
15 Feb Thomas Kilian – Pr. Tech Eng Pr.CPM CAMA PMP CMC
Thomas is a principal at i @ Consulting, heading up civil infrastructure within the asset management operations unit. Thomas’ career spans over 30 years that includes asset management, programme and project management, and civil and agricultural engineering. Thomas is a Professional Engineering Technologist (Pr. Tech Eng.), Professional Construction Project Manager (Pr. CPM), Certified Asset Management Assessor (CAMA), Project Management Professional (PMP) and Certified Management Consultant (CMC). He also holds a MBA.
Since 2008 Thomas has been extensively involved in asset management projects for dozens of metropolitan and local municipalities, spanning all civil and engineering asset portfolios, as well as municipal real estate portfolios. On many of these assignments he served as the engineering lead, including the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality and the Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality. Thomas has also been involves in the maintenance and updating of the asset register of the Trading Entity of the Department of Water and Sanitation. The range of his asset management experience includes demand analysis, strategic planning, asset valuation and costing, risk profiling and analysis, the preparation of asset management plans, and lifecycle delivery.
In the field of civil / agricultural engineering he has been involved with infrastructure planning and implementation of projects, including identification, feasibility studies, planning, design, tender & procure, construction supervision and contract management of infrastructure works. Thomas also provided training & mentoring to various candidates for registration with the Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA) and the development of training material for experiential training, and led the National Skills Fund training management project to further develop skills in Water Services Authorities (WSA’s).