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Newbury, GB

Theale, England, United Kingdom

Theale, England, United Kingdom

Theale, England, United Kingdom

Colchester

Chelmsford, United Kingdom

• My current work sees me directing the project portfolio roll-out across the Space Imaging (SI) project. To this end I have to conduct enterprise resource planning (ERP) business project conversions, enterprise.
• I was promoted from several prior positions: from Test Equipment Delivery Manager to Head of Verification and Test MPC.
• I have consecutively exceeded all of our organisational targets, generating $51M revenue and $7.5M profit growth in 2018 and $51.5M revenue and $8M profit growth in 2019.
• I coordinated the project's working capital, reduced the backlog from $21M to $7M in 18 months, and consecutively exceeded our annual revenue targets by 16%+ as well as earnings before interest and taxes' (EBIT's).
• I spearheaded Teledyne’s QKDSAT project bid and created a new business stream with a potential annual revenue stream of $50M+.
• During my prior role as the Test Equipment Delivery Manager, I orchestrated test equipment delivery stabilisation, halved lead times, and reduced costs by 40%.

London, United Kingdom

This position saw me developing all stakeholder engagements over the company's EDRS programme, coordinating international subcontracts valuing average €75M, and delivering the Space and Ground segments while line managing several direct reports. I scheduled project deliverables, monitored staff performances, and appraised the progress and the project's.

Stevenage, United Kingdom

• As the Project Manager my working duties were various and numerous. I led the procurement, bidding, and change management strategies to deliver the company's projects within their timeline and budgetary restraints.
• I established the project and technical team to deliver a €30.6M bespoke EarthCARE Base-Platform (BP).
• I incorporated lean structures and established high profile innovations and process improvements, such as significant price and schedule reductions forecast for a brand new modular propulsion system as well as customer.
• I led the UK material procurement group as its interim manager of seven direct reports.
• I guided performance and quality in the face of challenging political, financial, and schedule constraints and exceeded gross margin targets.
• I led Airbus Defence and Space’s key stakeholder negotiations, delivering subcontracts within budgetary constraints and renegotiating the CSO PM to support 20% contract price uplift.

Harlow

Stevenage, United Kingdom

Canary Wharf

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