Leading a broad portfolio of operational teams across the UK and overseas delivering services in line with MoD, Civil Aviation Authority and commercial contracts. Managing a hybrid team across numerous locations including onsite with customers at Heathrow, NATs, key transport operation centres and MoD frontline stations across the UK and globally.Leading strategy implementation as business change manager for a large geographically dispersed workforce.

Strategic leadership ensuring our expert meteorologists are adding value in their output now and into the future, enabling key stakeholders and the general public ‘Stay safe and Thrive’.Leading the operational Expert Weather Hub team responsible for delivering impact based warnings, including delivery of the National Severe Weather Warning Service. Responsibility for leading our most senior Meteorologists, the Met Office Space Weather Operations Centre and the Environment Monitoring and Response Centre (EMARC) covering volcanic ash advisories, chemical downwind messages and other high impact services. Chair of Services Forum, developing the relationship between Prospect Union and Services Directorate within the Met Office. Senior stakeholder on multiple project boards steering strategic change across the Meteorology profession.

Led a multidisciplinary team through an evaluation process designed to select suppliers to deliver a multi million pound software upgrade.Contributed to collation of the final business case, for a complex multi year project delivering a new data visualization system, workflow automation and graphical production tooling for our meteorologists.

Commanding Officer of the Met Office RAF Sponsored Reserve, The Mobile Met Unit. Accountable and responsible for deployed specialist meteorological services to UK MoD and Allies within operational theatre’s.Created and implemented a multi year strategy to recover personnel numbers and drive a more agile unit fit to meet requirements of a fast paced, high profile military customer group. Included military leadership training and vast experience of deploying embedded with our military customers. Multiple tours across Europe and the Middle East including a tour of Afghanistan.

Regional manager leading teams of Meteorologists across our defence estate. Delivered a new resourcing model, better utilizing our workforce to enable more robust service delivery across a large network. Streamlined management overheads to drive more collaborative working cross region, building efficiencies and more effective working practices into business as usual. Delivered a network wide communication strategy enabling more effective communication across a large geographically dispersed team.

Operations manager at the Joint Operations Meteorological and Oceanography Centre. Accountable for building key strategic relationships with senior stakeholders within the MoD driving improvements in our remote service delivery to deployed end users.Revolutionised working practices to remove requirements for night shifts in the shift working rota, streamlining production process and driving a better work life balance and job satisfaction for the team.Responsible for Met Office overseas sites at RAF Akrotiri and Gibraltar, including strategic resourcing, succession planning and accountability for service delivery.