Peter J Menter MBA, MA (Law), MIAM

Experience

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  London Underground

  Sept 1996 - Sept 2001

  Programme Manager and Project Development

  • Programme Manager for an investment of £225m p.a. for the Sub-Surface Railway. Investment included increasing network capacity from signalling and rolling stock improvements to reduce headways and dwell time at stations.• Recruited and trained a team of 15 to prepare high quality business cases for LU Board and Transport for London approval.• Development of successful investments and benefits delivery based on extensive stakeholder consultation, analysis, briefing and communications.• Developed improved working relationships with project managers and hence project delivery by engaging project managers and key stakeholders at the concept stage.• Managed the project brief, outline PID and gate process up to approval of funds stage.• Introduced tighter control of project risk and contingency sums by early release and eradication of automatic contingency budgets.• Successful management of union and staff concerns over asbestos in railway control rooms. Obtained agreement on fibre measurement and monitoring with containment works to avoid closure of the Earls Court control room. • Introduction of production engineering approach for the management of rolling stock wheel condition with underfloor wheel lathes and preparation as a continuous work flow. Show less

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  Hamilton Associates

  Sept 2001 - Sept 2003

  Director, Asset Management

  • Developed the business specification, data requirements and business case for a £12m investment in the Ellipse asset management system for London Underground Bakerloo, Central, Victoria and Sub-Surface Lines; significant stakeholder consultation and management of expectations.• Production the Asset Management Strategy for Metronet SSL for all railway assets for LUL’s Circle, District, Metropolitan and Hammersmith and City Lines. This was accepted by LUL under its PPP Contract terms.• Project manager for the delivery of the first Annual Asset Management Plan for Metronet Sub-Surface Ltd across rolling stock, signalling, track, civils, stations, performance and asset data..• Development of data KPIs and processes for the effective management of asset information as an asset in its own right and produced the Asset Information asset management plan to comply with PPP contract terms and expectations. Show less

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  London Underground (LUL/Metronet)

  Sept 2003 - Sept 2005

  Stations Asset Manager - Sub-Surface Railway Ltd

  • Whole life asset management of 90 metro stations.• Recruited and developed a 15 strong team; implemented asset management and data analysis processes. Developed working interfaces with engineering, maintenance, operations and capital projects. • Sponsored requirements for a £1.2bn modernisation programme; management of a maintenance budget of £30m p.a. reporting to director on expenditure and budget forecasts, and operational and maintenance performance reporting.• Instigated and led the development of improved asset data for stations assets including activity based maintenance costs and the relationship between maintenance expenditure and contract performance payments.• Stakeholder engagement and analysis to successfully deliver a reduction in historic maintenance costs from £34m to £30m p.a.• Production of the asset management strategy, policies and processes for assessment of maintenance needs, risk management and mitigation, and annual plans on a rolling five year basis.• Provision of asset data to stakeholders on operational performance and condition the assets. Business cases for the investment in the lifts escalators, and station improvement works.• Responsibility for maximising performance payments under the PPP contract he worked with Maintenance Operations to ensure that maintenance contracts reflected these risks and that adequate performance measures (KPIs) and inspections were in place to deliver contractor performance. Show less

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  Metronet Rail

  Sept 2005 - Mar 2007

  VP Asset Investment

  • Investment appraisal, business cases and funding submissions to Board for £485m p.a. discretionary investment spend; recruited and developed team of 25 staff. Significant stakeholder management to effectively specify objectives and outcomes.• Budget and expenditure forecasting, benefits realisation planning, preparation of project briefs for programme and project managers. • Sponsor for investment in business and operating IT systems across the business – assessment of stakeholder requirements.• Programme management of enhanced asset register, definition of stakeholder requirements for data quality and completeness. Agreements with maintenance and operations on the resource impact and the methods and processes, work instructions by which data is collected. Budget responsibility £6.5m and project team of 130 staff.• Managed Ellipse asset management system data management team responsible for data quality, security, updates and implementation testing and user support. Show less

