About us
Based in Brisbane, King & Bold provides strategic and commercial services to capital infrastructure projects.
We offer the skills and experience of our director, Yen Tran, who has almost two decades' experience in construction, advisory and client-side roles throughout various lifecycle stages of large projects.
Yen is available to:
Carry out embedded project roles
Provide advisory services
Partner with other teams to enhance their resources and service offering.
What we do
Our capabilities are demonstrated through our skills and experience in the following:
Services
Capital project delivery
Commercial management and collaborative contracting advice
Project and construction management
Strategic risk management
Procurement and transaction management
Governance and decision-making
Contract claims and dispute resolution
Sectors
State and local Government
Light and heavy rail
Mining and minerals
Bulk civil earthworks
Liquefied natural gas
Dams and pipelines
Roads and tunnels
About Yen
Yen has almost two decades' experience as a construction and advisory professional in engineering, strategic and commercial roles in capital infrastructure projects, offering the following key strengths:
Intuitive, pragmatic, efficient and forward-thinking approach to delivering outcomes
Effective and simple communication of complex and detailed concepts
Analytical and numerical proficiency with a passion for problem solving
High attention to detail while maintaining sight of bigger picture objectives
Leadership through trusting relationships and a positive collaborative team culture
Open-mindedness and adaptability to new and unfamiliar scenarios.
With a background in mechanical engineering, Yen's career began in civil contracting where she gained practical, hands-on experience managing and delivering large projects.
Yen spent a decade in management consulting in various energy, resources and infrastructure advisory roles, strengthening her business acumen and capitalising on her strengths as a strategic thinker and logical communicator to inform and assist clients in their decision making.
More recently, Yen has brought her strong technical and commercial foundations, high attention to detail and analytical problem-solving skills to roles within the Queensland Government, including the Department of Transport and Main Roads and the Cross River Rail Delivery Authority, where she broadened her knowledge on governance, strategic risk management and decision making.
Yen excels in complex problem definition, strategic level decision making, and communication and presentation of detailed solutions. On an interpersonal level, Yen values open and honest, communicative and collaborative teams and enjoys sharing successes and developing others. She has a continual thirst for challenges and variety and works well with diverse styles and skillsets. In recent years she has taken on managerial and leadership roles where she fosters others through clear boundaries, high accountability and autonomy enabled by a foundation of adaptability, support and trust.
Outside of work, Yen enjoys spending time with her husband, two young daughters and labrador, singing, trying to expand her musical tastes beyond indie rock from the 90s and early 2000s, cooking, camping, scuba diving and travel.
Yen's curriculum vitae can be provided on request.
Get in touch
Please to reach out to Yen on 0423 771 219 or ytran@kingbold.au.