Christopher Boyd

Experience

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  Redpath

  Jan 1977 - Jan 1979

  Civil Engineer
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  Ward Ashcroft and Parkman (Nig)

  Jan 1977 - Jan 1977

  Assistant RE
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  Scott Wilson

  Aug 1979 - Jan 1985

  Construction Manager

  Manager of labour based road construction brigades constructing upto 90km of feeder roads per annum; head of planning for feeder roads division based in Cotonou providing support to brigades in all regions; UK based structural design for prestige building, bomb shelters and aircraft hangers.

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  SOGICA

  Jan 1985 - Dec 1987

  Operations Manager

  Directed and participated in engineering studies and operations in the Port of Abidjan and engaged in marketing the firm’s services and in corporate management including:-Condition surveys of vessels and cargo superintendence for insurers and stevedores.Review of a Burkina Faso rural development agency to determine its ability to plan, programme, implement and monitor projects.Prepared the roads elements for an integrated development project in Guinea. Undertook a reconnaissance and compared mechanised and labour based options. Show less

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  Basingstoke College of Technology

  Sept 1988 - Jul 1992

  Lecturer

  Lecturer & MSc Student Gained an MSc in Construction Management at Reading University & underwent teacher training whilst lecturing and developing ICT facilities in the construction department.Courses taught were ONC and OND. Subject taught included: Maths, surveying,structural detailing, structural design, architectural procedures, building regulations, project management.....

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  Boyd & Co

  Jun 1990 - Jan 1995

  Independent consultant

  Overseas and UK based design and project management assignments included:-Evaluation for ILO of work on training SMEs in Burkina Faso and subsequent establishment of a demonstration project for labour intensive road construction.Structural design and works supervision (RC, steel, masonry, timber) of a community centre and school with construction of a deep basement in a congested urban site.Design of bridges on the channel tunnel rail link; design of structural elements for house builders and management consultancy to a building contractor in Uganda. Show less

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  Roughton International

  Jan 1995 - Apr 2002

  Regional Manager

  Responsible for project management and business promotion in the region and technical functions in project teams such as:98-01. Vietnam, Higway design and rehabilitation: Project manager supervising 5 man team engaged on major highway rehab under FIDIC contract.2000. Botswana, Labour based road maintenance program. Project director. Developed and implemented a contractor training program to prove the benefits of using labour for maintenance acitvities. Ran two 1 wk training seminars. Show less

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  Scott Wilson/DfID

  Oct 2002 - Jan 2003

  Rural Access Specialist

  Prepared feasibility study to upgrade 128km of road in the equatorial rain forest of the Democratic Republic of Congo to carry heavy vehicles to provide fuel and relief supplies to a UN garrison at Kindu. Conditions were hostile and required resilience and imagination to provide workable solutions.

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  COWI A/s

  Jul 2003 - Jan 2005

  Team Leader

  Team leader developing management tools for road network maintenance & design & implementation of a pilot project for road maintenance using small contractors. Assignment involved planning, reporting, training, database development, mediation, contract drafting and bid analysis and QA.

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  KapMap

  Jan 2005 - May 2007

  Chartered Engineer

  Research and development of equipment and techniques to capture low altitude high resolution imagery for producing photo maps and other communication tools for rural development.In addition I have expanded the area of services to cover photography of buidlings using remote controled cameras to access sites that can not be photographed succesfully using traditional approches.

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  Cowi/GOPA

  Jan 2007 - Mar 2007

  Rural Access specialist

  Developed the rural access component of the National Transport Master Plan for 20 year investment in Ethiopia. Prepared an investment plan for US$2.66 billion to build 125,000km of feeder roads and improved tracks and trails and access in difficult terrain developing 1000 small labour based contractors and the civil service to manage the investment.

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  Christopher Boyd Ltd

  May 2007 - now

  Providing contract services to GOPA/ECOWASResponsible for developing and implementing a strategy to build seven joint border posts (JBPs) to house customs, police health facilities on borders in the ECOWAS region (West Africa). These post will cost of the order of 65 million Euro.I was responsible for: designing and leading a functionality study to determine the existing practices and future needs of a JBP; developing the concept design that has become the basis for the detailed design by the architectural and engineering consultant undertaking the design; leading the organisation of workshops to "sell" the design to beneficiaries and agree the evolving design at key stages; preparation of terms of reference, procurement notices, contract documents (works and supervision using (EU standard docs)), planning of the project implementation and monitoring the works on three sites. Show less

  • Civil Engineer, Director

    Feb 2011 - now

  • Civil Engineer

    May 2007 - Jan 2012
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  Christopher Boyd Ltd/GOPA

  Mar 2010 - Jun 2011

  Road Maintenance specialist, Transport Master Plan

  Duties included developing a strategy for planned maintenance and capacity building; assistance to the long term team in developing the National Transport Mater Plan for the Ministry of transport; developing a strategy for rural access..

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  Christopher Boyd Ltd/ Carfax Education

  Jul 2012 - Sept 2012

  Infrastructure Specialist

  Feasibility study for developing a civil Service AcademyThis feasibility study required estimating the infrastructure needs (access/roads, buildings, water, power and drainage) to develop a Civil Service Academy for Sierra Leone and the region. Estimates of needs were based on projected full time equivalent students; planning norms for educational establishments were used to determine the costs.

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  Christopher Boyd Ltd/GOPA

  Oct 2012 - Jul 2015

  Providing technical assistance over a 26 month period to decision makers in the MPW to introduce planned maintenance. This covered road user charges, the creation of a road fund and roads authority and the establishment of maintenance management systems within a Maintenance Management Unit with a staffing strategy (roles/duties, organisation) and a manual for drafting Standard Operating Procedures.Developed a system for monitoring and evaluation of the works phase of road works contracts (time, cost, quality and contract administration) and a set of standard tender documents for routine maintenance works. Prepared ToR for specialist services and in collaboration with MPW drafted the Road Asset Management strategy for GOL. Trained contractors in pricing for works and the management of project finances and produced a video for use by the MPW staff and following cohorts of contractors. Show less Project for the operationalisation of three Joint Border PostsEU Framework Contract to prepare contract documents for the finalisation of the works for the infrastructure (buildings, transport, IT) of 3 border posts and identification of the next steps to make the posts operational. This entailed (for the IS) developing the action plan for the EU and regional organisations (UEMOA, ECOWAS), and terms of reference for: agreements and approach to management and operation of the posts (with a regional approach), standard operating procedures, training courses and manuals, procurement of equipment and furniture. Show less

  • Short Term Civil Engineer

    May 2012 - Jul 2015

  • Team Leader, Infrastructure Specialist (IS)

    Oct 2012 - Feb 2013
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  GOPA Infra/GIZ

  Aug 2015 - Jul 2019

  Team Leader

  Capacity Development in the Transport Sector in Liberia, Advisory Services on Transport Policy in Liberia.Leading a team of short term experts (in MoT and MPW) to establish planned maintenance works and build capacity prior to the establishment of the Road Authority and Road Fund as well as extending the capacity of MPW for planned maintenance; develop contract documents; developed ToR for preparation of standards for design and road marking and supervised implementation; prepared audio video training of use of standard bidding documents (SBD) and trained Ministry and contractors in using SBD; designed a programme for setting up axle load controls and supported tendering process. The implementation period is three and a half years with intermittent inputs of the TL. Undertook the inception phase evaluation and agreed project results to be achieved with stakeholders; identified key risks that needed to be managed by stakeholders; prepared detailed activity plan to achieve results for each of the key experts; participated in elaboration of capacity development plan. Show less