Curriculum Vitae

 

Daniel Boardman - Projects Director - BEng Honours - Engineering, Energy, Wind, Oil & Gas, Automotive, IT - Cheshire UK

 

Personal Profile

 

 

An ardent & astute Project Director with 24 years unique experience from a diverse range of industries including energy, automotive motorsport, wind, oil & gas, defence, marine, IT, manufacturing, construction, industrial and pharma engineering. Most recently as Projects Director for Tembo ELV (Vivo Power PLC) start up, hyper-scaling and securing 50M in funding via UAE investor family offices.

 

Proven ability to deliver on time and on budget regardless of the project, industry, tools, resource, location challenges presented. Able to manage multiple, complex, high value, business critical projects, individuals, teams & maintain positive customer relationships and ultimately exceed all stakeholder expectations.

 

Enjoy being involved with the entire business process from sales to delivery. I love getting my hands dirty with detailed design and production activities but also able to present discuss negotiate with in senior board level personal.

 

Highly motivated, un-fazed & ambitious with excellent organisation, negotiation & communication skills. I am innovative, charismatic, have a flair people management, customer relations and creativity. I enjoy learning new skills in different environments, happy in autonomous pressured positions. Managing my own business and customers across a variety of sectors has made me pragmatic, well rounded & agile. Proven to be able to hit the ground running and successfully deliver in various new industries.

 

Ability to manage complex project deliverables, quickly understand detailed requirements and dependencies such as governance, risk, budget, pre-requisites, plan and communicate accordingly with SMEs, engineers, suppliers, colleagues and customers in a pragmatic way to enable the quickest, most robust, cost-effective solution with 100% quality and safety always in mind.

 

Interested job titles; CTO, COO, Chief Operating Officer, Chief Technical Officer, Project Director, Project Manager, Programme Manager, Technical Director, Operations Director.

 

Personal Details

 

 

Knutsford, Cheshire, WA16 8EL

Happy to relocate globally for correct package

Clean Driving Licence

Year of birth: 1979

44 (0) 7970 533 383 danboardman1@gmail.com

 

Key Skills

 

 

• 24 years engineering project management experience;

  • 12 years in renewable energy, on and offshore wind, oil and gas, subsea, construction, defence, fabrication, welding, coatings working with leading EPC contractors and O&G Majors.

  • 10 years in motorsport, automotive, electric vehicles and marine, MOD (Submarine)

  • 2 years IT: Desktop Refresh for Co-Operative Bank (5000 users successfully migrated)

• Ability to lead, motivate and build strong teams, hire good people, manage global departments customers & suppliers regardless the industry, location.

• Ability to deliver complex projects on time on budget, regardless of the sector.

• Ability to proactively identify project risks & issues and provide solutions. 

• Excellent negotiation, financial control, planning, KPI, reporting to steering and board.

• Excellent communication, stakeholder, strategic, report, presenting and management skills.

• Contract management, understanding the scope of work, sales, bid, tender, change, variations.

• Excellent knowledge & practical experience of the IT infrastructure manufacturing and product life cycle.

• International customer account management, ability to develop & maintain excellent customer relationships.

• Improving business structure, strategies, systems and processes to maximise efficiency including software architecture, performance management, staff development, training, team building, HR systems.

• Streamlining, implementing and managing change, adapting new technology wherever possible.

• Continuous improvement, project washup, lessons learnt & able to develop scalable processes.

• Logical, understanding analysing risk, safety, legislation, whilst being methodical and consistent.

• Prince 2, Agile, Waterfall, SCRUM project management experience.

• ITIL - ISO/IEC 20000 Service Management

• Microsoft Excel, Office, Project, Power Point, Gant, Access, Visio, IFS, SAP, SolidWorks (PDM, PLM, CAM, Cosmos), GeoMagic, FEA, Ansys, AutoCAD, Pro E, Inventor, Catia, CFD, VBA, SQL.

• Familiar with quality standards: QMSISO9001, EMSISO14001, OHSAS18001, CEN ISO/TS29001, EAC.

