Daniel Prince – Director
With over 20 years experience Daniel began his professional career working for one of Australia’s largest Engineering Consulting companies as a graduate. After various roles and companies, including Associate Director level positions he eventually found himself at Crown Resorts in 2008.
He joined at a very exciting time, the $1.5B re-development of its Crowns Melbourne complex (where he was based) had begun, then followed by the design and development of the Sydney Hotel Resort Project at Barangaroo, simultaneously a bid for the Brisbane Casino / Integrated Resort and more recently the Queensbridge Tower project in joint venture with Schiavello Pty. Ltd. All projects which he was heavily involved with and was proud to be a part of their internal design and delivery team.
Daniel has the unique skill of having the technically trained knowledge of a engineer, business nous of a developer and the commercial awareness of an owner operator. All whilst having the project delivery skills that he developed working at the high pace 24/7 and system critical nature of integrated resorts and high density commercial developments.
He has had experience of working consultant, construction and client side and understands the demands, expectations and requirements of them all.
After nearly 9 years and with a huge amount of experience in technically challenging environments with unique expectations and requirements, he started Specialised Project Management Group in 2017 to assist clients with their challenges and needs.
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Engineering – Building Services (B.Eng.) – VUT
- Master of Business Administration (MBA) – Swinburne, Australian Graduate School of Entrepreneurship
- Master of Commercial Law (MCL) – Deakin University, School of Business and Law
- Registered Building Practitioner (VIC) – EM Classification
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Mark Simmons – Director
Mark has over 20 years experience in the engineering, building and construction industry. He started his career with a large Mechanical Services Company as a Commissioning Technician. His pragmatic and sensible approach to complex issues saw him quickly promoted to Project Manager. During this time, Mark has been responsible for large, multi-million-dollar projects in both, the public and private sectors across several industries.
In the last 10 years Mark has specialised in the transition to operation of complex facilities. This started with the iconic ANZ Centre in Docklands, Melbourne where he was responsible for Greenstar tuning and the development of operational and maintenance systems. Mark was then responsible for the long-term engineering operation which resulted in award-winning energy efficiency outcomes from the various sustainability initiatives he led post construction. This included tri-generation, blackwater treatment, solar generation, displacement HVAC, DALI lighting control, river water cooling, and chiller optimisation.
In the next phase of his career, Mark managed the transition to operation and operation post DLP of the Aurora Data Centre, Derwent Park and the Hyperscale Data Centres in both Sydney and Melbourne. At the time, the Hyperscale provider was a new entrant to the Australian Data Centre Market providing solutions that are more secure, available, efficient and scalable. To meet these goals Mark provided risk and data-driven planned maintenance solutions to the operation, which resulted in significant cost savings whilst delivering 100% uptime to the sites.
During this time Mark also lead and recruited the top talent in the country to ensure their critical operation would be a success. This resulted in a continually improving, high performance unit that always delivered results with some of the highest levels of staff retention in the industry.
More recently, Mark brought his Data Centre expertise back to ANZ Bank, who own and operate some of the best-in-class and most mature facilities worldwide. Here, he provided end-to-end Engineering Services aimed at minimising risk and optimising operational costs. In 2020, Mark’s work was formally recognised by the Facility Management Association of Australia following the development of an independently certified ISO9001 quality management framework. This framework was carefully aligned to ANZ’s corporate goals in Digital Innovation, Corporate Governance and Climate Change.
Qualifications
- Project Management (Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Services), Australian Institute of Management
- HV Switching and Co-ordination
- Restricted Electrical Licence (VIC)
- Registered Plumber
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