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RED has established one of the most experienced teams of fire engineers in the world. ​We are continuing to improve our structures so that you will always get the best service.  

Tobias Salomonsson

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Managing Director
Tobias has more than 25 years of  experience in the fire engineering and fire brigade operations field. With two university degrees and a background as a fire fighter, RED’s Managing Director brings a wealth of experience to the table.

Tobias Salomonsson
MSc (Risk) BSc (Fire), MIEAust, CPEng, NER (Fire Safety) 3496582, RPEQ (Fire Safety) 18676, PE0001458 (Fire Safety), Certifier - Fire Safety BDC​

Language: English and Swedish

Mobile: +61 402 029 600
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Blair Stratton

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DIRECTOR
​Blair specialises in performance based fire safety engineering design. His consulting career in the fire and risk engineering field has spanned more than 20 years. He is known in the business for his extreme professionalism, meticulous nature, and his outstanding customer satisfaction record.

Blair Stratton
MEFE, BE (Hons), MIEAust, CPEng, CPEng (NZ), NER (Building Services and Fire Safety) 3164810, RPEQ (Building Services and Fire Safety) 9742, PE0003369 (Fire Safety) Certifier-Fire Safety
BDC 1877, FRM-075 (Fire Safety Engineer and Auditor), MSFS
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Language: English

Kevin Tsai

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DIRECTOR
​Kevin is a Chartered Professional Engineer and has over 15 years experience in performance- based fire safety engineering design in a wide variety of projects. With experience in Advanced CFD fire and smoke modelling, carpark ventilation solutions and fire safe design of timber structures, he also specialises in providing fire safety designs for heritage buildings. 

Kevin Tsai
MEFE, BE(Hons), MIEAust,
CPEng, NER (Fire Safety) 3899744, MSFS, RPEQ (Fire Safety) 28322, PE0000390 (Fire Safety), FRM-129 (Fire Safety Engineer and Auditor), BSP-I EFS ​613732460

​Language: English, Chinese and Hokkien  

Ulf Johansson

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DIRECTOR
​​Ulf is a Chartered Professional Engineer and has over 15 years of experience in fire safety engineer from both Australia and Sweden. He combines his background in risk and systems safety to widen the range of solutions by using fire risk assessments. He is also a specialist in performance-based assessments such as advanced smoke spread modelling (e.g. FDS), egress modelling and structural fire assessments. One of Ulf’s passions is alternative fire safety designs of ventilation and smoke control systems. 
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Ulf Johansson
MSc (Risk) BSc (Fire), MIEAust, CPEng, NER (Fire Safety), MSFS,
PEE0002450 (Fire Safety),
FRM-128 (Fire Safety Engineer and Auditor), BSP-I EFS 145924304,
RPEQ (Building Services and Fire Safety) 20859
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Language: English and Swedish

MC Hui

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Technical Director
With over 45 years of experience in the fire safety and fire protection industry, MC specialises in performance-based fire safety designs and fire risk assessments for a wide range of built environment ranging from residential buildings to industrial facilities as well as infrastructure projects. MC has also been a guest lecturer in FSE at Victoria University and Western Sydney University on their postgraduate courses.

MC Hui
MEng (Building Fire Safety & Risk Engineering), BSc (Eng)(Hons), CPEng, CEng, NER (Fire Safety & Mechanical Engineer) 90181, PE0003501 (Fire Safety), Certifier - Fire Safety BDC 1721, RPEQ (Fire Safety & Mechanical) 21104, FRM-024 (Fire Safety Engineer and Auditor), FIEAust, FIFireE, MSFPE, MSFS
Member of the Building Appeals Board
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Language: English and Cantonese

Aaron Nicholson

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TECHNICAL DIRECTOR
​With a career entirely within Fire Safety Engineering Aaron brings over 20 years Fire Engineering design experience across a wide range of sectors including Education, Tourism, Entertainment, Commercial Buildings, Retail, Health, Transportation infrastructure and Telecommunication sectors among others. Aaron maintains an active profile in the Australian Fire Engineering community as a member of the Engineers Australia Society of Fire Safety and Member of the Australian Branch of the Society of Fire Protection Engineers.

