A highly successful CEO and Board Director with both public and private sector experience gained within a major UK utility business.

A Senior Academic at Aston University, former Chairman of a Local Charity and an Executive/NLP coach.

Career History

2010-to date

Head of ESM and Senior Fellow – Aston University

Chairman - Energy & Utility Skills (Ending in 2016)

Chairman – Sutton Coldfield Support Services, A charity for adults with learning difficulties (Ending in 2017)

1973 – 2010South Staffordshire Water

2003 – 2010Appointed Managing Director

Highest return on capital of any water company in the 2009 price settlement.Drove substantial change programme through the EU Skills executive team from 2009 through 2010.

Delivered £100m of asset investment at South Staffs water to within 1% of budget between 2005 and 2010.

Designed first product portfolio for a National Charity in 2006

Instigated marketing and re-branding process for the Institute of Water in 2008

Achieved a top 3 customer service place every year from 2000 through 2009.

1999 – 2003Deputy Managing Director

Increased the operational efficiency of South Staffs Water from band C (13th ranked out of 23) to upper band A (8% ahead of the frontier company) from 2000 to 2009.

Delivered culture change through a personally designed business improvement process in 2000. This involved 600 staff generating 22,000 ideas for improvement.

1974 – 1999Various Posts, South Staffordshire Water

Public/Charitable Appointments

National Chairman of Energy and Utility Skills

Chairman of Sutton Support Services, A charity for adults with learning disabilities

Appointed Prince’s trust Chair of applications and inspirational speaker

National Chair of Utility Services Training 2006-2008

National President – Institute of Water – 2008 – 2010

European President of the Automated Meter Reading Association 2000 - 2003

Professional Qualifications

Chartered Engineer

Chartered Environmentalist

Honorary Member – Institute of Water

Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers

Member of the British Psychological Society

Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Authority

Academic Qualifications

PhD

BSc (First Class) in Civil Engineering

MBA

MSc Mathematics

PMD (Harvard Business School)

Graduate Diploma in Psychology

Master of Education

Other Qualifications

Levels A & B psychometric testing –BPS accredited and registered

NLP Coach certification and Time Line therapist TM

Advanced Certificate in Executive Coaching

Fellow of the Institute of Leadership & Management

Professional Experience

2019, 09 – NowLecturer, School of Engineering & Applied Science, Aston University, United Kingdom

Be responsible for the BIM module development and delivery as well as lab-based tutoring;

Play a managerial role in student issues and administration

Be engaged into external & internal research;

2015, 02 – 2019, 08Deputy Director, Industrial Building System, Sdn Bhd, Penang, Malaysia

Be responsible for lifecycle BIM strategy making and implementation targeting commercial property development in Malaysia. Related working strategy is heavily involved with PAS1192-2 for information management, nD modelling, Field BIM, FM/AIM applications and automation plug-ins development;

Established enterprise level BIM execution plan, modelling protocol, templates to regulate daily practices and data handover with general contractors;

Liaised with procurement department to identify suitable ICT solutions for contracting and purchasing decision making;

In charge of series of BIM projects in the development for clash detection, sequence erection, cost control, data initiations for Field BIM and FM/AIM applications;

2014, 02- 2014,12Senior BIM consultant, Building ResearchEstablishment (BRE) Ltd. Watford, UK

Undertook BRE TRUST funded research project – feasibility study of rapid prototyping for semantic buildings based on point clouds. The project utilised: 1) 3D CAD modelling in SketchUp by referring to inputted point clouds; 2) BIMserver to generate IFC models; and 3) Solibri model checker to validate the IFC models.

Undertook technical and user interface/interaction design for digital plan of work (dPoW) of BIM level 2 research fund sponsored by the UK BIM task group

2012, 05- 2014, 02Research fellow in applied computing, Department of Real Estate and Construction, Oxford Brookes University, UK

Undertook research of 3D CAD, Building Information Modelling (BIM), Industry Foundation Classes (IFC), computer graphics and web services technologies for sustainable construction applications.

Focused on developing integrated BIM solution using BIMserver - open source building information model server. The research has enabled SketchUp and Revit to exchange design information successfully.

