Project programme & portfolio management

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.


Adrian Fenton

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Adrian Fenton

BSc CEng MIMechE MAPM

Partner and Founder

LordFenton Associates

Adrian founded LordFenton Associates after a long career in senior positions in various sectors. He joined AMEC in 1999 after 11 years with Foster Wheeler Energy Ltd. Adrian worked as Global Lead Project Function in developing a role as Project Sponsor as part of the CEO’s Operational Excellence programme. He worked in the transport sector in the 1980’s.

In January 2009, Adrian was appointed Head of Project and Programme Management for AMEC Power and Process Europe, which had an annual turnover in excess of £500m and employed over 5000 people.

Adrian has over 30 years experience in project delivery, leading projects in transport, power, infrastructure and oil and gas. He has performed as the leader on major alliance projects delivering major capital investments, as well as performing management of portfolios of smaller projects, together with major business transformational growth work.

His geographic experience includes 2 years in Indonesia working in a Joint Venture with a Japanese contractor to deliver a $2.5bn refining investment, where he was Lead Engineering Manager on three large process units including an 85,000BPD Catalytic Cracking Unit.

As a Head of Project Management in a large business for several years, Adrian has developed experience and provided sustainable growth by:

  • Supporting recruitment and retention

  • Developing staff and career paths, including developing functional content for the AMEC Academy

  • Producing and maintaining procedures, guidelines, and processes to enable the business to execute and manage work effectively and profitably

  • Leading the governance of projects by carrying out start up and peer reviews

  • Developing relationships with customers through internal and external stakeholder management

  • Collaborating across the markets and sectors to share best practice

Adrian is a Chartered Engineer with a Diploma in Engineering Management and bachelors degree from Loughborough University. He was the business member representative with the Association for Project Management, and achieved accreditation from the APM for project management development programmes and coaching.