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Rick walton

First Name: 
Rick
Last Name: 
walton

Initially Starting my career as a Geotechnical engineer I moved into heavy civil engineering as a Tunnelling engineer in the late 90's  I have since moved on and now practice as a management consulting professional with extensive programme and project management expertise that has been applied across multiple industries to include heavy civil engineering (tunneling), nuclear decommissioning, water / waste utilities, telecommunication and road construction. Specialising in programme / project management has delivered not only coal face engineering solutions but also strategic planning ,process improvements, and change management to create value added solutions. With a broad international experience in Morocco, Greece, North America , UK (EMEA), Singapore, New Zealand and Australia (APAC). I have accrued over 25 years commercial and delivery management experience, working not only within civil engineering but also project controls and planning. As a Director and practice lead in a major management, engineering and development consultancy serving both public and private sectors. I held programme and project management roles on large, complex assignments. Most recently my deliverables have been around programme / project management, recovery, and business readiness within the IT telecommunications and utilities industries with my main focuses on contract delivery management. Specialties: Strategic Planning, Construction Planning, Infrastructure Planning, Programme management office (PMO), Programme Assurance, Programme Management, Project Management. Business Readiness and Change, IT Management, Team Building and Leadership, People Management,Stakeholder Management, Governance, Risk Management, Director, Business Assurance with a strong focus on process improvements transformation and recovery initatives.

My Recent Focus has been in Strategic Planning and Portfolio Management across the power and water sectors 

Professional Since: 
Nov-1994 (29.7 yrs experience)
Oldest experience: 
Jan 2010 (14.6 yrs experience, WARNING: 15.2 years variance with Professional Since)
Years Experience: 
14

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