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Munster Technological University
Master of Science - Construction Project Management
Munster Technological University
Bachelor of Science - Quantity Surveying (Honours)
Waterford Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Science - Construction Economics
Patrick is a highly competent and compelling bid manager, regularly trusted with leading large-scale, high-value, and strategically critical pursuits. His energising and empowering leadership style transforms bid teams into cohesive, high-functioning units even under extreme pressure and tight deadlines. Patrick creates a fun, positive, and purpose-driven environment that unlocks creativity, accelerates output, and consistently delivers exceptional results.He doesn't just manage the process. he solves complex problems, uplifts people on the journey, and makes delivery feel possible and enjoyable.
Patrick’s proven ability to engage, influence, and align diverse stakeholders from government and communities to executive sponsors perfectly complements his bid leadership capabilities. Whether navigating political sensitivities or building consensus across siloed teams, his stakeholder acumen ensures that his teams are strategically aligned, broadly supported, and positioned for success.
Ahighly experienced stakeholder and project delivery leader, Patrick has delivered complex infrastructure and capital projects across sectors including water, justice, education, health, sustainability, rail, road, PPPs, and market-led proposals.
Beginning his career in the contracting environment, he developed a strong foundation in construction delivery and technical execution before transitioning into project management roles. This unique blend of hands-on experience and strategic leadership enables him to bridge the gap between policy, design, stakeholder concerns, delivery, and long-term operational and legacy outcomes.
Patrick has led cross-functional teams on projects of various scales and complexities, consistently demonstrating strong leadership, clarity under pressure, and a commitment to outcomes. He builds high-performance cultures where teams are empowered, capability is developed, and delivery remains tightly aligned to client and community expectations.
Known for his high emotional intelligence and relational approach, Patrick excels at stakeholder engagement across all levels ensuring early buy-in, continuous alignment, and enduring relationships that extend well beyond project completion. His ability to drive consensus in politically and commercially sensitive environments has directly contributed to accelerated delivery and stronger reputational outcomes.
Patrick thrives in fast-paced, high-stakes environments. His strategic mindset, combined with technical credibility and stakeholder fluency, ensures every project or bid he leads is delivered with excellence and lasting impact.
Skills & Experience
Patrick has a proven ability to build and manage and align relationships with key stakeholders, including clients, regulatory bodies, government agencies, and internal teams. He has successfully led projects that required complex stakeholder coordination, including tender processes, community relations, and regulatory compliance.
Strategic Bid Leadership & Pre-Contracts Management: Proven ability to lead and manage complex, high-value bids from pursuit through to submission, with expertise in bid strategy, pre-contracts planning, and pipeline development.
Business Development & Growth Strategy: A natural intra and entrepreneur with a track record of driving business growth through targeted BD planning, opportunity identification, relationship building, and coaching to uplift team capabilities.
Stakeholder Engagement & Influence: High emotional intelligence with advanced interpersonal skills, enabling effective engagement with executive and board-level stakeholders, community groups, and government agencies to build alignment and trust.
Persuasive Communication & Bid Writing: Creative, analytical, and compelling bid writer with the ability to distil complex technical information into persuasive, client-focused content that resonates with evaluators.
Project Interface & Delivery Alignment: Skilled in aligning infrastructure project goals with stakeholder expectations, delivery feasibility, and long-term operational outcomes ensuring that every bid is grounded in real-world delivery logic.
Leadership, Team Empowerment & Culture Building: Strong team leader who fosters high-performance cultures, builds unity under pressure, and empowers cross-functional teams to thrive in fast-paced, deadline-driven environments.
Negotiation & Relationship Management: Expert in B2B engagement, commercial negotiation, and forming enduring professional relationships that drive repeat work and strategic partnerships.
Sensitive Interface Management & Impact Mitigation: Demonstrated ability to manage sensitive interfaces, mitigate risks, and maintain composure under pressure—ensuring bid continuity and reputational protection even in challenging circumstances.
Cross-Sector Experience: Deep understanding of infrastructure sectors including transport, water, health, energy, education, defence, and civic projects, bringing a broad lens to every pursuit.
