Jim heads up Catchment Services and is responsible for the efficient running of the crews on the ground and tendering for projects.  Jim has worked for the company for over 6 years and in the natural resource industry for over 20 years.  Jim is adept at project management, cost control, human resourcing, risk management, procurement and workplace health and safety.

With forestry as a passion, Jim brings a different viewpoint on managing natural areas.   Combined with a talent for business development, Jim has managed the continued growth of Catchment Services and was recently commended with the Sunshine Coast Council announcing Catchment Services to be one of their top suppliers.

When Jim is not busy with his project coordination, he can be found rehabilitating a koala habitat in Doonan.

Qualifications:

• Associate Diploma in Engineering Surveying
• Associate Diploma Applied Science in Forestry
• Cert IV Training and Assessment
• Blue Card
• Senior First Aid and CPR
• Construction White Card
• ACDC
• Chainsaw Level 2

Kay has extensive experience in the environment and engineering space. She has worked on programs in Australia and New Zealand including multi-stakeholder projects with complex procurement and delivery methodologies.

Kay has worked on for purpose ventures   including TEDX, Scattered People, Starlight Foundation and Power of Engineering (targeted at female students before they make their senior subject selections). She has also been responsible for CSR funding allocations for indigenous housing projects and wetland restitution and developed and run innovative targeted professional community and stakeholder engagement strategies and events.

Stakeholders include: Government Ministers and Councillors, corporate and public service professionals, CEOs of major infrastructure and property companies, professional associations and venue operators and universities.

Qualifications:

• BAdmin (Marketing)

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Sandy has been working for ECOllaboration since 2000. This work began with the Paynters Creek catchment restoration project, followed by a threatened frog monitoring and restoration project. Sandy set up and coordinated the Sunshine Coast Qld Environmentally Sustainable Schools Initiative (QESSI) Hub. More recently she has been promoting and coordinating the curriculum linked Eco Education field trips and workshops we deliver to schools.

Prior to starting work at ECOllaboration, she was the Waste Education Officer and one of the founding directors of Reverse Garbage at West End in Brisbane. Sandy held the position of president of the Peninsula Environment Group in Redcliffe for a number of years in the 1990s during which time she helped conduct campaigns to protect marine and bushland habitat. It became clear to her that following the short term success of a number of these campaigns, the longer term future of our natural ecosystems would only be secured with a change in community values towards the importance of protecting them. This realization inspired Sandy to undertake the Environmental Education Masters and change her career direction. Her Master’s dissertation involved a case study of the Brisbane City Council’s Blackfellas Whitefellas Community & Environmental Arts Project at the Boondall Wetlands. She worked for many years as a medical scientist in various Brisbane hospitals prior to this career change.

Many things shaped her current commitment and passion towards caring for the environment and they included being a Girl Guide and realizing human health is intrinsically linked to a healthy environment. Completing an Outward Bound course in her late twenties helped develop her resilience. The course involved spending four weeks travelling overland – backpacking, canoeing, caving and abseiling, from Mt Kosciusko in NSW to Orbost on the south coast of Victoria.

Sandy and her husband Joseph have been Waterwatch monitors for over 10 years. They spend many hours on a regular basis helping to restore the streambank along Whalley Creek in Nambour and have made a commitment to live more sustainably. The actions they’ve adopted as part of this commitment include: Sharing one small car, holidaying in Australia, being energy wise, installing solar hot water and a solar power 1.5 kW system, using rainwater tanks, having a fruit and vegetable garden and minimizing purchases that have packaging.

In her spare time Sandy enjoys gardening, learning french, watching art house movies and playing the marimba and violin.

Qualifications:

• Master of Environmental Education,
• Bachelor of Science
• Certificate IV in Water Testing and
• Certificate IV in Workplace Training & Assessment.

Extensive on-ground knowledge and skills relating to natural resource management and revegetation techniques.  On-ground human resource management, daily deployment and reporting.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science in Urban Horticulture
• Cert IV TAE
• Senior First Aid and CPR
• Construction White Card
• ACDC
• Chainsaw Level 1
• Blue Card

Extensive on-ground knowledge and skills relating to natural resource management and revegetation techniques.  On-ground human resource management, daily deployment and reporting.

Qualifications:

• Master of Science
• Bachelor of Biological Science
• Cert IV Conservation and Land Management
• Cert IV TAE
• Blue Card
• Senior First Aid and CPR
• Construction White Card
• ACDC
• Chainsaw Level 2
• Snake Handling