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A senior qualified registered architect with extensive experience in managing major national and international commercial developments within the public and private sectors.
Personally committed to the achievement of professional best practice.
Extensive skills and achievements in design and delivery of production information.
Proven leadership skills in managing large and small teams.
Established design skills combined with carbon critical philosophies.
Excellent communicator able to interact and influence all levels of internal and external stakeholders and organisations.
Proven bid skills achieving fee income for mixed use projects and mass transit.
Developing client confidence through commitment to their vision and commercial requirements.
Established marketing to secure clients.
I am looking to add value and develop within a global reaching organisation that has clear aspirations in embracing new technologies and whose success is based on continuing to achieve high standards through client service and end product quality.


Key skills and achievements:

Commercial/Finance:
• Reporting operational control of the business unit through finance analysis, workload projection, UK and international opportunities tracker, jobs won, latest hot topics, HR, recruitment, resourcing, skill gaps, training and risk management.
• Successfully planned and controlled resources, programme and forecast spend against actual spend across several projects and achieved a closer project control with a weekly status report tracking deliverables and spend.

Sales and Marketing:
• Successfully integrated a bottom up task based resource planner to improve the accuracy of the bidding process.
• Currently developing a top down spread sheet to complement and enhance the routine process of bid estimates.
• Continued success in presentation of business unit skills and abilities through power point presentation and fold out business cards.
• The ability to work closely with the client and associated disciplines to achieve shared goals for success through partnering.
• A skilled design architect, conversant with current building regulations, contemporary construction techniques and an enthusiastic approach to all aspects of continuing professional development.
People:
• Successfully managed an architectural department alongside other construction disciplines achieving greater efficiency in performance and deliverables.
• Line managed and resource planned for 42 technical staff by introducing weekly planning meetings with senior project managers and project architects to gain an improvement in individual employee performance.
• Produced one year projection staffing requirements on multiple projects to highlight shortfalls and surplus in staff to allow strategic reallocation or introduction of resources within the business.
• Achieved increased productivity through goal setting within appraisals and building a motivated team through defining organisation charts, increased responsibilities and setting personal goals which resulted in greater staff retention and an environment for succession.
Process/Technical:
• Turned around the quality of output of a production office through improved cad technique and technical detailing awareness through site visits and mentoring.
• Developed greater vigilance with inter unit work orders by working towards managing the individual disciplines to be within the same office to achieve as good a service internally as the one we provide to external clients.
• Achieved a sound knowledge base to plan projects through their life span by using and implementing the building management system improving my personal performance and those above and below me.
• Persistent evaluation and participation in the cosmetic and technical qualities to achieve high standards required in deliverable documentation by making the review an inherent part of everyone’s daily tasks by self checking and an independent senior review before authorisation.
• Conversant with AutoCAD, Microstation, Caddie and associated project administration computer applications including NBS Writer and Adobe Photoshop.
General:
• Established design supervisor and project manager on an award winning international train station.
• Accomplished skills in communication and networking across a range of contacts, including statutory bodies, English Heritage, Environmental agencies to name but a few.
• Continued success in client facing, maintaining and developing client base and personnel management to create an engaged workforce.
• Continuous success in delivering exceptional results in line with client expectations.
• Established project manager with proven skills to develop client brief from inception through to completion.
• Accomplished project administrator, successfully delivering project requirements including budgets and building programmes within the demanded time scales.
• A confident leader with proven decision making capabilities, facilitating the ability to influence the design team adding value to quality and performance.

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