Civil Engineer

Ayo is an accomplished project manager and chartered civil engineer and fellow, chartered manager with extensive experience in delivering infrastructure and flood risk management projects. She is currently a principal engineering manager. Previously, she has held key leadership roles within the Environment Agency, most recently serving as Business Manager within the Major Projects and Programme Delivery (MPPD) department, which focuses on delivering water resources, flooding, and navigation projects. Her responsibilities encompassed business planning, stakeholder engagement, compliance with health and safety regulation, and workforce planning. Previously to this, she served as a Project Team Manager in the Programme and Contract Management department, where she led project teams working on the River Thames Scheme and the Assets Below Required Condition (ABRC) Sub-Programme. In this role, she provided strategic leadership, developed team capabilities, and ensured the successful delivery of projects across Thames Valley, East Anglia, Hertfordshire, and North London. Previously, Ayo was a Project Manager and BIM Lead for the Environment Agency’s Collaborative Delivery Framework Eastern Hub, where she played a pivotal role in embedding BIM processes and driving digital transformation across projects. She has managed high-value infrastructure schemes, including the Bray Mill Weir Replacement (£2 million) and the Brooklands and Byfleet Flood Alleviation Scheme (~£2 million), overseeing project lifecycles from inception through construction. Her expertise extends to contract management, business case development, risk assessment, and financial oversight. Ayo’s career includes diverse roles in civil engineering, spanning project management, design, and site supervision. She has contributed to major flood alleviation schemes such as the Oxford Flood Alleviation Scheme (£120 million), Canvey Island Southern Shoreline (£20 million), and the Abingdon Flood Alleviation Scheme (£5 million). Her experience includes secondments to Jacobs and West Berkshire Council. Throughout her career, Ayo has demonstrated a commitment to innovation, collaboration, and leadership. Her ability to manage complex, multi-disciplinary projects, engage stakeholders, and mentor emerging professionals underscores her impact within the engineering and project management sectors.  

Ayo has actively contributed to the Institute of Civil Engineers (ICE) since her graduate days, having been an ICE President’s Future Leader, mentored by Lord Robert Mair. Her contributions have included working on the State of the Nation report on infrastructure investment and the In Plain Sight report—reducing the risk of infrastructure failure, a report launched in the wake of the Grenfell Tragedy. Currently, she sits on the ICE committees for Policy and Public Affairs, Communication, and Thames Valley, and also serves as a Supervising Civil Engineer, mentoring graduates in their professional development.  

Outside of her full time engineering career, Ayo has taken on several leadership roles, including serving as an elected councillor and Deputy Mayor of Reading. She co-founded Plastic Free Caversham and has been actively involved in various voluntary initiatives, including mentoring for Teach First and Plymouth University, managing fundraising efforts for the Derriford Children’s Cancer Service, acting as an appropriate adult for youth offenders, and serving as a STEM Ambassador and Reading Women’s Officer for the Labour Party. In addition, she is a prominent TV presenter, most notably for Get Set Galactic on CBeebies, a STEM-focused kids’ television show.

Her Qualifications, Certificates and Professional Memberships are as follows:
• MEng Civil and Coastal Engineering (University of Plymouth, Devon, UK)

(Her master’s Dissertation was titled – Investigation into Scour at Quay Walls and Scour Protection with the Increased Use of Azipods. Her Dissertation was selected to be presented at BURC – British Undergraduate Research Conference)

• Chartered Engineer (CEng) MICE – Institution of Civil Engineers

• Fellow FICE – Institution of Civil Engineers

• Chartered Manager – Chartered Management Institute

• Association for Project Management’s APM Project Manager Qualification & Member (MAPM)

• Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Manufacture and Commerce (FRSA)

• Construction Skills Certification Scheme (CSCS) – Proffesionally Qualified person

• CITB Site Management Safety Training Scheme (SMSTS)

• APMG Better Business Cases™ Foundation

• Level 7 Coaching and Mentoring qualification from the Chartered Management Institute (CMI).


