Curriculum Vitae.
April 2010
Full Name:Nationality:Marital Status:Home Address:-
Angus Mackay DHE, IDT, MIOG, CERT ARBOR.
British
Married
28 Ballater Drive
Bearsden
Glasgow
G61 1BX
Tel 0141-942-7530 Fax 0141-942-9948
E.Mail: angus@mackayconsultants.com
www.mackayconsultants.com
Profile
A professionally qualified, highly experienced
horticulturist and arboriculturalist with good working
knowledge of the British and European industry.
Specialist in conducting arboriculture
assessments/surveys, also inspecting and selecting all
general plant material.
Present Position
Self Employed Landscape Consultant
1988-89
Scottish Development Agency
Chief Horticulture Adviser (Lands Operation Div)
1984-88
Scottish Development Agency Glasgow Garden
Festival
Chief Horticulture Adviser GGF
(Member GGF 1988 Horticulture Team)
1975-84
Scottish Development Agency
Lands Manager (Scotland)
1968-75
Dept. of Environment
Area Grounds Maintenance Officer
PSA, 187 George St, Glasgow
1966-68
S.A.I. (Hort Div)
Technical Turf Adviser (Diploma in Turfculture)
Hortus House, 3 St Johns Place, Edinburgh.
1963-66
Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh
Student (DHE Dip in Horticulture, Certificate in
Arboriculture)
1961-63
National Trust For Scotland
Threave School of Gardening, Castle Douglas
Student, (RHS 1st Class , Threave Diploma)
RECENT AND PRESENT COMMISSIONS PROJECT VALUES £5,000 to
2 Million
1)
3)
Tree Survey & Woodland Assessment throughout South Lanarkshire Schools
P.P.P in conjunction with Keppie Architects, Glasgow
Horticultural Advisor Heriot Watt University, Arboriculture Research Project
(Large Rot Balled Trees)
Arboricultural Assessments throughout U.K.
4)
.
Commissioned by Scottish Enterprise to conduct Tree and Shrub ' Contract
Grow 'Survey.
5)
Setting up and Project managing several 'Plant Contract Grow Projects' on
behalf of LEC's value 60K and Scottish Enterprise value 2 Million . Allocation
of material throughout Scotland.
6)
Working as Landscape Site Supervisor/Arboriculturist/Woodland Manager
for various Landscape Consultants/Transport Scotland throughout Scotland.
7)
Appointed by leading Property Management Co. to monitor and project
manage soft landscaping maintenance of Scottish Enterprise Portfolio
8)
Expert Horticulture witness to Glasgow City Council in successful court case.
9)
Major Tree Surveys, Fife Council/ Scottish Enterprise Fife, SE Grampian
Aberdeen Science & Tech Park, Aberdeen Off Shore Park
10)
Woodland management survey on behalf of Moray Council.
11)
Selection and security tagging approximately 30,000 trees during 2008 – 2009
season – in various nurseries throughout UK & Europe
12)
Ground Level Tree Survey at New Southern General Hospital, Glasgow
13)
Tree Surveys / woodland management reports for East Dunbartonshire
Council Parks Greenspace
14)
Proposed B/Q store in Newcastle upon Tyne, Ground Level Tree Survey &
Woodland report
2)
15)
Tree Surveys/Woodland Management assessments on Edinburgh Schools,
Dundee Schools , Fife Schools, Perth & Kinross Schools, Angus Schools,
Clackmananshire Schools all in relation to P.P.P Projects
16 ) Ground Level Tree Survey & Woodland Report at Ramside Hall Hotel, ..
…
Durham
17) . Ground Level Tree Surveys at Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen;
Dumfries College New Campus & Ayr, Craigie New Campus
18)
Landscape Inspector/Advisor at A75 Overtaking opportunities, Dumfries
(Bettyknowes), Newton Stewart and planting End, Stranraer for major
Landscape Practice