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Petersfield, Gb

Fareham, Hants, Gb

The role of CTO has been created as a business wide role to bring increase focus on how we use technology to improve business outcomes and deliver the NATS business strategy. The role will have the following key accountabilities:• Discover and define Technical Vision and strategic outcomes in support of NATS strategy • To identify and leverage technology solutions to enable the NATS strategy and associated strategic corporate goals• Work closely with the Executive, Operations, Technical and Commercial leadership teams and other senior leaders, to understand how technology can best support their needs.• Provide expert oversight, guidance and thought leadership across all engineering and technical activities in NATS• Ensure NATS has adequate business controls, governance and assurance in place for all technical activities across the business• Advise NATS on technical partnerships and collaborationThe role will focus on how to best use technology to meet the NATS vision to expand its services to all airspace users.

Fareham, Hants, Gb

Lead the Engineering teams responsible for design and transition of the Technical Services used to provide Air Traffic Control to the UK Civil and Military airspace users and airport customers. These solutions formed part of 11 major programmes (100+ projects) with a combined budget of £1.5+ Billion. This role required extensive reporting to the NATS Board, Executive, Safety & Transformation Review Committees, Cyber Governance Group. I also represented NATS at a senior level with the ITEC Collaboration (a consortium of 7 Air Navigation Service Providers (ANSPs) across Europe). This team consisted of 300+ Architects, Service Designers, Technical SMEs, System Engineers, covering system/software development, integration, verification, validation and deployment phases of the ITIL lifecycle. The teams also maintained a Reference Architecture to define standards and patterns of use for Technology across our services and commercial activities. The role also provided assurance and oversight for the Cyber Security and resilience of the services.

Fareham, Hants, Gb

Accountable for the technical strategy, design, implementation and delivery, including the specification, build, testing and integration of all services, including business and systems architecture, for NATS. Oversee and approve the output of the Platform programme which will design and integrate the required technical services to provide the capabilities to the operation defined for each Deployment Point.Ensured that the technical implementation balanced any competing demands between, affordability, timescale, technical solution, technical strategy and service design. Supporting the definition and agreement of appropriate compromises.

Fareham, Hants, Gb

Accountable for the specification, build, testing and integration of all platform technical services across NATS. Ensure that requirements for services and application development are clearly articulated within service specifications and that the products that are built, tested and deployed to meet business requirements. Lead the Platform Integration programme to design and integrate the required technical services to provide the capabilities to the operation for each Deployment Point. This role will lead the Platform Programme, at achieve the following key activities:• Platform Design • Requirements apportionment to Service Groups• Definition of Service Level requirements• Conducting Design Reviews• Coordination of Build plans across service layer• Build and integration activities for platforms• Verification and validation activities for the platforms• Release management of Platforms to Deployments• Configuration Management for the programme• Managing tooling for the programmeKey influence over £85m (capex); key influence on major change budgets (OPEX) £40M; departmental budget of approximately £500K. 5 direct line reports & 120 indirect reports working within programmes under my accountability.

Fareham, Hants, Gb

This role leads a team of Asset Managers accountable for the technical and financial management (c£120m pa CAPEX and c£20m REVEX) of all NATS Engineering Assets, ranging from radar sites, communication installations throughout the UK, to hardware and software elements of our two Air Traffic Control Centres. NATS has over 200,000 assets which all contribute to the safe and efficient running of the Critical National Infrastructure used to provide air traffic control across the UK civil and military airspace and airports.As part of this role, I lead the team to achieve certification against the ISO 55001 standards for Asset Management.

Fareham, Hants, Gb

I became Head of Department for Engineering Solutions in 2010 where I was accountable for around 200 engineers working across 60+ projects. I re-organised the team such that all major projects were overseen by Programme Engineering Managers – giving coverage and improving consistency and communication across the department.As part of this role, I also directly managed the Engineering activities within the Air Traffic Management Solution programme, which was defining and developing the Technology Transformation for NATS.One notable achievement in this role was leading strategy definition, Requirements capture and Development phases of the first deployment of the ITEC Trajectory based system into Prestwick Area Control Centre in Scotland.

