
Business System Analyst at Taylor Woodrow
Birmingham, United Kingdom

Business System Analyst at Taylor Woodrow
Birmingham, United Kingdom
All-round good bloke really
Application of new technology into the construction industry
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; TW-.L; Construction industry)
February 2007 — Present (1 year 4 months)
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; TWOD; Construction industry)
November 2004 — February 2007 (2 years 4 months)
Analyst responsible for managing the document management and project extranet systems for Taylor Woodrow Construction.
Implemented a Google Search Appliance (GSA) onto the corporate intranet to improve search capabilities within the business.
Electronic Document Management System (EDMS) experience with Athena (FatWire / divine with Autonomy search engine), and 4Projects and BIW Information Channel Project Extranets.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; BT.A; Information Technology and Services industry)
October 2000 — October 2004 (4 years 1 month)
Refereed Journal Publications:
"Potential use of real-time data capture and job tracking technology in the field "
Accepted for inclusion in forthcoming issue of 'Facilities' Journal. Emerald Group Publishing Limited, ISSN 0263-2772 (March 2005)
Refereed Conference Papers:
"Towards Wireless Web-based Facilities Management"
Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Construction in the 21 st Century - Sustainability and Innovation in Management and Technology (CITCii), December 10-12, 2003 Hong Kong . Paper 85, Pages 529-534, ISBN 988-97370-1-9
"Overview of Application Service Provider's for the UK AEC Industry"
Proceedings of INCITE 2004: International Conference on Construction Information Technology: World IT for Design & Construction, February 18-21, 2004 Langkawi - Malaysia. Pages 427-435, ISBN 983-2724-17-1
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; SVT; Construction industry)
May 2000 — October 2000 (6 months)
Progressed to consultant manager, project managing upto 20 water projects ranging from £100k to £1M.
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; SVT; Construction industry)
December 1998 — May 2000 (1 year 6 months)
Resident engineer on £7M sewage works construction.
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; SVT; Civil Engineering industry)
October 1997 — December 1998 (1 year 3 months)
Started as assistant design engineer on £21M pipeline project, based at Severn Trent Enginerring's design offices at Warwick.
EngD, Advanced Information and Communications Technologies, 2000 — 2006
Expected completion: March 2008
MSc (Eng), Construction Management, 1996 — 1997
BEng (Hons), Civil & Structural Engineering, 1993 — 1996
Computational mathematics 1992 — 1993