Her awards are as follows:

  • Nominated as one of the Top 50 Women in Engineering under 35 by The Telegraph in partnership with The Women’s Engineering Society (WES) (June 2017)
  • Selected as ICE President’s Future Leader (2018)
  • Selected ICE Water Superhero – Eco Warrior (formerly Eco Angel) (March 2021)
  • Selected as a Top 24 Global Ethnic Majority Role Model in STEM by  AFBE-UK Scotland, The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and RS component (August 2024)
  • Successfully completed the Labour Party Future Parliamentary Candidate Programme (May 2022)
  • Highly Commended Finalist, Top 50 Women in Engineering 2023: Safety and Security, Women’s Engineering Society (WES) (June 2023)
  • Finalist for the Enginuity Org Skills Award 2023 for the Diversity and Inclusion Award (Jan 2024)

Summary of Key Skills:

  • Experienced in managing projects from the identification of need through to construction and project closure.
  • Experienced in managing teams and budgets.
  • Experience in coaching individuals & leading in a technical and managerial capacity.
  • Experienced in producing option appraisals and Business cases (SOC, OBC, FBC) using the 5-case business model.
  • Experienced in contract management using the NEC3 and NEC4 suite of contracts.

Institution of Civil Engineers – Voluntary roles

  • May 2021- Current: ICE Thames Valley: The regional ICE committee I am part of a vital role in supporting and representing members by organizing professional development opportunities, networking events, and knowledge-sharing initiatives, ensuring they stay connected and engaged with the industry.
  • June 2021-Current: Delegated Engineer: As a Delegated Engineer, I mentor and oversee developing engineers, ensuring compliance with industry standards while fostering their professional growth through guidance and technical expertise
  • Oct 2021 – Current: Supervising Engineer: As a Supervising Engineer, I mentor and oversee developing engineers, ensuring compliance with industry standards while fostering their professional growth through guidance and technical expertise
  • Feb 2021 – April 2025: ICE Communication: I collaborate with fellow professionals to enhance engagement, streamline information sharing, and promote effective communication within the organization and beyond.
  • Sept 2019- Sept 2025: ICE Policy and External Affairs: The Public Voice Committee is involved in overseeing, directing and evaluating the institution’s policy, public affairs and communications activity. The committee guides, shapes and evaluates the ICE’s external engagements in order to raise the profile of the institution in the eyes of policymakers, opinion-formers, external stakeholders and with the public at large.
  • Jan 2025- Sept 2025: Construction Change Steering Group/Board Member: I contribute to strategic initiatives aimed at dismantling cultural barriers, advancing gender equality, and improving social mobility in the construction sector—an industry where women still represent just 14% of the workforce.
  • July 2025 – Current: ICE Policy Fellow: I contribute subject-matter expertise to policy and external affairs initiatives, including drafting thought leadership pieces and analyzing government announcements. I serve on policy programme steering groups to shape strategic direction and provide expert input. I participate in biannual Policy Town Halls to identify engagement opportunities and align with organizational priorities. Select and lead contributions in areas of policy work that match expertise and maximize impact
  • Ayo’s Project CV is vast and diverse. Please see below.
Engineering & Management Experience
Principal Engineering Manager – (September 2025 – Current)
Ayo is a Principal Engineering Manager on Capital Projects.
Major Project and Programme Delivery – Business Manager – Environment Agency (December 2023- September 2025)
Ayo is the Major Project and Programme Delivery (MPPD) Business Manager. MPPD is a part of the Environment Agency where we: safely lead and deliver transformative low carbon asset management, programmes, and projects, designed to protect, and enhance communities and the environment.

The role of Business Manager is to leads and manages the implementation of business plans to ensure delivery, mitigate business risks and ensure continuity of the service in line with the EA corporate ambition, and environmental objectives. This involves leading by example, providing leadership during change, and driving a culture that actively innovates to ensure efficient ways of working and continuous improvement. In this role, Ayo reports to the Directors of Operations. She applies her detailed knowledge of industry, leadership, management, and communication skills chairing meeting and attending internal and external meetings and managing stakeholders and networking.

