Willem Rawlins
Willem started his career in South Africa as an electrical engineer. Upon completing his studies, Willem worked his way up from an engineer in the distribution network operations department to a Senior Engineer – Operations Support, Network Manager and Chief Engineer focussing on power quality in heavy industry.
Shashi Patel
Shashi has been responsible for structural design from new substations, seismic strengthening and retrofit of existing substations to façade reviews, and industrial to residential building design. In additions, Shashi has experience in the electrical industry as well as various roles, projects, and different sectors. Shashi is a member of Engineering NZ and a member of […]
Ross Dodd
Ross has extensive experience in the power systems industry. This includes generation, transmission and distribution high level reports, conceptual and detailed design project management. Ross’s generation and transmission experience at NZED and subsequent experience in distribution substation and industrial design provides him with an excellent all-round knowledge of power systems design. He has been responsible […]
Richard Fairbairn
Richard is a Power Systems Engineer with 30 years of experience in the analysis, developmewnt, design and management of electrical infrastructure. Richard has also delivered evidence during public hearings and written electrical and gas utility asset management plans. HIs work experience also includes extensive involvement with the valuation network assets and due diligence work.
Carla Smith
Carla has been involved in the power utilities sector since starting her career as an engineering cadet at the Auckland Electric Power Board in 1990. Throughout her twenty years with Ergo, Carla has undertaken a significant number of substation projects across the country, from single protection relay replacements to entire substation upgrades. This exposure has […]
Alan Barrow
Alan joined Ergo Consulting in 2015. Alan has been employed in various position in the protection field over the course of his career. His experience is centred around Transmission and Distribution protection. Alan enjoys client engagement, scope diversity and challenges that are typical of the consulting industry. He finds working in a growing team of […]
Alistair Williams
Alistair joined Ergo in 2015 as Head of Power Systems, with extensive experience in project and design management, and business development for power transmission and distribution in NZ, Australia and the UK. Since 2022, Alistair has been Ergo’s Managing Director and is responsible for Ergo’s performance and strategic goals. Born and bred in Scotland, Alistair […]