Member, Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (AIQS 1979)

MRICS

1983

Member, Association of Cost Engineers

MACostE

1982

Member, Association of Project Management

MAPM

1984

Member, Permanent Way Institute

MPWI

2004

Member, Railway Study Association

2004

Pilot Design Workshops - RIB Estimating System

2003

Project Managers Cost System - Basic Course

2002

Signalling for Non-Signallers

2001

Basic 100 Principles for the Railway

2001

Personal Training for Safety (PTS Certificate)

2001

Courses for CCS Candy - Estimating Software

1995/8

Courses for Microsoft Office -Excel, Word, Access

1995/8

APM Master Classes (Association Project Management)

1995

Estimating Checklist Committee for Capital Projects Published by Spon's (Assoc. Cost Eng's)

1989

Negotiations & Effective Communications

1989

Database Software Course - (Artemis)

1986

Management Courses (Urwick Orr)

1976/77

DEAN & DYBALL CONSTRUCTION

Quantity Surveyor- Surrey

On site to assist with the Subcontract tender preparation, estimates, remeasure, V.O's and final accounts for the completion of a Design & Build project.

April 2005 from March 2005

BALFOUR BEATTY RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE SERVICES

Trackwork - Final Accounts

Quantity Surveyor Part of a small team, preparing Final Account documents for submission to Network Rail and responding to auditing queries.

November 2004 from May 2004

NETWORK RAIL/RAILTRACK

Railway Infrastructure Operations, Maintenance and Renewals

To end of 2003 from 1999

Estimating and Cost Planning Manager - HQ to December 2003 from April 2002

Major Projects, Strategy and Investment Directorate: Validation of Major Project Estimates; development of the Estimating section in the newly launched GRIP (Guide to Railway Procedures); direction and consultation to the IMS team (Investment Management System) for its introduction and roll-out, including the selection process of the new Estimating System - (RIB) and the development of the CBS (Cost Breakdown Structure); concurrence and alignment with the Unit Cost initiative; participation in the Renewals Efficiency Program; responsibility for updates to the quarterly Inflation Guide and the Multi-Est estimating system.

Estimating Manager - Southern Zone, Project Delivery to April 2002 from Aug 2000

Project estimates preparation and validation from feasibility to implementation: - all disciplines: signalling, permanent way, structures, electrification, telephony, building work etc. Analysis of past projects; development and updates to the Multi-Est estimating system and procedures; liaison and promotion of the estimating function.

Contracts Standards Assessor, Contracts & Supply to Aug 2000 from October 1999

Administrative function for review and revision of contracts and procedures for Procurement and Commercial Management; assistance with a programme of national audits; review and revision of the finance procedures for the Business Management System (BMIS by Oracle); analysis of PMCS reports (Project Management Control System). Review of estimating and accounting procedures, methods of measurement, etc.

TARMAC CONSTRUCTION INTERNATIONAL

(following merger with WIMPEY ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION)

1999 from 1996 1996 from 1992

Senior Estimator

Estimates for multi-disciplined, joint venture, lump sum turnkey, EPC, design/build projects for processing plants: Power, Petrochem, Nuclear, Water, Underground and Railwork; UK and international, with a successful and consistent tendering track record.

Bid information accumulation, assimilation and dissemination; client interface; tender progress and management settlement meetings.

The calculation of direct manhour and material costs from basics, for installation and erection of equipment, piping, steelwork, cabling, ductwork, insulation, and painting.

Indirect costs for staffing, plant, establishment and subcontract requirements.

Forecasting escalation, cash flow, insurance, risks and margins.

Optimising methology and strategy, programme parameters, manning levels, staffing, & site setup.

Reviewing commercial terms and conditions, vendor sourcing, bid conditioning and price spread.

Fully conversant with computer estimating techniques, principally with Excel, occasionally Lotus and briefly, CCS Candy. Test trials with the Icarus Questimate system.

BROWN & ROOT VICKERS LTD. 1992 from 1990

Project Management & Engineering

Senior Cost Engineer and Estimator

Conceptual and budget control estimates for the design, management, procurement and construction elements, for platform jackets and topsides, on/offshore pipeline and hook-up. Conoco - CMS

Optimisation estimate, cost control and reporting for the design engineering and capital expenditure for water injection project. Adco - Bab Field.

Cost control monitoring and reporting for equipment and bulks for platform jacket and topsides during procurement stage with design project management team. Arco, Pickerill Field.

Compilation of a historical cost/estimating, weights and design parameter database for equipment and bulk materials. Initially on Artemis system and subsequently transferred to a dBaseIII system.

Assigned to project team reviewing selected projects to identify and report on the critical activities, time frame, resource requirements, and forecast final costs - London Underground Ltd

BOVIS CONSTRUCTION LTD.

Building & Civil Engineering Management Contractors

1989 from 1988

Divisional Cost Manager - Canary Wharf Infrastructure

Fast track design and build construction; cost management onsite for bid packages: documentation, evaluation and placing - M & E, steelwork, cladding, scaffolding, external façade temporary electrics, piling, roofing, decking, blockwork, access infrastructure etc.

FOSTER WHEELER PETROLEUM DEV. LTD.

Project Management & Engineering

1988 from 1982

Cost Control Supervisor and Senior Cost Engineer

Joint venture with project management and detailed design engineering teams; cost engineering; monthly reporting and forecasting: manhours and indirect costs, budgets and margins, Artemis and in-house database systems; Client invoicing; Gulfaks B Platform, Statoil.

Productively engaged in claim for reimbursable project - Statfjord C Platform, Mobil.

Shaw & Hatton/Protech

Project Management & Engineering

1981

Cost Engineering

Short-term off-shore module project; project management, design engineering: detailed estimates, budgets, trend analysis, MTO's (material take-offs), CTR catalogue, (Construction, Time, Resources) - Frigg Field, Total.

Bateman Engineering and Bartlett Construction.(South Africa)

Engineering and Construction - Project & Contract Management.

1980 from 1977

Contract management, administration, supervision, estimating and quantity surveying for multidiscipline project management and engineering projects: oil from coal processing plant, Sasol/Fluor; coal handling and load-out plants, Shell Coal; ore reduction plant, ERPM; highway service stations, Mobil & Total; commercial & industrial buildings, Others.

LTA Civil Engineering. (South Africa )

Construction - Civil Engineering.

1977 from 1971

Estimating for bid submissions and Quantity surveying - valuations, remeasurement, variations, claims, subcontracts and final accounts: power stations, processing plants, pumping station, roads, railways, bridges, pipelines, canals, reservoirs, tunnels, sewage works.

Sir R.McAlpine, Token, Croudace.

Construction - Building

1971 from 1960

Estimating and Quantity surveying: BoQ's, monthly valuations, takeoffs, variation orders, subcontracts and final accounts: offices, factories, warehouses, hospitals, tower blocks, schools and homes.