1. GERRY CURRIE
I.ENG, MCIBSE, MAPM
Address Location: Leeds
CANDIDATE PROFILE
An very experienced and qualified Project Manager within the building services sector (BMS
& Controls in particular), BMS work has covered works associated with bio-hazard
containment (DAFM , Backweston Campus, Ireland), air flow regimes, alarm prioritisation and
reporting) with strong commercial and technical awareness. Latterly, experience has been
gained in Environmental, Energy Reduction and Sustainability Projects (Wind Turbines,
Biomass boilers, CHP, PV, Voltage reduction) dealing with both feasibility studies and the
implementation (Project Management) of suitable projects. This breadth of experience in
sustainability/mechanical/electrical design issues permits a multi-disciplined and practical
approach to generating specifications & test documentation that work in conjunction with all
services and to resolving technical and on-site construction or scheduling issues (e.g. trouble-
shooting “difficult” air conditioning schemes) and project management issues, cross trade co-
ordination, H&S.
EDUCATION and QUALIFICATIONS
2003 Leeds Metropolitan
University
 BSc (Hons) (2-1) Project Management
1997 Leeds Polytechnic
 H.N.D. Mechanical Engineering, (1976),
 City and Guilds Certificate, 15th Edition I.E.E. wiring regs., Wakefield Polytechnic, 1989
 City and Guilds Certificate, 4351B, Computer Aided Drawing using AutoCAD versions 10
and 12.
 City and Guilds Certificates for several Water Hygiene (Legionella control) courses.
SC and CRB cleared. MAPM and MCIBSE. CSCS - black card.
Contact – 07904964559; Gerry.currie@ntlworld.com
CAREER HISTORY
Jan16 to Aug16 Contract Position Matrix Control Solutions
• Working on a large data centre in Holland as a project manager to the BMS trade
contractor (€8.5M value, 48 panels with Rockwell Automation PLCs), interfacing between
the management contractor (ISG - weekly progress meetings and reports), the client's
design team (points lists, FDS's) and the M&E trade contractors (plant dependency
schedules, Revitt 3D co-ordination)). Procurement management (valves, actuators,
servers, panels), commissioning management including all test documentation (FAT, SAT,
Loop Checks etc.), design management (ensuring the internal and external design
resources remained focussed and on schedule), planning (MS Project) for all activities,
management of the cost control and change control processes with the commercial
manager.

2. May 15 to Dec15 Staff Position (6 m. contract, ends Dec15) CBRE
• Carrying out site surveys, generate reports (on M&E services associated with CHP, solar
PV and LED lighting energy projects) on behalf of BUPA Care homes (>100 sites).
May 14 to May 15 Contract Position Honeywell Controls
• Currently working as a project manager on a live data centre refurbishment. including the
re-engineering of Motor Control Centres, selection of VSDs, electrical install
design/installation of BMS, Fire and Security; procurement, technical and H&S submissions,
FAT/SAT, documentation control, client liaison.
February 13 to May 14 Contract Position HAL – MottMacDonald
 Worked as a BMS Delivery Assurance Manager on the Terminal 2 project at Heathrow
airport on behalf of HAL, i.e. assuring that the BMS is installed and commissioned
correctly, including the interface between an absorption chiller (1.8MW) and a biomass
boiler system (6 MW), via the Energy Centre and Cooling Station. Duties include the
witnessing of SATs and FATs, review of FDO documentation etc. and compiling outstanding
works lists and progress reports into the HAL management systems (a high administration
overhead project). The project comprises of some 130 AHUs, 650 FCUs, smoke extract
systems, 12 wet plant rooms and 34 communication rooms (fitted out up-flow and down-
flow room cooling units).
December 10 – February13 Staff Position Total Gas & Power
 Energy Utilisation Engineer, project managing the energy saving projects that are awarded
to the Energy Services division of Total Gas & Power. Mainly CHP and PV systems, I have
had exposure to the ESCO contract for/with NHS trusts and feasibility studies for CHP
(including Tri-gen), PV and Biomass systems.
May 10 – December 10 Contract Position Honeywell Controls
 Working as a site based Commissioning Manager at Astra Zeneca, Alderley Edge
representing Honeywell Controls on a project for a new research facility, £1.2m controls
package (plus management of chiller change out work, pump control retro-fits)
Jan 10 to May 10 Contract Position Pihl-UK
 Aberdeen Schools Project, completing the design/co-ordination (external contractors and
consultants) and commissioning works that was started with GENEX/OPERON, prior to
going in to administration, £1.6m controls and installation package across 9 sites.
March 09 – Jan 10 Associate Director GENEX/OPERON
 Based at Harrogate as Associate Director, involved with the Design and subsequent
management of Energy/Carbon Reduction Projects and Control System related projects
and general Project & Commissioning Management/Commissioning Witnessing (Aberdeen
Schools Project), issue resolution/trouble shooting on various projects,
Nov 08 – March 09 Associate Director Tate Consulting
 Working for the newly formed Energy Division - involved with EPCs, Breeam, Low carbon
consultancy work, Energy Reduction projects including feasibility studies for Bio-mass
boilers, CHP, Solar Walls, intelligent lighting systems and Ground (Air) Source Heat Pumps
(including budgets and payback analysis) for the Asda Supermarket Distribution Centres
(ambient, chilled and frozen).

