Field Group Chair for Project and Operations Management
Programme Director MSc Project Management
Trans-National Education (TNE) Programme Director
MBA Cohort Leader
BEng (Hons) Civil Engineering, MSc Civil Engineering, PgCert HELT, FHEA, C Build E FCABE (Chartered Fellow Building Engineer), MRICS (Chartered Surveyor), CQP MCQI (Chartered Quality Professional), CITP MBCS (Chartered IT Professional), MCILT (Chartered Logistician), APMP, APMG's PM4SD Practitioner (Project Management for Sustainable Development), AXELOS's Prince 2 Practitioner and Accredited Trainer, PMP
Department: Marketing and Strategy
Telephone No: +44(0)29 2041 6038
Email Address:lsupramaniam@cardiffmet.ac.uk
My home sector is Project Management, Business, Management, cross-disciplinary and both specialists and generalists for wide range of sectors, domains and industries. I started my career in mega projects, super structures, construction projects and contract management before moving to oil and gas projects and operations upstream, midstream and down stream's hydrocarbon project and programme management, procurement, contract, supply chain management and quality management.
My portfolio of super structure and mega construction projects includes the PETRONAS Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur (tallest twin towers in the world), PUTRAJAYA (New Super Administrative City for Malaysia) and Private Universities (Energy Company - Tenaga National Berhad in Malaysia). I have been involved in the feasibility analysis, concept, planning, design, commissioning, start-ups and project management of various Mega Turnkey EPC, EPIC, FIDIC, EPCC, EPCM, EPCIC projects and programmes.
I then moved into academia having trained and delivered successful MSc, MA, MBA and MBA Executive, Undergraduate, Degree Apprenticeships, Flexible, Modular and Foundation Programmes and his experience has brought him to United Kingdom, West Europe, USA, South Asia, South East Asia, New Zealand and Middle East.
I have trained and delivered advanced Project Management, Program Management, Portfolio Management, Business and Management, Construction, Surveying (Facilities and Assets Management), Engineering, Built Environment, Operations, Systems, Quality, Hydrocarbon Value Chain (Oil and Gas), Business Information Technology, Business Information Systems courses for wide range of professionals at different stage of their career progression from organisations such as BJ Services, Baker Hughes, Total, Petroleum Development Oman (PDO), NNPC, Sonatrach, ADCO and other ADNOC Group of Companies, Sonangol, Marafiq, Qatar Gas, Qatar Petroleum, Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC), Kuwait Oil Company (KOC), Pakistan State Oil (PSO), Petronas, Mozambique's Empresa Nacional de Hidrocarbonetos (ENH) and Merck Serono.
Project Management, Program Management, Portfolio Management, Construction Project and Program Management, Complex and Mega Project Management, Commercial and Contract Management, Strategic Purchasing, Strategic Management, Project Leadership, People Management.
• Project Management Standards Development with PMI (Project Management Institute). Appointed by PMI, US Standards to serve as a Core Committee member on the PMCDF- 3rd Ed (Project Management Competency Development Framework). This committee has been commissioned to develop and write content for Project Management Institute (PMI) Global Standard entitled Project Manager Competency Development Framework – Third Edition, published in March 2016.
• Served as Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the PMI’s Construction Extension to PMBOK Guide update, published in Sept 2016
• Served as Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the PMI's PMBOK (Project Management Body of Knowledge) Guide 6th Edition, published in Sept 2017
• Served as Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the PMI's Benefits Realization: A Practice Guide, 1st Edition, Due to be published in 3rd Quarter 2018
• Served as Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the PMI's Practice Standard for Work Breakdown Structures, 3rd Edition, Due to be published in 3rd Quarter 2019
• Served as Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the PMI's Practice Standard for Earned Value Management, 3rd Edition, Due to be published in 3rd Quarter 2019
• Served in the ECITB (Engineering Construction Industry Training Board, UK) Offshore Project Management Working Group and developed the content for Project Management Competency Framework widely used by Engineering and Construction Project Professionals and wider Supply Chain Organisations in the Offshore Industry (Oil and Gas Value Chain)
• Project Management Standards Development with PMI (Project Management Institute). Appointed by PMI, US Standards to serve as a Core Committee member on the PMCDF- 3rd Ed (Project Management Competency Development Framework). This committee has been commissioned to develop and write content for Project Management Institute (PMI) Global Standard entitled Project Manager Competency Development Framework – Third Edition, published in March 2016.
