Network Rail

Principal Project Planner - King’s Cross Station Redevelopment Programme

Sometime in charge of all planners, sometime project based

November 2003 to May 2004
Network Rail – Lead Planner/Programme Controls Manager     
Rail
Lead Planner for Investments delivery division covering Signaling, Telecommunications, Electrification and Plant Projects. Responsibilities include the supervision of all planning staff, ensuring that processes are followed and monitoring data/schedule integrity and producing reports for senior management.

Key Responsibilities & Selected Achievements:
     Project planning for renewal projects carried out at depot level
     Planning maintenance work for routine as well as cyclic maintenance
     Migration from multiple legacy systems to one standard maintenance capturing system and planning system
     Successfully created databases for the weekly production of performance against planned works reports

Principal Project Planner :

The FTN GSMR project is a national programme for the role out of a global system of mobile communications for the railway with a total budget of 1.839bn.

Responsibilities included analysing all forecasting and progress data from 36 freight and train operating companies and ensuring that confirmed information was reflected within the overall project plan. Liaising with the management team to identify problem areas and proposing solutions. Production of internal and external reports, issued to key stakeholders such as First Group and Virgin Trains.