Summary
A project manager and engineer with 12+ years across government, higher education and Tier-1 contractors, now focused on building AI and automation. I independently acquired the skills to build and ship real AI tools, and this is the work that really excites me. I take a business problem, shape the solution with the people who own it, build the working version, and drive its adoption. What sets me apart in this field is the other half of the job: more than a decade spent translating technical detail into the decisions executives and clients actually have to make, from council chambers and Vice-Chancellors to ministerial offices and the public.
I build in two worlds: low-code AI agents and automation in the Microsoft ecosystem (Copilot Studio, Power Automate) for teams that need governed, secure tools; and custom cloud applications (Python, AWS, retrieval-based AI) where the problem needs more than low-code. My current AI work ships inside a security-restricted, Microsoft-only government environment, where every tool must first clear IT and Cybersecurity. I am looking for a hands-on AI or solution engineering role where I can build, apply the delivery and client experience I already have, and keep deepening my technical craft.
Core strengths
- Client solution shaping and stakeholder engagement
- Governed, secure delivery in enterprise environments
- AI agents and intelligent automation
- Proposal, business-case and options analysis
- Microsoft Power Platform (Copilot Studio, Power Automate)
- Discovery, requirements and adoption
- Custom cloud builds (Python, AWS, retrieval/RAG)
- Public-sector and higher-education domain
Selected AI & solution builds
Lilach, voice-first personal AI assistant
A full-stack, serverless AI app built solo and in daily use. A spoken note flows through an API Gateway and AWS Lambda backend into a two-model Claude pipeline that turns it into a structured task, with Notion as the datastore and scheduled worker Lambdas firing custom web-push reminders. Front end is a React PWA; the AWS infrastructure is defined as code with SAM.
Lilach for Work, a SaaS design exercise
Before Gesher, an exercise in designing a SaaS platform that fills in engineers' forms and reports for them: one workspace per project, voice and document capture, and templates that draft themselves. A full information architecture and 15+ interactive wireframes you can click straight into.
Personal · 2026 · design study
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Gesher, AI report-drafting for engineers
An AI that helps engineers write reports without inventing facts. It answers from retrieved source documents rather than model memory, attaches provenance to every value, and runs a deterministic check that flags anything not traced to a source. Single-tenant, model as a deployment choice, an early working prototype.
Enterprise search agent, Microsoft Copilot Studio
Designed, built and deployed an internal AI search agent across the project delivery team, adopted by around eight users within weeks. Self-taught Copilot Studio end to end. Also built Power Automate flows that auto-generate tasks from flagged emails.
City of Nedlands · 2026
Internal
AI-built actions and risk register
A macro-driven register that replaced a failing legacy template and became the team's primary delivery-tracking document. The repo also ships a field guide documenting 23 confirmed AI failure modes and 10 proven strategies drawn from the build.
City of Nedlands · 2026 · Excel & VBA
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Professional experience
Project Manager · City of Nedlands
Apr 2025 to Present
- Recovered four road construction projects that were stalled and at risk of losing state funding, delivering all four within twelve months.
- Became the team's go-to person for AI and automation with no formal mandate: designed and deployed the Copilot Studio search agent and the AI-built delivery register now used team-wide (see builds above).
- Secured IT and Cybersecurity approval to deploy AI capability (Copilot Studio, Power Automate, Microsoft Copilot, preview features) by presenting risk and business-case analyses, one approved step at a time.
- Ran an internal discovery on the tendering process, diagnosed that submissions were not comparable, and designed and rolled out a standardised bill-of-quantities template now used across every project: a discovery, design and adoption cycle in everything but name.
- Authored council reports presented at formal meetings, writing technically accurate content for elected members and executives without engineering backgrounds.
- Primary point of contact across contractors, consultants, council officers and the public.
Career break
May 2024 to Apr 2025
A planned break: travelled and reset before returning to work.
Project Delivery Manager · Curtin University
May 2022 to May 2024
- Authored monthly briefings, business cases and funding submissions for the Vice-Chancellor and senior university leadership, owning the executive narrative on multi-million-dollar campus infrastructure.
- Argued successfully to change procurement strategy on a $3.5M project, from design-and-construct to construct-only, on the basis of a documented risk analysis presented to senior stakeholders. Delivered on time and within budget.
- Delivered capital infrastructure end to end across design, procurement and construction, coordinating leadership, contractors, consultants and end-user departments.
- Daily power user of TechnologyOne, Australia's largest enterprise ERP, across contracts, budgets, procurement and financial reporting.
Engineering Project Manager · Main Roads WA
Nov 2020 to Nov 2021
- Delivered $1M to $5M road and bridge projects end to end, including full client-side procurement: vendor evaluation, tendering, contract negotiation and award.
- Superintendent's Representative with full contract administration (RFIs, ITPs, safety plans, variations, progress claims).
- Communicated across the full stakeholder spectrum, from ministerial offices and senior executives to contractors, community and media, on politically sensitive regional projects.
Civil Engineer · GHD
Nov 2021 to May 2022
Civil design, tender preparation and design reporting for road and pavement projects.
Civil Engineer (contract roles) · Jacobs / Aurecon / SPA
Nov 2019 to Nov 2020
Civil design across multiple firms; moved into site-based delivery as Project Engineer on a remote highway widening project on Great Northern Highway.
Civil Engineer · BG&E
May 2017 to Nov 2019
Design engineer on major WA road infrastructure including Northlink WA Stage 3 ($175M design and construct); construction support to Tier-1 contractors.
Earlier experience · Australia and UK
2012 to 2016
Civil and structural design roles, including project controls as a graduate on the Gateway WA Alliance ($1B), and structural design on UK building projects with Tier-1 contractor Bouygues UK.
Education
- Bachelor of Engineering (Civil), University of Western Australia, 2012
- Introductory Statistics, University of Western Australia, 2018
- Superintendent's Representative, Contract Management & Pavement Construction, Main Roads WA, 2021
© 2026 Adina Lieblich
Perth · Australia