Paul Lombard
Council Member at Central University of Technology, Free State
Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa
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Top SchoolPaul Lombard is a transport infrastructure expert and registered professional engineer with four decades of experience in planning, financing and economic appraisal of major transport projects across Africa, the Middle East, the USA and Ireland. He has held senior leadership roles at Aurecon and Zutari, led regional operations in East Africa, and served on corporate and university councils, blending technical rigour with executive management and board-level governance. Paul’s career spans strategic masterplans, PPPs, corridor and road-user charging studies, and numerous World Bank- and donor-funded assignments, and he has been appointed personally on World Bank projects. Academically grounded with an MSCE and PhD from Purdue and a BEng (Cum laude) from the University of Pretoria, he has taught and externally examined postgraduate transportation courses and presented over 30 conference papers. After overcoming leukemia and a stem-cell transplant, he represented South Africa in cycling at the 2023 World Transplant Games, reflecting resilience and personal commitment beyond his professional life. Now operating as an independent infrastructure consultant and university council member, he combines deep technical knowledge with practical experience in emerging-region project delivery and institutional governance.
9 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
MSCE and PhD Urban and Transport Engineering, MSCE and PhD Urban and Transport Engineering at Purdue UniversityB Eng Civil, B Eng Civil at University of Pretoria
English
Github Skills (26)
simple-gui7
mining7
twine7
procedural-generation6
gdscript5
image5
cropperjs4
ascii4
android4
dart4
space4
flutter4
flutter-plugin3
console-application3
ascii-art3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Pomb/asciify
Nov 2019 - Nov 2019
A simple gui program that facilitates generating ascii art from provided images.
Contributions:37 commits, 6 PRs, 30 pushes in 3 days
artasciiascii-artguifacilitates
Pomb/memorite
Aug 2020 - Feb 2025
Console application that aids memorization of text.
Contributions:1 PR, 7 pushes in 4 years 7 months
memorizationconsole-applicationconsole
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