• Race and road car architecture, engineering and management (chassis, suspension, ride and handling)

• BPSS Security Clearance

 

 

 

 

Key Achievements

 

 

• Hyper scaling Assisting raising over 50M in private funding from UAE family office. (Tembo ELV / VivoPower PLC)

• Responsible for migrating over 5000 users from XP to Win 10 for Co-Operative Bank.

• Responsible for core infrastructure delivery XP to Win 10 for Co-Operative Bank.

• Delivering an autonomous electric rally car rolling chassis platform in 5 months for Arrival/ Roborace.

• Building a projects department and modernising numerous business processes for Barton Firtop as Projects Director.

• Rectifying commercially sensitive projects for Trelleborg Offshore.

• Delivering the Ginetta G50 race car from drawing board to production in 8 months, timescales unheard of in the automotive industry.

• Delivering and engineering the TVR Sagaris in 11 months “… the best TVR ever” as quoted by Jeremy Clarkson.

• Bachelor of Motorsport Engineering – Mechanical Engineering and Business.

• Founder of BMS Design Ltd, Project Management and Engineering Solutions.

• Wining class on the 2005 Manx International Car Rally.

 

Employment / Experience

 

 

Current - Sept 2021  (3yrs +)

Projects Director - Tembo ELV / Vivo Power -

Leading the Project and Engineering Department - Green Energy Solutions – Providing EV Kits for Toyota Land Cruisers and new EV Vehicles to the mining industry and fleet vehicle suppliers.

 

• Strategic Project Engineering Planning

• Customer partnership management (Key customer and new customer management)

• Engineering team / technical management (Stand in as Chief Engineer)

• Recruiting of staff (Interview) building a completely new engineering team (15 engineers)

• Supplier contract management

• Hyperscale project planning/ supplier contract agreements

• Sales and customer management

• Investor Events (Dubai/ UAE/ Canada / Australia)

• Supply chain development (Batteries/ Fabricators/ Assembly suppliers)

• Grant application funding/ Delivery / Production/ Assembly Plan/ Micro Factories

 

Current - Jan 2008 - (16 yrs)

Director - BMS Design Ltd

Engineering Consultancy services - Project Management, Design & Manufacture, Reverse Engineering.

• Sept 2021 - Design and Manufacture of Autonomous Electric Rally Cross vehicle - Arrival (Metabot) Electric Vehicle – Rolling chassis delivered in 6 months.

• Sept 2021 - Complete refurbishment of a 1M Motorboat; GRP Repairs, Trim, Design, Electronics, Testing, Commissioning (18 month project)

• Reverse Engineering / 3D Scanning for various industries including construction companies. Delivering Parametric and BIM cad models.

 

Jan 2018 - Jan 2020 (2 yrs)

Project Manager – Co-Operative Bank PLC via SCC -

Leading the Email Migration and Deployment Work Stream - XP to Windows 10, Messaging, Application, Infrastructure.

 

• Project Value 28M - Responsible for the email migration of over 5000 bank users/ messaging work stream (Lotus Notes to Outlook 2016) – From architectural design to final project delivery and BAU hand over.

EMAIL MIGRATION (Work Stream)

• Agile migration of users and user data and device deployment depending on user case. Ability to migrate users with or without their new device was critical to project delivery.

• Project planning, Identifying, documenting client infrastructure dependencies, interdependencies and pre-req activities SME management, Expediting, Design documentation/ sign off, Change management, Training workshops, Migration scheduling, Workstream coordination, Steering Group reporting, Coexistence, FAQs, Early life support, Floor walking, SME support and infrastructure decommissioning activities.

• Project planning, change management, governance, weekly programme KPI / Board reporting,

• Risk, Raidda management and reporting, Lessons Learnt. ISO/IEC 27000/ RMADS

INFRASTRUCTURE (Work Stream)

• Responsible for delivery of the following infrastructure; Quest (CMN & MNE migration/ coexistence tool) and Transend (SunMail to Exchange migration tool) SCOM, Sophos, Systrack, SCCM, SQL, Exchange, EV, MobileIron, Skype for Business, Citrix, QC Manager, VMWare, IronPort, ForcePoint working closely with Bank, IBM, AT&T.

• Expediting Infrastructure documentation with our and client SMEs

• Expediting of SIT, UAT testing, development, proof of concept.

