Responsible for delivery of a ~£90m Control Account covering four safety critical, high integrityproducts, delivering to schedule and under budget against the PerformanceMeasurement Baseline (PMB).Supporting the Business and Customer through a Continuous Improvement (CI) Programme,identifying Opportunities to improve performance and drive efficiency leading to ~£7M savingwithin the Control Account with further Opportunities identified.Involved in setting Project Baselines through detailed estimating, schedule development,production of Work Package Description documents and capturing Dependencies, Assumptions,Risks, Exclusions and Opportunities (DAREO).Responsible for monitoring and control of Project performance through monthly EVM reporting,quarterly EAC submission and Risk & Opportunity Management including regular reviews bothinternally and with the Customer and development and execution of response plans.Gaining approval for risk drawdown and opportunity realisation through the Risk Change Boardto enable a change to the PMB.Change Management using the established Change Request process to ensure that any changeto the defined scope of the PMB is captured and formally recognised.Working with the Supply Chain and Engineering functions to run competitive tenders, including going through the downselection process and negotiation of contracts with the preferred Tenderers.Stakeholder management and engagement, mapping out key stakeholders using a PowerInterest Grid and developing plans to ensure appropriate levels of engagement.Line Management of Graduate PM, supporting their development through production of apersonal development plan and providing on the job training.Acting as the site representative for Frimley on the Employee Forum and as a Mental Health andWellbeing ChampionTrained to use a number of tools as part of project management activities including PrimaveraP6, SAP and ARM Risk Express.

Management of small to medium sized projects through the project lifecycle in the defence, intelligence and commercial sectors.Creation and maintenance of Project Management Plans, associated control plans, scheduling and resource planning.Management of product support and maintenance beyond delivery through the life of the product.Stakeholder management developing relationships at customer, supply chain and internal senior management level.Following required processes including risk management, monthly reporting and configuration management to meet company audit requirements based on ISO9001 and TickITplus.Providing Business Development and Sales Support to pursue opportunities for growth and new opportunities to align with the strategic objectives of the business.Coordinating bids and proposals in response to known opportunities, ensuring compliance with the requirements and collating input for final bid submission.Producing and presenting business cases to senior management to gain approval for investment of IRAD funding to develop solutions to take to market.Involvement in market analysis to assess competition in a given market and provide recommendations to the business on best ways forward.Trained to use a number of tools as part of project management and business development activities including MS Project, Sharepoint, SugarCRM, JIRA and Confluence.

Software development on projects within the Integrated Defence Systems business unit, mainly focused on development of the core Command and Control (C2) capability.Systems engineering through requirements capture, analysis and software design.Designing and implementing testing at unit and system level to ensure verification and validation of requirements.Developing test scripts to provide efficiencies through automated testing.Schedule and resource management for integration activities based at a Prime defence contractor site including reporting on progress to the Prime and the Customer.Analysing data and producing reports to show what capability could be offered for potential future work opportunities.Management of a small product delivery project including risk management, scheduling and arranging export and shipping to USA.

Full management of software development processes to provide support for PhD and Post Doctoral research within the Psychology department.Developed the Tobii® Toolbox for Matlab to enable data from a Tobii® Eye Tracker to be processed directly using Matlab. This toolbox was sold to Tobii® and released in 2011.Developed a software model showing perceived motion direction detection in the human visual system. This involved working with a Post Doctorate student and a Professor to collect their requirements and have regular progress and scheduling meetings to ensure that their research could progress.Assisted PhD and Post Doctorate students in the design and setting up of experiments.

Working alongside the sales team to answer technical questions about the product range.Creating hardware configurations to meet customer requirements.Visiting customer sites to install or update servers and diagnose any hardware faults.Managing the Linux Centre of Competency in the South Bank office. This is a facility used to demonstrate the range of IBM products to customers and involved managing bookings and maintain the demonstration equipment.