Until December 2006 Steve was the Procurement Director at the Highways Agency (HA), having held the post for over 6 years. Over this period he was a member of the HA Board and their Audit Committee, and he also sat on the OGC Chief Executive’s Advisory Group and on the Association of Consultancy and Engineering’s Advisory Group.

Prior to becoming Procurement Director Steve had worked for the HA, or its predecessor organisations, for 25 years mainly on the planning, design and construction of major highway projects including the Second Severn Crossing, the Newbury Bypass, the M60 Manchester Orbital and the M6 Toll Road.

Steve is a Chartered Civil Engineer and a Member of the Institute of Purchasing and Supply.

Steve left the HA in March 2007 to establish a new small procurement consultancy, Rowsell Wright Limited.

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David Smith is a Team Leader with the Highways Agency. He has been Project Manager for a variety of major road construction projects in the Midlands and the South-east of England. Recently he has been involved in developing policy in the Traffic Information area.

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Steve is a senior manager with Ringway and joined the company in October 05. He is currently acting as bid manager on the Birmingham Highways PFI for Birmingham Street Services (Operations) of which Ringway is a member company. He is based in an office adjacent to the Mailbox in Birmingham City Centre.

Steve has over 25 years experience in the highways industry. The majority of this has been managing maintenance works on the motorway and trunk road network. He spent 3 years as General Manager for the Carillion-URS joint venture managing the Highways Agency’s Area 8 Managing Agent Contractor (MAC) Contract. 10 years with Atkins preceded this where he started on the very first concrete repair contract on the Midland Links Viaducts and oversaw the introduction of cathodic protection systems.

Steve is a Fellow of the Institution and was the first contractor to take the Chair of the West Midlands Branch (2006-2007). He is keen that contractors have greater representation on the committee to reflect all sectors of the industry.

To relax, Steve enjoys hill walking and rambling and loves to get out of the city to the Welsh Mountains. He also has an interest in music and enjoys attending rock concerts.

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Vincent is an Assistant Engineer with over three years of experience of working in highways and drainage.
He started his career with Parsons Brinkerhoff, based in their Birmingham Design office. His work involved the production of highway and drainage design drawings using DMRB, TSRGD, TSM and various software such as AutoCAD, AutoTRACK and Micro-Drainage.
He then moved to JMP in 2006 where he was involved in assisting the project manager in some major Highways projects and running of the team. As well as spending over three months on Broughton Manor Farm site as an Assistant Resident Engineer involved in running and supervision of the contract work. Meanwhile at JMP, he has advanced his technical skills in highways design and has learned to use PDS for 3D highway design work.
In July 2008, he transferred to the transport planning division, where he specialised in transport modelling, expanding his knowledge within the transportation industry. His work involved the used of various computer software such as VISSIM, TEMPRO and TRICS.
Vincent is currently the youngest committee member of the West Midlands Branch. He produces all promotion materials for the branch and has won the corporate identity award in 2006.
In 2007, he was appointed as the Chairman of the Young Professional Group in the West Midlands Branch, responsible for organising events for young engineers and to promote the Civil Engineering Industry.

John is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the Institution with circa 20 years experience of infrastructure development. Key areas of experience have included highway and bridge design, assessment, contract preparation and commission and joint venture management.

John’s Current position is that of Business Director within Amey, accountable for all operational contracts to the Highways Agency, including MAC commissions 9 and 13, and for taking opportunities from identification through to bid submission as Bid Director. Since joining Amey he has played a key role in service development. Notable successes have included helping shape and establish the AmeyMouchel Joint Venture and winning the Scottish Executive Southeast and Southwest Maintenance Management Units. Recent experience has included General Manager for AmeyMouchel for Highways Agency Area 9 and latterly as General Manager of the AmeyMouchel Joint Venture. Within the role John was accountable to the AmeyMouchel Joint Venture Board for all aspects of operational delivery of the five Joint Venture contracts to the Highways Agency (Areas 9 and 13 Managing Agent Contractor Contracts and Areas 1,6,10 Term Maintenance Contracts) including demobilisation and final account resolution on completion of the contracts.

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Colin Whitehouse is a Senior Transport Planner with JMP Consulting, Birmingham. He has 17 years experience in both Traffic Engineering and Transport Planning. Colin has had detailed involvement in the design and implementation of major and minor highway schemes, traffic management studies, traffic calming, feasibility studies, transport studies, transport assessments and development plans. He also had responsibility for development control issues, presenting reports at Local Authority Committees, Local Hearings and providing evidence for public inquiries.

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