Planning planet

Planning Planet
General Information
Planning Planet is a curriculum vitae database for planners and project managers.
Planning Planet handle jobs in sectors including: software, oil and gas, rail, nuclear, utilities, heavy civil construction, pharmaceuticals, mining, aviation and defence.
Planning Planet employs a policy wherein numerous tiers of presence in the company are available to prospective advertisers. Companies with the highest presence in the online community can appoint an advisor to monitor and govern closely what happens in the forums and have a larger degree of freedom with the members.

History
Founded in 1999 by James Williams, planning planet was a free website in which planners and project managers could submit CVs to the members database, prospective companies could compare and contrast the eligibility of members for contracts in projects in which the client company had put forward.

Sales and Marketing Director, Theodore d'Orgee and Commercial Director Gary Hall have now joined the company with the aim of
developing as of early 2009.
Board of advisors
Planning Planet recently implemented a Board of Advisors (BOA) to provide an oversight and control discussions within forums.
Advisors come from global organisations that employ a significant number of Planners and Controls Professionals and assist in the following objectives:
**To introduce site content
** To help concentrate on the community ethos
** To provide guidance regarding the site
** To provide guidance to build a networking community
** To provide guidance with respect to global member events
Paul Letchford BP
Thirty years of experience in project management, planning, estimating and cost engineering engineering functions in the oil and gas industries within the home office and field locations. Working in supervisory and managerial positions for the last fifteen years.
Experienced in all phases of project management and controls work from pre-planning to project close out on both LSTK and reimbursable projects. Working within the UK, USA, and Middle East and has involved working closely with client and contractors representatives of many nationalities. This has included the following:
** Management of multi-disciplinary teams Development of execution plans, strategies and schedules.
** Performance of Schedule Risk Analysis and development of Risk mitigation plans
** Development of prime and subcontract packages.
** Claims/change order analysis and negotiation.
** Preparation of estimates & cost reports for construction works and PMT services.
** Client and Joint Venture Partner Management
** Client and Senior Management presentations
** Development of business specific Planning & Cost procedures
** Enterprise wide Corporate reporting Facilities Management
Currently working for BP, one of the world's largest suppliers of energy. With a revenue of over 361 Billion US Dollars
Keith A Pickavance Hill International
Senior Vice President with Hill International. Over 35 years of experience in construction management, project planning, risk management, critical path method of retrospective delay analysis, delay and disruption claims for buildings, civil engineering, and oil and gas engineering, ship building and IT contracts.
Mr. Pickavance studied architecture at the University of Brighton and was admitted as an associate to the Royal Institute if British Architects, he then completed an honours degree at the University of London. He has headed projects in 24 countries including Argentina, British West Indies, England, Hong Kong, UAE and Singapore.
Mr. Pickavance has received honorary appointments including the membership of the drafting committee of the SCL Delay and Disruption Protocol and the CIOB time management working group. In 2007, he was named Head of Hill International's Hong Kong office. He is also currently the President of the Chartered Institute of Building.
Aidan Mackey JACOBS
Presently working with Jacobs, a multinational Engineering, Procurement and Construction Management, stationed within the company since 1996 and for the last 20 years has been involved in UK and International Heavy Engineering, Oil and Pharmaceutical projects.
Project Controls Manager in Jacobs Cork Office from 2000 to 2005 managing a department consisting of Estimators, Planners/Schedulers, Cost Engineers and Quantity Surveyors. Mackey was later promoted to Regional Project Control Manager for the UK and Ireland in 2005. He is primarily responsible for approach, structure and direction of 190 Project Controls and QS personnel.
Aidan is a Fellow of both the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors & the Association of Cost Engineers. Jacobs Engineering Group is one of the world's largest providers of technical services, with an annual revenue of over $11 billion (US).
Paul K Taylor Montgomery Watson Harza
Paul has worked for MWH since 2001. The company is a global leader in the water industry, with over 7000 employees operating from 170 offices in 35 countries. They specialize in Engineering, Project and Programme Management, and Construction. Prior to joining MWH, Paul worked in various sectors of the Engineering and Construction industry for over 30 years.
Whilst at MWH, Paul has been responsible for managing the Project Control on several multi billion dollar Infrastructure Programmes in the European region. He is also on the MWH Global Project Control Board, which sets out the company’s Project Control strategy. He supports other MWH operations including America and Asia Pacific as a subject matter expert in conception, and developing large-scale Programme management processes and systems.
Paul has also lectured at the UK universities of Birmingham and Sheffield on Project Control, Earned Value Management and Risk Management. He has a passion for promoting the Project Control community, its techniques and tools, but mainly in developing the sector further by improving the quality of the people and processes.
MWH is the world's second largest company in the water/sewage and wastewater infrastructure sector as of April 2009.
Paul McCarthy Nichols Group
Currently working within the Programme Partner team for the Crossrail project based in Canary Wharf, London. The Crossrail project will be Europe's largest construction project and add ten per cent to the capacity of public transport in the capital. When completed in 2017 Crossrail will be the biggest addition to the transport network in London and the South East for 50 years.
Since 1990 Paul has worked in a wide range of consultancy assignments in the role of Programme Controls Manager. Key rail assignments with Transport for London (TfL) / London Underground include the Victoria Line Upgrade project, Cooling the Tube programme and the Prestige project to design and supply the ‘Oyster’ contactless smartcard system for London covering tube, trains, buses and trams.
Paul's formative years were spent in the Oil and Gas industry, followed by assignments with clients including: British Nuclear Fuels, ICL, Symonds Travers Morgan, WS Atkins and Kodak. Paul has considerable avionics systems / defence experience gained on the New En-Route Control Centre (NERC) project with IBM and the F-16 TARS and Astor programmes with General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman.
Paul is a full Member of the Association for Project Management (MAPM).
Simon Springate Transport for London/London Underground Limited
Simon Springate has 30 years experience in Planning and today is the lead across London Underground on Project Controls with particular emphasis on Project Planning and Earned value Management systems covering over £1B of annual capital investment.
Over the years he has been the client for many change programmes, most recently leading the design and implementation of the businesses Earned Value management system. In the past he built bespoke project and Document Control systems and along the way had spells as Business Systems Client specifying LU’s IT needs plus leading on Value Management, Risk Management and Document Control.