RELEVANT PROFESSIONALEXPERIENCE
National Business Development Manager – Agonis Group
In thisTransformative Leadership role at Agonis Group, Patrick led a transformative journey that repositioned the business from a transport-focused consultancy into a diversified, future-ready advisory firm anchored in the water sector and built for long-term impact. By engaging and aligning diverse stakeholders from utilities and Tier 1 partners to government agencies he secured over $2.5M in water sector revenue within two years, winning major clients such as SydneyWater, Melbourne Water, and Coliban Water, and forging trusted delivery partnerships nationally.
Patrick’s leadership style elevated those around him, fostering clarity, momentum, and a high-performance, positive culture that thrived under pressure. He spearheaded Agonis’ strategic diversification into emerging markets while streamlining procurement pathways, deepening client relationships, and opening new growth channels. Through outcome focused leadership, stakeholder fluency, and a strong commitment to people and purpose, Patrick helped position Agonis to lead confidently into the next decade of water infrastructure investment.
Metro Tunnel Interface Project - RMIT University &Rail Projects Victoria $13Bn
As part of one of Australia’s largest infrastructure projects, theMetro Tunnel, Patrick was the University’s key interface with JohnHolland Group (Managing Contractor – Early Works) and the CrossYarra Partnership (CYP), ensuring that RMIT’s operations, reputation, and stakeholder interests were protected and advanced through out the complex multi-year build.
Operating within a highly constrained and high-risk city campus environment, Patrick led the development and implementation of a comprehensive delivery access and operational continuity strategy. His leadership ensured that core university functions including learning, research, commercial activity, and student services remained largely uninterrupted during the life of the project.
Key responsibilities and achievements included:
Stakeholder Interface Manager West GateTunnel Project – Transurban $9Bn
Patrick played a pivotal role in one of Victoria’s most significant infrastructure programs, leading the stakeholder engagement and interface strategy during the Expression of Interest (EOI) and Request for Tender (RFT) phases of the $9+Bn West GateTunnel Project on behalf of Transurban.
As the primary client-side stakeholder interface, Patrick was responsible for navigating the complex interplay between multiple tendering consortia, government agencies, regulators, technical advisors, and Transurban’s project executive leadership. His work ensured that commercial competitiveness, stakeholder alignment, and client requirements were seamlessly integrated into the tender process ultimately shaping the calibre and clarity of bids received.
Key responsibilities and achievements:
Patrick’s leadership during this phase was instrumental in upholding Transurban’s reputation as a transparent and effective infrastructure partner in the early days of the ‘’Vic Big Build’’ as the projects viability was questioned heavily during this phase, while empowering tendering parties to put forward competitive, compliant, and stakeholder-informed bids. His high emotional intelligence, strategic communication skills, and deep understanding of major project delivery dynamics were essential to the successful progression of one of Victoria’s most transformative transport infrastructure projects.
Program Lead – RMIT Asset Lifecycle Renewals Program
Patrick played a critical role in delivering RMIT’s Asset Lifecycle Replacement (ALCR)Program an essential capital renewal initiative targeting critical infrastructure upgrades across the University’s City, Brunswick, and Bundoora campuses.
The program involved delivering highly intrusive capital upgrades to critical mechanical, electrical, and HVAC systems within some of RMIT’s most sensitive and high-specification operational environments. This included the careful shutdown and decanting of specialized facilities such as advanced micro- and nano-research labs with strictly controlled climate conditions, the complex B7 Level 4 laboratory, controversial animal testing and breeding facilities housing lab rats, and a secure storage area for radioactive materials. Managing these upgrades required meticulous planning, rigorous stakeholder coordination, and clear communication to safely navigate shutdowns and power isolations while ensuring the protection of hazardous materials and maintaining operational continuity across the live teaching and research campus.
As the Program Lead for multiple major works packages, Patrick led the end-to-end delivery of complex upgrade projects balancing construction risk, safety compliance, and program certainty, while ensuring alignment across diverse stakeholder groups.
