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England, United Kingdom

England, United Kingdom

Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

Strategy and Business development with a clear focus on climate resilience. Understanding the impact of severe weather (however it is defined within the use case) and creating processes and offerings to enable organisations to limit the impact it has on operations. Conversely, also looking at capitalising on everyday weather to maximize operational outputs and efficiencies.

Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

Development of an integrated company-wide strategy for the rapidly changing and disruptive area of ITS, Connected and Autonomous Vehicles. Responsible for helping integrate Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence/Machine Deep Learning into business as usual through innovative offering development.

Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

Responsibility for Vaisala’s Road Weather segment within the Transportation group both in terms of financial business targets as well as ongoing management of the product development budget and priorities. Operated in a Matrix organisation with global sales teams and a Representative network. Business planning and budgetary responsibility. Sales Strategy development and implementation.

Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

Europe, Middle East and Africa regional business management for the Road and Rail Segment. Leading the direction and offering focus and prioritisation for the various sales teams in this region. Regular financial reporting and business target setting and communicating. Part of the global Segment team.

Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

Digital offerings responsibility for the Road and Rail segment globally. Initiated the conception and then development of the next generation online offering for Winter Maintenance operators in the form of a Decision Support System – Vaisala RoadDSS. Worked very closely with the development teams to ensure customer requirements were fully understood and delivered in the final offering. Introduced Agile Development techniques.

Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

Joined Vaisala as a key account manager to experience the private sector. Held responsibility for a number of UK and Ireland based accounts before moving onto more managerial roles within the company. Sales targets and usual sales manager processes followed.

Exeter, United Kingdom, Homeworking

Working with Category 1 and 2 responders as defined by the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 including senior figures from the Police, Fire and Ambulance, Local Authority Emergency Planners, National Health Service teams, Health Protection Agency, and utility companies. Met Office representative at regular coordinating meetings and on-call emergency response as required.

Exeter, United Kingdom/Homeworking

Business Development role primarily working on Impact Modelling and new services linking weather forecasts to operational procedures. Also was part of a team looking at the potential for introducing weather forecasting for healthcare. Project Manager to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister in the Severe Weather Sub-Group.

Uk Midlands

Key account management in the Met Office commercial division. Manager of the Consumer Business Unit including all online services and the London Media Unit which incorporated the ITV National Television contract. Team member that developed one of the first high-resolution personalised weather services delivered by mobile phone (WAP and SMS).

Plymouth, Barnstaple, Norwich, Birmingham, Falkland Islands

Observer working on RAF bases in Devon and in the Falkland Islands, moved to become an operational forecaster at commercial Weather centres in Norwich and Birmingham including road forecasting team leader. Tailored forecasts delivered to multiple business segments including Energy, Ground and Air Transportation, Agriculture and Sports including telephone consultation and regular media broadcasts. On-site forecaster for the PGA European Tour and 1997 Ryder Cup.