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Amelia Lee Chee

Auckland,New Zealand

Summary

Human connection and collaboration are a core part of my personal and professional ethos. My experience in the professional workforce over the last two and a half years, has exposed me to the complexities that make up the social housing and infrastructure landscape of Aotearoa NZ. Having gained a deeper understanding of the discrepancies that exists within the socio-economic realities of our society, I now have a passion for strategic thinking of developments and a desire to develop a skillset that would enable me to contribute towards a better urban environment for people.

I am a high performing and passionate professional with a solid dedication to work excellence and continuous improvement and growth inside and outside of the work place. A strong sense of initiative, drive and interpersonal skills.

Overview

3
3
years of professional experience

Work History

Urban Designer Assistant

Kāinga Ora
Auckland, New Zealand
09.2023 - Current
  • Provides urban design advice and support for the delivery of all aspects of Kāinga Ora’s work that involve an urban design component
  • This involves working across Kāinga Ora’s state house program as well as delivery of market and affordable housing and other urban development activities
  • Spatial feasibility input into Kāinga Ora residential developments, providing site analysis and preliminary concepts for potential development projects
  • Neighborhood Planning offers a holistic view on redevelopment and outlines the investment strategy
  • Masterplanning neighbourhoods to improve CPTED and connections and access to town centres and community infrastructure

Research Assistant

Kāinga Ora
Auckland, New Zealand
08.2022 - Current
  • Refreshed and evaluated communal spaces internal guide, generating an evaluation report with key findings for strategic planning and decision-making.
  • Aligned strategic direction with local councils nationwide through curating cycle parking guides
  • Over all this taught me skills in Stakeholder relationships: communications with internal and external stakeholders to ensure correct solutions are provided. Allowing me to contributing to the success of Kāinga Ora’s urban development goals

Graduate Urban Designer

Kāinga Ora
Auckland
01.2023 - 09.2024
  • Providing strategic and specialist expertise on urban planning and urban design, playing a key role in supporting our place-based planning teams when identifying, investigating, and developing proposals for large-scale and complex projects and spatial planning exercises
  • Master Planning: ranging from sites scattered throughout a neighborhood to 190+ units on a singular site.
  • Multi-unit site layout: three units - 30 units
  • Co-design with community stakeholders

Advisor Development Strategist - Graduate

Kainga Ora
Auckland, Auclkand
03.2023 - 08.2024
  • Bringing together functions dedicated to service delivery, customer and community engagement and regional planning in defined spatial areas, as well as integrating the broader operations of Kāinga Ora in Auckland and Northland regions of New Zealand.
  • Financial feasibility: initial development decision whether to invest in the project.
  • Investment Strategy: Neighborhood/ regional planning of housing typologies to fit the needs of customers whilst considering site constraints and financial metrics.

Assistant Development Manager

Kainga Ora
Auckland, New Zealand
09.2022 - 03.2023
  • Responsible for leading pre construction developmene tmanagement to produce high quality housing solutions that meet the needs of our communities, now and in the future, and driving innovation across the construction sector
  • Project Management: managing consultants and contractors through design phases through to Building Consent Procurement: overseeing procurement through the NZ GOVT procurement procedures Business Case writing: Simple ($3-$30m) and Standard ($30-$50m) projects Financial feasibility: value engineering with contractors

Additional services

Kainga Ora
Auckland, New Zealand
02.2022 - 09.2022
  • Alongside my BAU work, I worked on business initiatives, allowing me to collaborate with other people, learn more skills and contribute to the business
  • 4 Units and Under Tool: a tool used within Kainga Ora to advise site layout at a preliminary design stage with consideration of planning controls, density, communal areas, solar orientation, and good urban design outcomes.
  • Urbanism NZ 2023 conference: Kainga Ora booth design consisting of content, storytelling, layout, and aesthetic

Education

Diploma of Master of Architecture -

Auckland University of Technology
01.2022

Bachelor of Art and Design -

Auckland University of Technology
01.2020

Skills

  • Adobe Suite
  • AutoCAD
  • Esri ArchGIS
  • Microsoft Applications
  • Excell
  • Rhinoceros 3D
  • Estate Master (Investment tool)

Accomplishments

GPA, 6.5

Communityexperience

  • Les Mills, Auckland, New Zealand, Jan 2020, Jan 2021, Group Fitness Instructor, I was a Les Mills instructor for a year. Competing modules, quarterly upskilling workshops, and constant mentor feedback sessions, I was able to host ‘Body Combat’ group fitness classes.
  • Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand, Feb 2018, Dec 2021, Student Ambassador, Acting as the voice of my peers, I was able to represent the School of Art and Design in wider University decisions. Along with this, I on boarded new students and hosted orientation days.

Hobbies and Interests

  • Sport/ Physical Activity
  • Networking
  • Technology and Software's

References

Reference on request 

Timeline

Urban Designer Assistant

Kāinga Ora
09.2023 - Current

Advisor Development Strategist - Graduate

Kainga Ora
03.2023 - 08.2024

Graduate Urban Designer

Kāinga Ora
01.2023 - 09.2024

Assistant Development Manager

Kainga Ora
09.2022 - 03.2023

Research Assistant

Kāinga Ora
08.2022 - Current

Additional services

Kainga Ora
02.2022 - 09.2022

Diploma of Master of Architecture -

Auckland University of Technology

Bachelor of Art and Design -

Auckland University of Technology
Amelia Lee Chee