Connecting people with their railways.

Political leadership of the Public Health and Wellbeing portfolio. Preparation for and representation on the Sussex Health and Care Assembly within the Sussex ICS (Integrated Care System).

Representing Maidenbower and Worth Division. Cabinet Adviser on Rail Matters. Deputy Cabinet Member for Finance from April 2011 to November 2013.

Political leadership of the Economy and Corporate Resources portfolio covering Economy, Transformation and Council Redesign; Human Resources, Facilities Management, Legal Services, Democratic Services, IT and Information; Freedom of Information and Data Protection; Customer Relations and Digital; Capita Partnership, Communications.

Political leadership of the Corporate Relations portfolio covering Human Resources, Legal Services, Democratic Services, IT and information, Facilities Management, Freedom of Information and Data Protection, Customer Relations and Digital, Council Redesign

Political leadership of the Highways and Infrastructure portfolio covering Highway Management, Principal Transport/Road Links, Public Transport Liaison, Gatwick Liaison, Transport Policy and Policy/Highways Agreements; Highway Infrastructure, Planning/Waste and Minerals/Hydraulic Fracturing. Broadband and Information Technology. Customer Experience.

Political leadership of the Highways and Transport portfolio covering Highway Management, Principal Transport/Road Links, Public Transport Liaison, Gatwick Liaison, Transport Policy and Policy/Highways Agreements; Highway Infrastructure, Planning/Waste and Minerals/Hydraulic Fracturing.

Political leadership of the Corporate Relations portfolio covering HR and HR Strategy; Legal Services, Democratic Services, County Local Committees, IT, Procurement Support, Members' IT, Facilities Management, Freedom of Information and Data Protection.

Supporting local authorities to acquire the South East Charter for Elected Member Development.

Member Peer working on various assignments in support of other local authorities.Support activities including Leader mentoring, CPA (Comprehensive Performance Assessment), Licensing Regulatory Services Challenge, Budget preparation, presentations for aspiring new councillors.

Representing the Pound Hill South ward on Crawley Borough Council, Pound Hill South and Worth from May 2004.Leader of the Opposition from May 2005 to April 2006.Deputy Leader of the Opposition from May 1999 to April 2005.Chair of Best Value Scrutiny Committee 'B' from May 2000 to April 2003.

Political leadership of the Planning and Economic Development portfolio.

Strategic political leadership of the local authority together with specific portfolio responsibilities including finance, communications, property and procurement, emergency planning.Delivery of improved street scene maintenance, lowest council tax increase across all of Sussex over an eight year period, £8 million sustainable revenue savings, a Heritage Policy, the restored historic Worth Park Gardens, expansion of the Community Wardens service, community engagement through the State of the Borough Debate and the Business Debate, new vibrant council logo, social media presence, accelerated neighbourhood centre improvement programme, Bewbush and Langley Green neighbourhood centre regeneration, the restoration of Ifield Mill Pond, streamlined Full Council with faster Cabinets and more efficient decision making, reduced number of committees and working groups, Scores on the Doors for food premises, redesigned Crawley Live council publication, the Decent Homes Programme, a green waste collection service, increased tree maintenance resources, major reductions in electricity and gas usage, and business miles.

Leading the Crawley Conservative Association. The Kevlar appointment.

Political steer for the activities of the LGiU.

Responsible for managing projects and programmes of change from feasibility through to implementation. Up to 10 concurrent projects ranging in budget from $20k to $1.5m and covering from one market to a whole region such as EMEA.Implementation of the Amex/Nectar co-brand consumer credit card.Delivery of co-brand card products with Air France and Deutsche Bank.Development of a Work Allocation Process to support matrix management.Implementation of a Euro-compliant capability across six major application areas.Delivery of a client-server application to support the Corporate Loyalty Programme, rewarding corporations for spend with designated partners.IBM MVS, client-server, intranetMS Office, Visio, PMW, Project Bridge Modeller, Project Risk, MS Project, Lotus Notes, EPIC (Enterprise Portfolio Information Control)

Conducted business / systems analysis and design for Corporate Card and Travel projects, managing all phases through the project life-cycle.Delivery of Global Air Management Information for ABB (Asea Brown Boveri) combining air spend on the card with air spend through travel offices. Consolidation of hundreds of millions of dollars of air spend across more than 50 markets.Implementation of ETMR (European Travel Management Reporting) consolidating air spend made through Amex travel offices.