Aaron Nicholson
BSc(Fire Science), PMSFPE, MSFS, CMEngNZ, PE0005598 (Fire Safety), RPEQ (Fire Safety) 27810
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Language: English​

​Magdalena Angerd

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Technical Director
Magdalena has been practising as a fire safety engineer in Sydney since 2000. She specialises in performance- based fire safety engineering for buildings and infrastructure. She has extensive experience of the building design process and stakeholder interaction with the design team and approval authorities. Her technical expertise includes fire dynamics, human behaviour in fire, evacuation and smoke spread modelling and risk assessment. 

Magdalena Angerd
​BSc (Fire), MIEAust, CPEng, NER (Building Services and Fire Safety) 2395456,
RPEQ (Building Services and Fire Safety) 11790,
Certifier - Fire Safety BDC 0521, DEP0000166 (Fire Safety Engineer), PRE0000157 (Fire Safety), PE0001282 (Fire Safety), PE 00300001426 (Fire Safety)​
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Language: English and Swedish

Chris Mauch

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Associate Director
Chris has been practicing as a Fire Safety Engineer since 2011 working in the United States, New Zealand and within Australia since 2015. He has gained a reputation as being a pragmatic and ethical engineer who provides a high level of service to his clients. His portfolio includes work within many building classifications such as high-rise and super high-rise buildings, mixed-use buildings, shopping centres, and transportation complexes. Chris also has extensive experience assessing buildings with combustible cladding and bringing these buildings into compliance.

Chris Mauch
MSc (Fire), BSc (Fire), CPEng, MIEAust, CPEng, NER (Fire Safety), PE
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Language: English

Mo Moradi

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Regional Manager (NSW) & Associate Fire engineer
Mo is a Charted Professional Engineer in our Sydney office and has over 14 years of experience as a Fire Engineer from both Australia and UK. Mo has experience in a broad range of projects with various sizes and complexities such as shopping centres, residential real estate, commercial buildings, hospitals and industrial projects.

Mo Moradi
MSc, BEng (Hons), MIEAust,
CPEng, Certifier - Fire Safety BDC 3187, NER (Fire Safety & Mechanical) 4412838, PE0001924 (Fire Safety),
RPEQ (Fire Safety & Mechanical) 17743, MSFS, DEP0000363 (Fire Safety Engineer), PRE0000350 (Fire Safety)
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Language: English

Jarl Skold

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REGIONAL MANAGER (VIC) & Associate fire engineer
Jarl has more than 17 years of Australian and Swedish Fire Safety experience and specialises in leading and coordinating teams across different disciplines to provide fire safety and risk management solutions. Jarl has worked across a variety of projects where his solid theoretical foundation in fire dynamics and advanced computer modelling, paired with practical experience with the fire brigade in Sweden has enabled him to deliver successful outcomes to challenging problems.

Jarl Skold
BSc (Fire), MIEAust, Certifier – Fire Safety, Registered Professional Engineer Victoria (Fire Safety), Fire risk management accredited

Language: English and Swedish

Andrew Tsui

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Regional Manager (QLD) &
Associate FIRE ENGINEER
A senior Fire Safety Engineer with more than 20 years of experience in performance based and prescriptive fire engineering design in Australia and New Zealand.

Andrew is experienced in buildings with high occupant number and complex evacuation strategies. Andrew endeavours to incorporate his construction monitoring experience to his design.

Andrew Tsui
MEFE, BE(Hons), BSc, MIEAust, CPEng, NER (Fire Safety) 3405724, RPEQ (Fire Safety) 28287, PE0008005 (Fire Safety), MSFS
 
Language: English and Cantonese

Anna Önnebo

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MARKETING & OPERATIONAL MANAGER
​Anna has a Masters Degree in Law and several years of experience in Business Development and Management. Her strengths are her organisational skills and her experience in HR matters as well as financial controlling.   

