Dedicated to the implementation of transformational changes to the Career Management of the establishment for circa 6000 military and 20 civil servants, enabling smarter ways of working, applying transparency across policies, orders, and procedures, mentoring for all individuals serving, encouraging professional development, recruitment, operations, and the delivery of continuous improvement.

Overseen and influenced large scale complex teams, dictating overseas operational planning management, risk assessments, real life support, briefing for higher formations, initiated organisational efficiencies to strengthen transitions, directed pre deployment within tight time constraints, ensuring coordination of all training and development, and driving new mechanisms, encouraging persistency, and reducing risk of failure.

Commanded a multifaceted team responsible for logistics, medical, health and safety, leadership, training, physical and recreational activities, equipment care and availability, discipline, strategic communications, reporting and daily HR, delivering on every occasion, inspiring a new mindset and culture amongst team members.

Owner of logistics management, funds, and governance, responsible for preparation, sustainment, reconstitution, coordination for all aspects of infrastructure, transportation, health and safety, internal and external logistics supply assurance for specialist equipment accounts worth over 3 million.

An experienced career manager, with a sharp focus and extraordinary capacity for labour, an excellent briefer, whose outputs demonstrate sound judgement with an ability to identify and manage risk in a complicated role ensuring 100% compliance with changing legislation and policy, whilst also delivering operational capability.

Provided top class infrastructure, career management, leadership, and training schedules to over one thousand staff worldwide per annum including special forces. Accountable for all career management including appraisals, promotions, and personal career development plans.

* Manager in support of 35 multi cap badge permanent staff at the Army Foundation College and 9 civilian contractual employees. * Deputising for MAA in his absence – taking lead responsibility for decisions relating to Physical and Adventure Training (PAT) matters. * Mentoring and consulting personnel in matters such as manning, leadership, career development, discipline and morale. * Good understanding and experience of time and stress management. * Compilation of annual and mid year reports for all staff. * Planning and co-ordination of PAT training in consultation with various heads of departments, allocating qualified instructors as necessary. * Supervision of training of up to 1600 personnel annually, ensuring the instructional standards are maintained to the highest levels. * Formulation and management of change to a Phase 1 training establishment.

* Responsible for the validation of all adventurous training at the British Adventurous Training Centre, ensuring all training was conducted safely and correctly in accordance with Health and Safety plus all other relevant policies and regulations. * Ensured all AT courses were loaded to the correct ratios and allocated the relevant qualified instructors. Provided advice on all aspects of AT and updated polices. * Led a team of 15 locally employed civilian staff, ensuring all appraisals, promotions and career courses were correctly conducted. * Weekly responsibility for the management of 8 battle group instructors and up to 120 soldiers participating in AT or working on infrastructure engineering on a regular basis. * Redevelopment of the miscellaneous stores account, preparation of the centre and maintaining the physical training equipment for a LSI inspection. * Key accountability for the accommodation, fuel, bar, welfare and miscellaneous accounts.

* Planning, co-ordination and execution of training of personnel in preparation for operational deployment on combat operations. * Administration, training and preparation of Ghurka potential PTIs and for APTC selection. * Key accountability for the physical and adventurous training development for 700 personnel, a significant proportion of which maintained high readiness. * Ensuring that personnel maintain high levels of motivation at all times in accordance with regulations. * PMC responsibility for the Sergeants’ and Warrant Officers’ Mess including: co-ordination of WOs’ dinners and functions; organisation of a Sportsman’s Dinner for all Unit sports personalities with a national sports personality as the guest speaker; and hosting of the tri-angular boxing championships for the Royal Signals. * Voluntary responsibility as the Royal Signals Association Netball Secretary, taking 2 teams to the Army Championships in 2007 and qualifying for the semi-finals.

* Responsible for instigation, creation and implementation of physical training policies for the CO as their 1st APTCI at a highly operational, specialist Royal Engineers Major Unit with a world-wide role. This included design of a PT programme to promote the acclimatisation of 522 STRE (Wks Gp) and attached support personnel whilst on Operations. * Op Tour to Iraq, providing force protection during the conduct of engineer reconnaissance, commanded convoys during escorting duties and assisted with the administrative function in the design office. Hand-on experience with land quality assessments, gaining an appreciation of the arduous nature of water borehole drilling and shadowing the management and supervision of construction works. * Led the co-ordination of a successful expedition to Peru during a demanding period.

* Responsible for the safe delivery, assessment, conduct and recording of all physical, recreational, adventurous, leadership and rehabilitation training to over 200 potential technical officers (aged between 16 and 18 years) throughout their 2 year military training and A levels, prior to their university entry. * Co-ordinated personal, social health training to a tutor group for 2 years throughout their tenure at Welbeck College and offered pastoral care. * Advised and organised adventurous training activities and exercises. Led a group of Welbexians to Kyrgyzstan and applied distributed training prior to Winter Mountain Proficiency, climbed 2 un-named mountains (Peak Welbeck, just below 5000m and Peak Hider, above 5000m) under extremely remote conditions.

* Responsible for the instruction and organisation of physical and adventurous training for 18 different organisations. * Volunteered as the female focus representative for 2nd Division. * Managed HQ York Garrison and 2 Signal Regiment for a few months (early in tenure of post) due to promotion of QMSI. Responsible for training of an additional 700 soldiers and for oversight and implementation of all necessary changes to a new gymnasium build with limited PTI assistance. * Led an extremely successful trekking Expedition to Canada, passed JSRCI whilst on Ripon Rock.

1991 to 1992 - WRAC PTI soldier1992 to 1993 - Private to Lance Corporal - R SIGNALS Telecommunications Systems Technician 1993 to 1994 - Lance Corporal to Corporal - R SIGNALS Telecommunications Systems Technician1994 to 1998 - Corporal - R SIGNALS Telecommunications Systems Technician1998 - Transferred into the APTC