Ian Knowles
Technical And Systems Lead at Grousemoor Engineering Ltd
Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolIan Knowles is a seasoned technical and commercial leader with four decades of construction industry experience and chartered status in both civil engineering and quantity surveying. He has led major rail and infrastructure programmes across Europe and North America, most recently as Commercial and Technical Lead on Metrolinx’s CAD$4.5bn Eglinton Crosstown LRT while running his own consultancy, Grousemoor Engineering. Ian combines hands-on project mobilisation and transformation expertise with bid and commercial leadership, having steered Network Rail switch and crossing procurements and large-scale delivery teams. He pairs academic strength in mathematics and languages with practical teaching experience at university level, bringing clarity to complex commercial modelling and risk analysis. Known for introducing new technologies and alliance contracting approaches, he excels at client relationship building and restructuring to improve delivery and cost efficiency. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic strategist who still enjoys the detail of technical problem-solving alongside board-level decision making.
9 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons) Maths, Mathematics, Diploma german, BSc (Hons) Maths, Mathematics, Diploma german at The Open UniversityBSc, Construction, BSc, Construction at Nottingham Trent
English, German, French
Github Skills (64)
reactive10
sbt10
java10
jvm9
scala9
scraper9
gwas9
restful9
sbt-plugin9
d3js9
playframework9
genomics9
parser8
flask8
topojson8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
ianknowles/EarTimeWrangler
Sep 2017 - Nov 2018
Contributions:58 commits, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
ianknowles/digitalgendergaps.org
May 2019 - Jan 2020
Contributions:97 commits, 3 pushes, 2 branches in 7 months
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