Director, Digital Project Delivery
Dallas, Texas, Us
Led the delivery of the digital project strategy for the AECOM EMIA region across all sectors through the Design, Build, Finance & Operate model to support the company’s intent to become the world’s premier fully integrated infrastructure firm.Reporting to the EMIA Operations and Commercial Director, the Digital Project Delivery team has a mandate to develop new digital products and techniques that can be exploited globally. Revenue generation through strategic consultancy to clients and specialist BIM services to complex projects provide an opportunity to influence the industry, keep close to the latest developments and retain a sharp operational focus.Accountable for design and engineering technology for approximately 25,000 EMIA staff. Responsibilities include the management of vendors, coordination with global operations and IT teams, development of supplementary tools / enhancements and aligning technology roadmaps to create competitive advantage.Examples of revenue generation include the development of BS1192 compliant Common Data Environments to deliver collaborative megaprojects internationally and providing strategic advice to government bodies to procure and deliver BIM enabled projects.Project improvements include design automation tools for large masterplan programmes, data interoperability toolkits in the Civil Infrastructure sector and data capture tools to improve the safety of operatives in the field, reducing the time to deliver surveys by over 20%.Other significant achievements include the creation of 3 year technology roadmaps for EMIA end-markets leading to the development of an Immersive Technologies practice that launched the first application of the Microsoft Hololens technology in the AEC environment globally. This was achieved through developing deep relationships with key vendors, operations and technology teams.