THE STEERING GROUP

Namir Amso

Bio coming soon

Zaid Essa

Professional Project/Programme Manager and Engineer and people leader, with more than 24 years of experience in investigation, designing, consenting, land acquisition and construction, and in working with various major capital and infrastructure projects. I’ve been volunteering with SIGIE and supporting international Engineers in New Zealand since 2009 for which I became one of the first two Lifetime members with the group. Currently I am the Principal Project Manager and Team Leader for Auckland’s Project Delivery (Transportations-Major Projects) team for WSP

Remi Cruz

Remi is the Construction Delivery Manager at Auckland Transport, where he leads several teams delivering transportation infrastructure projects in the Auckland region. He has over 40 years’ professional experience gained while working in the Philippines, Brunei, New Zealand, and Australia. In addition to his multiple engineering degrees from universities in Manila and Auckland, Remi is registered as Chartered Member, Chartered Professional Engineer, International Professional Engineer and APEC Engineer. Since migrating to New Zealand in 2003, he has volunteered for Migrant Action Trust, Manukau Institute of Technology, and Engineering NZ and is passionate about developing and mentoring young professionals in the industry.

Canute Chandrakumaran

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Yana Averianova

Yana is a qualified mechanical and civil engineer. Yana immigrated to New Zealand in 2010 and has been with SIGIE since 2017. She is very passionate about helping others to settle in NZ via sharing her experience and local knowledge.

Joy Chen

Joy immigrated to New Zealand in 2000 as a water engineer with a hydrology degree and got her master’s degree in geography information system (GIS) at University of Auckland 2004. Currently, Joy is a digital solution lead in a large international engineering consulting firm-GHD and leads a location intelligence team in NZ to deliver digital solutions on various engineering projects. Joy has been with SIGIE since 2015, she is also volunteering for New Zealand Asia Association and NZ Esri User Group currently. Joy is very passionate about helping immigrant engineers to settle in NZ through shared experiences on culture challenges with the SIGIE family together.