Leading the Crawley Conservative Association. The Kevlar appointment.

Representing the Pound Hill South ward on Crawley Borough Council.Leader of the Opposition from May 1990 to April 1996.Deputy Leader of the Opposition from May 1989 to April 1990.Argued for and secured public dividend from Direct Service Organisation(s) when making a surplus and for an annual search for revenue savings options.

Responsible for team leading and managing projects through the full life-cycle.Development of new mortgage account structures to enable the operation of more flexible mortgage products including the ability to have fixed and variable interest rate components within the same loan.Promotion of a new structured systems development methodology by leading one of the first projects to use it.

Business and systems analysis for mortgage product enhancements together with management of the test phases.Delivery of a Redemption Fees project that provided a large range of fee charging options to make the mortgage offerings more competitive while enhancing the value of this important income stream.

Systems analysis and design; specification, coding, unit testing, system testing, acceptance testing support. Medical Insurance - designs for new product support and management information systems.Consultancy support to relocated Greenock systems department.IBM 3081, MVS, COBOL, IDMS/R, JCL, EASYTRIEVE, ROSCOE, ISPF, CICS, DMLO, SDF, EZETEST.

Team leadership around Medical Insurance systems.Detailed design and implementation of individual product administration and premium collection; system performance and productivity enhancements, hospital case management information.Support for ICL to IBM conversion.Support and training for relocated systems team in Greenock.System Design Report for European Medical Systems Strategy.ICL 2966, VME, COBOL, IDMS/X, SCL, QUERYMASTER, ALTADATA, TPMS, ITS, DDS, TPMSIBM mainframe, JCL, IDMS/R, CICS, DMLO

Team leadership, systems analysis and design; coding, unit testing, system testing, acceptance testing support. ICL VME applications - Group and Individual Medical Claims Adjudication.Design and implementation of Individual Product Claims Adjudication, Preferred Provider Arrangement with Nuffield Hospitals, system performance and productivity enhancements.Export and installation of medical claims adjudication, cheques, diary and security systems to CIGNA New Zealand.ICL 2966, 3980; VME, COBOL, IDMS/X, SCL, QUERYMASTER, ALTADATA, TPMS, ITS, DDS.

Detailed design of medical insurance premium rating system, control of the maintenance of core Group Medical Claims adjudication system operating under ICL VME.ICL 2966, VME, COBOL, IDMS/X, SCL, QUERYMASTER, ALTADATA, TPMS, ITS, DDS.

Systems analysis and design; coding, unit testing, system testing. Implementation of Organisation and Methods review findings. ICL VME applications - Group Medical Claims Adjudication.ICL 2966, VME, COBOL, IDMS/X, SCL, QUERYMASTER, ALTADATA, TPMS, ITS, DDS.

Customer liaison, specification, coding, unit testing, system testing and acceptance testing support. ICL VME applications - Group Medical Claims Adjudication.ICL 2966, VME, COBOL, IDMS/X, SCL, QUERYMASTER, ALTADATA, TPMS, ITS, DDS.ICL DME applications - Salaries, Annuities.ICL 2956 under George II+; DME, 1900 and Range COBOL.MAXIMOP, FIND.

Customer liaison, specification, coding, unit testing, system testing and acceptance testing support. ICL applications - Salaries, Annuities, Fire and Accident insurance.ICL 2956 under George II+, DME, 1900 and Range COBOL, MAXIMOP, FIND.MDS (Mohawk Data Sciences) applications - Branch Quotations System.MDS 21/40 minicomputer, MOBOL.

Coding, unit testing, system testing and acceptance testing support with Mortgage and Fire and Accident insurance applications.ICL 2946, VME, COBOL, IDMS, DDS.ICL 2956 under George II+, DME, 1900 and Range COBOL, MAXIMOP, FIND.

Contour analysis to facilitate telecommuncations infrastructure for the government of Iran.