David Ward Email & Phone Number

County Galway, Ireland

Galway, Ireland

Chartered Engineer with over 20 years’ engineering experience in Project Management, Contract administration, Risk Evaluation, Stakeholder liaison, Engineering Design and Co-ordination, Strategic Procurement, Production Improvement and Performance Management.Worked across multiple sectors on wide range of projects ranging from offshore and near shore marine works, heavy civil engineering for both the public and private sector. Managed and lead research, design, and construction processes, working on many Environmentally sensitive and controversial projects in Ireland and abroad to a successful conclusion. Since joining Wood, provided support to several Wood clients in the O&M area assisting in several change management and continuous improvement initiatives, helping them gain full benefit from their people, operational data, and systems as part of their digital transformation programmes.David brings unique experience across the whole life cycle of Assets- Planning, Procurement, Design, Construction, Operation, Disposal and Decommissioning and an understanding and knowledge of how the data created in each phase can be utilized more effectively through the life cycle. At the Operational Phase, David’s experience supporting organizations working in a Subsea environment has provided him with insight into highly digitized and automated processes and how common data set supported by the right tools and processes are crucial to enable Operational, Tactical and Strategic decision to be made more efficiently.As well as his primary degrees in Engineering he has a HDip in Project Management and holds a Master in Business (Strategic Procurement), he has a keen interest in the appropriate and efficient use of technology/data to improve and de-risk business process, he has authored several papers in the area of BIM, Procurement, Collaboration, and the usage of data through the life cycle of assets.

Chartered Engineer within the Project Management and Procurement Unit. Experienced in Project Management, Contract documentation and Civil and Structural Engineering design. Holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Project Management from Trinity College and has completed a Masters in Strategic Procurement in DCU. He has worked on a wide range of projects ranging from residential, industrial and commercial buildings, heavy civil engineering works including road; bridge; water, waste, gas, energy projects and marine works. Projects have been undertaken both in the private and public sector and have included both managing design and construction processes.

Sydney, Australia

Bridge & Civil Structures Designer within the Infrastructure Department in the Sydney Office.Worked on the Port Botany Expansion Project (AU$600 Million) for the Sydney Ports Corporation (SPC); the M5 East Filtration Project and various other bridge and structural design projects.

Various Transport, Water and Waste projects

Bsc.Eng. (Hons), Structural Engineering

Master Of Business Mbs (Hons), Strategic Procurement

Pg.Dip.Pm. (Hons), Project Management

Dip.Eng. (Hons) Diploma, Civil Engineering

Activities and Societies: DIT Sailing Club - Treasurer Dissertation-Timber-concrete composite floor systems : Ward, William David Dublin.

Building Energy Assessor