2010,03- 2012,02Research fellow, School of Construction Management and Engineering, University of Reading, UK

Undertook the project of building safely by design, which investigated construction safety at the design phase. The project is funded by the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (iosh) in the UK.

Identified fatal construction risks in design for visualisation and modelling

Applied 3D CAD, BIM and simulation tools for design evaluation including: Autodesk Architecture, Revit, Navisworks, Bentley Projectwise Navigator

2009,04 – 2010,02Postdoctoral Research Assistant, School of the Built Environment, Oxford Brookes University, UK

Received parametric modelling training of CATIA to apply the BIM software of Digital Project in Desktop Engineering Ltd. Certificate of CATIA V5 Foundation.

Be engaged in AutoCAD training program development.

2005,01 – 2005,10User Interface Designer, Philips Research Laboratories (Nat.Lab), Eindhoven, the Netherlands

Successfully delivered the contract project in Philips Research: The User Interface Development of Explicit Recommender for an Open Media Centre.

2003,10 – 2004,12Research Trainee, Department of Technology Management, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands.

Got trained in interaction technology, user interface technology, user-centered design, usability engineering & evaluation. Won the industrial contract from Philips Research Laboratories for an industrial project.

1997,07 – 2003,09Falsework designer, Formwork & Scaffold Division, Beijing Building Construction Research Institute, Beijing, P. R. China

Developed formwork matching expert system, a CAD software application for formwork matching, inquiring, and budgeting. Using Visual C++ MFC and ObjectARX in AutoCAD R14.

Engaged in falsework consultancies for nationwide projects.

1992,08 – 1994,08Civil engineer, Henan No.3 Building Construction Corporation, Luoyang, Henan, P. R. China.

Constructability assessment and technology support for the project of Staff Hospital, Specialist’s Habitation of Xiaolangdi Dam of the Yellow River, Berberine Plant of Yuxi

Medicine Factory in Lingbao city, etc.

Obtained Skills

Working knowledge of 3D/4D packages of Revit, Tekla, Navisworks, Digital Project;

Working knowledge of 5D BIM enterprise level platform of iTWO 4.0/YTWO;

Working knowledge of 6D BIM of Ecodomus for FM/AM;

Proficient in coding and office tools for computer applications: MS Visual C++/MFC/C#, HTML, MS Office, etc.

Creative thinking to leverage interdisciplinary knowledge for problem solving.

Expert knowledge in software engineering and BIM applications.

Education

2006,03 – 2009,04PhD student (fully bursaried for 3 years), School of Engineering and the Built Environment, the University of Wolverhampton, United Kingdom. Degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D)

Focused on PhD research of construction process simulation using 3D building model in virtual reality. Developed the prototype of collaborative 4D CAD groupware following the software engineering process.

2003,10 – 2005,10Research trainee of User-System Interaction. Stan Ackermans Institute, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Diploma of Professional Doctorate in Engineering (PDEng).

1994,09 – 1997,06Master student. Department of Mechanical Design, Luoyang Institute of Technology (presently the name is Henan University of Science & Technology), Luoyang, Henan, P.R.China. Diploma of Master’s degree in Engineering.

1989,09 – 1992,06College student. Department of Civil Engineering, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, P.R.China. Diploma of Building Construction and Budget.

Profile/Career Summary:

I am currently Senior Lecturer in Quantity Surveying within the Engineering Systems & Management Group of the School of Engineering and Applied Science, Aston University, Birmingham. I am also Programme Director for the CIOB and RICS accredited BSc(Hons) Construction Project Management and BSc(Hons) Quantity Surveying programmes.

I was previously Senior Lecturer in Construction Project Management and Quantity Surveying at the Faculty of Science and Engineering (FSE, previously School of Engineering and the Built Environment (SEBE)), University of Wolverhampton from September 2007 to January 2019. During this time I lectured at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, as well as internationally. I also delivered project management modules at the University of Coventry and University of the West of England. I was Course Leader for the UoW MSc Programme and Project Management award which we delivered both in the UK and overseas in Singapore.

