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EXTENDED VERSION,

Jan 1960 - Mar 1967
After serving 5 years in the RAF as a Rad Navigator I started civilian life in 1960 as a draughtsman with Otis Elevator Co., and very quickly moved on to structural detailer in a small consultancy. having speedily learned the basics I soon moved on to a designer detailer position with a prestigious Consultant where I remained until 1967 advancing to a senior d/d and then a Structural RE. During that period I worked as part of a design team developing and using a structural building system for the then West Country Consortum of local authorities, (comprising Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, Wiltshire, Oxford, Berkshire, CC's & Plymouth CB), responsible for as many as 10/15 projects on the board at any one time together with other noted schemes in parallel ,(including the Police Headquarters & Queen's Custom House at London Airport, Portsmouth College of Technology etc). Eventually I worked out of the office on sites as a Structural RE. The work aspects all fitted in with a technical study program completed in mid '67 with an HNC (Civil Eng.). I was thus proficient in design of R.C., Struct. Steel, Timber, Brick/Blockwork, Aluminium, Plastic and glass. All drawings in the practise required quantifying to prevailing SMM, thus familiar with qs practices and as an RE familiar with contract and contractual procedures and practices.

Mar 1967 - Jan 1977
Changed emphasis to contractors and contracting in March '67 joining Cubitts (Southern) on Thamesmead as the Senior Civils Site Engineer for Phase 1 Stage 1 (north) and Stage 2. Experience gained in heavy civils works such as Soletanched deep drainage and works below the water table. Later loaned out as the Senior Site Engineer on a similar cost plus project at Waltham Abbey with a greater volume of road and bridge works. Appointed as Site Agent for Willment Brothers undertaking a variety of small and medium civils contracts and sub-contracts including Bloomsbury Square underground carpark, heavy civils in Barking and the underground car park at the Cutty Sark gaining experience in open headings and specialist excavation techniques including Icos walling. Appointed as Contracts Manager for Farrans Limited for contracts in the Essex area which included a Sewage Farm and a couple of small 50/60 unit housing estates. The contracts included large dewatering exercises and several thrust boring and pipe jacking sub-contracts. Moved up to Peterhead as Project Planning Manager for the Press Costain JV on the St Fergus Gas Terminal (1st 8# compressors) from the Frigg Field, responsible to the JV Board for all multidisciplinary planning, also in parallel practically involved in the start of the commissioning works for sections of the works. During this overall phase I gained much man management and contract control experience as well as technical and construction expertise. The planning was mainly manual, whilst at Willments some Earned Value and Risk Assessment was used and at St Fergus pert network with computer (ICL 1900 - Nat West) support. At Willment Bros staff of agent level and above were encouraged to liase very closely with estimating staff particularly for performance reporting and associated feedback, whilst gaining insight into estimating procedures.

Jan 1977 - Oct 1979
Due to early advice of redundancy (Works terminating), I accepted a post as Civil Site Agent (Superintendant) on a Sugar Factory & Dam in Khuzestan (Southern Iran) for a German/Dutch consortium, (Stork Werkspor/Wilcon) for a 20,000 hectare production field. Fast track 13 month construction period, with design complete and basic materials ordering and shipping started. Completed to time and opened by the Shah in March 1977. The value of the Civils works was approx. 42M guilders and accomplished with a staff of 3# expat & 5# Iranian senior supervisors 5/6 trade supervisors and at times a labour force peaking at 450# various trades. Then moved up to Tehran (same company) responsible for all construction projects in Iran for pre engineered steel structures. Due to 'pre-revolution' disquiet in Iran the company closed down operations and I took a postion as planning manager with a Government sponsored construction organisation with large projects in Central and S.W.Iran, brick and glass factories, port works and 3# large, 2500 unit housing estates. I chose to remain in Iran as I had married an iranian lady mid '77.

Nov 1979 - Jul 1981
Post 'revolution' my position was eventually localised and I was temporarily forced to look outside Iran for work. I accepted a post as project planning engineer on a housing development for 280 # units in Jubail (Saudi Arabia) for Mabco. The units were precast concrete panelised construction, manufactured in Rhiyad and transported to Jubail. My responsibilities covered all planning and logistics and all 2ary fabric design, procure, The contract period was 18 months and was completed to time and budget. The contract value was SR 144.0 M (£25.0 M). Resonsible for a staff of 2# Architects & 3#DO personnel, manual planning techniques were used including 'line of balance'. Heavy logistics work was entailed for the transportation of the pcc panels

Aug 1981 - Sep 1986
I was then able to return to Iran where family connections enabled me to carry on working on an independent commercial consultative basis with qs, commercial design, site survey work and claims preparation on a varied field of projects. The diversity included a fish farm on the Caspian, power generation schemes in Qom and Mashad, demarcation surveys for IRANCO in Fars and Bushehr and site engineering in southern Iran, various housing schemes in Tabas, Tabriz Tehran and other locations for varied services.

