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John started out in the construction industry over 30 years ago initially with the UK MoD working on complex classified projects.

Since then there has been no stopping him, ranging from urban cable car systems to car plans to nuclear power plants around Europe, Johns career has inevitably lead him to the critical environment as an allied industry to his past experience.  Completely home in any number of roles be it client-side or contractor project director, John loves the challenge of driving a team to get a project over the line.

Chris has nearly 25 years experience working  across multiple sectors within the construction industry, earning his degree in building services from LSBU back in 2006. His career began with Matthew Hall as an electrical engineering apprentice, before working as a Services Manager both in the UK and abroad in Sydney, Australia.

For the last 7 years Chris has held senior Operational roles delivering technically challenging M&E projects in the Residential and DC sectors.

A big believer in communication and leading by example, Chris strives to always do what he has committed too and helping the team achieve their targets whilst delivering the clients desired product.

Paul has worked on a diverse range of projects across the UK, Ireland & Europe, from pre-construction to handover stage and has extensive experience within a number of construction sectors, including; Aviation, Education, Nuclear, Housing, Infrastructure & Datacentres.

A highly motivated, individual with good punctuality, self-organisation and a strong awareness of health and safety regulations in relation to onsite practices holding competencies in a wide range of programmes.

His role includes set up of project, quality control, health and safety, managing subcontractors, reviewing and updating logistics plans, construction schedules/programs, managing materials and traffic control.  His key strengths are delivering to tight deadlines, excellent organisational skills and foreseeing problems ahead of time in order to deal with them efficiently.

Bengi has been dedicated to the construction of Data Centres since completing her MSc in Project Management at Reading University in 2016. With her non-stop, can-do attitude, she aspires to be a true mission-critical industry expert with end-to-end project management experience.

Bengi excels in high-pressure environments, using her communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills to exceed client expectations. She has a strong ability to keep all aspects of a project on track, paying close attention to detail and developing comprehensive integrated programs that ensure critical paths and key milestones are well understood, monitored, and issues are promptly addressed. Bengi’s flexibility and adaptability allow her to adjust schedules quickly in response to changing circumstances, keeping projects moving forward despite unexpected challenges. She is thrilled about the opportunity to continue growing alongside clients by delivering project programs effectively and demonstrating the valuable contribution that MiCiM can make to mission-critical projects.

Bengi strongly believes in the significance of advanced project reporting, which is why she has developed an automated reporting system that utilizes data analytics and project insights. Her passion for technology drives her to continuously explore new tools and techniques that can improve the reporting process and provide greater value to clients. Thanks to Bengi’s expertise and dedication, her projects benefit from accurate and timely reporting, which helps stakeholders make informed decisions and remain on track towards achieving their goals.

A qualified Design and Construction Manager, Samuel has been delivering data centres and mission critical projects across EMEA for the past eight years either as a main contractor, construction manager or as a consultant. Samuel has also spent time in North America, consulting for a UK-based technology company to help establish themselves in the North American fulfilment and distribution market. Samuel has essentially spent his entire career in the mission critical sector and feels attuned in how to deliver successful scopes and projects for clients in the way that they want and in the capacity they want.

Samuel works with MiCiM as a Project Manager, helping to deliver schemes, projects and campuses across EMEA.

Garry is a versatile professional with 32+ years rich and extensive experience in European, Middle East and Asian construction markets. A MC3 Best Companies 1 star+ Manager. He is articulate and demonstrates excellent interpersonal skills, strong technical and methodical aptitude with ability to analyse, coordinate and manage large and complex installations, with a strong focus on the end users requirements. Garry has the natural ability to bridge a team of international, multi-cultural staff and motivate a healthy climate within the department / organization to achieve business objectives in busy and challenging environments.

He is experienced in a range of major multi-disciplined construction projects, by way of example; hyperscale data centres, hospitals, education establishments, residential, high-rise towers, airports, oceanariums, luxury hotels and casino resorts. An influential and resourceful Project Lead, from a contracting background with experience/knowledge of building construction, design, finance and management from design concept to project handover. An outstanding track record managing international multi-million dollar projects for major blue-chip clients consistently to standards, legislation, deadline and budget.

