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• Part of the Science and Technology Facilities Council within UKRIProject Manager HARMONI Consortium (2020-present)Project Management of a project to develop an Integral Field Spectrograph which will be a first light.
• Stakeholder Management including: regular reporting to ESO on progress and finance; working within STFC’s governance framework by reporting to and working with the UK oversight committees; meeting with the Consortium.
• Working closely with the Principal Investigator to lead and manage all activities across the consortium.
• Managing the project office and instrument engineering activities via the team of System Engineers, Lead Discipline Engineers and Scientists.
• Leading and coordinating the activities of the subsystem work-packages via the Institute Project Managers.
• Monitoring and managing the overall schedule of the project.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

• Business Development Manager
• Identifying opportunities and securing new business in the non-astronomy part of UKATC’s programme and in the wider organisation.
• Initially surveying wide domains (e.g. Life Sciences, Space) for areas/partners where UKATCs Technology and expertise could add value. Later focused on more specific areas (e.g. Ophthalmology, Microscopy, Small.
• Important part of the role was assessing each opportunity for strategic fit with organisational goals, financial viability and potential for impact.
• Matching the opportunities to funding options, writing, obtaining approval for and submitting grant applications.
• Defining the project contract, schedule and budget with the legal and finance teams.

• SMT (part of Siemens Medical Solutions) is a major designer and manufacturer of the superconducting magnets which are the largest component in a Magnet Resonance Imaging (MRI) device. SMT manufacture roughly a third of.
• Implementing a new gated product development process.
• Integrating the magnet development team more closely with the MRI system team (based in Germany), to give a more cost and performance optimised overall system. Facilitating both groups understanding of the product and.
• Reaching agreement and getting the buy-in of all the stakeholders as to technical specifications, schedule, cost targets and production methods. Communicating progress upwards, downwards and sideways.
• Understanding the full product cost structure, setting appropriate targets and then tracking progress. My methodology improved the company’s abilities to track product costs and was adopted for future projects.

Oxfordshire

Support Stream Manager (2004-2005)Managing a team of 10 engineers in order to support the production and customer service departments in resolving technical issues. At the same time we were responsible for the cost reduced redesign of existing products. My biggest achievement was to build a high degree of trust with the many internal and external customers.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Applied Mathematics

Superfluid Turbulence My research involved modelling the flow of liquid helium using partial differential equations. I solved these.

Bsc (Hons), Astronomy And Astrophysics, 2:1