Key responsibilities and achievements:
Patrick’s stakeholder leadership and deep understanding of operational interfaces were key to the program’s success enabling critical infrastructure upgrades to be delivered with minimal disruption to the University’s day-to-day operations. His ability to lead in complex, politically sensitive and live environments reinforced his reputation as a trusted delivery lead made successful by his strong stakeholder acumen.
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) – Sustainable Urban Precincts Program
Patrick played a critical leadership role in delivering the Sustainable Urban Precincts Program (SUPP) at RMIT delivered under an Energy Performance Contract (EPC), this $120M initiative stands as the largest sustainability retrofit program of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere. The program focused on transforming RMIT’s campuses through comprehensive HV and system upgrades to dramatically improve energy efficiency and environmental performance.
Joining during the program’s highly complex delivery phase, Patrick expertly managed 32 distinct works packages while navigating critical and sensitive interfaces, including the construction of RMIT’s New Academic Street (NAS) redevelopment and the Melbourne Metro Rail Authority tunnelling works. (which led to his appointment as the Metro Tunnell Interface Manager)
This transformative program encompassed:
Patrick’s leadership demanded meticulous co-ordination, stakeholder engagement, and risk mitigation within a live, operational university environment that required zero tolerance for disruption. His core responsibilities included:
Patrick’s program leadership and stakeholder management excellence were instrumental in delivering one of the most ambitious sustainability infrastructure upgrades in the Southern Hemisphere achieved on time, within budget, and without compromising the university’s mission-critical functions.
Level Crossing Removal Project (LXRP) –TRAX Asset Renewals System Trial
As part of the Victorian Government’s Level Crossing Removal Project, Patrick was appointed Project Manager to lead the trial deployment of the TRAX digital commissioning system during the Pakenham rail occupation a live, high-risk environment involving complex signalling, asset renewals, and strict delivery windows.
While the TRAX platform represented a significant shift from traditional hand written signalling and commissioning records to real-time, mobile-enabled digital tracking, this was not a tech rollout it was a stakeholder interface, alignment, and behavioural change exercise.
A self-proclaimed non-tech enthusiast, Patrick was nonetheless tasked with managing the complex initiative not for his technical or coding skills, but because of his proven ability to align diverse, often siloed stakeholders and drive consensus under pressure. This assignment required. bridging the gap between operational field teams, digital system developers, and a wide spectrum of transport authorities and delivery partners, including:
Patrick’s leadership was instrumental in:
The result was a successful trial of the TRAX app that enabled:
This project wasn’t just a milestone in digital commissioning it was a case study in stakeholder navigation, delivery leadership, and cross-agency coordination. Patrick’s ability to lead with empathy, clarity, and calm under pressure turned a contentious change into a success story paving the way for broader rollout across the transport network.
Client Interface Lead | Sydney Water –Malabar Project
Patrick was engaged as the client-facing Project Manager and Interface Lead for this high-priority advisory assignment, supporting Sydney Water’s planning and decision-making for the future cross-city wastewater transfer between Liverpool and Malabar one of the largest and most complex infrastructure proposals in Sydney Water’s pipeline.
The engagement focused on very technical disciplines such as constructability analysis, first-principles cost estimation, and schedule alignment to assess the feasibility of multiple construction methodologies. Patrick led the delivery team and was the key conduit between technical specialists and Sydney Water’s senior leadership, including direct engagement with the Project Director, program sponsors, and business case owners.
What set Patrick apart on this assignment was his facilitation of critical stakeholder alignment across a complex, high-stakes regulatory and operational environment. He led the constructability options assessment for solution. As a core component of the project, Patrick led a multi-agency stakeholder workshops, bringing together:
These workshops were not just tick-the-box sessions, Patrick created a forum for early alignment on environmental, regulatory, and logistical constraints that could derail the project if not proactively managed. His ability to translate complex technical content into meaningful discussions for diverse stakeholders helped surface critical risks and opportunities early, shaping the feasibility work into a business case-ready recommendation.
Key outcomes of Patrick’s leadership included:
This assignment demonstrated Patrick’s unique ability to blend deep infrastructure delivery knowledge with high-level stakeholder diplomacy ensuring not only the technical robustness of the project but also its political, operational, and community viability.
