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October, 2008 EDF Energy Powerlink have been engaged by London Underground Limited (LUL) under a 30 year PFI contract to manage, maintain, renew and upgrade the electrical infrastructure for London’s underground railway network – one of the busiest railways in the world. My role was to create and manage the Planning System for Renewal’s & Upgrades, Adoptions and Variations. Initially this was done using MS Project, with the data being migrated to Primavera P3e (P5/6) by me with the express purpose of creating an integrated planning system to cope with central resource planning, cost analysis and reporting. My secondary role was that of advisor to the construction and commercial teams for the application of Project and Risk Management methodologies when applying them to programme and portfolio management environments. Additionally I worked with the variations team in creating Cost Breakdown Structures (CBS) for use in SAP to activity manage multiple new Work Packages of new build and upgrade works for AC and DC substations – for switchgear, DC rectifiers, protection, cables, SCADA and LVAC boards from 22kV to 415v.