She delegates to the right department working with Business Partners (HR, Finance, Workforce planning, Health and safety and well-being) to support the implementation of innovation, change and ensure KPI’s outcomes are achieved. She supports her director as a first point of contact, staying briefed on reports, business plans, fiscal details and handling complex issues and supporting her director’s work and managing his executive office.

Strategic Leadership:
Ayo works with business partners—HR, Finance, Strategic Workforce Planning, and Health and Safety—to provide strategic support to the Director, ensuring alignment with corporate objectives and maintaining service continuity. By collaborating with various teams, she supports the department in achieving its goals and ensuring seamless operations. She provides regular updates to the Director and Deputy Directors during meetings she chairs, fostering transparency and alignment across all teams.
Governance & Communication:
Ayo chairs key meetings and oversees departmental communications to ensure they align with organizational goals. She reviews and approves all communications and works closely with the communications team to keep content on the department’s SharePoint site updated. As a trusted spokesperson for the Agency during major incidents, she delivers critical public messages. Through all of this, she ensures seamless communication, robust stakeholder relationships, and the effective execution of departmental strategies.
Financial & Workforce Management:
Ayo collaborates with the business finance partner team to manage the Director’s monthly budget, staying updated on financial forecasts and time-recording data. Through close coordination with finance, she ensures budget constraints are met while maintaining operational efficiency. She also works with the workforce planning team to align recruitment with the strategic workforce plan, overseeing and approving recruitment decisions. During strategic recruitment pauses, she facilitates discussions with the Executive Director and Deputy Directors to ensure recruitment aligns with budget and strategic objectives.
Change & Stakeholder Engagement:
Ayo drives organizational change by liaising with HR, Finance, and Change Management to implement key initiatives. During significant organizational restructuring, she worked closely with the change management team to communicate departmental needs and ensure smooth transitions. Her ability to build and maintain cross-functional relationships has been instrumental in ensuring effective collaboration and alignment with corporate objectives.
Operational Oversight:
Ayo tracks performance metrics and oversees departmental reviews, ensuring compliance with governance and audit requirements. She manages a direct report who conducts quarterly reviews of departmental performance, including HR metrics, turnover, sickness absence, and diversity. She leads succession planning and high-performance team-building efforts in collaboration with HR Business Partners. Through regular one-on-one meetings with the Director, Deputy Director, and business partners, she monitors key operational areas such as workforce planning, program delivery, audits, governance, and resource allocation. Additionally, she oversees the recruitment approval process during strategic pauses, working with finance and workforce planning teams to establish clear procedures and communicate changes to managers and team leaders. Her leadership ensures financial responsibility and operational effectiveness within the department.
Project Team Manager – Environment Agency (May 2022- December 2023)
Ayo was a Project Team Manager in the Programme and Contract management – working within Major Project and Programme Delivery.

She was a part of the local leadership team, responsible for leading a team of project-focused team members on the River Thames Scheme and Assets below required condition (ABRC) Sub Programme in the Thames Area and the western part of the Environment Agency’s Collaborative Delivery Framework Eastern Hub (Thames Valley, East Anglia, Herts and North London).

In this role, she focused of developing her team and leading by example by demonstrating excellent behaviors to enhance project delivery and create a positive working environment. Her core activities in this role, are line management, coaching her team, business planning, supporting her team in escalating project issues, workforce planning, stakeholder engagement and ensuring compliance to Health and Safety legislation.

She maintained a multi-disciplined Project Team that is motivated, competent, adequately resourced and supported to deliver a forward programme of projects on behalf of the area that they are supporting.