Steve brings over 30 years’ engineering experience in fields as diverse as commercial, semi-conductor, pharmaceutical, data centre and oil & gas.  His specialist field however is in the management of the all-crucial commissioning phase of a project. Steve believes firmly that the road to success is by logical process planning, backed up with rigorous scrutiny of each individual project.

Through Steve’s formative years commissioning pharmaceutical plants in Belgium he adopted a powerful analytical method of commissioning planning in relation to all the other disciplines. This model has delivered time and again and now underpins MiCiM’s approach on every project.

Steve joined MiCiM in early 2019 having forged strong bonds with many of its founder members over the years. Nothing motivates him like the chance to weld all the diverse commissioning specialists on a project into a focused team and then shepherding them all together to achieve a successful outcome.  Steve’s client-side experience also equips him with insight about what our clients want from their facilities, not only from a high standard of compliance with industry standards but in quality and promptness of handover and documentation.

Away from work Steve is keen on studying science, astronomy and history with a keen interest in military affairs past and present. He finds relaxation through painting, when not going to cinema, theatre or live football with his family.

Nhiroshan’s career so far has mostly been academic. He graduated with a Mechanical Engineering degree from the University of Surrey. During histime at university he took part in two group projects: designing and building a stair climbing robot that can carry a pint of water, and designing a dielectrophoresis (DEP) particle separator system.

Nhiroshan is familiar with various engineering software packages: Solid Edge (CAD), MATLAB, ANSYS Static Structural and ANSYS Fluent (CFD). He would consider modelling and simulations to be a strength of his, a significant part of his dissertation involved modelling orifice flows using computational fluid dynamics (CFD).

Nhiroshan is an associate member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE).

Outside of work he enjoys swimming, running, bouldering.

Jeff enjoys true team work and open honest collaboration and has achieved his highest career successes using this approach. He progressed his career from an electrical apprentice in 1978 to an International Business Engineering Director in 2013.

Jeff prides himself as a 40 year career engineer who has worked across the world in many different countries delivering vast engineering projects from Engine block assembly lines, sewage treatment, food production facilities, office facilities and latterly Data Centres. He has continually challenged convention and built businesses and delivery teams from scratch delivering some of the most challenging Data Centres projects and Campuses in Europe. Jeff has an incomparable work ethic and the ability to work very effectively under pressure. He provides real strategic thinking, guidance and leadership to project delivery and team members.

Jeff has a huge passion for people project delivery and engineering and has encouraged and supported others to achieve the highest standards possible and have a patented cooling solution for Data Centres.

Alison has been in the construction industry for over eighteen years working on a multitude of projects ranging from UK Infrastructure, multi-million-pound town centre regeneration, interior fit-outs and also working in the rail and nuclear sectors.

She has gained a vast amount of knowledge working with many of the top industry-recognized electronic document management systems. This has helped her acquire a sound overall knowledge of the Project Management Office processes and procedures.

Paul has over 20 years of experience within the Construction Industry. Working extensively throughout the UK & Europe working within the Data Centre Sector & Traditional Construction of Commercial, Leisure & Student Accommodation. He has a wide range of Construction & Data Centre knowledge, and this has been picked up working in great teams over the years.

Scott has 10 years’ experience in the construction industry. He is used to working to a high specification, whilst delivering to tight deadlines and budgets in a fast-paced environment. Scott’s electrical trade and time working as a site manager and a client-side project manager has given him a varied and high level of experience delivering projects. This has taught him how to be flexible in his approach with various stakeholders whether they are tradesmen, suppliers, main contractors, or clients.

Scott has had full accountability of projects up to the sum of £2.3M, including projects at Heathrow Airport, Bristol Airport, Marlborough College and Bristol Temple Meads. His experience in the construction industry varies from new build housing developments through to schools, hospitals, and airports.

Scott has an electrical NVQ 3, a HNC in Construction Management, certificate for SMSTS and a PRINCE2 foundation qualification.

Andy has over 30 years experience in the Construction Industry.  He has worked in various construction projects ranging from commercial, retail, residential, hotels, high security home office establishments and Data Centres.