As part of my role, I am actively involved in grant applications, management of research projects and research dissemination activities. I currently direct and supervise PhD projects in areas of health and safety, waste management, WASH, construction procurement and dispute resolution. I have successfully delivered a number of funded projects including an EU funded €8.998M INTERREG IVB North West Europe C2C BIZZ project (2011 –2015) (€568K University of Wolverhampton component).

My academic role is underpinned by professional Quantity Surveying (QS) experience as freelance QS for Wolverhampton based building contractor (Greyline Construction). I had previously worked for building and civil engineering contractor (Emefs Construction, Ghana), primarily in their housebuilding division.

Academic qualifications:

09/07 – 08/08

University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, UK.

PGCert Learning and Teaching in Higher Education

10/03 – 07/07

University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, UK.

PhD. Construction Management

10/02 – 09/03

University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK.

MSc. Construction Management (Distinction)

09/97 – 07/01

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana.

BSc. (Hons.) Building Technology (First)

09/93 – 06/95

Achimota School, Ghana.

A’ levels (Grades A, B, B in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics)

Employment history:

01/19 - Present

Aston University, Birmingham, UK.

Senior Lecturer & Researcher

Responsibilities include teaching and providing pastoral support to undergraduate students in Construction Project Management and Quantity Surveying programmes. This role also includes teaching overseas in China.

Research activities focus on grant applications, project management, PhD supervision and examination, and research administration. This also includes attendance and presentation of research work at international conferences and workshops and attendance of research partner meetings.

09/03 – 01/19

University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, UK.

Senior Lecturer & Researcher

Responsibilities include teaching and providing tutorial support at Postgraduate and Undergraduate levels in Construction Project Management (legal procedures, risk management, H&S management, leadership), Quantity Surveying Practice and Techniques (taking-off based on CESMM4, NRM and SMM7, approximate estimating, cost planning, and contract administration), Pre-Contract activities (procurement, tendering procedures, tender evaluation) Post-Contract work (interim valuations of on-going work, valuing variations, claims, final accounts preparation) and Contractual Procedures (procurement and contract formation and administration). This role also includes teaching overseas in Sri Lanka.

Research activities focus on grant applications, project management, PhD supervision and examination, and research administration. This also includes attendance and presentation of research work at international conferences and workshops and attendance of research partner meetings.

11/15 - Present

Greyline Construction Ltd, Wolverhampton, UK.

Freelance Quantity Surveyor

Estimating, preparing tenders, site surveys, measurement of construction work, attending meetings with clients, and preparing subcontract enquiries.

01/13 – 06/13

Built Environment, University of the West of England, UK

Visiting Lecturer

Taught the module Construction Project Management Practice to Part-Time & Full-Time MSc Construction Project Management students.

11/11 – 12/11

Built Environment, Coventry University, UK

Visiting Lecturer

Taught the module Pre-Contract Management Practice to Part-Time MSc Construction Project and Cost Management students.

10/01 – 09/02

Department of Building Technology, KNUST, Ghana.

Assistant Quantity Surveyor and Teaching Assistant

Assistant Quantity Surveyor on Bank of Ghana (Cedi House) refurbishment and extension project, with responsibility for measurement (SMM7, CESMM3), preparation of bills of quantities, approximate estimation and preparation of feasibility report. This project included the construction of a new multi-storey car park. Preliminary estimate was around $20M.

Other responsibilities included teaching and providing tutorial support on measurement of construction works (SMM7), and supervising laboratory/workshop practice.

07/00 – 10/01

Emefs Construction Ltd., Ghana.

Assistant Quantity Surveyor

Quantity Surveyor on Emefs Lagoon View Estates project (over 200 housing units valued in excess of $14M, including the provision of water, electricity, roads and other services). Responsibilities included site supervision, work measurement (SMM7, CESMM3), stores management, market surveys, preparation of material schedules and bills of quantities, preparation of tender documents, building up of rates and dealing with customer problems.

07/99 – 10/99

07/98 – 10/98

Tema Development Corporation, Ghana.

Trainee Quantity Surveyor

Trainee Surveyor on Tema Development Corporation housing estates projects. Responsibilities included site supervision (Clerk of Works), taking-off (SMM5 & 7), market surveys, preparation of material schedules, and other administrative tasks.