Mandy Price
Senior CAD Designer
Cambridge-born Mandy Price spent her earliest days in a “hydro house” in Karapiro as her father had a job as an electrician on the dam. After a move to Auckland, Mandy and her sister had a classic Kiwi upbringing, racing around with neighbourhood kids on bikes, and playing epic games of bullrush on one of the front lawns on their street.
After school Mandy headed to Carrington Tech (now Unitec) to study for a New Zealand Certificate in Survey Draughting while working at the Lands & Survey Department. At the time keeping the ‘database’ up to date involved using paint and ink to work by hand on calico records maps. There was also work drawing up topographical plans and even crime scene illustrations for police. While the work was detailed and fiddly, it was also interesting and varied. Plus Mandy was among a group of 18 and 19 year olds who headed to the pub on Friday evenings. Some of those bright young things are now lifelong friends.
Since then, Mandy has enjoyed varied work with surveyors and engineers.
Outside Envelope, Mandy is busy with family and loves to travel with her children. They have ventured as far south as the Catlins and Stewart Island.
But Mandy has another passion in life – the wildlife, many of them endangered, on Tiritiri Matangi Island in the Hauraki Gulf. She volunteers, working on many wildlife and habitat monitoring projects and leading guided walks for members of the public.
It’s an amazing place where many of NZs endangered species are thriving thanks to 40 years of replanting & conservation work carried out by volunteers in partnership with DOC. In the words of Barry Crump, It’s Magestical.
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