Scott is a major project governance, leadership, and troubleshooting expert with more than 25 years of experience.

He has delivered project management and governance to major projects in locations around the world for client-side owner organisations as well as many years with one of the world’s largest and most revered EPCM contractors.

Scott’s experience includes delivery of new airports (including redevelopment of operating airports) and other assets, multi-billion dollar mine development projects in both brownfield and greenfield settings and new infrastructure projects.

Scott is a trained business process improvement specialist credentialed as a Six Sigma black belt. He is capable of coaching teams with focusing of the “exact” business problem and implementation of improved processes using DMAIC (Design, Measure, Analyse, Improve, Control), LEAN leadership and management, and continuous improvement models. He also holds MBA and engineering qualifications and, coupled with more than two decades of tier one project delivery experience in large organisations, understands stakeholder engagement and team leadership like few others.

Scott’s background and experience are valued by clients across three streams of strategic leadership support:

• Project governance design, setup and pre-execution health-check/audits of project execution readiness
• Project execution team guidance and empowerment
• Troubleshooting and restoration of distressed projects back to schedule and ultimate completion

Coupled with our specialist projects commercial and legal support, Scott completes an holistic service offering to clients wanting to ensure their major capital and infrastructure projects are delivered on time, on budget or to recover success for distressed projects.

Expertise

• Project governance design, setup and pre-execution health-check/audits of project execution readiness
• Project execution team guidance and empowerment
• Troubleshooting and restoration of distressed projects back to schedule and ultimate completion
• Business process troubleshooting and improvement

Example Engagements

• Brownfield and Greenfield expansion of the International Passenger Terminal of an operating major international airport. Led critical review of ‘as found’ state of project focusing on key risks to business and delivery as well as change management strategy and commercial framework negotiations to more reliably align tier one contractor and subcontractors to project success criteria. Led team scoping and development of construction work packages to improve performance of the works
• Delivered problem and distressed projects for one of the world’s largest mining corporations earlier than planned and below approved cost baselines. Settlement of 5 major legacy project disputes. Restructuring of project execution plans and owners side project organisation to achieve success
• Established project leadership processes, led design review, operational interface planning, contractor management and client-side project reporting for the construction of new major international airport