– Leads People, Builds & Sustains Relationships – With internal Client, external stakeholders, Programme & Project Management, Delivers Results Through Others, Coaches Others, Communicates Effectively, Manages the Business, HR administration, Resource Management, Recruitment, Performance Management:
Project Manager & BIM Lead – Environment Agency (May 2019- May 2022)
2021 – May 2022   Project Manager, Brooklands and Byfleet, Weybridge (~£2million) The aim of the project was to develop an economically viable scheme that would reduce the risk of flooding in Weybridge.  Ayo’s role was focused on managing the project, arranging site meetings, and canvassing the views of various stakeholders to effectively develop smart objectives for deliver. Ayo developed the scope for the consultant contracts and managed their costs, programmes, and reported progress to the various stakeholders.
2019- 2021 BIM lead for the Environment Agency’s Collaborative Delivery Framework Eastern Hub (Thames Valley, East Anglia and Herts and North London). Ayo was responsible for embedding BIM across the Eastern part of the Environment Agency. She worked to create a strategic vision by understanding the barrier to BIM being successful implemented in the organisation. As a result of asking the right questions and gaining understanding. She created a plan that involved procuring a designer to create new training resources and posters. She wrote a proposal to the hub delivery manager who signed off on the spend for her plan. She procured a design who she worked with to develop interactive BIM resources. She delivered training to senior users, commercial staff, project manager, as well providing support directing to projects. She also acted as a stakeholder to the Digital CoP: Task & Finish group – reviewing their deliverables and providing technical feedback.
In this role, she worked with project support officers who aided her in the heavy lifting of reviewing every project. She trained them from novice to BIM champion proficient in BIM and able to undertake BIM health check of 250 projects in the hub, supporting PM’s undertaking BMAT and in the long-term claiming CERT. She made this process more efficient by creating template email, proforma for their use and wider use. She empowered the BIM leads in one to one-training session where she also coached them towards using the BIM champion roles as an opportunity to develop towards their own development goals.
2019- May 2022    Project Manager, Bray Mill Weir Replacement, Maidenhead (£2 Million)
The aim of the project was to replace an existing weir that had reached the end of its life and install an eel pass.  Ayo pick the project up from inception to managed it to construction. She led the project team both internally and externally, writing the scope for the various NEC3/NEC4 contracts for the initial assessment, design, construction, managing the contracts– application for payment assessments, early warning, and compensation events, developing the businesses cases (SOC, OBC, FBC), managing the programmes, budgets, costs, risks, and stakeholders. She chaired project board meeting, led early warning meeting to resolve commercial issue, actively applied lessons learnt.
Graduate Civil Engineer – Environment Agency (September 2016 – May
2019)                                                        
She was on an Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) training agreement to become a Chartered Civil Engineer. Her first role was working in the National Capital Programme Management service team (NCPMS) which involved managing projects and programmes from strategic planning to implementation and delivery of the final outcomes. She project managed the Abingdon Flood Alleviation Scheme (£5 Million) and led the Assurance and Approval workstream on the Oxford Flood Alleviation Scheme (£120 Million). She undertook an 8-month secondment to West Berkshire Council, site supervising the construction of the Tull Way Flood Alleviation Scheme (£1.2 Million). She completed a placement in the Asset Performance department within the Environment Agency working on the redesign of a flood bund in Mortimer, using ARGCIS software to map culvert utilities and undertaking fish pass design at Tumbling Bay, Oxford (£300,000). She completed a secondment to Jacobs, TEAM2100 on Canvey Island Southern Shoreline, Essex (£20 Million) where she was assistant to the project manager. 
2018-2019         Fish Pass Designer, Tumbling Bay Fish Pass, Oxford (£ 300,000) The aim of the project was to facilitate fish migration around two weirs. Ayo was the lead designer on the scheme, she developed a project brief, design statement, attended site visits to other fish passes to look for opportunities and constraints.  Ayo used eco-system surveys to evaluate the various options, wrote an option appraisal report summarising her findings and designed a bypass fish pass channel with a gabion inlet structure using the various guidelines including Fish Pass Manual (2010), Eurocode 3, Eurocode 7, CIRIA C760 Guidance on embedded retaining wall design and CDM (2015) Regulations. The project was later signed off and has been constructed.
2018-2019     Assistant to PM, Canvey Island Southern Shoreline, Essex (Seconded to Jacobs) (£ 20 Million) The aim of the project was to deliver a flood risk reduction scheme at Canvey Island. Ayo’s role on the project was to work with the Project Manager to complete the appraisal report and to produce the Task Order Proposal (TOP) for acceptance by the Programme Delivery Board (PDB).  The TOP consists of the following documents: Design Execution Plan, Basis of Design, Cost Schedules, Stakeholder Engagement Plan, Programme, Risk Register, Proforma and Appraisal Paper. Ayo coordinated the production of these documents, reviewed the Risk Register and personally created the Programme and Design Execution plan. Ayo created a delivery programme for the Task Order Proposal deliverables and allocated suitable resources to undertake each deliverable. The programme detailed the work status, date for draft submission, date for review, date for final submission and including the BIM Common Data Environment document location. Ayo wrote an appraisal paper (a two-page document summarising the appraisal report) to be sent to various stakeholders.  This was crucial for the Castle Point Council who needed to be convinced of the preferred option.

