Andrew Millington

Andrew founded ADM Project Consultants after a long career in senior positions in various industries and sectors.

Andrew has over 30 years’ experience in Project Management delivering large scale complex international projects, programmes and portfolios, turning around failing projects and repairing relationships. Andrew has also led global functions and diverse teams, introducing effective, tailorable governance, training, tools, lifecycle frameworks and the latest techniques and methodologies.

In the 1990s Andrew led the team that delivered the first flight systems and RADAR for the Eurofighter Typhoon. He then moved to Eurofighter GmBH in Munich Germany, where he managed the development programme with the NATO customer and the 4 partner companies from Spain, Germany, Italy, and the UK.

Andrew went onto successfully lead several business units in a BAEsystems/Westlands Joint Venture, AeroSystems International, winning and delivering projects in diverse markets and building enduring customer relationships.

Andrew worked in many different parts of BAE Systems; Aerospace, Cyber Security, Services and Maritime working and leading teams in the US, Australia, India, and across Europe. During this time, Andrew held manysenior positions, Head of programmes, Operations Director, Director of Project Management. In 2018 he was awarded a Global Project Management Fellowship by the CEO of BAEsystems for his commitment to the development of project management globally.

After a long and successful career with BAEsystems, Andrew joined QinetiQ in 2019 as Group Director of Project and Programme Management, a £2Bn per annum global defence and technology company, where he led a global team of over 600 project professionals. Andrew was responsible for creating the global project management strategy and implementation, part of the CEO’s operational excellence programme and growth strategy.
Across his career Andrew has successfully delivered large scale complex programmes and portfolios. He has also transformed diverse, global organisations into stable mature delivery businesses.

Key skills include:

Delivery of large complex & transformation projects with geographically spread teams and suppliers
Creation of Governance and Assurance
Turning around failing projects and repairing relationships
Coaching, mentoring, and training
Project controls, frameworks, and lifecycles
Project Management Capability development
PMO creation, integration and maturity
Programme management and strategic planning

Andrew is a fellow of the Institute of Leadership and Management and a chartered fellow of the Association for Project management with a Post Graduate Certificate in Leading complex Project, Programmes, and Portfolios from Manchester Alliance Business school.

Andrew supports the APM in many advisory roles as well as Academia, sitting on the Manchester University Project Management Advisory board and Cranfield Universities mentoring scheme.

Andrew can work with you to deliver your projects, review and turn around your projects or transform your organisational capability drawing on his 30 years of experience whilst utilising the most up to date techniques tailored to your organisations needs.

Andrew joined the Travivas network in September 2022.