Our Team
Your Fire Engineers & Fire Design Consultants
The Origin Fire team is comprised of several experienced fire engineers, fire protection engineers & fire protection designers, led by managing director Michael James, and based in Auckland, NZ. Our team are well known for their experience, innovation and reliability across fire engineering, fire safety, and passive fire protection. Due to our team’s specialist knowledge, we can also provide peer review, expert witness and advisory services.
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Michael James
Principal Engineer – Director
ME(Fire), BE(Mech), CPENG, IntPE, CMEngNZ(Fire), PMSFPE
M: 021 708 460
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Sajeesh Nair
Associate
PG Cert(Fire), MSc(Electronics), CPEng, CMEngNZ(Fire), MSFPE
M: 021 023 60042
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Joanna Williams
Associate
ME(Fire), BE(Hons) Civil Engineering, CMEngNZ, CPEng, PMSFPE
M: 021 178 2421
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Associate
Hiring now, applications welcome.
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Mona Liu
Technical Operations Manager & Fire Engineer
MengSt(Fire), ME(Chem, Hons), BE(Chem, Hons), MEngNZ
M: 021 0327585
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Vinnie Singh
Manager – Fire Protection Engineering | Senior Fire Protection Engineer
BE(Electrical), MEngNZ
M: 027 262 0503
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Diane Chen
Fire Protection Engineer and Passive Fire Engineer
BEng(Arch.), MEngNZ, NZQA-L4 Passive Fire Protection (Building Consent Inspections)
M: 021 1553913
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Sarath (Sam) Samarasekara
Fire Engineer
MIFireE, CEng(Mech), MIE(Sri Lanka)
M: 021 115 8276
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Sherry Wang
Fire Engineer
MEngSt (Fire), ME & BE (Mech), LEED AP BD+C
M: 027 468 0659
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Tom Clark
Passive Fire Engineer
BAS (Arch), GDipDE (Project Management)
M: 0211725029
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Emma Northcott
Office & Finance Administrator
BHM (Event Management), DipEnvirMgt
M: 021 349 395
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