Anna Önnebo
Language: English and Swedish
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Mobile: +61 413 779 535

Eleonore Snell

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commercial operations manager
Elle has broad experience in many commercial business functions having led operations across sales administration, logistics, finance and marketing in a variety of sectors including interior design, engineering and automotive; both locally and internationally. With her strategic business mind, organisational skills and positive spirit she suits our team very well.

Eleonore Snell
Language: English, Swedish and German

Craig Mills

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​SENIOR FIRE ENGINEER &  Technical specialist
Craig has been developing performance-based fire engineered solutions for over 20 years. During this time he has developed strong relationships with authorities and building designers alike. Craig is known for his ethical approach and his ability to develop pragmatic solutions to complex problems.   
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Craig Mills

MEFE, BE(Hons), PE0003120 (Fire Safety),  MIEAust, FRM-135 (Fire Safety Engineer and Auditor)

Language: English, Afrikaans and Dutch​

Dr Ian Raymond

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Manager of Environmental and Industrial Risk & senior fire Engineer
Ian come to RED in 2021 with a depth of experience working on Defence projects, primarily in the naval/shipbuilding space. Over his 14 years in defence, he developed various standards / system requirement sets for various naval fire safety systems. Additionally, he conducted several fire investigations into naval fire incidences. He developed and conducted cold and live fire tests of various fixed and manual firefighting systems. Also, he regularly commissioned and evaluate fire safety systems on naval platforms. These outputs at times were used to develop fire safety studies / cases.
At RED, Ian has focussed on Dangerous Goods sites and Industrial facilities, including recycling sites and solar power plants.
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Dr Ian Raymond
Senior Fire Safety Consultant
BSc (Hons), ME (Res), PhD, IEng (IFE) MIEAust, CPEng, NER (Fire Safety) 2122415


Language: English
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Clive Dayao

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​Associate Fire Engineer
Clive has over 10 years of experience as a Fire Safety Engineer and building code official in Australia and the Middle East. As a building plan and design evaluator in Qatar Civil Defence Clive was involved in drafting their fire safety guidelines.  In Australia his experience includes the design of complex rail and building projects and writing performance specifications for rail infrastructure systems. 

​Clive Dayao
​BSc (Mech), MIEAust, MSFS, CPEng, NER (Fire Safety) 5163984, PE0000403 (Fire Safety), RPEQ 28048

Language: English and Filipino

Rohan Defries​

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associate fire safety consultant
​Rohan has been practicing as a fire safety consultant in Sydney since 2005. Rohan’s fire safety engineering experience over the last 18 years includes numerous hospitals, aged care facilities, office towers, schools and colleges, major retail centres, as well as large residential complexes, industrial warehousing and buildings of a public nature.

​He has also been involved in fire safety upgrades of existing buildings – with a particular interest in heritage – negotiating outcomes with various authorities including Fire and Rescue NSW.

Rohan Defries
Grad Dip. BSA (Fire), Grad Dip Fire Safety Eng.
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Language English

​Angela Fearnley

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SENIOR FIRE
Engineer
Angela is a highly skilled and seasoned fire engineer with a strong commitment to promoting community safety. Her holistic approach engrained from her New Zealand background involves ongoing collaboration with various stakeholders to ensure that her fire engineering solutions align with broader project goals. As the Vice President of the Institution of Fire Engineers Australia, her fire safety network is vast with a good relationship with fire brigades across multiple countries.

Angela Fearnley
MEngSt (Fire Engineering),
​BE(Hons) Mech, MIEAust, CPEng, NER (Fire Safety) 8925518, RPEQ (Fire Safety) 34542, PE0016646 (Fire Safety) AIFireE (IFE), MSFS

​Language: English

Paul Laughlin-Hyde

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SENIOR FIRE ENGINEER
Paul is a Chartered Fire Engineer (Chartered IChemE & CPEng with Engineers Australia) with 20 years’ experience. At RED, Paul specialises within Dangerous Goods sites and Industrial facilities, including waste facilities and solar / BESS power plants.
 