Munster Technological University
Master of Science - Construction Project Management
Munster Technological University
Bachelor of Science - Quantity Surveying (Honours)
Waterford Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Science - Construction Economics
Patrick is a highly competent and compelling bid manager, regularly trusted with leading large-scale, high-value, and strategically critical pursuits. His energising and empowering leadership style transforms bid teams into cohesive, high-functioning units even under extreme pressure and tight deadlines. Patrick creates a fun, positive, and purpose-driven environment that unlocks creativity, accelerates output, and consistently delivers exceptional results.He doesn't just manage the process. he solves complex problems, uplifts people on the journey, and makes delivery feel possible and enjoyable.
Patrick’s proven ability to engage, influence, and align diverse stakeholders from government and communities to executive sponsors perfectly complements his bid leadership capabilities. Whether navigating political sensitivities or building consensus across siloed teams, his stakeholder acumen ensures that his teams are strategically aligned, broadly supported, and positioned for success.
Ahighly experienced stakeholder and project delivery leader, Patrick has delivered complex infrastructure and capital projects across sectors including water, justice, education, health, sustainability, rail, road, PPPs, and market-led proposals.
Beginning his career in the contracting environment, he developed a strong foundation in construction delivery and technical execution before transitioning into project management roles. This unique blend of hands-on experience and strategic leadership enables him to bridge the gap between policy, design, stakeholder concerns, delivery, and long-term operational and legacy outcomes.
Patrick has led cross-functional teams on projects of various scales and complexities, consistently demonstrating strong leadership, clarity under pressure, and a commitment to outcomes. He builds high-performance cultures where teams are empowered, capability is developed, and delivery remains tightly aligned to client and community expectations.
Known for his high emotional intelligence and relational approach, Patrick excels at stakeholder engagement across all levels ensuring early buy-in, continuous alignment, and enduring relationships that extend well beyond project completion. His ability to drive consensus in politically and commercially sensitive environments has directly contributed to accelerated delivery and stronger reputational outcomes.
Patrick thrives in fast-paced, high-stakes environments. His strategic mindset, combined with technical credibility and stakeholder fluency, ensures every project or bid he leads is delivered with excellence and lasting impact.
Skills & Experience
Patrick has a proven ability to build and manage and align relationships with key stakeholders, including clients, regulatory bodies, government agencies, and internal teams. He has successfully led projects that required complex stakeholder coordination, including tender processes, community relations, and regulatory compliance.
Strategic Bid Leadership & Pre-Contracts Management: Proven ability to lead and manage complex, high-value bids from pursuit through to submission, with expertise in bid strategy, pre-contracts planning, and pipeline development.
Business Development & Growth Strategy: A natural intra and entrepreneur with a track record of driving business growth through targeted BD planning, opportunity identification, relationship building, and coaching to uplift team capabilities.
Stakeholder Engagement & Influence: High emotional intelligence with advanced interpersonal skills, enabling effective engagement with executive and board-level stakeholders, community groups, and government agencies to build alignment and trust.
Persuasive Communication & Bid Writing: Creative, analytical, and compelling bid writer with the ability to distil complex technical information into persuasive, client-focused content that resonates with evaluators.
Project Interface & Delivery Alignment: Skilled in aligning infrastructure project goals with stakeholder expectations, delivery feasibility, and long-term operational outcomes ensuring that every bid is grounded in real-world delivery logic.
Leadership, Team Empowerment & Culture Building: Strong team leader who fosters high-performance cultures, builds unity under pressure, and empowers cross-functional teams to thrive in fast-paced, deadline-driven environments.
Negotiation & Relationship Management: Expert in B2B engagement, commercial negotiation, and forming enduring professional relationships that drive repeat work and strategic partnerships.
Sensitive Interface Management & Impact Mitigation: Demonstrated ability to manage sensitive interfaces, mitigate risks, and maintain composure under pressure—ensuring bid continuity and reputational protection even in challenging circumstances.
Cross-Sector Experience: Deep understanding of infrastructure sectors including transport, water, health, energy, education, defence, and civic projects, bringing a broad lens to every pursuit.
