Alexandra Calvert
Melbourne,Australia
Summary
Project Manager with a background as a Project Architect, experienced in client-side end to end delivery of construction and architectural projects. Experienced in educational, commercial, government, retail, aged care and residential sectors. Possess analytical skills, able to navigate planning, design and building processes, regulations and safety requirements. Strong site, contract administration and financial reporting experience. I lead with an adaptive, collaborative approach, develop positive relationships with stakeholders, ensure effective communication and coordination of information to drive project efficiency. Seeking a new challenging role encompassing and furthering my skills to deliver projects.
Overview
28
28
years of professional experience
Work History
Project Architect
Arch Vive Architects
Melbourne, Australia
03.2024 - Current
- Company Overview: Micro-business, architectural services, residential projects
- Micro-business, architectural services, residential projects
Construction Project Manager
ACU
Melbourne, Australia
11.2022 - 11.2023
- Company Overview: Development and Capital Projects
- Planned and procured building fit-outs simultaneously from initiation, planning to construction and handover
- Developed departmental functional briefs
- Procured people, resources and equipment
- Prepared and assessed RFQs and fee proposals, assessed tenders
- Negotiated costs and deliverables against budget, time and quality
- Engaged and co-ordinated consultants, prepared timelines, programmes
- Liaised with stakeholders throughout planning and execution including users, facilities management, contractors, consultants, Service Central, legal counsel
- Scheduled programmes and led user, consultant and contractor meetings
- Managed finances: funding requests, budgets, budget allocation, QS reports, actual and forecast expenditure reconciliation, purchase orders, progress claims
- Participated in stakeholder and budget forecast meetings
- Closed projects: inspected works, prepared defects reports ensuring practical completion and certification requirements were met
- Managed department relocations, procured consultant and resources. Liaised with IT, facilities management, security for equipment, staff access and key-cards
- Prepared and distributed schedules of each staff member relocation
- Resolved issues with practical approach, successful in achieving dispensation
- Development and Capital Projects
- Key projects:
- New Innovation Hub IT/AV fit-out, funding, design, construction to handover acted as superintendent’s representative during construction
- New office fit-out, midwifery/paramedicine: management of funding, design, construction to handover, acted as superintendent’s representative
- New Saint Teresa of Kolkata building, defects inspections and reporting
- Faculty staff building relocations, change management of stakeholders
- New advertising signage to medical clinic, liaised with users and marketing department, town planner, sourced signage contractors, prepared RFQs
- Alterations and additions to residence: Practical completion and defects inspection and report. Managed procurement of landscaping, air-conditioning works, liaison with tenants and real estate agent
Project Architect
Arch Vive Architects
Melbourne, Australia
01.2018 - 01.2021
- Company Overview: Micro-business, residential renovations and extension work
- Tender documentation of multi-level apartment building for NDIS residents
- Extension/alterations to period residence
- Stage Two works: further design development
- Residential project: additions, Managed brief, design, documentation for permit, fee proposals, engagement of consultants
- Micro-business, residential renovations and extension work
Project Architect, registered
Self-employed
Melbourne, Australia
01.2016 - 01.2017
- Company Overview: Sole practitioner
- Residential project: additional works Managed preliminaries, survey, brief, design, documentation, specifications, building permit for Owner Builder
- Residential project: renovation/alterations to period residence
- Stage One works: management, engagement and co-ordination of all consultants, suppliers, contractors, fee proposal requests and reviews. New layout, structural alterations, S29a consent for removal of asbestos and building permit application.
- Stage 2 works: alterations and additions: preliminaries, brief, schematic design, design development, co-ordination of structural design, geotechnical reports, survey
- Sole practitioner
Consultant documenter
Detail 3
Melbourne, Australia
01.2014 - 12.2014
- Team Documentation of ‘Pearl Tower’, Southbank, residential apartment packages for building permits
- Team documentation of ‘Porsche’ car showroom, Collingwood
Consultant documenter
PB architects
Melbourne, Australia
01.2011 - 12.2011
- Proposed 3 level 53 apartment development, Mt Waverley: town planning conditions, documentation (endorsement).