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  Asset Management Consulting Ltd

  Mar 2007 - Mar 2009

  Senior Associate - Asset Management Consulting

  Client: Railway infrastructure• Assurance audits and assessment of client's compliance with their licence conditions for the delivery of an effective asset management regime and the provision of asset data and information of the appropriate quality to meet stakeholders’ requirements.• Findings and recommendations presented to both the client and the regulator.• A seminal study into the provision of gauge clearance data to train operating companies, rolling stock manufacturers and railway upgrade programmes, assessed the requirements of key stakeholders including presentations to regulators, government departments, train companies and manufacturers • The findings helped the client refocus their approach to the collection and delivery of gauge clearance information.• Other assignments included geospatial data, track, signalling electromagnetic compatibility with new rolling stock, civils & stations and track defects data.• Peter reviewed the development and roll out on an intranet based fault management system applying Agile techniques and the approach, processes and methodology utilised to enhance the stations and depots asset register system. Show less

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  Capital Projects Consulting Ltd

  Mar 2009 - Jan 2012

  Delivery and development of asset management consulting services; bid preparation; development of business partnership with professional service providers. Example projects are: Client: Coastal navigation authorityRe-organisation and management arrangements for asset management, maintenance, design, and project management. Business process modelling, demand, capability and capacity analysis led to a solution to reorganise investment planning, asset management and project delivery into a simplified functional arrangement with an improved focus on integrating maintenance with capital planning. Peter engaged a wide range of stakeholders in process design sessions and facilitated an improvement in communication and business objectives across the operational and planning teams. The organisation and process recommendations were successfully implemented resulting in a better utilisation of resources and faster end-to-end times for projects.Client: Major Council NE EnglandBusiness performance review of the asset management, the management, benchmarking and quality of asset data collected for business decisions, the options for managing assets and asset data on cessation of an outsourcing contract and the robustness of asset management strategies and plans. Stakeholder agreement on approach for assessing operational and information performance and developed options for re-organisation. The recommendations for re-organisation were implemented by the client. Show less Organisation redesign, business case development, business process review, asset management, property rationalisationClient: Major transport providerOn the demise of an outsourcing contract there was a need to reorganise 2,200 engineering and project management resources to ensure the correct skills were allocated to projects and project support roles. Peter delivered a programme management role in integrating staff reorganisation within a wider set of operations and organisational change programmes.Working with key stakeholders and parallel change programmes to produce an implementation programme that formed a model for other directorates and developed detailed organisation schedules that tracked the changing staff profiles from functional groups into project delivery groups. He assembled a team to work across multiple departments, held regular programme board meetings and reported on progress to the sponsor Director and overall Change Board and fed lessons learnt into the projects change programme. Peter provided additional support working with the properties division in determining high level mapping of existing engineering and project staff locations into a rationalised and smaller number of locations. Client: National education transformation programmeDevelopment of business cases for the transformation of education on a national basis focussing on 11 to 16, and 16 to 19+ education sectors. The business cases complied with the HM Treasury Green Book Five Case approach and entailed both the development of school facilities and the transformation of delivery and teaching methods.Client: Regional NHS AuthorityThe development of business cases for the amalgamation of GP practices into regional joint practices designed to improve the physical facilities and offer a wider range of services from multi-occupancy sites. Show less

  • Head of Asset Management Consulting

    Feb 2011 - Jan 2012

  • Senior Consultant

    Mar 2009 - Feb 2011
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  Menter Hawthorne Associates Ltd

  Jan 2012 - now

  Director

  An energised consulting firm focussing on the effective application of expertise and skills for the asset management of infrastructure and information assets. The aim of the firm is to improve investment decisions, reduce the whole life cost of owning assets and maximise profitable return on capital.Client: Railway Operator - Development of asset management processes, build and development of maintenance and capital work plans, information and configuration requirements for an asset management system across operational assets. Show less