RELEVANT PROFESSIONALEXPERIENCE
National Business Development Manager – Agonis Group
In thisTransformative Leadership role at Agonis Group, Patrick led a transformative journey that repositioned the business from a transport-focused consultancy into a diversified, future-ready advisory firm anchored in the water sector and built for long-term impact. By engaging and aligning diverse stakeholders from utilities and Tier 1 partners to government agencies he secured over $2.5M in water sector revenue within two years, winning major clients such as SydneyWater, Melbourne Water, and Coliban Water, and forging trusted delivery partnerships nationally.
Patrick’s leadership style elevated those around him, fostering clarity, momentum, and a high-performance, positive culture that thrived under pressure. He spearheaded Agonis’ strategic diversification into emerging markets while streamlining procurement pathways, deepening client relationships, and opening new growth channels. Through outcome focused leadership, stakeholder fluency, and a strong commitment to people and purpose, Patrick helped position Agonis to lead confidently into the next decade of water infrastructure investment.
Metro Tunnel Interface Project - RMIT University &Rail Projects Victoria $13Bn
As part of one of Australia’s largest infrastructure projects, theMetro Tunnel, Patrick was the University’s key interface with JohnHolland Group (Managing Contractor – Early Works) and the CrossYarra Partnership (CYP), ensuring that RMIT’s operations, reputation, and stakeholder interests were protected and advanced through out the complex multi-year build.
Operating within a highly constrained and high-risk city campus environment, Patrick led the development and implementation of a comprehensive delivery access and operational continuity strategy. His leadership ensured that core university functions including learning, research, commercial activity, and student services remained largely uninterrupted during the life of the project.
Key responsibilities and achievements included:
Stakeholder Interface Manager West GateTunnel Project – Transurban $9Bn
Patrick played a pivotal role in one of Victoria’s most significant infrastructure programs, leading the stakeholder engagement and interface strategy during the Expression of Interest (EOI) and Request for Tender (RFT) phases of the $9+Bn West GateTunnel Project on behalf of Transurban.
As the primary client-side stakeholder interface, Patrick was responsible for navigating the complex interplay between multiple tendering consortia, government agencies, regulators, technical advisors, and Transurban’s project executive leadership. His work ensured that commercial competitiveness, stakeholder alignment, and client requirements were seamlessly integrated into the tender process ultimately shaping the calibre and clarity of bids received.
Key responsibilities and achievements:
Patrick’s leadership during this phase was instrumental in upholding Transurban’s reputation as a transparent and effective infrastructure partner in the early days of the ‘’Vic Big Build’’ as the projects viability was questioned heavily during this phase, while empowering tendering parties to put forward competitive, compliant, and stakeholder-informed bids. His high emotional intelligence, strategic communication skills, and deep understanding of major project delivery dynamics were essential to the successful progression of one of Victoria’s most transformative transport infrastructure projects.
Program Lead – RMIT Asset Lifecycle Renewals Program
Patrick played a critical role in delivering RMIT’s Asset Lifecycle Replacement (ALCR)Program an essential capital renewal initiative targeting critical infrastructure upgrades across the University’s City, Brunswick, and Bundoora campuses.
The program involved delivering highly intrusive capital upgrades to critical mechanical, electrical, and HVAC systems within some of RMIT’s most sensitive and high-specification operational environments. This included the careful shutdown and decanting of specialized facilities such as advanced micro- and nano-research labs with strictly controlled climate conditions, the complex B7 Level 4 laboratory, controversial animal testing and breeding facilities housing lab rats, and a secure storage area for radioactive materials. Managing these upgrades required meticulous planning, rigorous stakeholder coordination, and clear communication to safely navigate shutdowns and power isolations while ensuring the protection of hazardous materials and maintaining operational continuity across the live teaching and research campus.
As the Program Lead for multiple major works packages, Patrick led the end-to-end delivery of complex upgrade projects balancing construction risk, safety compliance, and program certainty, while ensuring alignment across diverse stakeholder groups.
