Chris Ackerman Email & Phone Number

- Highly motivated Construction, Rail and Defence Technology senior leader with 20 years of private and public services delivery experience. - Strong leader who has led many programmes and projects, agreeing governance requirements with associated clients and sponsors to enable baseline requirements to be tracked and controlled to provide assured delivery profile.- Advocate of Project Management Plans and principals, identifying and controlling risk exposure through early agreement of programme and project requirements, devising most appropriate delivery strategies and executing the works to realise the benefits for the client.- Deep knowledge of public and private procurement options, selection of appropriate contract arrangements to suit the preferred delivery model.- Strong working knowledge of construction law and practice, tested in recent partnered bids. - Previous roles in strategic leadership positions, winning 75% of consulting services for major construction projects, individual capex values of £30m+ and total value £250m. - Built consulting and engineering business in Midlands, increasing staff numbers and developed stable delivery platform to continue business success.Roles include: - Programme Manager of rail programmes and projects, enhancements, renewals and 3rd party schemes, to a maximum work bank value of £270m at peak demand- Associate Director at WYG. Project Director of £250m+ capex projects delivering in challenging circumstances. - Defence Procurement experience includes requirement management of six world-leading Urgent Operational Requirements (UORs) to total value of £200m+, including complex systems integration to provide innovative counter-IED platforms to assist in provision of freedom of movement for UK forces in Afghanistan. - Previous rail experience includes delivery of multi-disciplined projects to value of £40M to time and budget, devising strategy for 24km of rail construction with associated infrastructure.

Listed skills include Defence, Military, Operational Planning, Project Management, and 18 others.