Oct 1986 - Oct 1992
Late in 1986 I was invited to join Leighton Contractors in Hong Kong as their Senior Planning Engineer to run a small planning department. (One of the contracts managers was the Project Manager in Jubail and we had maintained contact over the period). Due to Leighton downsizing I accepted a Planning Manager's position with Shui On. Post Tianneman Square incident the division was closed down and I moved over to the Group Commercial Department to be responsible for the engineering and planning aspects of major claims, where I remained until Sep '92. Again due to downsizing I briefly returned to the UK. I had been continuously away from the UK since the early '80's and there were pressing personal matters to resolve there. At Leighton a bulk of the work entailed normal tender and contract planning using Prime Vision & Systonetics PM software, on minivax. (This was the fore runner system from which Primavera was developed), whilst at Shui On I was responsible for setting up the planning department and selecting the Artemis 2000 software for on contract and departmental use. This was later enlarged with P3, Timeline and Power Project. Most of the major schemes, in Hong Kong, between '86 and '91 were covered in tender or contract stages, mainly the former. I also inherited responsibility for the first Light Rail Transport System at Tuen Mun, maintaining and supporting a senior planning engineer based on site.

Jan 93 - Dec '93
Personal matters resolved I accepted a 1 year contract in Kuwait for Focchi as Project Control Manager on an $US 80.0M contract to upgrade 5# desalters. I set the planning and organisation up in their Bologna Head Office and took the control department to site. I was responsible for a staff of 4 # and one of the responsibilities was quantification for procurement. When I left at the end of '93 the contract was approximately 2 weeks in arears. Work was also carried out with Arthur Anderson in developing a management control structure for planning systems within the company for international application within the group. Primavera was the main in-group software using and incorporating the more sophisticated features for overall group and project controls and reporting at most managerial levels.

Jan 1994 - Dec 1998
I returned directly to Hong Kong, (from Kuwait), to take up a directorship with a small planning consultancy. The consultancy was also the HK agent for several major software products including ASTA (Power Project), and there was a partnering agreement with a prestigious commercial commercial consultant which provided a proportion of the workload. I was subsequently offered a directorship with the commercial organisation and formed my own planning organisation to provide planning services exclusively for them. Work was mainly Hong Kong related with a small amount in the PRC, Philippines and Taiwan. The spread of work consisted Tender and contract planning on MTRC, KCRC, (P)AA contracts, government, industrial and commercial projects of varied sizes and purposes. The work also included bid work for consultants mainly on KCRC projects. A lot of delay analysis and forensic planning for Expert reports and Witness work was carried out towards the end of my active pariticipation. Most of the work was carried out using Primavera and Power Project with a small amount in MS Project and Open Plan. There were also long secondments to contractors working on the new airport at Chek Lap Kok.

Jan 1999 - Present
Following an operation for cancer early in '98 I slowly closed my operation down to return permanently to the UK where I have been working since April '99 on a freelance basis with organisations based in the UK still maintaining a connection with the Commercial Consultants as a Consultant. In that capacity I have returned on several lengthy periods to Hong Kong to carry out work for them as well as undertaking work in the U.K., U S of A., Singapore, Malaysia, and Jordan. The work has mainly consisted of forensic planning and claims development as well as a small amount of standard planning which has included Earned Value management planning and Risk Assessment. Projects have been diversified including Expert Reports for sub-contractors on Kuala Lumpur Int'l Airport, design prolongation for a Consultant on a EPCM dehydrogenisation plant project in Malaysia, expert libility report on 4# power generation plants in the US of A for specialist ACC EPCM supplier and several small claims for for medium size contractors/sub-contractors (E & M, Curtain walling and Sub-structures, building refurbishments and school extensions etc.) in the UK.

A list of the larger involvements between Jan 1994 and Present can be accessed on page 7 of this site, 'Table of Works 1994 to Present'.

I maintain my own licensed software including major pm systems (Primavera, Power Project, SureTrack, MSP, CA-SP, etc) and I carry my own PI insurance for Expert and claims work such as reports, analysis, tribunal attendance and the like.