Technical Lead & Senior Principal Consultant
MWH (UK) Ltd
Total years of experience :33 years, 5 Months
Technical Leader and member of the Senior Management/Delivery Team, responsible for setting up and growing a consulting services and IT delivery (infrastructure and software solutions) business unit within the European Region of MWH servicing utility sector clients engaged in large Capital Delivery and Improvement Programmes. Building on the company’s extensive experience in the Water Utility sector, developed management consultancy and IT offerings revolving around Asset Information Management, Strategic Investment Planning, Programme Management and Business Efficiency Improvement services.
Key achievements:
• Established a credible consultancy business unit, which offered a wide range of management consultancy and programme management services to asset rich utility clients as well as a diverse suite of IT, GIS and web-enable tools. This group of 35-45 staff had an average annual turn-over of between £6M - £8M.
• Responsible for the creation and development of two specialist groups within the business unit: Technology Implementation, offering IT application development and deployment services (including hosted infrastructure services); and Strategic Investment Planning, offering consulting, IT, GIS and statistical services to water companies to enable them to optimise CAPEX investments and build robust business plans for submission to Ofwat for the next 5 year AMP cycle.
• Provided technical consultation and project leadership on customer-driven technical solution programmes. Also responsible for identifying and assessing any technical and contractual risks associated with the work, and advising on how we might resolve and mitigate those risks ensuring projects met targets. Accountable for all programme/project Quality Assurance and technical success.
Founder and Technical Director of the Information Solution Group, provided the leadership and direction for all business development and marketing activities and determined the overall strategic direction and business objectives for the group. Ensured appropriate and pragmatic technical innovation within our chosen fields of work, and determined future technological growth areas and skill requirements. Accountable for the technical quality and standard of work carried out by this business unit.
Key achievements:
• Created and established a highly qualified, multidisciplinary group of IT and geomatic specialists capable of offering advanced IT and geospatial services to a variety of government agencies and private sector clients - 2003 peaked with 93 staff and a turnover of £6.4M.
• Client facing Delivery Manager and Technical Director responsible for the methodologies, processes, procedures and all IT systems and infrastructure that supported the successful delivery to the required programme of the £15M Mapping Access Land in England Project for the Countryside Agency. This 5 year intensive project contained a mid-contract renegotiation from a £4.3M lump sum to a £15M value for money solution. In December 2005, this project was winner of the Information Management (IM2005) GIS Project Prize and the prestigious overall Premier Project Award.
• Identified and assessed new technologies and built relationships across the industry sector, negotiating agreements with strategic partners.
• Implemented sophisticated and functionally rich spatially-enabled Information Management Systems to private sector clients and Government Agencies enabling them to manage their assets and business activities effectively.•
• Motivated and mentored staff to improve their effectiveness and take on more responsibilities thereby increasing performance and releasing senior staff to develop other areas of the business.
Employed in the Highways Department, responsible for introducing and advising on the use and application of highway design software, providing user training and assistance, as well as carrying out geometric alignment design on the M25 and other major highway projects. Technical Coordinator - UK MOSS (MX) User Group (1989 - 1994)
A US AID funded Land Registration and Titling Project. Responsible for a local staff of eleven, duties included the demarcation and survey of property boundaries, resolving disputes and compiling a record for each parcel of land showing all registerable interest.
Carried out survey assignments on a variety of civil engineering projects around the world
