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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Nikki Tierney

Nikki Tierney

Member

Leeway

Nikki owns Leeway, a consultancy focussed on behaviour-led business performance. Based in the Scottish Highlands, Leeway works with clients around the UK and further afield.

Nikki has worked with AMEC, then AMEC Foster Wheeler for over 15 years in a wide variety of roles and commercial relationships. This includes running the global Oil & Gas graduate programmes, Information Management roles on projects, running the ADVANCE & Manager Advance High Potential Development programmes for AMEC Academy, and contracting as the Performance Manager on the Leadership Teams of large BP projects.

Nikki started Leeway in 2018 after two years as Innovation Hub Manager at the Oil and Gas Technology Centre in Aberdeen.

With Leeway she continues to work in the space where people meet performance. This covers a spectrum of behaviour-centric activity from workshop facilitation through to in-depth performance consultancy. Projects include:

• Conceiving, designing and running the ETAP Life Extension (ELXP) Behavioural Readiness programme for BP. This involved a series of activities to explore core behaviours in various contracting organisations to identify & resolve hot-spots and develop a single high performing team. The objective of the BRP was to get an ETAP Asset Team and the ELXP Team working together effectively to hit an optimal productive day on Day 1. ELXP hit its productive day target on Week 1 of mobilisation.

• A partnership agreement with ILRI (International Livestock Research Institute) working as their preferred digital facilitator for consultations, project inceptions and similar.

• UK-wide Supervisor Development Programme for SULZER, underpinning a wider cultural change as the organisation transitions from VC to private ownership. Participant feedback includes “the best development I’ve ever received”, and reports of increased engagement with the company.

Nikki is a Certified Professional Facilitator with the International Association for Facilitation and a Fellow of the Institute of Training and Occupational Learning. She also holds a Masters Degree in Applied Artificial Intelligence.

Alongside her corporate career, Nikki developed a parallel profession as an Expedition Guide. She’s a member of the Mountain Training Association, and has led high-altitude trips to Ecuador, Peru and Spain, as well as low level expeditions in Mongolia and Scotland.

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Geoff Stephens

Geoff Stephens

BSc, MSc, C.Eng, MIET

Independent Consultant, Coach and Mentor

Matchless Project Solutions Ltd

Geoff has extensive experience as a director and manager in the energy and utilities sector with a career that spans over 40 years. He has started up joint ventures and built multi-cultural teams, delivering results using many forms of contract including partnering and alliancing agreements.

As director of Matchless Project Solutions Geoff is operating as an independent consultant providing support to small and medium sized companies, improving their delivery of projects and extending their capabilities with a focus on developing their people through sharing knowledge and providing hands on coaching and mentoring support.

Current clients include Saith Limited, a fast-growing engineering company providing services to the UK gas transmission and distribution sector. Working with young engineers delivering projects across 3 design offices, Geoff is providing coaching on commercial awareness, change control, making and defending claims and identifying and implementing improvements to company work processes. Company expansion is resulting in promotion opportunities for staff and he provides mentoring support for young talent in new management roles. Geoff also provides oversight of the company project portfolio for the management team, monitoring performance and leading interventions where requested to address areas of concern.

Another rather different example is ScanRho Ltd, a small UK aviation maintenance company located in East Anglia. Geoff provided support to the present owner as he took over the business in a staged buy-out, reviewing the financial situation and developing a business plan. He has helped develop a strategy to smooth out cashflow, focus the business on particular opportunities and provided operational support, including implementation of a management system.

The range of services Geoff can provide is very diverse and has included:

• Expert witness input during mediation of a contract dispute on a major brownfield EPC project in the UK

• Design oversight and delivery management of a farm biogas production project, from concept development through into construction

• Specialist input to client companies seeking to grow through mergers and acquisitions

• Delivery of a flood defence project that won implementation funding from DEFRA.

Geoff joined the Travivas network in September 2019.

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