Key responsibilities and achievements:
Patrick’s stakeholder leadership and deep understanding of operational interfaces were key to the program’s success enabling critical infrastructure upgrades to be delivered with minimal disruption to the University’s day-to-day operations. His ability to lead in complex, politically sensitive and live environments reinforced his reputation as a trusted delivery lead made successful by his strong stakeholder acumen.
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) – Sustainable Urban Precincts Program
Patrick played a critical leadership role in delivering the Sustainable Urban Precincts Program (SUPP) at RMIT delivered under an Energy Performance Contract (EPC), this $120M initiative stands as the largest sustainability retrofit program of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere. The program focused on transforming RMIT’s campuses through comprehensive HV and system upgrades to dramatically improve energy efficiency and environmental performance.
Joining during the program’s highly complex delivery phase, Patrick expertly managed 32 distinct works packages while navigating critical and sensitive interfaces, including the construction of RMIT’s New Academic Street (NAS) redevelopment and the Melbourne Metro Rail Authority tunnelling works. (which led to his appointment as the Metro Tunnell Interface Manager)
This transformative program encompassed:
Patrick’s leadership demanded meticulous co-ordination, stakeholder engagement, and risk mitigation within a live, operational university environment that required zero tolerance for disruption. His core responsibilities included:
Patrick’s program leadership and stakeholder management excellence were instrumental in delivering one of the most ambitious sustainability infrastructure upgrades in the Southern Hemisphere achieved on time, within budget, and without compromising the university’s mission-critical functions.
Level Crossing Removal Project (LXRP) –TRAX Asset Renewals System Trial
As part of the Victorian Government’s Level Crossing Removal Project, Patrick was appointed Project Manager to lead the trial deployment of the TRAX digital commissioning system during the Pakenham rail occupation a live, high-risk environment involving complex signalling, asset renewals, and strict delivery windows.
While the TRAX platform represented a significant shift from traditional hand written signalling and commissioning records to real-time, mobile-enabled digital tracking, this was not a tech rollout it was a stakeholder interface, alignment, and behavioural change exercise.
A self-proclaimed non-tech enthusiast, Patrick was nonetheless tasked with managing the complex initiative not for his technical or coding skills, but because of his proven ability to align diverse, often siloed stakeholders and drive consensus under pressure. This assignment required. bridging the gap between operational field teams, digital system developers, and a wide spectrum of transport authorities and delivery partners, including:
Patrick’s leadership was instrumental in:
The result was a successful trial of the TRAX app that enabled:
This project wasn’t just a milestone in digital commissioning it was a case study in stakeholder navigation, delivery leadership, and cross-agency coordination. Patrick’s ability to lead with empathy, clarity, and calm under pressure turned a contentious change into a success story paving the way for broader rollout across the transport network.
Client Interface Lead | Sydney Water –Malabar Project
Patrick was engaged as the client-facing Project Manager and Interface Lead for this high-priority advisory assignment, supporting Sydney Water’s planning and decision-making for the future cross-city wastewater transfer between Liverpool and Malabar one of the largest and most complex infrastructure proposals in Sydney Water’s pipeline.
The engagement focused on very technical disciplines such as constructability analysis, first-principles cost estimation, and schedule alignment to assess the feasibility of multiple construction methodologies. Patrick led the delivery team and was the key conduit between technical specialists and Sydney Water’s senior leadership, including direct engagement with the Project Director, program sponsors, and business case owners.
What set Patrick apart on this assignment was his facilitation of critical stakeholder alignment across a complex, high-stakes regulatory and operational environment. He led the constructability options assessment for solution. As a core component of the project, Patrick led a multi-agency stakeholder workshops, bringing together:
These workshops were not just tick-the-box sessions, Patrick created a forum for early alignment on environmental, regulatory, and logistical constraints that could derail the project if not proactively managed. His ability to translate complex technical content into meaningful discussions for diverse stakeholders helped surface critical risks and opportunities early, shaping the feasibility work into a business case-ready recommendation.
Key outcomes of Patrick’s leadership included:
This assignment demonstrated Patrick’s unique ability to blend deep infrastructure delivery knowledge with high-level stakeholder diplomacy ensuring not only the technical robustness of the project but also its political, operational, and community viability.