Meet The Team

He spent a lot of time in his school years working on the dairy farm with his parents which gave him a good base knowledge of agriculture. After finishing school at Mt Hutt College Methven, Todd went on to gain a Diploma in Mechanical Engineering from CPIT then a Degree in Mechanical Engineering from The University of Canterbury both in Christchurch.

During his engineering studies Todd developed a passion for agricultural mechanisation and engineering design. The highlight of his studies being a final year project which involved the development of a tractor mounted lavender harvesting machine for which he was awarded Outstanding Engineering in an Individual Project. The project went from initial research, concepts, design and engineering analysis right through to building and commissing the machine.

Todd gained his practical engineering and fabrication skills through spending all of his holidays from study during the year at Plucks Engineering in Rakaia. He then practiced his proffesional engineering in the R&D department at Clough Engineering in Timaru. Summer holidays were dedicated to working for Andrew Jackson Contracting, which he thoroughly enjoyed and always looked forward to! After completing studies Todd headed overseas with a friend, spending time working in Ireland and travelling to many countries.

During the time after studies he had met Madeleine who is from Sweden, and after a few trips to Sweden (to win her over!) they decided to move back to NZ. Todd then took up a full time position with Andrew Jackson Contracting and the rest is history!

Both Kelvin and myself have our own businesses, I assist local businesses with their accounts and Kelvin is an Agricultural Contractor. I have spent half of my working life, so far in England, where I worked mainly as a sub-contractor writing financial accounting systems for Blue Chip Companies. One day when I woke up I realised how beautiful New Zealand really is for living and moved back here. Originally from the North Island I decided the South had a much less hectic lifestyle than London.

In London I had a team of 3 persons who I managed within the company, they would work with me at the different clients we had, preparing a system that would produce a set of Management and Statutory Accounts for that clients individual needs. Once the systems were completed at different stages I would travel to where the clients subsidiaries were (mainly in countries like Africa, and in Europe), and train the subsidiary companies how to report to the head office in their new Management/Statutory Accounting system.

During the last 2 years while my daughter has been at the local pre-school I have been actively involved with the pre-school by sitting on the Board. As my daughter moves onto school I am looking into how I can get involved in the community in a different way.