He spent nealry 20 years working for main contractors in increasing roles of seniority and responsibility and has 13 years experience in the Data Centre Industry, he has also held senior positions client side and successfully delivered Data Center projects in the UK, mainland Europe and Iceland.  He also has a dedicated approach to Health and Safety having developed processes and procedures to improve Health and Safety in the work place.

Andrew has over 20 years experience in construction, 15 within the Data Centre market across the UK and Europe.

Andrew is responsible for managing the day to day commercial operations for the business as well as offering client advice in regards to change control, cost management, value engineering and contract negotiations.

Andrew has in-depth experience working within live and operational data centres and therefore, fully understands the challenges and opportunities that may arise during data hall build and fit outs and specifically where it is crucial that the clients business operation is not impacted.

Sophia has specialised in data centres since 2004, working as a mechanical engineering consultant with EYP Mission Critical Facilities and then HP.  Sophia’s experience included secondments with operations teams which broadened her practical knowledge.  Since 2011 she has been a director at Operational Intelligence where she has been a key part of the team helping data centre clients to optimise their reliability and energy efficiency performance.  Passionate about sustainability, she has collaborated with colleagues on a number of technical papers on data centre energy efficiency and environmental impact.  She enjoys collaborating with different stakeholders to deliver award-winning work.

Will has 32 years’ experience in the construction industry having first trained as a carpenter before progressing to site manager then to commercial surveyor for a main contractor before moving across to Cost Consultancy and Project Management. In his PM career he has worked on a wide range of projects including production / manufacturing facilities, industrial / distribution centres, office builds and data centres. Prior to MiCiM he was a Director within the Project Management team at Avison Young working for numerous clients including government agencies as well as improving their Best-in-Class services and processes.

Having worked with the MiCiM Directors previously he has joined MiCiM as Development Executive to strengthen our service offering through his extensive knowledge of working with developers and setting up and delivering successful projects. He is committed to the company’s’ core values of a Forward thinking, Client Focused, Collaborative approach to doing business, with an aim to ensuring the customer experience reaches the highest possible standard.

Villie’s career has always been about managing teams on site, either by managing a 2-person site team for a small pipework modification, to different sub-contractors and the delivery of their packages in coordination with the overall project, or a project team itself. From her experience project managing she has learnt how best to organise workstreams, communicate and colloborate with the project team  whilst always keeping the project deadline and the budget in mind, all the way through to a successful completion.

We offer various apprenticeships for people studying part-time, training, or looking for a career change, providing you with crucial hands-on experience in trade.

We recognise the value in identifying and growing our future talent through apprenticeships which combine the theory with essential practical learning.

Whether it’s site or office based, you will gain first class on-the-job experience giving you the exposure and opportunity to learn and successfully complete your apprenticeship as well a range of technical training applicable to your discipline.

A wide range of graduate opportunities are available at MiCiM, building on the knowledge gained in your degree and putting theory into practice. You’ll kick-start your career working on large, exciting projects, giving you an in-depth understanding of your chosen specialism, and an opportunity to learn about how the other departments & stakeholders of the business work together.

Our 8-12 week summer placements are designed to give you a real introduction to the industry whilst developing valuable skills and experience to compliment your studies.

You’ll work on live projects and discover what a career at MiCiM can offer through a mixture of onsite and office-based experience across the Technical, Commercial & Construction Management teams.

You will be given the guidance and support you need to ensure you make the most of your time with us, and the opportunity to put what you have learned at university into practice.

We work closely with a range of universities to offer year-long placements for students taking sandwich courses, which provide hands on exposure to you chosen specialism and a good understanding across all industry disciplines. You will get to know what life on-site is really like and receive mentoring from our in-house industry experts.

Lairin is the lead document controller on the Hyperscale Data Centre campus build project in Dublin, her main role is to manage the documents to ensure quality, accuracy and correct distribution throughout the project team.

Lairin enjoys the collaboration process working with the client, design, trades and commercial teams across all levels and benefits from seeing the project go through the process from infancy to completion.

Lairin has over 20 year experience in office management and with a further 5 years in the data centre sector, she also has extensive training across different systems from procurement to public tendering.