• Management and expediting of defect resolution.

DEPLOYMENT (Work Stream)

• Daily migration management of departments, coms, SMEs, migration team in house and offshore.

• Daily critical issues effecting users emails/ emergency defect resolution.

• Responsible for mobile device deployment; android, BYOD and IOS devices, white glove delivery for executives.

• Managing early life support (ELS) for application and email migration programmes.

 

 

 

 

Jan 2014 - Jan 2018 - 4yrs

Projects Director - Barton Firtop

Leading the Project, PMO, Documentation, Production and Expediting Departments
 

BF Manufacture Filters, Strainers, Vessels – Gas Process Equipment) Equipment - Filters, Strainers, Coalesces, Separators, Pressure Vessels, Flame Arresters, Sight Glasses, Static Mixers, Silencers, Spools

 

Key Clients - Statoil, Fluor, (Tengizchevroil), Shell, Petrofac, Amec Foster Wheeler, Hyundai, BP, Bechtel, Repsol, Chevron, United Utilities, British Gas, Conoco Philips.

 

Responsible for;

 

• Responsible for 35 Staff across 5 departments)

• P&L of all projects (Circa 25M)

• Responsible for Projects, Engineering, Production, Expediting & Documentation departments

• Project planning, forecasting, resourcing, budgeting, supplier bid review

• Regular client management, review meetings, hospitality (Global travel)

• Regular supplier management, review meetings

• Leading weekly project meetings, monthly board meetings

• Supporting sales department with pre-bid, tenders, client meetings

• Department cost reduction programmes

 

• Project Variation Management (VR) / Change control notifications

• Implementing lessons learnt and project wash-up, driving continuous improvements at all levels

• HR activities; staff appraisals, development, hire & fire department structures

• Streamlining and setting up new systems and processes. (Requisition System, Job Cards, Toolbox talks)

• Related quality activities, procedures, gap analysis, (Raidda, Risks and issues)

• Standardisation (File structures, part numbering)

 

• Review of ERP/ MRP systems

• Shipping ITAR & EAR licences, SPIR, End of Use, Milestone Invoice

 

Significant impacts;

 

• Helped keep the turnover circa 14M during a major down turn in the O&G industry and win the industry’s largest filter and strainer contract. Drive to offer clients with a one stop shop supply of equipment.

 

• Change the Sales teams attitude to a positive can-do attitude, “the answer is yes what’s the question”

 

• Grew the projects department from 4 to 50+ projects. (Projects ranged from 5K to 10M)

• Responsible for implementing EAC/ EX approval of all BFE equipment.

• Modernised various old school company systems, hardware and processes to make for a much more scalable business.

 

Technical Understanding;

 

• Pipe and Vessel Engineering, ASME, FEED, Safety, CAD

• Welding, weld procedures, PQR, weld inspection and test, FAT, NDT, cladding, heat treatment

• Materials, composition, mill certs, procurement, casting lead times (Planning)

 

• Cathodic protection, mechanical coatings and paint systems, Six Sigma Lean

• Modern manufacturing techniques, castings, machining, fabrications, tooling, jigs, fixtures

• Shipping, logistics, safe handling, packaging and installation

• Light and heavy manufacturing, CFD, Structures, Insulation, HSE, Maintenance

 

 

Jan 2010 - Jan 2014 (4 yrs)

Senior Project Manager –- Responsible for over 23 projects circa 25M Trelleborg Offshore Ltd

Renewables, Subsea Equipment, Defence, Wind

 

 

Key Clients - BP, ENI, GE, Statoil, Total, ExxonMobil, Shell, Aker Solutions, NOV, Suncor, McDermott, JP Kenny, Technip, Subsea 7, Cameron, Hyundai, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI), Mazagon Dock, Navantia, Wellstream, DCNS, Nishiyama.

 

• Accountability for up to 23 international projects to the value of £30m.

 

• Regular overseas travel & client relationship management. Arrange/ host client meetings. KOM.

 

• Support sales & business unit managers during contract & bid preparation to help minimise risk & maximise profit. Flag potential supplier issues and customer variations.

 

• Contract review; understand deliverables, define & manage risk matrix, finance & resource planning, bank guarantees, contractual milestones.