Simon started out with GEC on Naval Sonar before moving to London Underground (LU) in 1997. During his time at LU he qualified as a Professional in Value Management facilitating many workshops that improved project delivery and significantly reduced costs. With the advent of the governments Public Private Partnership (PPP) he ran the Capital Directorates Programme Office for Metronet Rail BCV, covering all key support disciplines particularly Project Controls, Planning, Document and Knowledge Management. In 2008 Simon moved back to London Underground.

Throughout his career Simon has supported the development of the project profession through active membership of the APM and their special Interest Groups. Outside of the APM he is involved with Project Benchmarking, been a member of the Henley Knowledge Management forum, ran a Value Management client club and is a Cub Scout leader.
David Burton Thales
David is currently working for THALES Aerospace in the UK and is responsible for Programme Control at all sites. He has a professional, pragmatic and structured approach to Planning complex programmes that has evolved over a 30 year period and his expertise has been developed within and applied to many Industrial and Commercial environments including Aerospace, Process Controls, IT, Automotive, Defence, Power Industry as well as others.
Supported by a strong System Engineering, Programme Management and Change Management background and experiences at all stages of implementation have permitted the development of a multi faceted approach to the challenges of optimising Programme Planning deployment and maintenance. The approach followed has been to apply Structured Programme Planning techniques using such tools as P6, Suretrak and Project, and then applying active Risk Management, formal Gate Review processes and the use of planned metrics, including Earned Value, to assess the real time status of Programme implementation.
David's particular interest is the promotion of predictive scheduling techniques to facilitate early warning of threats and to ensure dependencies are aligned prior to activity execution. Thales currently employs 68,000 people in over 50 countries, is the second largest defence system supplier, and has invested over $2 billion dolars in the UK in the last ten years.

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