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Wokingham, Gb

London, England, United Kingdom

- Project managing Ardent's 70 strong land team on the East West Rail project - Deputy DCO Examination lead on the £9BN Lower Thames Crossing Project- Supported the National Highways DCO lead on the A428 Blackcat to Caxton Gibbet DCO Exam- Reviewed process around land access for a waste to energy scheme relating to the HV connection

Remote

London, England, United Kingdom

Highways England's Lower Thames Crossing will be a major new Highways England road and tunnel linking the M25 in Essex to the A2 in Kent.Delivered the draft Development Consent Order and DCO plans, project managing teams of lawyers & designers, managing the interface with Consents, Environment, Land, Utilities, Commercial, Operations and Design and Delivery teams.

London, United Kingdom

Tideway/Thames Water/CH2 via Isara Ltd-Project Manager Property: successful acquisition of property access rights through DCO noticing and negotiation for 1000’s of land parcels and planning of acquisition strategy, leading internal and external professionals.-Project manager Optimised Contractor Involvement making £10s millions of potential cost and time savings through collaboration with 4 contractorsProject Manager Consents, Tideway. Managed planning and consents processes and resources on the £4Bn Thames Tideway Tunnels project, "Creating a cleaner, healthier River Thames'. This was the largest successful planning application ever, working with circa 100 professional consultants from many of the biggest consultancies and internal teams.

London, United Kingdom

Managing strategy stage of a portfolio of projects for a Network Rail business.Portfolio of works includes technology, business, organisational change, plus capex, opex reductions, new offices and more. This is part of the £325m ORBIS transformation programme to improve Network Rail's approaches to the acquisition, storage and usage of asset information. Prepared business cases with team of project specific PMs and put structures in place for a later delivery stage.

Berkshire, South East, London, Home Counties, S West

Croydon, United Kingdom

Successfully led a programme of works around the redevelopment of Brighton railway station including successfully obtaining stakeholder buy-in and listed building consent, increasing retail, passenger and advertising revenue and commencing works on site. Managed overall design and passenger flows, business case, business change, new ways or working, income generation, station interchange and place, construction, stakeholder management, listed buildings, planning, programming, reporting, bids, rail, engineering, procurement and communications. Led a team of internal and external project managers and consultants. 18 month fixed term contract.

Project Management + Programme Management Consultancy for major capital projects, construction, civil engineering and rail. Defined and managed business case, procured consultants & contractors, obtained stakeholder and planning buy in. Increased retail/commercial value massively. Also workplace and business change, managing retailers, agents, office fit out, police and staff accommodation.

Sutton Life Centre Project Manager for SSPS-managing delivery of a multi-use community/education facility including an innovative immersive media experience using cutting edge audio visual to teach young people about risk. Worked with senior stakeholders including senior local government leaders, senior police and emergency service staff, leading charities, and directors of leading businesses. Opened by deputy prime minister.Also large office change schemes and various smaller projects.

Project and Programme Management consultancy to the property and construction industries. Managed early stages of an £80m retail park/mixed use/housing/hotel scheme for top 5 developer. PM on office/industrial park. Programme management of designers on a multi million pound defence project. Various retail projects etc.

Associate PM at Nigel Rose Wokingham (now BAQUS) managing mainly a large residential development consisting of 6 blocks of upmarket flats overlooking a harbour, including mixed use facilities and associated civil engineering. Also other projects.

Project Manager Stevenage Office. PM and QS on major schemes for developers eg £12m Mixed use: High rise flats and B1 (business) space for Housing Association - Hackney £12mLarge hi-tech, phased, office refit & labs on secure missile/defence site.£7.5m Hi-tech office conversion (occupied), labs + light industrial building for aerospace client. (QS)£6m Lightweight steel frame-150 bedroom student accom, community centre & nursery – Cambridge

Thailand

Living the dream!Teaching scuba diving on a tropical island for one of the worlds busiest and best dive resorts.Also dive master and managing dive logistics and the training of beginners to dive masters and assistant instructors. This included first aid, DAN O2, rescue and specialities such as Nitrox.

Dot com start up. web based CDE (combined data environment) / document management and workflow system for architecture, engineering and construction: Product development, sales, marketing, training, business analysis, workflow, project controls, collaboration, international integration, business change.

Senior development survey, luxury housing to £30m, riverside developments, quantity surveying, procurement, contract management

Civil engineering, bridge moves, stations, commercial management, project management, risk management, value engineering

Member Of The Association Of Project Managers, Incorporated Member Chartered Institute Of Building

Managing Successful Programmes

Prince 2 Practitioner

Bsc (Hons)

Divemaster To Idc Staff Instructor