 

• Manage project finance and report project P&L.

 

• Manage internal documentation, department and supplier lead times and schedules.

• Manage & award subcontractors.

• Engage technical authorities where necessary.

• Manage contract and financial variations. (Feature Creep).

• Manage customer’s expectations and sell additional products services.

• Assist operations with schedule planning, resourcing, visas, LOIs & work permits.

 

• Manage logistical requirements. (Import / export licences)

• Report progress & budgets to customers & senior management.

• Define solutions to improve, systems, quality, manufacturing, process & reporting processes.

• Host project wash-up, finance & project, lessons learnt with key stakeholders.

• Prompt team building, excursions, reviews & personal development.

• Export Licence management ITAR and EAR.

 

 

 

Typical projects;

 

• Supply of bespoke riser ancillaries; Bend Stiffeners (Connectors), Bend Restrictor, Distributed Buoyancy Modules, Uraduct pipe line protection, Seals and Anti Vibration Systems for on and offshore wind farms and renewables clients.

 

• Supply thermal insulation services; Application of PU to customer connectors, jumpers, spool-pipes, structures & christmas trees. Manage on and off-site insulation construction teams in Angola (Africa) BP, Block 31.

 

• Supply bespoke, PU coated syntactic, buoyancy modules for remote operated vehicles (ROV).

 

• Supply caster buoyancy & composite rudders & hydroplanes for S80 submarines to Navantia (Spain) for the Indian Navy. I was tasked with managing all the new & complex defence projects, working closely with DCNS (French Navel Architects), Navantia & Indian Navy (Mazagon Dock Ltd). Value £6m. (High risk low profit)

 

2008 - 2010

Contract Project Engineer – Kannegiesser/ Clean Air Power/ Furmanite/ TeamInc/ Recipharm Pharmaceuticals/ Surgitrack

 

• Project Engineering/ Management, Design, Development, Manufacture, RE of existing products

 

2007 - 2008

Senior Engineer - LNT Automotive / Ginetta Cars UK

• Responsible for overseeing all automotive projects; race, road, electric EV, & rally car projects

• The G50 race car was delivered in just 8 months, from drawing board to production with 18 cars on grid, timescales unheard of the automotive industry. Budget £2m, actual cost £1.1m.

 

2006 - 2007

Director - BMS Design Ltd

• Consultant R & D engineer for Kannegiesser UK

• SolidWorks design engineering subcontracting, various customers

 

2003 - 2006

Lead Vehicle Engineer/ Architect - TVR Cars Ltd

• Responsible for the Sagaris full vehicle program from concept to production. As quoted by Jeremy

 

Clarkson, Top Gear 2004 “… the best TVR ever”...

 

2002 - 2003

Technical Director - Formula UCLAN

• Awarded 2003 Best Designed British Car by IMECHE Formula Student competition.

 

2001 - 2002

R & D Engineer - TVR Cars Ltd.

• Tamora, Tuscan R & T350; Homologation, SVA & internal steering column impact testing.

• Race Team Manager/ Engineer

 

2000 - 2001

Race Engineer – Juno Racing & University Race Team

• Super sports 2000 Racing Team Ltd. Run by Ex Williams F1 Engineer

 

1998 - 1999

Technician - Long Drive Motor Services, Auckland, New Zealand

 

• Rally Team Manager/ co-driver. Built Subaru GC8 Rally Car. Competed in Rally 1999 NZ.

• General mechanical duties vehicle servicing & repairs.

 

Qualifications

 

 

Academic:

 

1999 - 2003

(BEng) Bachelor of Engineering – Mechanical/ Motorsport and Business

 

University of Central Lancashire, Preston.

1997 - 1998

(MEng) Master of Engineering - Mechatronics

 

Lancaster University.

2012

Affiliate IMECH E Member

2012

International Rally Drivers Licence / Rally driving instructor

 

Hobbies, Interests & Sports

 

 

• Business Journals/ Reading

• Founder Cheshire Cycling Sportive – raised over £9500 for a local children’s charity - www.cheshiresportive.co.uk

• Cycling, Running

• Building and preparing my own race and rally cars- Rally and race driving