David H.

Experience

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  Balfour Beatty plc

  Aug 2009 - Aug 2009

  Work Experience

  With Balfour Beatty I was granted access to their infamous Hindhead Tunnel site for a few days. During my time I became part of the office and was assigned to different members of the team each day. I shadowed varying team members from land surveyors, quantity surveyors, junior engineers, senior engineers and head engineer. Individually they took me out on site and demonstrated their role in the current project.

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  McAlpine & Co

  Jul 2010 - Jul 2010

  Work Experience

  With Sir Robert McAlpine I was granted access to their construction site of the new Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Over the week I sat in on design meetings, staff meetings and management meetings. I was also granted site tours by engineers of varying seniority including the project manager whom all demonstrated their role in the project. The quantity surveyors also demonstrated how to write and put out a tender.

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  Compass Group

  Jan 2011 - Jan 2014

  Box Waiter

  With Compass Group I have held a variety of jobs at a number of locations over the past years. These include: Sandown Park Race Course, Goodwood Horse Racing Track, Goodwood Motorcircuit and Henley Royal Regatta. Initially I started working as a barman but as I gained experience I began to work in some of the highest end members' restaurants. Now I am regularly hold the position as a silver service waiter in the executive suites and boxes and have on occasion managed my own box.

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  Harrods

  Jan 2012 - Jan 2013

  Sales Associate

  As a sales associate in the Harrods food halls organisation and communication were key. It was an intensive customer facing role where many customers were unable to speak English. Regardless, it was the sales associates responsibility to identify the customers needs and to carry it out to the best of their ability and if not, pass the responsibility onto a colleague who could. Whilst this is happening it is also your responsibility to make sure your department remains adequately staffed and maintained to the high standards required by Harrods. Show less

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  FMC

  Jun 2014 - Jul 2014

  Box Waiter

  I was a hospitality host in the Skyview suits. Being amongst the top hospitality in Europe one had to maintain the highest levels of integrity and professionalism over long hours.

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  Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics

  Jun 2015 - Jul 2015

  Summer Engineering Exchange Student

  Accepted onto a summer exchange programme specifically for engineers looking to widen their knowledge and enhance their skills abroad.On top of Chinese language classes we were given a manufacturing project. The aim was to learn how to use high tech. technology we would not normally have access to produce a product. All the machinery we learned to use was automated, the purpose being to understand the machinery used in mass production. - We took the project from the initial design phase on AutoCAD- 3D printed a prototype- Copied product onto Mill9 AutoCAM software- Wrote a programme to produce each section of our product- Used various automated machinery such as mills, lathes, lazer cutters etc. to produce each section of our product- We then assembled and critiqued ours and others work Show less

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  GasLog Ltd.

  Jul 2015 - Aug 2015

  Commercial Analyst Intern

  - Preparing detailed reports on the operations of potential new clients- Analysing, using both hard and soft data what may be behind the decreasing growth rate in the Far East LNG demand- Help produce a model to try to predict the gas penetration into the Chinese economy through to the end of the decade

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  ESITC Caen

  May 2016 - Jun 2016

  Port Engineering & Maritime Works Summer Program

  Participated in an international workshop on Port Engineering and Maritime Works.Tasked with submitting a bid in response to a tender to develop the port of Tema, Ghana into and international shipping hub. Within teams of 8 of various backgrounds and nationalities there were a series of lectures and meetings with industry experts and professionals to assist us in our task.

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  TRADA_

  Jul 2016 - Jul 2016

  Arboreal Student Design Competition runner-up and sustainability award recipient

  Participated in international student design competition for the Timber Research and Development Association.In a multi-discipline team of 4 we were required to follow a brief to design a multi-use timber structure for the Sylva Wood Foundation. The several month process required an in depth, whole life cycle design of the structure as well as numerous 3D renderings and physical models.We reached the final where we presented our project to a judging panel of professionals. We achieved runner up status as well as a special award for the most sustainable design. Show less

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  Bechtel Corporation

  Jul 2016 - Aug 2016

  Civil Infrastructure Intern

  Civil infrastructure intern for Bechtel, working on The Vauxhall Underground Station Upgrade project. As the principal contractor, I was working on behalf of the client, London Underground.

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  The University of Edinburgh

  Jan 2017 - May 2017

  Infrastructure and Transport Engineering Tutor

  Tutor a class of 50+ 3rd year engineering students the course ‘Infrastructure and Transport Engineering’. Assisting the course professor.

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  Bechtel Corporation

  Jun 2017 - Aug 2017

  Civil Infrastructure Intern

  Assistant Project Engineer on London's £14.8bn Crossrail Project.

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  Bechtel Corporation

  Sept 2018 - now

  Direct hire craft supervision role as EPC+F Joint Venture Contractor on the X bn EUR Morava Corridor Project in the Republic of Serbia.Responsible team member for the delivery of structures through oversight of planning, execution and monitoring of construction activities from a quality, progress, cost control and ES&H perspective. Supervises direct hire craft of Indian, Turkish and Serbian nationality. Manages subcontractors and co-ordinates across disciplines, departments and stakeholders.Performs design reviews for constructability and provides guidance on procurement of materials and hiring/training of local and ex-pat staff. Show less Commercial role on the X bn EUR EPC+F (Engineering, Procurement, Construction & Financing) Morava Corridor project. Working in an international and culturally diverse joint venture organization. Responsible for administration of the Prime Contract with the Government of Serbia and their appointed representatives. Served simultaneously as the Executive Assistant to the Project and Deputy Project Manager, both company Executives. Responsible for various aspects of internal & external company administration in accordance with the Shareholders Agreement including organisation of the Board of Directors. Show less

  • Superintendent

    Feb 2023 - now

  • Executive Assistant & Prime Contract Engineer

    Feb 2022 - Feb 2023

  • Business Development

    Jan 2022 - Feb 2022

  • Construction Coordinator

    Sept 2020 - Jan 2022

  • Business Development

    Aug 2020 - Sept 2020

  • Field Engineer

    Sept 2018 - Aug 2020