Fareham, Hants, Gb

Engineering Manager for £160m Air Traffic Controller Tools (iFACTS) Programme.iFACTS is a tool that uses complex mathematical algorithms to precisely define flight trajectories and undertake collision detection (closest point of approach, distance at closest point, geometry at closest point, etc), 'what if' predictions for controller commands to assist in resolving conflicts and conformance monitoring to ensure separation of aircraft. The tool output is in the form of graphical presentations (plan view and virtual view) of aircraft conflicts - giving controllers the minimum separation that will be achieved (base on current routing and tactical instruction) and time available to resolve each conflict.Delivering IFACTS has to be the major achievement of my career so far. IFACTS is the first step in the journey towards Trajectory based Operations and the concepts of SESAR. In its first year in service it has increased air traffic capacity by up to 40% in some sectors and 15% across the operation. At the same time it has improved safety by delivering the lowest number of safety events on record. It was a tough project with some major operational, technical and political challenges.

Fareham, Hants, Gb

Engineering Manager for TC/LMARS project and NOTA Airspace change London Terminal Control & London Military Area Radar Service (TC/LMARS) projectI managed an 80 strong team of Software / System Engineers to successfully deliver 26 system elements used to provide technical services to enable the relocation the London Terminal Control (TC) (including Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted, Luton & London City Airport approach functions) and London Military (LMARS) operations from West Drayon (nr Heathrow) to the new Swanwick Control Centre in Hampshire. Finally, I worked closely with the projects’ stakeholders and unit managers to achieve system acceptance.NOTA Airspace changeDuring this period, I also worked with a joint NATS/IAA team to deliver the NOTA airspace change on the North Atlantic. I undertook the roles of system engineering manager, test manager and transition manager for the NOTA project. When I joined the project has made very little progress and needed to be delivered in just four months. Despite having to implement and test system changes to five NATS systems and two systems owned by the Irish Aviation Authority, the NOTA was delivered into operational service on time.

Fareham, Hants, Gb

As Solutions Architect for Networks and Middleware, I established the strategy which included the development a NATS ring-main architecture – which transformed the old analogue telecommunication network and moved it into the digital age.I also worked with several suppliers, including IBM, Lockheed Martin and Indra to specify Middleware to enhance standard Operating System capabilities for safety critical, real-time & highly resilient application such ar Air Traffic Management.

Fareham, Hants, Gb

Starting as a Graduate, I undertook several roles as a Systems Engineer on project such as:New En-route Centre projectThis major transformation project completely replaced the systems and services used to deliver the London En Route Air Traffic Control service to both civilian and Military users. It also managed to relocation of these operations from LATCC West Drayton to the New En Route Centre (NERC) at Swanwick in Hampshire.I worked as a Software Systems Engineer and was responsible for delivery of several sub-systems (Data Communication, Support Information, Meteorological data, etc) and developed a particular skill in networks and middleware. At the time, this project was the most difficult and ambitious undertaking that the newly formed NATS (previously the CAA) had undertaken. It formed the first stage of the Two Centre Strategy - which has resulted in the provision of Air Traffic Service being centralised in two new Centres at Swanwick and Prestwick and the closure of LATCC West Drayton, Manchester Centre (MACC) and Atlantic House (Prestwick). A project of this scale proved immensely valuable learning experience and allowed me to develop many of the skills and experience I have used throughout my long career at NATS. I worked on the project for 7 years - seeing it from it early requirements phase through development, testing and operational readiness and was lucky enough to be there supporting the operational transition and early life support when the system went operational in January 2002.National Airspace Systems & PeripheralsAs part of my graduate training, I undertook a placement with the NAS team based at LATCC West Drayton. I worked on delivery of change requests to both Hardware and Software elements of the UK Flight Data Processing system (the National Airspace System (NAS)) and also several related peripheral systems allowing connection to data sources and user interfaces.

Fareham, Hants, Gb

As part of my Sandwich Degree, I undertook a year Industrial Placement with NATS.This involved many opportunities to undertake work placements across the business, including working at Heathrow & Glasgow Airports, radar and communication sites and at the West Drayton and Prestwick Air Traffic Control Centre. Also worked closely with the RAF on a number ro projects.

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