About AECOM

At AECOM, we believe infrastructure creates opportunity for everyone.

About AECOM

At AECOM, we believe infrastructure creates opportunity for everyone.

Delivering a better world through program management

Finding clarity in the complexity

AECOM Program Management is how we deliver transformational outcomes for our clients’ infrastructure investments. We partner with them to meet challenges head-on with knowledge, innovation and genuine partnership.

Our approach to program management is outcome-focused, holistic, digitally-enabled and impactful. Beyond ensuring programs happen on time and on budget, we bring together multidisciplinary expertise to lead programs at scale. So clients can put programs on the right path to deliver their intended outcomes, anticipate problems before they escalate and keep focus on priorities and benefits like sustainability, inclusivity and positive impact.

People

Engaging the best in the world, committed to delivering the best for the world

Led by Drew Jeter, who has 35 years-experience overseeing the delivery of more than $300 billion of capital infrastructure programs, the global team brings the best of our expertise to our clients around the world. Thinking as a whole with our clients and their stakeholders, we are pushing the boundaries of program management to deliver sustainable legacies that will last for generations.

Clients trust us for our incredible breadth of expertise — but also our unique ability to bring in the very best people for the job. Our global team has led some of the world’s most complex programs contributing lessons learned from industry, proven research from academia and robust frameworks for program management. That’s the trusted knowledge that we bring to every interaction — a blend of proven, road-tested best practices and a responsive, agile way of working that adds a whole new level of tailored insight.

Drew, his leadership team, and the global program management team are here to help you deliver lasting legacies for your communities, institutions, and organizations.

    • Drew Jeter

      Executive Vice President, Chief Executive Program Management Global Business Line
    • James O'Donnell

      Senior Vice President, Operations, Global Program Management
    • Paul Griffiths

      Senior Vice President, Program Management Practice and Capabilities
    • John Kuprenas

      Senior Vice President, Program Management Strategy & Growth
    • Adam Rawlings Smith

      Vice President, Talent Resources, Global Program Management

Programs

Like the conductor of an orchestra, we embrace complexity, bringing the interests and actions of a wide variety of different stakeholders together so they breathe, move and focus on the same things at the same time.

Our digital tools and capabilities help us manage a vast array of people, processes and technologies in a way that is outcome focused, encourages collaboration, and minimizes risk.

We make it our business to understand the intended benefits of our clients’ major infrastructure investments, then develop detailed roadmaps for making them a reality. That’s how we push program management beyond handling the practicalities of projects. We become trusted partners to help safeguard and deliver transformational outcomes with our programs — for the planet, communities and people they impact.

    • Tales of the unexpected: keeping Maryland's Purple Line on track

    • Weathering the storms: protecting Jeddah now, building it better for the future

    • Social mobility: keeping people on the move in the city that never sleeps

    • From devastation to regeneration: rebuilding New Zealand’s second largest city for a better future

    • Over 30 years and more to come: a history of delivering programs that keep USPS delivering mail

    • Saudi Arabia infrastructure collaboration underpinning the Kingdom’s Vision 2030

    • King Khalid International Airport – A Riyadh Icon Revitalized

Insights

    • Program management: How to gain client confidence around cost, risk, and delivery

    • Successful programme management requires an integrated approach

      Colm Tully and Derval Cummins
    • Tales of the unexpected: keeping Maryland’s Purple Line on track

      James Mitchell
    • Improving infrastructure cost estimate accuracy

      Ed Day and Tristan Harvey-Rice
    • Estimate projects better with machine learning technology

      Tristan Harvey-Rice and Edward Day
    • Three reasons why agility is a powerful instrument in the program manager’s toolkit

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