​He is skilled in Fire Engineering across a number of industries including Dangerous goods, risk engineering, transportation, building services, & the Oil & Gas industry

Paul Laughlin-Hyde
MIEAust, CPEng, NER, PRE0002463 (Fire Safety), PE0015683 (Fire Safety), APEC Engineer, CEng (IChemE)

Language: English, Irish


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Jarrod Burton

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SENIOR FIRE ENGINEER
​Jarrod has almost 20 years experience in the building engineering and construction space, working within the electrical and fire safety engineering disciplines across a wide range of industry sectors.  With over a decade as an operational firefighter, he combines his practical and technical experience to develop strong performance-based approaches to each building.  One of Jarrod's passions is bushfire protection, where his strong understanding of bushfire dynamics and firefighting principals are used to identify risky approach vectors and determine the best mitigation methods for complex and vulnerable developments.

Barney Stranger

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SEnior fire engineer
Barney's fire safety engineering experience over the last 17 years includes health care projects, residential buildings, aged care facilities, office buildings, schools, correctional centres, secure facilities, sports facilities, education and retail shopping centres. Barney helps his clients to meet prescriptive provisions, as well as developing innovative and workable solutions to compliance related design issues. He provides expert advice by combining his knowledge of regulatory matters with his experience in fire safety engineering.

Barney Stranger
​BE (Mechanical), Dip (Engprac), MFSE, MIE Aust, SFS (ACT committee member), CP Eng, NER

Language: English

Tony Schnaedelbach

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Senior Inspector|FIRE  SAFETY CONSULTANT 
Tony has more than 20 years of experience in the Victorian building design, construction & compliance industry. He has specialist knowledge in fire safety measure maintenance & compliance. Tony has worked in a wide variety of sectors including public, office, retail, healthcare, industrial, correctional and residential buildings. His extensive range of industry knowledge will greatly benefit to the RED team.​

Tony Schnaedelbach
AssocDip (Archi. Drafting), 
​BTech (Building Surveying), 
BASc (Const. Mgmt.)
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​Language: English​

​Steven Maguire

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SENIOR FIRE SAFETY CONSULTANT
With an extensive 20-year career in the Fire Safety industry, Steven brings a wealth of expertise and specialisation which revolves around developing holistic and practical building fire safety strategies. He seamlessly collaborates with clients across diverse project sectors, including healthcare, education, residential, commercial, arts and culture and large infrastructure projects. With a decade of experience within the fire brigade, he offers a unique perspective that enhances the efficacy of fire safety measures, ensuring the highest standards of safety and compliance in every project. 

​Steven Maguire
Grad Dip. (Fire Engineering)
Grad Cert (Frontline Management)

Language: English

​Mithila Siriwardana

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Senior FIRE SAFETY CONSULTANT
​Mithila is a dynamic and highly skilled engineer with experience in both civil and fire engineering. He combines his background in civil engineering and risk management to widen his knowledge and experience as a fire safety consultant. His strong work ethic, self-motivation, and drive to achieve the best solutions will guide him to a successful career path within the fire safety engineering discipline.

Mithila Siriwardana
BEng (Civil) (Hons), 
MSc (Project Mgt), Grad Cert (Fire Protection Science), MIEAust, MSFS 
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​Language: English and ​Sinhalese​

Div Bhatia

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Senior FIRE SAFETY CONSULTANT
​Div brings a passion for community safety and a strong track record in delivering innovative, performance-based fire safety solutions. He holds a Master of Engineering Studies in Fire Engineering from the University of Canterbury and has gained valuable project experience across both New Zealand and Australia. With a background primarily spanning the commercial, retail, residential, and entertainment sectors, Div combines in-depth fire engineering knowledge with advanced technical tools and a collaborative, solutions-focused mindset.

