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London, United Kingdom

• Currently serving as the Senior Programme Director for Strategic Property Services, London Borough of Hackney, which manages the Council’s corporate and commercial property portfolio delivering asset management, leasing, development, disposal, maintenance and investment services.• Provide contractual and commercial guidance on the client’s operational PFI scheme including advising on UC payments, indexation uplifts, benchmarking exercises, value for money reviews, lifecycle works, variation negotiations and audit reports.• Sponsor/Board Member on several politically challenging construction and development projects up to £15m and ensuring accountability for outcomes, risk management, programme, issues and budgets.• Regularly present to stakeholders including senior politicians, political groups and boards, listen to their perspective, before challenging, and guiding on the very real constraints that exist and the compromises necessary as a result• Led the feasibility work on 14 challenging property sites to form a programme for development maximizing value through the assessment of different types of uses and mixes, risk prudent to take, cost, ease of delivery, planning policy, control over outcomes, time, returns, political implications and the capacity to deliver.• Resolved a complex construction latent defect claim in client’s favour. Managed a politically sensitive adverse possession claim achieving a financially favourable result and successfully defended a client against a multi-£m breach of contract claim.

London, United Kingdom

Skanska ID was one of the world’s leading infrastructure development and investment companies specialising in the delivery of complex, state of the art infrastructure projects which generated long term income streams.Bradford and Calderdale Energy from Waste PFI: £130m mechanical recycling and energy from waste plant • Honest broker between consortium members. Resolved allocation of risk and liability issues to align with senior funder requirements.Edinburgh Sick Kids and Dumfries General hospitals: Two DBFO projects with capital values of £150m and £250m• Director responsible for leading 2 high performing bid teams. Set standards, outcomes required, and implemented governance processes. Worked with JV partners to ensure alignment.• Reported to the UK Board on progress, budget, returns, risks and JV issues seeking authority to proceed through gateways. Papworth hospital: Bid manager on the successful bid for Papworth hospital with a capital value of £130m• Deputised for the Project Director and monitored the design and construction workstream.SGE Smart Meters JV: A JV between Skanska Infrastructure Development, Skanska Construction and GE to fund, procure and install smart gas and electricity meters on behalf of UK energy suppliers (capital value of £1bn)• Reported at Board level in Sweden and the UK on programme, risk, returns and budget, securing subsequent tranches of funding and authority to progress.• Controlled and reported on a £5m budget and successfully maintained JV partner alignment resolving issues fairly during an often fractious and challenging 3-way relationship.Skylark Onshore Wind JV: A JV between Skanska Infrastructure Development and Ecotricity to fund, build and divest UK onshore wind sites• Successfully negotiated the construction agreement with Skanska Construction ensuring that the structure and allocation of risks were acceptable to funders.

London, United Kingdom

VT was a leading support services organisation delivering services to the communications, educational, skills and asset management market sectors prior to being taken over by Babcock International.Role: Commercial Manager – led and was accountable for all of the commercial negotiations on the Greenwich Schools Design, Build, Fund and Operate project for 2 new secondary schools (Capex = £96m)• Negotiated the Project, Construction, FM, ICT and Interface Agreements• Oversaw the novation of the professional team and start on site• Full budget control and responsible for internal reporting• Successfully helped to re-establish a constructive relationship with an exceedingly challenging client by doing what we said we would do.

London, United Kingdom

Navigant Consulting provides management consulting and financial dispute expertise to businesses and public sector clients.• Project manager for the London Borough of Hackney’s Building Schools for the Future capital programme responsible for procuring a consortium to design & build 3 new secondary schools with a construction value of £150m.• Deputy SPV manager for the Argyll and Bute NDBFO programme (5 primary and secondary schools with a capital value of £175m) from prior to construction starting to initial schools becoming operational. Undertook inspections, drafted board papers, dealt with variations, contractual issues, investor queries and managed the transition into operations of 2 schools.

Operations Officer, British Army (Rank on leaving - Major)• Planned, briefed and managed complex day-to-day operations for a 1,200 strong department, including the setting of unit standards and performance monitoring to ensure objectives where achieved and wider expectations met.