Meet the WEW Team
Michael Dixon
Michael is the Director and founder of Waratah Eco Works. He has worked in ecological restoration and assessment for 18 years. He has extensive experience and is passionate about the role of native plants in the environment.
Katrina Amos
Katrina is our Chief Operations Officer and manages our Quality, Environmental Management Systems and Work Health & Safety documentation, training, implementation and reporting, Katrina is a qualified lawyer with over 18 years professional experience.
Tim Lever
Tim is our General Manager with over 5 years’ experience in ecological restoration. He has a background in natural resource management, having worked on projects in Australia, New Zealand and Europe. Tim has specialist skills in Sydney Sandstone vegetation community and in subtropical and cool temperate rain forest communities.
Kellie Moran
Kellie is a site supervisor with over 12 years bush regeneration experience, 9 of which have been in leadership roles. Kellie has worked in a variety of vegetation communities throughout the Sydney Basin and is an excellent trainer.
Larissa Kabakov
Larissa is as site supervisor with over 3 years Bush Regeneration experience having worked in a range of bushland communities, particularly eastern Suburbs Banksia Scrub and Cumberland Plains sites. She enjoys primary removal works, revegetation and fire preparation works.
Sharnicka Hampson
Sharnicka is a site supervisor who has been working with Waratah Eco Works for 2 years . Sharnicka is enthusiastic about plant identification and the outcomes for native ecosystems that result from good bush regeneration practices.
Clive Cox
Clive is a site supervisor with more then 3 years experience , (2 years as a supervisor). Clive is a northern suburbs supervisor who has undertaken projects including APZ, SQID maintenance, and Bush Regen on a range of sites. He says he enjoys building up resistance to native insect bites and stings.
James Donnelly
James is a site supervisor with over 8 year’s experience in bush regeneration. James has specialist skill sin the restoration of a number of EECs including Blue Gum High Forest, Sydney Turpentine Ironbark Forest, Shale Sandstone Transition Forest and Eastern Suburbs Banksia Scrub. James also has extensive experience in pre fire preparation and post fire hand weeding.
Melinda Eygelshoven
Melinda is a site supervisor with over 2 year’s experience in supervising bush regeneration. Melinda has a passion for the environment and has worked across a variety of bushland sites ranging from sites in Blacktown to the Northern Beaches.
Louise Reincastle
Louise is a site supervisor with more than 5 years experience in the bush regeneration industry working in a variety of vegetation communities across Sydney but has a special interest in riparian sites.