Denis has over 30 years of experience in Aircraft Engineering, Rail, and Power. This includes over ten years of planning experience, as well as Airworthiness / Change management, and IT (Enterprise solution integration) He has worked in Ireland the UK, and Hong Kong, and has managed large teams on complexes projects.

His background is predominately in Aviation, having served an apprenticeship in the Irish Air Corps, and spent nearly 18 years working for British Airways as an Engineer, Fleet Planning Engineer, Fleet Technical Engineer (Airworthiness) and Team Leader on project work, namely the SAP implementation in BA Engineering, at that time the largest Implementation of its kind in Europe. Since the early 1990’s his involvement in planning has been through supporting the production roles in aircraft maintenance, this involved managing the production plan, control of resources, estimating time to complete, planning repairs, reporting on progress. This work was carried out as a Fleet Planning Engineer on Boeing 757and 767 aircraft major maintenance. He has also been point of contact with Audit teams from aircraft manufactures and leasing companies to prove Airworthiness / due diligence on the planning maintenance carried out by British airways.

On leaving British Airways Denis moved into Rail working on projects as part of Metronet for London Underground, this involved using Primavera P3e/v5, and leading a team of planners. His last role was working for Mott MacDonald as a Planning Manager within a joint venture Alliance, managing a team of 15 planners delivering projects all over the South East of England for National Grid, using P6. Denis is now working for Mott MacDonald in Hong Kong, Responsible for promotion and adoption of best practice within HK / APNA in the areas of planning and project controls.  Denis is very excited about the prospect of gaining recognition for his chosen career, along with the technical competency we all show, he is interested in gaining recognition for the human interaction / stakeholder management skills that we bring to our profession every day.