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Berkshire (EU.UK.BER)

Andrew Hobbs

First Name: 
Andrew
Last Name: 
Hobbs
Professional Since: 
Oct-2008 (15.7 yrs experience)
Oldest experience: 
Jun 2003 (21.1 yrs experience, WARNING: 5.4 years variance with Professional Since)
Years Experience: 
7

Chris Laing

First Name: 
Chris
Last Name: 
Laing
Professional Since: 
Jun-2008 (16.1 yrs experience)
Oldest experience: 
Oct 2001 (22.8 yrs experience, WARNING: 6.7 years variance with Professional Since)
Years Experience: 
8

Cost and Planner, Thames Water, Thames Water - Dirty Water Connections

START Date: 
June, 2007
END Date: 
November, 2007

Cost biased role for the Dirty Water projects for the largest Water Utility company

Most projects were based around Feasibility Studies and were contracted out for construction.

Responsible for circa 30+ small packages and worked with 3 project managers to record and track progress.

Developed a white paper to suggest how to utilise the aged Project Controls systems to get a stronger handle on Project Controls.

Experience Hours (Planning & Scheduling): 
50
Experience Hours (Cost Management): 
950

Planner, WS Atkins, New Build - Defence Contractor

START Date: 
March, 2007
END Date: 
June, 2007

Planner in a large team for a Tier 1 contractor Designing and Building a new Testing Facility on a Large Dedence Site in Berkshire

Responsible for creation of a manhours loaded programme that involved the co-ordination activities accross 4 Regional Offices.

Liaison with the client Planner to ensure that Design tasks were completed or explained to the client ahead of the Master Programme being presented to the Clients board.

Experience Hours (Planning & Scheduling): 
500

Project Engineer, Planner, Redhall Nuclear (Steels Engineering), Rekit Project - Major Defence Contractor Berkshire

START Date: 
November, 2007
END Date: 
June, 2008

Dual Project Engineer / Planning role

Responsible for the creation of a holistic view of the business portfolio of projects, supporting tendering exercises as part of a framework contract for M&E/Fit Out/Strip Out works based at a large defence contractor in Berkshire

Managed a £1m project to replace an aged asset that was crucial to the R&D part of the business.

 

Experience Hours (Planning & Scheduling): 
1000
Experience Hours (Cost Management): 
300

Foster Wheeler Worley Parsons (FWWP) Lead Planner

START Date: 
May, 2007
END Date: 
December, 2007
Exxon Mobile’s Singapore Parallel Train Project, responsible for a team of 3 planners looking after Interconnecting piperacks, secondary process units and Early Tankage scopes of work.
Design and Procurement taking place in FW office in reading, UK and Construction on Jurong Island, Singapore.
Co-ordinating three separate Level 3 schedules using Primavera P3 v 3.1, and Level 1 & 2 schedules utilising milestone Software. Level 3 schedule developed from FEED stage engineering documents with buy in from discipline leads and client through consultation and review.

START Date: 
April, 2010
Current Role

Big Project Consulting Planner

START Date: 
March, 2010
Current Role

Planning Planet Project Manager

START Date: 
January, 2009
Manager at Planning Planet

Oracle Project Manager

START Date: 
April, 2009
Focused and highly driven multilingual (fluent in English/German) International Marketing Manager with 12 years of experience in the IT industry. Chartered Marketer with extensive marketing experience, French and Spanish knowledge.

Experience across a variety of marketing roles in software, hardware, professional services, direct sales, OEM and channel sales.

Held position of Board Director and Marketing Committee Chair of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) Europe for 3 years (2006-2009).

Market Place

Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project books, on-line video training courses and training material available from an internationally recognised publisher. Teach yourself using on-line or book based learning or run your own in-house or public courses.
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