Div Bhatia
MEngSt (Fire Engineering), BE(Hons) Mech, MIEAust

Language: English, Hindi

Charles Kim

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Senior Code COnsultant| Inspector
​Charles has been involved in the Building Surveying industry since 2007 and is continuing to develop a broad range of project experience. With a dedicated work ethic in developing his skills and exposure within the industry he has the confident ability to constructively negotiate with authorities and liaise with architects, consultants and builders / developers in an accurate, timely and professional manner. Charles is a registered practitioner in Victoria. He has operated in the capacity of a building surveyor mainly in the private sector and has extensive experience in all classifications of buildings ranging from residential houses to high-rise buildings. Charles’ expertise includes providing advice on a wide range of building regulatory matters, building legislation and policy formulation, performance-based building code development in Australia as well as a wealth of experience within the Building Surveying profession specializing in large industrial, multi storey commercial and residential, aged care and health-care buildings. 

Charles Kim 
BBldTech (Building Surveying), GradCert (Performance-Based Building and Fire Codes), AdvDip (Building Surveying), Dip (Building Surveying)

Language: English

Alex Symeonidis

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Intermediate FIRE SAFETY CONSULTANT
Alex has over 5 years of experience in performance-based fire safety engineering design in a wide variety of projects. With experience in Advanced Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) fire and smoke modelling and evacuation modelling, Alex is able to provide tailored fire safety strategies for unique and complex buildings. 

Alex Symeonidis
​BEng (Hons) (Construction)
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Language: English

Riya Rose Simon

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Intermediate FIRE SAFETY CONSULTANT
​Riya is a Civil Engineer with a Diploma in fire safety engineering and in project management. She has been part a range of various projects educational, commercial and residential at RED. 

Riya Rose Simon
BTech (Civil), GradDip (Building Fire Safety), GradIEAust
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​Language: English and Hindi​

Eric Zhang

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INTERMEDIATE FIRE SAFETY CONSULTANT
​Eric comes from a structures & forensics engineering background and practices in the area of fire safety engineering. He specialises in preparing cost effective fire engineering solutions to defective existing buildings. For much of his career he has focused on assessing and upgrading buildings with combustible cladding.

Eric Zhang
BE ME(Structures & Forensics), MIEAust

Language: English & Chinese

Dr Sukhi Sendanayake

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FIRE SAFETY CONSULTANT
After joining RED Fire Engineers in 2023, Sukhi—who had previously worked on fire testing and assessments—has been involved in retail, commercial, and residential projects across Australia. She holds a Master of Science in Fire Safety Engineering and a background in Civil Engineering. ​
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Dr Sukhi Sendanayake
BSc (Civil), MSc Eng. (Fire Safety), PhD (Civil), NER (Structural) 5711258, RPEQ (Structural) 26031, MIEAust
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Language: English and Sinhalese

Anna Chekulaeva

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FIRE SAFETY CONSULTANT
Anya joined RED Fire Engineers in 2024. She has a background in civil engineering and three years of experience in BIM (Building Information Modelling) across residential, educational, and commercial projects. Anya also holds an International Master of Science in Fire Safety Engineering, further enhancing her expertise in the field.
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Anna Chekulaeva
​BEng (Civil), MSc (Fire Safety Eng)​

Language: English and Russian

Anna-Lena Johansson

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fire safety consultant
Anna-Lena is an experienced risk and broking engineer, with technical expertise in risk management related to property, interruption, and machine damage. Additionally, Anna-Lena has been providing technical advice in a number of areas, including sprinkler installations, handling of flammable goods, explosion risks, and technical fire protection for buildings.

Anna-Lena Johansson
BSc (FPE), MSc Eng. (Risk Mgmt. and Safety Eng.)

​Language: English and Swedish

Joey
​Ostrom

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fire safety consultant
Involved in projects with combustible facades. Joey has carried out cladding audits and cladding fire risk assessments for various types of building throughout Victoria. He has provided consultation and recommendation to the best interest of the building owners and assisted them with resolving the Building Notice/Orders issued by local councils..

