Andrew Millington

Andrew Millington

MiET. RPP. CHPP. FAPM. FInstLM. PGCert.

Project Management Consultant

ADM Project Consultants Ltd

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.

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Jeff Harrison

Jeff Harrison

Project Management & Controls Professional

Jeff has over 35 years of experience across project controls, project management, business management and consulting. He has worked for client, contractor and consultancy organisations. His experience covers oil & gas and infrastructure projects. He has been involved with and led, business acquisitions and integration and had full business profit and loss accountability.

Jeff has undertaken Senior/Leadership roles in Project Controls & Project Management, and Business Leadership as Managing Director of Amec Business Consulting and Rider Hunt International

He is passionate about improving business/project performance through understanding business strategies/goals and developing appropriately aligned execution/risk management plans and empowered teams to deliver them.

Key career activities have included:

• Establishment of a consulting business within Amec including successful acquisition and integration of independent international consulting businesses of circa 500 personnel, achieving payback criteria/targets.

• Executive consultant to the Kazakhstan National Oil Company in dispute resolution and enhancing their role as partner/operator.

• Global Functional leadership of Project Controls within major contractor organisation.

• Leadership of business ISO 9001 implementation/accreditation

• Successful delivery of Projects/Developments as Project Manager for

• Client/Operator organisations including Arco/BP

Jeff is a qualified Mechanical Engineer who chose to follow a career paththrough Project Management/Controls rather than engineering.

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Steven Johnson

Steven Johnson

MCIPS

Director & Founder

Johnson Procurement Solutions Limited

Johnson Procurement Solutions Limited (JPS) are a UK North East based procurement specialist, founded by Steve Johnson in 2016. Following a long and successful career in the procurement and commercial sector across a range of organisations, Steve has amassed a wealth of knowledge and has established JPS as a result of his learnings and a desire to add value, offer exceptional performance and provide an integrated service on an interim or outsourced basis.

Prior to founding JPS, Steve held a number of leadership positions in large blue-chip companies with annual spend responsibility ranging £400-£500m.

These included Laing O’Rourke, one of the UK’s largest privately owned construction companies. AMEC Power & Process Europe - later AMEC Foster Wheeler now Wood. With an excess of 25 years’ experience, Steve is a driven procurement and commercial leader with extensive experience and a track record in Energy, Oil and Gas, M&E Services, Telecommunication Networks, IT, Construction Procurement and Commercial Management within the UK and Europe.

Working in leadership roles, Steve has led and completed numerous strategic transformation programs as well as established strategic category procurement targets delivering multi- million-pound annual cost reductions to each business. He has implemented business wide systems and procedures to provide greater cost visibility and governance controls as well as streamlining the key process to establish lean working.

Steve mentors and develops key staff, recruits, trains and provides leadership in order to ensure business objectives are achieved. He engages with other senior business leaders on a day-to-day basis to ensure communication and stakeholder engagement are fully integrated to support the delivery teams.

Steve was on the board of the AMEC global supply chain steering group and is an accredited member of the Chartered Institute of Purchase & Supply (MCIPS). Steve has presented procurement and supply chain strategies at major supply chain events and forums including the Energy Industries Council.

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Lakshan Saldin

Lakshan Saldin

BEng MSc CEng FIChemE MIoD

Knova Ltd

Lakshan is as an independent consultant providing technical, project management and strategy services, including:

• Provision and management of expert witness and peer review services.

• Provision and management of technical/commercial due diligence services.

• Technical and project advisory roles on a variety of oil and gas projects including asset development, life extension projects, technology selection and cost estimate/project reviews.

He also provides specialised consultancy in relation to managing projects in volatile, uncertain, complex and evolving environments. His particular areas of interest are collaboration and knowledge sharing in diverse groups, particularly as it relates to the communication of information around risk & uncertainty, including:

• Stakeholder engagement.

• Risk identification.

• Design and delivery of workshops and workshop processes.

• Development and roll out of knowledge transfer and working processes within projects and across organisations.

Lakshan has over 25 years of experience in engineering, project and operational management. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Bath and a Masters in Project Management from the University of Manchester. He is a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers and a Member of the Institute of Directors.

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