Head Office Interiors expertise includes Office to Residential conversions, Commercial Installations & fit outs, Specialist School refurbishments, extensions & new installations. My role includes establishing & providing the scope of works, including full take offs, rate reviews, subcontractor enquiries & general commercial management for their projects.Projects to date include office to residential projects in Nottingham, Bradford, and Leeds, - ranging from £1.7million to £2.3million.HOI are also reviewing future Residential projects in Halifax, Birmingham & Chester.I have also provided QS/estimating assistance with other HOI commercial & school enquiries

Estimating refurbishment packages, joinery packages, and bespoke museum packages.Commercial management of the above type of works including project management when peak workload occurs.Currently commercially managing the Lincoln Castle Revealed museum & Coventry Transport Museum fit outs.

A temporary position to assist DMP with their £1 million prestigeous installation of Media Screens within the Trinity Centre in Leeds.Involved Liaison with the client team & on site with the main developer Laing O'Rourke

Review their standard build scope of works, establish potential cost movement for future build options, collate the monthly reporting for presentation to the Group owner.Also requested to work on the Group owners personal new build project (exclusive £3.5 million private residence)

A temporary position where I assisted with site surveys to establish framework agreement scope of works with ASDA plc, general estimating & QS worksA great close knit team -

My role at Cathedral had several key objectives;To assess the main client agreed schedule of rate, and identify efficiencies to enable the target margin to be achieved and monitor all aspects of the works on an ongoing basis. To implement a combined financial forecast and report which is updated monthly with the actual figures from the sage trial balance figures. This report required the work in progress to be accurately assessed and also included the future workload. The document enabled the presented the sage costs and overheads to be compared with the individual cost reports and margins assessed on the CVR and original budgets. This process enabled budgets to be advised for the works, to provide individual and overall cost analysis to assess performance and amend resource methods, this was reconciled on a live and retrospective basis.Occasional Running of Projects as PM / QS All Post / Pre Contract works involvingPresentation of the estimates to client requirements. Production of compatible frameworks for repeat works Subcontractor accounts Final Accounts on my key account. Advising on other variations where identified from queried costs from my contract analysis Logging client requirements and potential workload. Identifying the labour budgets for the contracts department

I assisted with the growth of Scotfit from 2001 to 2008, where in 2003, I was offered a directorship and 10% shareholding for my efforts. The MD & I were the key personnel within the senior management team to drive the expansion of Scotfit, with the efforts achieving an annual increase in the turnover in excess of 30% per year, whilst maintaining margins.I was accountable for a management team of three contracts managers, a workshop manager, & two surveyor / estimators. The management included coordinating the above departments to provide individual and overall program analysis to assess and amend resources, tender and cost production, which was reconciled on a live and retrospective basis.I supported the teams by way of providing pre commencement meetings, and weekly progress reviews, with regular face to face and telephone updates, and occasional joint site visits for project and client development My efforts assisted the rate of expansion, which involved liasing with any prospective clients secured by the marketing efforts, inspecting the client proposals to enable any Scotfit response compatible with the clients expectations and to ensure the response was presented in as comprehensive a format as possible. An approach which was met with many favourable responses, and has led to two key clients requesting my personal involvement with their new concept stores for both the design and costs. Other responsibilities during this growth period have includedAll Post / Pre Contract works involvingPresentation of the estimates to client requirements.Production of compatible frameworks for repeat works Subcontractor accountsFinal Accounts. Logging client requirements and potential workload.Organising the labour and contracts departmentLiasing with the MD when recruiting, appraising and discipline of personnel.

Quantity Surveyor on GAP shops, Restaurants & office refurbishments

Quantity Surveyor