- Proposed townhouses, Box Hill: site layout, design development, town planning
Grad. in architecture
MC architects
Melbourne, Australia
01.2007 - 12.2008
- Coles/Liquor Choice: site plan options
- Residence, Caulfield: alterations/additions, documentation for building permit
Grad. in architecture
DL Design Group
Melbourne, Australia
01.2002 - 01.2007
- Project lead role
- Led and managed numerous projects from brief, preliminaries, schematic design to contract administration, site meetings, defects inspections and handover.
- New School Building, Good Shepherd P.S. Croydon: Design Development, Led team documentation, consultant co-ordination, contract administration, co-ordination and documentation review, establishing timelines, programmes
- Tender process, contract documentation, site meetings, contract admin.
- New Science Rooms, Luther College, Croydon: fitout, design development, specifications, documentation, tender, contract administration
- Swinburne University, Hawthorn: new IT office fit-out L1, design development documentation, co-ordination, FFE, specification writing, contract administration
- New CHE retirement Village/Community Centre, Clayton: site layout, design development, specifications, FF&E selection and schedules, co-ordination
- Westgate Private Nursing Home, Newport: high aged care, class 9C building Stage 1: design development, contract administration. Stages 2 & 3 design development, town planning application
Grad. in architecture
FPPV architects
Melbourne, Australia
01.1998 - 12.2001
- Melbourne University, Parkville, New Language Babel Building, Fine Arts: full documentation of new fit-out spaces, joinery and furniture of three levels
- Monash University International Centre, Clayton: documentation
- Dept. of Treasury and Finance, Melbourne: new office fit-out, joinery package design development, documentation of layout, joinery and furniture
- Equal Opportunity Board, Melbourne: office fit-out,: documentation
- Heidelberg Police Station and Law Courts upgrade, Heidelberg: documentation
- General Motors Holden, office fit-out: documentation
- AIG, St Kilda: new office/lunch room, design development, documentation, permit
- DHS, Secure Welfare for Young Women, Maribyrnong: documentation of new facility
Education
Bachelor of Architecture - Architecture
Deakin University
VictoriaBachelor of Arts - Architecture
Deakin University
VictoriaDip. Project Management - BSB50820
CAL
VictoriaCertificate - Business Practice Architecture
Deakin University
VicCertificate - Revit
KarelCAD
MelbArch. Study Tour - Central Europe 20th Century Design
RMIT
MelbSkills
- Project initiation
- Planning
- Time management
- Schedules
- Brief
- Scope
- Budget
- Design development
- Analysis
- Evaluation
- Negotiation
- Communication
- Collaboration
- Adaptability
- Stakeholder management
- Consultant co-ordination
- Procurement processes
- Contract administration
- Financial management
- Lighting design
- Historic preservation
- Acoustic design
- Furniture design
- Structural analysis
- Quality assurance
Languages
- English
- French
Working Rights
- Australian citizen
- Construction white card
- Victorian driver licence
Professional Development
- ARBV, Victoria, Vic, APE exams, registration, CPD annual requirement
- AIA, PALS Practice of Arch. Learning Series
- KarelCAD, Melbourne, Vic, Certificate, Revit
- RMIT, Melbourne, Vic, Arch. Study Tour Central Europe 20th Century Design
- Deakin University, Victoria, Vic, Certificate 1, Business Practice Architecture
Timeline
Project Architect
Arch Vive Architects
03.2024 - Current
Construction Project Manager
ACU
11.2022 - 11.2023
Project Architect
Arch Vive Architects
01.2018 - 01.2021
Project Architect, registered
Self-employed
01.2016 - 01.2017
Consultant documenter
Detail 3
01.2014 - 12.2014
Consultant documenter
PB architects
01.2011 - 12.2011
Grad. in architecture
MC architects
01.2007 - 12.2008
Grad. in architecture
DL Design Group
01.2002 - 01.2007
Grad. in architecture
FPPV architects
01.1998 - 12.2001
Bachelor of Architecture - Architecture
Deakin University
Bachelor of Arts - Architecture
Deakin University
Dip. Project Management - BSB50820
CAL
Certificate - Business Practice Architecture
Deakin University
Certificate - Revit
KarelCAD
Arch. Study Tour - Central Europe 20th Century Design
RMIT