James is a senior Project Controls and PMO leader with over 20 years’ experience delivering complex, high-value capital programmes across the energy, infrastructure, defence nuclear, oil and gas, renewables, rail, and major building sectors in the UK and internationally. His strong engineering foundations have enabled him to progress from a time-served electrician through field engineering, project management, planning, and into senior leadership roles including Planning Manager, Project Controls Manager, and Senior PMO Manager. He brings deep sector experience across waste-to-energy, offshore wind, petrochemical, and conventional power, with a track record of operating within lender-scrutinised EPC and EPCM environments where governance, schedule credibility, and risk transparency are critical to successful delivery.

James specialises in converting complex, multi-contractor programmes into clear, executable plans supported by robust schedule logic, critical path integrity, and realistic forecasting. He is recognised as a strategic pragmatist, combining commercial insight with technical expertise to align programme execution with organisational objectives while protecting delivery outcomes and commercial position. His leadership style is collaborative, delivery-focused, and adaptable, enabling him to operate effectively at board, steering group, and lender level, as well as embedded within delivery teams, contractors, and supply chains.

His core expertise spans earned value management, DCMA compliance, quantitative schedule risk analysis, and programme assurance, alongside advanced forensic delay analysis. He applies recognised methodologies including AACE RP 29R-03 and the SCL Delay and Disruption Protocol to establish causation, entitlement, and defensible positions. James has extensive experience supporting claims, adjudication, arbitration, and transaction processes, providing evidence-based reporting and trusted advisory support as an expert practitioner in project controls and programme governance.