2018-19 TEAM2100 (Seconded to Jacobs) (£ 20 Million)
I worked with the EA’s commercial team on the programme-wide efficiencies claimed on an annual basis.  She undertook a comparative exercise of a traditionally delivered project and a Lean delivered project at the equivalent project gateway. The Lean Process is an approach that aims to shorten the time taken to get to delivery stage.  The Lean Process differed from traditional project delivery at the various gateways by:
Pre-gateway 1: Workshopped one day initial assessment including a site visit
Pre-gateway 2: Workshopped long-list and short-list options
Pre-gateway 2: Starting design under a proforma prior to the appraisal and Task order proposal approval.
This allowed the efficiency value (sum of the actual cost minus target cost / sum of should cost) to be quantified. 
2017-2018    Flood Embankment Designer & Project Manager, Mortimer Flood Embankment, Mortimer The aim of the project was to bring a failed food defence asset back to operation. Ayo inspected and surveyed the asset, organised a temporary flood plan, re-designed the failed sections of the earth embankment to Eurocode 7 and worked with the electricity companies to mitigate risk of trees failing onto the power line.
2018              Client, AMWELL Armwell End Workshop Refurbishment, HNL (£ 13,117) The aim of the project was to refurbish one of the Environment Agency’s workshops.  Ayo was the CDM client and followed the Environment’s agency X63 CDM process – appointing the principal designer, designer, contractor, ensuring their skills, knowledge, and experience, managing resources, time, provision of welfare and receiving the Health and Safety File.
2017          Site Supervisor & Assistant Project Manager, Tull Way Flood Alleviation Scheme, Thatcham (£ 1.2 Million) The aim of the project was to build a surface water retaining bund to significantly reduce the flood risk to over 250 properties. As site supervisor Ayo’s responsibilities were detailed in the NEC3 ECC contract to: Review work information, provide guidance on testing’s & inspections to ensure compliances with planned works, quality standards and construction legalisation and notify defects. She also supported the ECC PM in their duties (assessing application for payments).  In summary, Ayo kept site records in the form of a weekly site diary with photographs, maintained the risk register, held progress meetings on behalf of the client with the contractor team on site, monitored the result of the site tests (shear strength, moisture content etc) , ran a project blog, resolved issue on material running out by attending meeting with AWE and their nearby construction to negotiate material, researched alternative spillway vegetation option, reviewed the method statement and RAMS for the project, took responsibility for the risk register, kept a communication log, organised the project filing system, managed stakeholders, reviewed the programme and informed the application for payments decisions and compensation events.
2016-2017     Designer, Enborne Culvert Replacement, Newbury (Seconded to West Berkshire Council) (£ 6,121)   Ayo designed a 225mm diameter Cast Iron Pipe underneath Enborne Street to improve the flow through the wider surface water network and the quality of headwall structures. Ayo completed the Bills of quantities using the Highways works Method of measurement and sent invitations to tender to local contractors via the Council’s portal. 
2016-2017     Project Manager, Abingdon Flood Alleviation Scheme, Abingdon (£ 5 Million) The Abingdon Flood Alleviation Scheme was a package of projects – St Helen’s Mill and River Ock Flood Storage Area. As project manager, Ayo led a team of consultants, contractors, land agents and internal advisors to deliver the flood wall at St Helens Mill and progressed the Ock flood storage up to the strategic outline case. To do this, Ayo managed the budget, procured the contractor, reviewed designs, produced quarterly newsletters and frequently asked question (FAQ) documents for the public and wrote the business case.  