Joey Ostrom

MSc (Risk), BSc (Fire)

​Language: English and Swedish

Dr Maryam Amiraftbi

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FIRE SAFETY CONSULTANT
Maryam is a dedicated Fire Safety Consultant with a background in Chemical Engineering and a strong focus on fire safety in both the building and industrial sectors. Since relocating to Australia, she has gained valuable experience in the fire safety field, initially working in the fire services industry in NSW back to October 2021. In September 2022, she transitioned to fire safety engineering in the building sector, contributing to a wide range of projects, including residential, commercial, and education developments. Prior to her time in Australia, she spent over five years overseas in the oil and gas industry, where she specialised in tank farm quantitative risk assessments and the design of fire protection systems for oil terminals.

Recently, she completed a Master of Fire Safety Engineering at Western Sydney University, with a thesis on developing an FDS model to understand the fire behaviour in large-scale timber compartments. Passionate about advancing fire safety engineering and risk management,  She is eager to continue making meaningful contributions to community safety, applying her expertise and innovative approach to every project she undertakes​. 

Maryam Amiraftabi
MSc (Fire)

​Language: English. Persian 

Samuel Zhu

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graduate FIRE SAFETY CONSULTANT
Samuel is a Graduate Fire Safety Consultant at Red Fire Engineers' Sydney office, combines expertise in fire engineering with a background in construction management and structural engineering. He is in constant pursuit for functional simplicity and productive collaboration.
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​​Samuel Zhu
MEngSt (Fire), BE (Civil/Structural, 1st Hons), PG Dip (Biz)
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Language: English, Mandarin and Cantonese

Mia Josefsson

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Financial officer
With a Bachelor in Business and 20 years experience of customer service Mia is a valuable addition to our RED team. 

Mia Josefsson
Language: English and Swedish

Sally Askew

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Project Coordinator
​Sally has a a Diploma of Business in International Trade and over 20 years working in the transport, telecommunications and international trade industries. With this varied background, Sally is a valuable addition to the RED team.

Sally Askew
​Language: English

Craig Midford

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marketing & Bid coordinator
​Craig has more than 7 years experience  in construction across Architecture and Engineering, with roles including office management, design and bid coordination. He has a Grad. Diploma in Design and demonstrates good creative and organisational skills with roles including office management, design and bid coordination. 

Craig Midford
Language: English

Jess Walles

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Executive Assistant
​Jess’ background is in office administration and finance, her key strengths are in organisation and communication. Jess has over 15 years’ experience in customer service roles. Jess brings a range of skills to the administration team.

Jess Walles
Language: English

Caroline Orfanos

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ADMIN ASSISTANT/accounts
Caroline has several years of experience of working in the building industry. In addition to her job at RED she also works as a counselor which adds great value to the RED team. 

Caroline Orfanos
Language: English, French, Italian and Greek

Elisabeth Hodges

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ADMIN ASSISTANT
​Elisabeth's background is in design and she is a professional knitwear designer. She has an eye for detail and over 17 years of customer service which has a great impact on the functioning of our office.

Elisabeth Hodges
Language: English, Norwegian, Swedish and Danish

Rebecca ​Berar

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Executive & accounts assistant
Rebecca brings over 25 years of expertise in retail and management. Rebecca's experience also includes working within IT and flooring industry. Known for her positive energy and people-focused approach, Rebecca excels in building strong relationships.

Rebecca Berar
Language: English and Swedish
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Mimi
​Chin

accounts assistant

Mhy
​Dayao

accounts assistant

Karyn
​Stratton

Charity evenT coordinator
​& admin assistant
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  • Contact Us
    • Contact Details
    • Request a Proposal
  • About Us
    • The Red Team >
      • The RED team Australia
      • The RED team Sweden
    • Mission vision statement
    • Policy
  • Careers
  • Projects
    • Residential
    • Commercial
    • Education
    • Health
    • Industrial
    • Infrastructure
    • Timber Buildings
  • Services
    • Fire Safety Engineering
    • Advanced Computer Modelling
    • Risk Assessments
    • Forensic Engineering and Expert Witness
    • Building Audits and Due Diligence Assessments
    • Research and Development
    • Combustible Cladding Audits and Risk Assessments
    • Bushfire Assessments