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United Kingdom

London, Gb

Spider Entertainment specialises in developing, launching and operating entertainment venues and experiences. The Spider team of creative designers, project developers, experienced operators, and technical innovators, whom have decades of experience working with some of the biggest attractions and brands in the world, provide turnkey or a bespoke operations management services, essential for creating, developing, designing, building, opening and operating location-based entertainment. Established in 2021 current clients include Kidzania London, DIVR, Attraktions. Spider Entertainment is also launching their own brand of immersive entertainment venues across Europe and North America. More at www.spiderentertainment.com

London, England, Gb

Rise Leisure is a newly formed division of Rise Management Consulting Ltd who offer end-to-end solutions to the leisure industry for project management from inception through to completion. These services are offered for new designs and builds, refurbishment, improvement and expansion projects for visitor attractions, restaurants, hotels, health clubs, pubs and nightclubs, sports and recreational venues, cinemas and racing venues. By combining the five major areas of the ‘Total Experience Economy’ we are able to offer a total end-to-end solution or any of the individual segments depending on the project requirements.

London, Gb

Specialist project management consulting firm based in central London with regional offices in Bath and Birmingham.Responsible for expanding the Rise Management Consulting into the markets in Birmingham and Manchester and other areas of the Midlands and North of the country.Senior Project Manager for KidZania London, a 75,000 sqft Children's Educational and Entertainment Centre in West London.Senior Project Manager for the 48,000 sqft CAT A refurbishment of the Headquarters of a leading Children's charity in the City of London.

Croydon, London, Gb

Responsible for the successful delivery of 50 education projects (including Primary, Secondary, Academies, Special Educational Needs Schools) over two years.The projects were a mixture of new build, refurbishment, modular, expansions of existing schools and completely new schools.Delivered the most forms of entry (FE) in London (26) by September 2012, with 16 delivered within 6 weeks from the initial instruction in very challenging circumstances without any effect on the quality of the projects. Nominated for Employee of the Year, runner up for employee of the month in September 2012 and the team was nominated for 'One team' of the year.Responsible for managing the overall programme budget of £260m - reporting on the spend and risks on a monthly basis to the key client stakeholders.Reporting the status of individual projects to key stakeholders in written and verbal formats including councillors, senior colleagues and governing bodies.Responsible for overseeing and motivating 16 project managers both internal and from different consultancies, to ensure programme deliverables are achieved.Directly managing two school projects with a combined total of £11m including a high profile new primary school delivering five forms of entry in a short timescale. One of the projects was highly commended by the Building Design Magazine. Set up a new way of delivering the new school projects to improve delivery timescales and save up to 30% overall costs without affecting quality.

Croydon, London, Gb

Project Manager on the Building schools for the Future programme working with up to 9 schools to deliver the feasibility studies and masterplan designs for the school sites.Delivered studies and master plans simultaneously over an 8 week period with intense school engagement and liaison with senior council executives to ensure the requirements of the school and the programme were adhered to.Developed a Sustainability Strategy for the secondary school estate to save carbon emissions, energy use and money for the local authority and sat on the Sustainable School Steering group.Stakeholder engagement at all levels, from school pupils to senior leadership teams and governing boards to senior council executives in the form of workshops, presentations with small and large group meetings. Challenged the decision making process to ensure all schools received appropriate levels of funding and support from the team.

London, Gb

Project Manager and Contract Administrator on a variety of high profile projects for a local authority, University and Healthcare Trust with values ranging from £3.5m to £52m.Proven experience in project planning and programme monitoring. Implemented risk, design and value management tools and techniques. Appointed design consultants and contractors both privately and through the OJEU process.Managed and led the design and project teams through the design and construction processes.Liaised with client and stakeholders to ensure projects met expectations and aspirations.Managed budgets, contingencies and instructions on behalf of clients.

Successfully managed various high quality building and refurbishment contracts to a value of approximately £350k. Successfully completed an HND in Construction whilst maintaining a daily job with full responsibility.Managed and motivated skilled and unskilled tradesman on multiple sites.Maintenance of ongoing client relationships with the aim of future project procurement.

Msc, Project Management

Hnd, Construction

Bsc Honours, Biology

Education record