Andy B. Email & Phone Number

Horsham, England, United Kingdom

Leicester, England, United Kingdom

Responsibilities• Daily operations and client support service, managing a small team of Support staff• Management and maintenance of operational hardware deployments, liaising with clients and internal stakeholders to facilitate increased success and business performance.• Implemented and operated the Client Services support function with direct liaison between customer and technical support team.• Initiated numerous processes to best maintain and manage the customer experience.• Successful management and delivery of several high-profile ESA Artes and InnovateUK grant funded projects.• Delivery on time and on budget

Loughborough

Responsibilities• Member of Senior Management Team for production / operations business• Evolving business operation from software distributor / VAR focus to project / programme delivery, introducing a business management system, business processes and systems to ISO 9001:2015 quality management system to improve and better measure business efficiency.• Introduction of business operation to support SW product evolution, including a transition to AGILE and classic waterfall methodologies • Introduced a programme for the development of company staff skills, capabilities and competences to deliver on the updated company operating model • Responsibility for and delivery of Sterling Geo work element to major programmes (multi-partner consortia), including: UK Space Agency IPP Malaysia Earth and Sea Observation Systems (EASOS) programme (~£1m GBP subcontract value of works) InnovateUK Emerging & Enabling Technologies MAppEO Programme (£~2m Programme as Lead Partner and formal role of Innovate UK Lead Partner Programme Manager) Key achievements:• Delivery of an integrated and optimised automated data management system for the EASOS Malaysia programme

Leicester, United Kingdom

Responsibilities• Thematic Hosted Services business line and support team of ~20 across multiple locations (Guildford, Newcastle, Leicester and Newport). Provide operational delivery oversight to all Thematic Hosting projects and led the monthly Project Reviews and financial reporting of the group.• Delivery of multiple projects of varying size and complexity. Most recently had responsibility for the financial reporting on the Electronic monitoring programmes (geospatial element) for the UK Ministry of Justice (£8M programme). In parallel managed the successful delivery of the MPS Geospatial Information Service hosted by Airbus. Initially this programme was to support the Security Stakeholders for the 2012 London Olympic and Paralympic Games, and based on its success was implemented across MPS estate as the MPS corporate GIS Key role in securing the extension of this service for a further 2 years.• Successful management of Airbus extensive range of UK Central Government projects and programme, including the Pan Government Agreement (5 years imagery and elevation layers) and thereafter the design, build and implementation of a national scale geospatial data management and hosted services facility, (1000’s customers and extensive 3rd party data services embedded).Key Achievements• Scale up and P&L Management of Thematic Hosting Services Business line (achieving >€10M turnover).• Line Management of 15+ direct reportees.

Harrogate, England, United Kingdom

Project Manager: (Jan 2004-Sept 2007)• Responsibilities included the management of land survey, topographic mapping and building photogrammetry projects from inception to completion: client communication and internal tasking. Projects included conservation survey of historic monuments for English Heritage, Small Towns Upgrade mapping for the Ordnance Survey and numerous mapping & modelling projects for UK MOD. ISM Sales & Marketing: (Jan 1998 – Sept 2007)• Responsibilities included Sales & Marketing for the ISM Photogrammetric software suite of products. Creation of marketing literature. Responsible for the installation of systems, training and technical support.Data Processor: (Oct 1996 – Dec 2000)• Responsibilities included data acquisition and feature extraction from remotely sensed imagery through stereo photogrammetric processing. Final product creation. In field data capture & survey.

Msc, Applied Remote Sensing, Pass

Dissertation

Bsc Hons, Geology/Earth Science, General, 2.2 Hons

Activities and Societies: Association of Geologists and Earth Scientists (AGES) Dissertation: Geological Mapping of South Harris, Outer.