. Of particular note is his strategic case for the entire precinct of the Auckland Downtown Redevelopment Programme, outlining arguments and reasoning, of which he is justifiably proud.

Stuart brings considerable value to any project through his extensive understanding of Auckland’s unique transport issues and the projects and programmes proposed to resolve them. His familiarity with Auckland Transport’s, and Waka Kotahi’s, Planning and Investment Division’s processes, structures and funding requirements gives him deep insider knowledge he can share with clients.

Particular professional interests of Stuart’s include identifying how road space can be better allocated to competing transport modes and determining how the use of technology can improve road corridors for all users.

Stuart offers his clients:

• Over 15 years managing teams of industry professionals and over 30 years’ experience in transport planning and road engineering.
• Experience in leading others to embrace change and seek improved infrastructure outcomes.
• Business case acumen, including a good understanding of Better Business Cases and the ‘business case approach.’
• Well-established relationships with key local and national government leaders and industry players.
• Wide-ranging transport planning and engineering technical knowledge.
• An understanding of current legislation and national and regional strategies.
• Specialist design knowledge that comes from practical experience working as a design engineer and resident engineer.

Stuart loves cycling, predominantly road cycling. He says, “nothing clears my head better than getting out on a quiet country road, putting my head down and ripping through the kilometres.” He rode the Otago Rail Trail in 2019 and is planning the Alps to Ocean ride soon (hoping it’s all downhill!).