• Served as Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the PMI’s Construction Extension to PMBOK Guide update, published in Sept 2016
• Served as Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the PMI's PMBOK (Project Management Body of Knowledge) Guide 6th Edition, published in Sept 2017
• Served as Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the PMI's Benefits Realization: A Practice Guide, 1st Edition, Published in Jan 2019
• Served as Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the PMI's Practice Standard for Work Breakdown Structures, 3rd Edition, Published in July 2019
• Served as Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the PMI's Practice Standard for Earned Value Management, 3rd Edition, Due to be published in 3rd Quarter 2019
• Project Management Institute (PMI) OSV (Onsite Team Member/Team Lead) to accredit and validate GAC’s (Global Accreditation Centre) Project Management Education and Curriculum at various Universities world-wide
• External Examiner with various Universities and their partner institutions spanned globally in the past and currently
• Internal and External Quality Assurance, Compliance and Governance events experience with various Universities and their TNE (Trans National Education) partners in UK (HE in FE), East Europe, Caribbean, North Africa, West Africa, Middle East, South Asia and South East Asia, International External Examining
• External Panel Member (Validation and Re-Validation QA (Quality Assurance)/Compliance Events, Curriculum Development, Programmes/Courses Modification Critical Review, Engagement and Consultations and Partnership Review experience
• Institutional Re-Recognition QA (Quality Assurance) Event (Higher Education in Further Education) including Enhanced Monitoring experience
• Internal QA (Validation and Re-Validation Events, QA Committees and Sub-Committees), Programme Enhancement and Approval Review events experience
• Professional, Statutory and Regulatory Body QA/Compliance Events experience as Chair and Team Member
• Subject Matter Expert and Content Developer for Professional, Statutory and Regulatory Body experience
Enterprise Resource Planning: An Integrative Review (2004) Business Process Management Journal, Vol 10, (4), pp 359-386.
Mapping the Reliability of Best Practice Methods to optimise Enterprise's Intellectual Capital and Knowledge Flow Retention, 6th ANZAM Operations, Supply Chain and Services Management Symposium 2008: The Challenges and Opportunities of Operating in Complex Supply Chains, 8th-10th June 2008, Griffith Business School and the Melbourne Operations Management Society, Australia.
Optimisation of Formal Best Practice Methods (FBPM) in Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs) for Performance Efficiency (refereed), SME-Entrepreneurship Global Conference 2008: Creating Sustainable Entrepreneurship Eco-system and High Performance SMEs, 3rd-4th July 2008, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
Langes has been appointed by Project Management Institute (PMI), US Standards to serve as a Core Committee member on the PMCDF-3rd Ed (Project Management Competency Development Framework). This committee has been commissioned to develop a Project Management Institute (PMI) Global Standard entitled Project Manager Competency Development Framework – Third Edition. This PMCDF is a widely used global standard to design and develop project management, program management and portfolio management skills and competencies framework by Corporates.
PRINCE2 Practitioner and Trainer
PM4SD Practitioner (Project Management for Sustainable Development)
FHEA, Fellow Higher Education Academy, UK
MRICS, Chartered Surveyor, Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), UK
MBCS, CITP, Chartered Information Technology Professional, Chartered Institute for IT (BCS), UK
CMILT, Chartered Member, Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT), UK
MCQI CQP, Chartered Quality Professional, Chartered Quality Institute (CQP), UK
C Build E, FCABE Chartered Building Engineer, Fellow of Chartered Association of Building Engineers (CABE), UK
APMP, Association of Project Management (APM), UK
PMP, Project Management Institute, US
Project Management Institute (PMI) OSV (Onsite Team Member/Team Lead) to accredit and validate GAC’s (Global Accreditation Centre) Project Management Education and Curriculum at various Universities world-wide
