Describe your career path I studied mechanical engineering at the University of Adelaide (one of only five women in a class of 50). I took an acoustics specialty subject in my final year, and really enjoyed it. When Dr. Peter Swift – someone very well known in the acoustics world in Australia – spoke to our class and said his firm was hiring, I applied right away, and was successful. That was back in 1996, and I’ve been in acoustics ever since, though I did dabble in mechanical services consulting along the way. An intercompany exchange program took me to the UK in 2000 where I worked and did a lot of travelling through Europe until 2004. After a six-month sabbatical sailing (both in the UK and Australia), I joined Marshall Day Acoustics in 2005, and was given the opportunity to work on some amazing projects – everything from desalination […]

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How did acoustics, noise, and vibration become your specialization? My career path didn’t start out in acoustics. I went to school for mechanical engineering, and in university, we very briefly touched on vibration. Other than that, I had no idea that this field even existed. My first job after school was with a mechanical contractor. During my first week, I met someone from Aercoustics on a project, but I never imagined I would end up working at the same company. Later, I had the opportunity to change my career with a finance role that leveraged some of my technical background. But I found that I missed the technical challenge of more formal engineering work. That was when one of my coworkers reintroduced me to Aercoustics and the field of acoustics. Given my love of music, my interest in building design and my education as an engineer, I was intrigued and applied. That was […]

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