Employment
Current Position: - Owner/Director - Construction Consultancy- Commercial and Project management
Current Company: - Glendamere Services (GSBC Ltd) from 1995
Previous Employer: - Trafalgar house Construction Ltd from 1984 to 1995
Previous Position: - Senior Quantity Surveyor (1987)
Qualifications & Professional membership
· Fellow Chartered Institute of Building
· Member of the Association of Project Management
. Member of the Guild of Project Controls
. Member of the Institute of Construction Claim practitioners
· Associate member of Royal Institute of Charter Surveyors
· Chartered Construction manager
· Chartered Building Consultant - company
· NVQ Senior Construction Management
· CIOB Licentiate examinations.
· City & Guilds Construction Technicians Certificates 1,2,3 & 4
· CSCS – PQP (professionally Qualified Person) also entitled to Black Card Nov 2020
Business Clientele and employers include: -
Castleoak, Integral, St Modwens, Midas Group, Bouygues UK John Sisk & Son Ltd, ISG PLC, Lend Lease EMEA Ltd, ISG Pearce Ltd Pearce Group Ltd, ECL Contracts Ltd, Skanska (Kvaerner Construction Ltd), W B Griffiths & Sons, E G Carter Ltd, Laser Build Ltd, Chalcroft Ltd, Speller Metcalfe Ltd & many smaller companies. Former employers include Trafalgar house Construction Ltd, Galiford Brindley
Key Skills: -
Commercial & Project management, Cost management, Planning and programming, Integrated project delivery, BIM, collaborative working, Quantity Surveying, Estimating, Problem solving, Lateral thinking, Alternative methods, Fast track, Team management, Procurement, Training subordinates, strategic management, Project management of small to medium projects. All of my skills are transferrable and relevant to all construction sectors including utilities, rail etc. Many of the skills I possess can be utilized outside the construction industry, added to the fact that I am very competent, adaptable and flexible to the tasks I am given.
Tool Skills: -
Excel, Word, Power point, Publisher, Asta Power Project, MS project, Adobe Acrobat PDF editing & many more Apps. I have CIOB certificates in IT, Competent in the use of tablets/smart phones.
About me: -
I am construction professional with a record of successfully providing complete commercial services on large and medium Multi-million-pound construction projects up to a value of £75m, for top tier clients, from conception to completion.
Working at a senior level of the industry has allowed me to work across a very broad spectrum of projects and in many sectors. I have been responsible and successful at all aspects of commercial management.
I get involved in project management, project planning and design management. I am at my best when I am total immersed in all of these roles with the responsibility to make decisions utilising my practical and honest approach to business.
I am a loyal, dependable and insightful person who can work to tight procedures or completely out of the box, with problem solving and solution finding being part of my personality, this combined with a straight forward attitude and practical common sense I can be a benefit to any client or employer.
I am able to forge teams and lead by example with my direct and honourable approach, I believe in having a challenging and meritocratic approach to management and in tandem with looking for talents and skills in individuals not always regarded as ambitious or talented– this is normally beneficial for the individual and the company.
I ensure that any opportunities available to the benefit of my clients/employers are considered / taken, whilst the associated risk is reviewed and accounted for.
I am currently working at Glendamere Services and I am a Director of GSBC Ltd based in Hereford.
Both businesses offer B2B Construction Services to the extent noted above throughout the South West, South West midlands The Marches, Mid & South Wales and West midlands from our Hereford base.
During my career I have also trained both my sons to Honours degree level as Commercial mangers,quantity surveyor’s and Project managers.
I am ambitious and very interested in continued learning and personal betterment. Being a member of Threeprofessional bodies ensures I maintain a high level of CPD.