3. Jan 05 – Nov 08 Associate Director GENEX/OPERON
Projects included -
 Department of Transport Offices, London, energy/carbon reduction projects including
the upgrade of the existing ventilation systems to accommodate variable speed drives
coupled with intelligent adjustments to the environmental control parameters (including an
upgrade to the monitoring system). This resulted in a considerable decrease in energy
usage by the mechanical services at a cost of £180K with a payback period of 11 months.
 Foreign & Commonwealth Office, Hanslope Park, Milton Keynes which was oil fired and
incorporated 28 buildings each with its own separate boiler and cooling plant. This included
BMS and network upgrade, Carbon reduction study including bio-mass boilers, heat pumps
and wind turbines. I acted as project manager (liaising with contractors and external
consultants) and client’s representative for the facilities team. £260K consultancy fees.
 LifeScan Scotland Ltd. The projects with this client were concerned with Energy
Management and waste heat recovery; one of the projects included the design &
management of an aM&T system installation (automatic Monitoring and Targeting) allowing
the facilities managers to see where the energy was being used and identify where savings
could be made. We also produced feasibility studies on Co-and Tri-generation CHP
schemes. It was a project value of £1M+ incorporating over £100K in consultancy fees.
 Central Science Laboratories (CSL) York. GENEX had a number of ongoing projects,
concentrating on energy and carbon reduction strategies, e.g. installation of CHP (a 220kW
unit), installation of adiabatic humidification, installation of variable speed drives to the
main heating and cooling pumps (and the associated re-commissioning), installation of an
intelligent lighting control system and a feasibility study for a 6 MW wind farm. £1.8M
project with a 3year payback.
 DAFM Backweston, Celbridge, Co Dublin. GENEX/Operon were responsible for the FM
at this site and a new animal block was built and commissioned during my time. I assisted
with/witnessed the setting up of the containment pressure control regimes.
NB: All the above were supported with energy reduction & carbon reduction calculations
and the pump control changes resulted in a payback period measured in months.
2004 – 2005 Contract Position Honeywell Controls
Energy Centre, T5 Heathrow Airport, Project Manager,
 Duties included overseeing the production and approval of the design documentation,
£4.8m controls and installation package
 Overseeing the installation of the BMS and fire alarm systems and networks (LANs)
 Ensuring the low level integration design was managed and approved
 Ensuring the interface with the integration system (BSI) was managed efficiently
 Ensuring that BAA IT systems were comfortable with the integration proposals
 Ensuring CDM and safety practices were followed
 Planning, progress and project reporting to the clients (BAA) project managers
 Liaising with the client’s cost control team.
 Liaising with NTL on the configuration and installation of the site based LAN and WAN
systems
2002 – 2004 Contract Position Honeywell Controls
Wyeth Medica Ireland, Drug Substance Project
 Building Lead, Honeywell Automation 30 months, £22m controls and commissioning
package

4.  Duties included – acting as liaison between the instrumentation consultants (Jacobs) and
the instrumentation panel production contractor, site commissioning of QBMS (Plantscape)
and air systems, this included the associated MCCs and VFDs (Allen Bradley)
 Overseeing the site electrical and instrumentation installation teams
 Ensuring that the low level integration between the MCS and QBMS was carried out
effectively, including cGMP, GAMP practices,
 Playing a pro-active role in the Integrated Commissioning & Validation process that carried
on after the installation process (including discussions with the client’s FM team), in
particular the validation and commissioning of the building pressure control regimes (cGMP,
SATs, FATs, HFATs, validation and contamination control etc).
2001 – 2002 Contract Position NG Bailey (Major Projects)
NPL Teddington
 Working as a controls Engineer for NG Bailey & Co Ltd, Major Projects
 Duties included design and management of the BMS and control systems across the
laboratory and accommodation blocks (to within 0.1DegC), chilled water hydraulic and
control schemes
 Working from Room Data Sheets to collate the requirement for power and IT points, off-
site witnessing and testing of 3rd party control systems to ensure integration compatibility.
2000 – 2001 Contract Position Independent Building Solutions Ltd.
Global Switch, Amsterdam
 Employed as the Engineering Manager for Independent Building Solutions Ltd.
 Duties included control and submission of design documentation, including BMS wiring and
networking requirements
 Overseeing the electrical and mechanical installations
 Representing IBS at site meetings.
1998 – 2000 Contract Position Westminster Controls Ltd
Contracts Manager/Projects Engineer/Sales Engineer/Commissioning Engineer
 Duties included all aspects of design, commissioning and installation management as well
as full profit and loss responsibility on all projects that I was responsible for.
 Pleased to say that projects that started with a positive profit margin, were completed with
no reduction in profit margin.
1990 – 1998 Self-Employed
Controls System Design, Contracts, Projects and Commissioning Engineer
 Drummond Gate, London for E-Squared Ltd, office fit-out,
 LG South Wales, Wafer Fabrication Plant for BDP-AT, system design and development
 Fujitsu Durham, Fab 2, for Building Design Partnership, system design and development
 Leeds General Infirmary, Design and Co-ordination Engineer (E Squared Ltd)
 Euston 'B' Block, office fit-out
 Amdahl Ireland Ltd 1990-1991 Expansion, Site Project Engineer
 33 Grosvenor Place,SW1, Project Engineer, site based
 Water treatment works, Seville as part of Expo 92, co-ordination engineer,
 Bass Corporate H.Q., Burton on Trent, Project and Comm. Eng.
Duties included supervising the control and BMS network installations at the above sites.
This included the Mechanical and Electrical installation works, the writing of the "Functional
Specification", the production of the graphics and the operating software, overseeing the
commissioning and handover of the projects.

