Dubai, United Arab Emirates
The biggest risks to project delivery rarely begin in design or construction. They begin much earlier in how information is structured, governed, and shared across the people, processes, and systems responsible for delivering the work. Fix that layer, and everything downstream becomes more predictable. That's the layer I work in. For 20+ years I've led digital delivery and information management on mega projects across Saudi Arabia and the UAE, on the client side setting the requirements and on the consultant and contractor side meeting them. My work sits where strategy meets execution: defining what good information looks like, building the governance and common data environment to deliver it, and raising the capability of the teams who have to live with it long after I've handed over. The pattern I see everywhere is the same. Organisations buy tools and call it transformation. The tools change; the outcomes don't. Real change is a decision about people, process, and clarity and it has to be led, not installed. What I bring to an organisation: Digital delivery strategy aligned to business and asset outcomes, not software roadmaps , ISO 19650 implementation localised for MENA procurement and delivery culture, not lifted from a UK template Information management, CDE, and handover structures that survive contact with a live project ,Organisational capability I've trained and mentored 2,000+ engineers to carry this work themselves Alongside the delivery work I teach, write, and speak on digital delivery, and I lead Digital Built Academy to develop the next generation of practitioners in the region. If you're an owner, a consultancy or a government client trying to deliver complex projects with more certainty and less rework, that's the conversation I'm built for.
Leading digital delivery and information management across the practice — embedding structured, ISO 19650-aligned information into how projects are won, delivered and handed over rather than treating it as a post-design add-on. — Setting the practice's digital delivery and CDE strategy, and the governance that makes it hold on live, fast-track projects — Designing the information workflows that let client-facing and authority-submission tracks run in parallel without duplication or data loss — Raising the digital maturity of project teams so good delivery becomes the default, not the exception
Shaping how the next generation of digital delivery leaders is trained, on a leading international BIM/digital programme. — Teaching and mentoring senior practitioners across the region on digital delivery, information management and ISO 19650.
Owner-side digital delivery leadership on one of the world's largest regenerative tourism giga-projects. — Acted as the appointing party's authority on information requirements — defining what the supply chain had to deliver, to what standard, and holding them to it across a multi-disciplinary programme — Built the information management and CDE governance that kept a vast, fast-moving project coordinated and auditable at programme scale — Localised ISO 19650 to the realities of Saudi procurement and delivery culture, instead of importing a framework that doesn't survive contact with the local supply chain — Drove digital maturity across consultants and contractors, turning compliance from a tick-box into a delivery advantage
Enterprise digital delivery leadership across the developer's project portfolio. — Led the organisation-wide CDE implementation — recognised with Autodesk's Award of Excellence (2022) — establishing a single, governed environment for project information — Connected platforms and data so coordination and stakeholder collaboration worked across the lifecycle rather than in silos — Stood up project-health metrics that gave leadership a real, data-based view of delivery instead of status-by-anecdote
Civil Engineering Informatics -Professional Training Program