2016-2017      Assistant Project Manager, Oxford Flood Alleviation Scheme, Oxford (£ 120 Million) The Oxford flood alleviation scheme is a two-stage channel to makes more space for water to flow during flooding. In Ayo’s role as assistant project manager, leading the assurance and approval workstream. She produced and managed the control documents. She wrote the risk management strategy, issues management, product description and quality management strategy. In addition to producing those documents, she managed the delivery of the other project control documents; benefit realisation, management strategy, and resource management strategy being produced by the Civil Service fast streamer to ensure the completion of work ready for its inclusion in the Oxford FAS ‘Outline Business Case’ (OBC). She also managed the completion of the issues and risk registers. BIM became a mandatory requirement on all WEM Lot 4 project after April 2016. Using the ‘BIM Employer’s Information requirement’, Environment Agency ‘Quick Guide to digital file naming’, ‘Environment Agency’s Project Manager Quick Guide to BIM’. She created a project specific BIM File naming presentation for the team to provide guidance and worked examples on file naming when unloading to Asite(the collaborative sharing space).
Undergraduate Civil Engineer – Industrial Placement – Halcrow, a CH2MHILL (now Jacobs) (2012-2013)
She undertook a range of tasks: fender and bollard design, writing technical notes, doing hand drawings, producing tender documents, completing take-offs, quantifying material, producing detailed cost estimates whilst making allowance for life-cycle cost inflation, calculating the wave and water levels and pressure of the setting concrete on the formwork, stability checks, design of groynes and rock revetment protection and design of retaining walls using Eurocode’s. Ayo worked on site for a project where she inspected sheet pilling with use of ultrasound and helped with surveys to compare the levels to results previously gained at the last inspection carried out by her colleagues. She undertook site safety assessment and learnt about the importance of site safety.  
Littlehampton Arun Tidal Defence East Bank, West Sussex, England. The project was a tidal defence for the Environment Agency (£12 million). Ayo designed the retaining wall structure according to the BS 6349 British standard for maritime design. Ayo checked colleagues’ calculations, schedule of drawings, and details on the drawings.
Broomhill Sands, East Sussex. The project was a Rock Revetment design. Ayo carried out the design of the rock revetment undertaking stability checks in deep and shallow water, overtopping checks and scour at the toe of the structure. She used the In-house software “Sands” to locate the lowest point on the coast to place the rock revetment.
Felixstowe – Berth Extension. The project was developing a 3rd terminal in the port. Ayo supported the production of design drawings, specification, bills of quantities and undertook the calculations of the reclamation/fill required for the finger quay extension and the back-water region.
Greenport.  The project was a port project in Hull.  The role of Halcrow was to provide the tender design for the client ABP and BAM Nuttall. Ayo carried out the design of Rock Revetment Scour Protection using the EAU Recommendation of the committee for the waterfront structures harbours and waterways and PIANC guidance, specifying the diameter of the rock required, layer thickness, the filter underlayer required as well as detailing the feasibility of the mattress fabrication, installation, and placement.
Teesport, River Tees, Middleborough. The project was to upgrade and deepen the existing 50-year-old berth to accommodate larger vessels. The role of Halcrow was to undertake the outline design. Ayo designed the fenders that goes along the quay wall that take the impact from the vessel berthing impact according to BS6349: Part 4 code of practice for maritime structure and with reference to Marcom report WG 33 guidelines for the design of fender system 2002.  
RVCP – Royal Victoria Country Park, Hampshire, Southampton. CH2MHILL was commissioned to undertake the study of the sea defence wall (cantilever and anchored) which runs along the frontage.  Ayo undertook the visual inspection along the 500m span of wall measuring the sheet pile thickness and using Prosheet to create a model to calculate the length of sheet pile needed.
Queen’s Beach Montenegro, Bar – Marina Design. The project included a new specialised terminal for general liquid, bulk and container cargo. Ayo calculated the length of the pontoon and the separation for the port layout using the Australian standard.
