Fundamentals of project planning, scheduling, monitoring and control Speaker Biographies

Stephen Jones

Stephen is the Deputy Head of Project Management at Sellafield Ltd, he is also the Chairman of the APM PM&C SIG. He is a Registered Project Professional, and a chartered Electrical Engineer.

Sellafield Ltd is the company responsible for safely delivering decommissioning of the UK’s nuclear legacy as well as fuel recycling and the management of low, high and intermediate level nuclear waste activities on behalf of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority. Sellafield Ltd has sites at Sellafield in West Cumbria. Engineering, design and functional support capability are provided by employees based at their Risley office, near Warrington.

In addition, Stephen is a lecturer at the University of Warwick, and a Supervisor on the Worked based Learning Masters Degree in Professional Engineering at Aston University and Kingston University London. He mentors Project Managers and Engineers in various industries, including Rail, Petrochemical, Manufacturing, Nuclear and conventional power generation both in the UK and Indonesia.

Paul Kidston

Paul is the Head of Project Control for Taylor Woodrow, the Civil Engineering division of Vinci Construction, part of one of the largest construction and concessions groups in the world.

He has been involved in a wide range of complex projects under a variety of different contract forms, in a variety of sectors including high profile public buildings, office developments, railways and large civils projects. Clients have included Crossrail, Network Rail, LUL, Goldman Sachs, BAA and the Corporation of London.

After a career in a variety of production roles, working up from an engineering role into project Management, Paul introduced the relatively unknown technique of Earned Value Analysis into, first the Project he was working on and then into the business.

Paul has presented on, and written many articles on matters relating to Project Controls. He was one of the authors of the CIOBs book, “Guide to Good Practice in the Management of Time in Complex Projects” and was the lead author of the APM’s first comprehensive guide to project planning “Planning, Scheduling, Monitoring and Control”, published in 2015.

Simon Taylor

Simon is the Head of Planning for the High Speed Two (HS2) programme. He is responsible for the effective planning capability and maturity across all areas of the business as well as a planning community that spans across multiple organisations all working together to deliver Europe's largest infrastructure programme.

Prior to joining HS2 Simon was Head of Planning at Transport for London (TfL) where he was responsible for planning within capital projects across all transport modes, London Underground, Overground, Streets etc. across a varied portfolio of projects including; Rail, Heavy Engineering, Vehicles,

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Power & Communications, Signalling, Software, IT, People and Business Change. He was also heavily involved in planning and controls career development, including direct responsibility for the TfL planning apprenticeship.

Initially working in the steel industry doing mechanical design and visualisation, Simon moved his focus to project management and planning in the rail and infrastructure sector and has worked on projects including the Victoria Line Upgrade.

Simon is an active member of the APM and is Vice Chairman of the APM PM&C SIG and co-author of the Planning, Scheduling, Monitoring & Control Guide.

Carolyn Browning

Carolyn is Planning Manager for Knorr-Bremse Rail Services and has experience working across multiple industries, focusing on Planning and Project Control systems within the P3 environment.

Carolyn is passionate about collaborative planning & controls practices, focusing on the use of clear & simple language to communicate planning and controls concepts so they can be widely adopted by organisations. A keen Earned Value Management (EVM) specialist, she focuses on the setup of planning and controls systems, taking organisations from first principles to more advanced methodologies as they grow in their planning & controls maturity. She is regularly involved in Project Controls governance audits and assurance activities in her role and has experience in numerous replanning and schedule build-up activities across multiple organisations (Knorr-Bremse, BAE Systems, Lockheed Martin, Aircraft Carrier Alliance, Bombardier, AWE)

Carolyn is a committee member of the APM PM&C SIG and was part of the team that co-wrote the Planning, Scheduling, Monitoring & Control Guide, and is now supporting some of the ongoing PMC publication reviews. She regularly presents within the APM on topics around Planning and Project Controls in Complex Projects.

Milla Mazilu

Milla started her railway career on the Channel Tunnel Rail Link and has since continued to work in the field of railway programme controls, planning, scheduling and integration.

Notably, between 2009 and 2012, Milla was the programme controls planning and scheduling lead on Network Rail's National Electrification Programme, where she specialised in the development of an integrated planning and scheduling strategy for the National Grid Supply Point Programme and National Electrification portfolio prior to the handover to regional teams.

Since 2012, Milla has led the programme controls planning and scheduling team for Network Rail's National Operating Strategy and subsequent Digital Railway Programme, where she is committed to enhancing the department's planning and scheduling skill set.

Jenn Browne

Jenn works within the Ministry of Defence at a Domain level as the Portfolio Planning and Scheduling Lead. She began her career as an engineering apprentice and has had a number of opportunities to work with the defence industry sector. About 15 years ago, she discovered project management and changed career paths.

Jenn has a wide sphere of knowledge across the planning , monitoring and control disciplines and actively promotes the use of collaborative planning at various levels from desk officer to the portfolio and strategic levels and is actively involved in developing Project Controls governance and assurance activities in her role and for the wider MOD .

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Jenn joined the then Planning SIG about 10 years ago to get more involved with the APM; for her own professional development, to gain knowledge of industry best practice and to share her own experience with others (something that the MOD actively encourages its staff to do as a development process). Jenn became a committee member for the APM PM&C SIG six years ago, and is currently serving her third year as the PM&C SIG Secretary . She regularly presents on planning and project controls topics and helped to write the Planning, Scheduling, Monitoring & Control Guide.

Edwina Hayward

Edwina is an experienced programme management consultant within BMT Hi-Q Sigma. Since joining BMT in 2000, she has worked on a number of major Defence programmes developing and implementing risk management and project controls processes alongside the clients.

This, along with her wider programme management skills including assumptions management, management reporting, earned value management, schedule management and schedule risk analysis knowledge, has played a key part in providing the assurance of information to senior management to enable key decision-making. This has also helped her to input key information to the approvals of various projects and programmes.

Edwina was a committee member for the APM Risk SIG for many years and is now a member of the APM PM&C SIG. In this role and using her practical knowledge, she is currently is leading the refresh of the APM’s Interfacing Risk and Earned Value Manage Guide.

Ewan Glen

Ewan is an experienced Portfolio, Programme and Project Management and Controls consultant working for BMT Hi-Q Sigma Ltd. He has significant Change Management, Project Control, Schedule Management, Earned Value Management (EVM) and Risk Management experience gained through leading and supporting teams within Government and industry, working across portfolio, programme and project environments. Conversant with the needs of working within projects across multi-discipline and multi-site engineering environments, Ewan is adept at implementing & reviewing the processes and controls that enable projects to deliver results to meet the business need.

As a long-standing contributor and committee member of the APM PM&C SIG, Ewan is actively involved in the development of both the UK EVM and planning guidelines and the processes through which organisations can assure their performance against them. Ewan is also a Chartered Engineer, a Registered Project Professional, a qualified Managing Successful Programmes (MSP) Advanced Practitioner and an Earned Value Management Practitioner.

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