Donald Herron
Principal Ranger at Department of Conservation (DOC)
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
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Top SchoolDonald Herron is a Principal Ranger at New Zealand’s Department of Conservation with 13 years of progressive experience across visitor services, planning, heritage asset management, and community partnerships. He combines frontline visitor-centre leadership and tour operations with strategic capital planning, budget prioritisation and reporting for regional heritage and visitor programmes. Skilled at team development, volunteer coordination and stakeholder liaison, he consistently translates community and tangata whenua relationships into practical conservation outcomes. His background in marketing and customer-focused roles gives him a keen sense for visitor experience design and effective communications. Based in Wellington, he is comfortable shifting between operational problem-solving on the ground and high-level CAPEX decision-making. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic planner who brings retail, tourism and island-ranger insights to regional conservation strategy.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Graduate diploma in Business Studies Marketing, Graduate diploma in Business Studies Marketing at Massey University
Github Skills (6)
xml-editor7
brackets7
xml5
pdf3
docbook3
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
greatwalks/greatwalks-android
Oct 2012 - Apr 2013
Contributions:149 commits in 5 months
holloway/mahara-mobile
Dec 2015 - Aug 2016
Contributions:43 commits in 8 months
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