Royhill, Australia. The project was a new fuel terminal at Royhill.  Ayo designed a horizontal wave deck, calculating the wave load on the proposed decks for 4 different situations: two different return periods (1 in 25 years and the 1 in 100 year) and the two level of deck (+5mOD and the +6mOD). Through this project Ayo assessed the best approach, analysing probabilistic or deterministic design and how to design an open grated deck.  Ayo used Mathcad and Excel to carry out the wavelength calculation producing innovative solutions to technical issues such as the open grating and the air pocket between the water-level and the deck. Ayo also created a Mathcad template calculation to save time and manage resources and a long-term standardised template for such a project.
Tema Port, Southeast of Ghana. The project was for the expansion of a container port built in 1960 to make it suitable for the traffic expected at port and the addition of 2 new berths. Ayo calculated the material of armour layer, filter layer and the core material needed for the quay structure construction and new crown wall in term of reclamation, pavement.  Ayo carried out the Cost estimate, quantifying material and decide the rates and the impact of inflation to estimate the overall project cost for the duration of the construction.
Samalaju, Malaysia. The client was the Sarawai state government. Halcrow were employed to undertake the port layout. Ayo designed the Fender for a Panamax and handy size vessel berthing for normal and abnormal berthing energy.
Carr’s Bay Port Development, Monserrat. The project was the expansion of the existing ports. Ayo designed 30tonne and 300 tonne bollards.
Greenwich Pennisuala. The project was a feasiblity study. Ayo carried out the technical drawing from site inspections showing the features and the site condition of the port. She produced drawings showing the different view and the details of the crane rail, bollards, access and jetty section from the bottom view showing piles and beams arrangement.
Specification Research Project. This was a research project. Ayo conducted an internal research initiative across the CH2M HILL offices worldwide. She coordinated communication across global teams to gather existing specifications, with the goal of developing standardized company templates for FIDIC and NEC contract types.
Jeddah Port. This was a port project. Ayo organised the site photos from the Jeddah project. These helped the team track progress and provided important evidence for handling project claims.
Brighton – Coastal Protection Project. Ayo worked with the coastal team on a groyne protection project., She produced the outline drawings of the groynes on sand profiles to support design and planning work and put together research on the choice of design material.
Grimbsy Marine Design Project. Ayo carried out calculations to determine the required depth of a concrete block to prevent uplift from the seabed. She created a design tracker and organised input data by section and chainage along the concrete foundation. Key outputs included wave force, sliding stability, and overturning stability.
Zeta. Confidential Project. Due to the nature of the project, Ayo signed a confidentiality agreement before starting work or attending meetings. Her role involved preparing a technical note for a design option. She carried out detailed research, checked the reliability of sources, and wrote a technical report. She also created a standard design hazard risk register and provided justification for the chosen design option. She also performed sizing calculations for the design detail of Option 1.

Other projects: Pakistan Port, Portsmouth, PSA Panama, Rossal, Anchorsholme.
2011 Undergraduate Civil Engineer, Summer Placement (2 months) – DENNE –LEADBITTER GROUP
Regeneration of the Brighton open market site (£20 Million). The project was to build a residential and mixed development. Ayo assisted the site engineer setting out. She carried out concrete cube tests, observed non-destructive testing on concrete piles and inspected the rebar prior to every pour as well as checking the cover achieved afterward was according to the British standards. She managed drawings on site, prepared site documents for NHSB inspection and BREEAM assessment and undertook her CSCS qualification.
2009 Summer Placement Student (2 weeks)  – EAR Sheppard Civil and Structural Consulting Engineers
Ayo worked for two weeks in a consulting engineering company where undertook site surveys and used AutoCad for producing drawings (property plans). Ayo also got an opportunity to shadow an engineer and sit in on meetings regarding the tendering process for a bid.

Ayo Full CV is available on Request.