Kenny Macdonald
Bearsden,United Kingdom
Summary
Accomplished programme management professional with expertise in programme objective setting, delivery scheduling, and strategic leadership. Demonstrates proficiency in benefits realisation and change management, ensuring successful stakeholder engagement and alignment with organisational goals. Committed to driving impactful programmes that deliver measurable results and contribute to long-term success.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work history
Project Manager – Capital Delivery
Network Rail
07.2022 - 09.2025
- Leading delivery of £170m programme to enhance and reconfigure the 25kV traction power distribution system across Central Scotland as key enabler for decarbonising Scotland’s Railway for the future growth of electric train services by 2025
- Delivery of multi-discipline programme of 6 new feeder stations and 8 TSCs requiring extensive stakeholder engagement across multiple local authority areas
- Driven an £8m efficiency in programme to date
- Traction Power – Rolling Programme of Decarbonisation
Project Manager – Capital Delivery
Network Rail
01.2022 - 07.2022
- I successfully delivered a £6m programme of GI/SI to inform the future electrification
- I led engagement with key stakeholders and secured consents to undertake works in Cairngorms National Park
- Delivered a 20% efficiency by optimising scope and employing PACE principles
- Highland Main Line Electrification
Project Manager – Capital Delivery
Network Rail
05.2019 - 12.2021
- I successfully led a team that, until paused by the client, delivered the projects contained as part of the PoNE programme. I led the development of a PACE design utilising multiple suppliers and designers in a hub and spoke contracting strategy
- I was responsible for leading a team of NR and key framework partners to deliver the AFC efficiency required by the client to meet the industry wide post-covid cost challenge.
- I delivered an expanding, staggered scope which required to be integrated as each stage while clearly articulating the interdependencies between schemes and report cost and schedule adherence to key stakeholders
- I undertook multiple strategic reviews of the PoNE and interlinked schemes and successfully resequenced the scope around the goal of ‘Putting Passengers and Freight First’. I secured support from key stakeholders and developed a nationally supported access strategy which minimised disruption and received positive feedback from TOCs/FOCs and other NR functions
- I set an ethical example of how my team would behave, while also challenging and empowering them to drive improvements and safely deliver the scope
- Growing the Lothians and Borders (GLAB) / Portobello to Newcraighall Enhancements (PoNE)
Project Manager - IPSNE
Network Rail
05.2015 - 04.2019
- I led the delivery of SDA Civils programme of works which successfully delivered bridge reconstructions, parapet modifications, major stations platform works, extensive boundary works and lineside structure demolitions. All works required to deliver energisation were completed ahead of schedule.
- Stirling Station is Grade A listed and I secured planning consent from Stirling Council and Historic Environment Scotland for all Electrification works while also delivering a long-standing aspiration of creating step-free access to all platforms using additional 3rd party funding
- I led the development and implementation of the CDM safety critical documentation. This included a unique, bespoke Project Safety Strategy that articulated how multiple Principle Contractors can safely and efficiently deliver a programme of works with NR acting as integrator and controlling authority
- I managed the delivery of the Route Clearance programme of works. This project has successfully delivered 41 bridge works and 8 track lowers.
- SDA Electrification
Education
MSc - Marketing and Management
Caledonian University
BA(Hons) - History
Strathclyde University
BSc - Computer Science
Strathclyde University
Chartered Project Professional -
Association For Project Management
04.2001 -
Skills
- Programme objective setting
- Programme delivery scheduling
- Programme management expertise
- Benefits realization
- Change management
- Stakeholder management
- Strategic leadership
Certification
- ChPP – Chartered Project Professional, Association for Project Management
- APM Scotland Committee Member – Chair for West of Scotland Region, Association for Project Management
Accomplishments
- Identified strategic PoNE delivery challenges and produced revised, integrated and re-sequenced programme based on ‘Putting passengers & Freight First’
- Driving efficiencies in excess of £20m in the PoNE programme to successfully meet the cost challenge set out by Transport Scotland
- Proactively led strategic review of remit to produce revised scope which met significantly changed client cost and programme requirements as GLAB evolved into PoNE
- Successful delivery and integration of GLAB/PoNE scope transition from GRIP to PACE
- Successful management of the procurement and delivery of the multidiscipline SDA Electrification project and SANOS South Signalling Scheme
- Managed the delivery of SDA & EGIP programme of 41 bridge works and 8 track lowers to achieve all key regulatory milestones, within budget authority and no impact on operational railway
- Received excellent feedback from Key Stakeholders, Local Authorities, Network Rail Asset and Network Rail Maintenance on engagement and collaboration
Timeline
Project Manager – Capital Delivery
Network Rail
07.2022 - 09.2025
Project Manager – Capital Delivery
Network Rail
01.2022 - 07.2022
Project Manager – Capital Delivery
Network Rail
05.2019 - 12.2021
Project Manager - IPSNE
Network Rail
05.2015 - 04.2019
Chartered Project Professional -
Association For Project Management
04.2001 -
BA(Hons) - History
Strathclyde University
BSc - Computer Science
Strathclyde University
MSc - Marketing and Management
Caledonian University