5. I have also worked along side the consultants to bring their designs through to completion,
offering control solutions where possible.
The project at Fujitsu involved design work around Allen Bradley PLCs and Elsag Bailey System
Six DCUs together with the associated instrumentation. This project had been put on hold, as
was the project at LG South Wales.
Feb 1990 – Aug 1990 Contract Position Haigh & Ringrose
 Working for Rohm & Haas at Grangemouth on a modifiers expansion project
 Duties included producing programmes from given "norms" and by dates, monitoring the
progress of these programmes by means of "take offs".
 This work experience gave me an insight to the petro-chem industry and project
management and planning.
1988 – Feb 1990 Senior Engineer Controls, FHP Partnership LEEDS
 Duties included all works associated with the automatic control systems for Mechanical
Plant. From Design brief
 Production of budget costs
 The writing of detailed Specifications
 The production of control schematics with referencing
 The production of panel to external wiring schematics and cable schedules
 Networking requirements
 Checking of tenders and involvement during on site.
 This time included cross discipline co-ordination for the first time.
1982 – 1988 Senior Contracts Engineer Staefa Control System Ltd
 Duties included the checking of Specification documents with quotations from both the
Technical and Commercial points of view
 Engineering the controls side of the project
 Ordering 3rd party equipment
 Organising site personnel
 Maintaining records of expenditure and technical changes
 Arranging the commissioning / handover and final account negotiations.
 Also spent a considerable time in getting to know the clients needs and realised that
“listening” was an important skill.
1979 – 1982 Internal Sales Engineer Monsun Hydraulics Ltd
 Duties included Sales, Sales support (included speaking to clients at all levels)
 Design and Servicing of Mobile Hydraulic control applications (valves and cylinders)
including hydraulic, pneumo-hydraulic and electro-hydraulic systems.
1977 – 1979 Research Technician University of Leeds
 Duties included the construction of test rigs for research into the combustion of heavy oils.
 This work covered all aspects of Engineering from welding to advanced gas analysis
techniques.

6. I have also worked along side the consultants to bring their designs through to completion,
offering control solutions where possible.
The project at Fujitsu involved design work around Allen Bradley PLCs and Elsag Bailey System
Six DCUs together with the associated instrumentation. This project had been put on hold, as
was the project at LG South Wales.
Feb 1990 – Aug 1990 Contract Position Haigh & Ringrose
 Working for Rohm & Haas at Grangemouth on a modifiers expansion project
 Duties included producing programmes from given "norms" and by dates, monitoring the
progress of these programmes by means of "take offs".
 This work experience gave me an insight to the petro-chem industry and project
management and planning.
1988 – Feb 1990 Senior Engineer Controls, FHP Partnership LEEDS
 Duties included all works associated with the automatic control systems for Mechanical
Plant. From Design brief
 Production of budget costs
 The writing of detailed Specifications
 The production of control schematics with referencing
 The production of panel to external wiring schematics and cable schedules
 Networking requirements
 Checking of tenders and involvement during on site.
 This time included cross discipline co-ordination for the first time.
1982 – 1988 Senior Contracts Engineer Staefa Control System Ltd
 Duties included the checking of Specification documents with quotations from both the
Technical and Commercial points of view
 Engineering the controls side of the project
 Ordering 3rd party equipment
 Organising site personnel
 Maintaining records of expenditure and technical changes
 Arranging the commissioning / handover and final account negotiations.
 Also spent a considerable time in getting to know the clients needs and realised that
“listening” was an important skill.
1979 – 1982 Internal Sales Engineer Monsun Hydraulics Ltd
 Duties included Sales, Sales support (included speaking to clients at all levels)
 Design and Servicing of Mobile Hydraulic control applications (valves and cylinders)
including hydraulic, pneumo-hydraulic and electro-hydraulic systems.
1977 – 1979 Research Technician University of Leeds
 Duties included the construction of test rigs for research into the combustion of heavy oils.
 This work covered all aspects of Engineering from welding to advanced gas analysis
techniques.