Michael Tsoukaris Email & Phone Number

London, England, United Kingdom

• Managing a team of senior urban designers, conservation officers, an archaeologist and urban forester including annual performance review• Overseeing a caseload of around 800 Listed Building Consent, discharge of conditions and tree applications each year• Delivering a high quality and effective pre-application advice service and internal specialist design advice service for around 1,200 cases each year• Managing the delivery of the council’s specialist regeneration programmes including the specialist planning advice to the Building Schools for the Future Programme, The Aylesbury Regeneration Programme and the Elephant & Castle Regeneration Programme• Manage the council’s advisory panels including the Design Review Panel (DRP) and Conservation Areas Advisory Group (CAAG)• Manage the council’s heritage-led regeneration grants including THI and PSiCA• Manage the preparation of specialist guidance in the fields of urban design and conservation• Oversee the preparation of planning framework documents and plans including presenting evidence at the Examination In Public• Defend the planning decisions made by the council including public inquiries and appeals• Prepare observations on behalf of the council in relation to high profile London-wide schemes as a statutory consultee as required by the LVMF SPG• Contribute to the Senior Management Team for the Planning Division

• Undertaking high level assessment of the financial viability and project management capability of applicants to and grantees of the organisation.• Providing in-house project and grant management advice to applicants, grant officers and consultants. • Delivering in-house training courses on general grant-making as well as specialist subjects like procurement or the RIBA Work Stages. • Implemented the tendering and training of the Register of Professional Advisers to set up framework agreements for monitoring services with project management, cost management and business planning consultants following EU procurement route.• Sat on cross-distributor boards on improvement of service to the public • Led the publication of a client guide in conjunction with the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) to reinforce the importance of design in the built sector and to improve the capacity of clients • Managed all Post Completion Monitoring including visiting completed projects to ensure objectives are being met• Responsible for the on-going review and far reaching review of grant monitoring processes for all grants• Visiting lecturer in grantmaking in the conservation sector at the Centre of Estate Management, Reading

This was a voluntary role which I held in part time for 7 years. Duties included:• Managing the maintenance budget for the school and represent the professional client face co-ordinating all the school’s buildings projects.• Overseeing the successful delivery of the school’s building projects which ranged from regular maintenance works through to one-off extensions and alterations. Spending in excess of £500,000 over seven years• Delivering the full upgrade of all the teaching spaces at the school including the hall and playground • Advising the Trust on the implications of major property acquisitions as well as the implications of new legislation like the DDA. Rosemead is a small independent school and a registered charity with limited means but great ambition. It is unique because it is one of just four or five schools that is wholly owned and managed by the parents of the school.

• Managing multidisciplinary team delivering principally commercial and retail developments including Marlow International (£16m refurbishment and extension of existing building) Leeds Valley Park (£17m Office Park) and RMC headquarters in Thorpe – Surrey• Lead architect on commercial office park buildings including Worldcom building – Reading (£22m Phase 1) and Visteon, Basildon (£16m Phase 1) and being the primary contact for clients, contractors and sub-contractors• Site architect dealing with day-to-day issues on site whist management a multi-disciplinary team remotely• Preparing multi-disciplinary feasibility studies • Preparing outline and detailed planning applications as well as Listed Building Consent applications and Building Regulations submissions• Forensic architectural work on defects that were noted on buildings

Duties included :• Planning and designing commercial and residential proposals and presenting proposals to clients• Preparing statutory submissions including Planning and Building Regulations submissions• Managing the preparation of packages for Design & Build contracts• Co-ordinating work on site and liaising with contractors and sub-contractors

Duties included :• Managing a team of designers and technicians on the upgrade of high security prisons and some hospital work including Chichester and Worthing Hospital• Liaising with Home Office Client and Heads of Works departments at respective prisons• Formulating a briefing document and preparing practical responses to the Woodcock Report on prison break-outs• PFI submissions for major projects

Msc (Arch), Construction Economics And Management

Msc (Grantmaking Management), Centre For Charity Effectiveness

Architecture Part Iii, Architecture, Royal Institute Of British Architects And Architects Registration Board

Bachelor Of Architecture (B.Arch.), Architecture, 1:1

Distinction in: Architectural Theory and Design; and History & Theory of Architecture

Matriculation, High School/Secondary Diplomas And Certificates

Distinction in: Mathematics; Science; Biology; and Art