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Harwell Campus, England, United Kingdom

Responsible for managing and leading the core engineering groups - Ground Systems, Simulation and Flight Dynamics teams - for the successful delivery of innovative orbital debris removal projects, including:- ADRAS-J: active debris removal demonstrator - ELSA-m: multi-mission end of life spacecraft de-orbiting service

- Senior Business Advisor for an innovative – AI enabled – Earth Observation space mission system (AIX) for Planetek Italia - Providing consultancy and advisory services to a number of investment clients: PE, Investment Banks. Subjects covered: aerospace industry trends, aerospace product development and market positioning, aerospace company capabilities.

Successfully delivered the revamped Business Plan for the innovative AI-enabled Earth Observation (EO) space mission AI express (AIx). This included:o Complete reworking of the business strategyo Analysis of market drivers, definition of customer segments and value propositionso Defining the product development strategyo Establishing the product pricing.

Derby, United Kingdom

- Successfully turned around a low performing & dysfunctional group into a high performing and respected engineering team that is sought out by engine development programmes by recruiting capable staff across Derby and Bangalore to match engine programmes’ demands (from 12 to 32 staff)- Pioneered the use of Systems Engineering and Technical Programme.

Derby, United Kingdom

- Successfully defined Integrated Production System (IPS) framework to achieve best in class programme performance and to deliver £ 655 m operational cost savings - Delivered the Target Operating Model (TOM) to define the scope and capabilities, and implemented Top-Down Business Metrics to drive 20% Return on Sales- Delivered the 3 year IPS strategy.

Derby, United Kingdom

- Established IT investment portfolio and Governance (£ 50 m pa) for the Civil Aerospace Business- Led team of 8 Business Analysts, undertook business capability gap analyses and determined investment priorities and roadmaps- Led workstream for requirements and scope management for the Seletar campus (Singapore) IT programme (cross-business, cross-function.

Derby, United Kingdom

- Established Controls Global Methods & Tools strategy using best practices- Defined £9 m IT investment to deliver integrated suite for the development of control systems- Successfully managed software tool vendors, delivering 15% cost saving licence agreements- Provided advice and governance to York University on research in Software & Systems.

Hüttlingen & Stuttgart, Germany

- Commercial Power of Attorney for Business Unit with P&L responsibility (2003 turnover: € 8 m; 100 staff).- Profit & Loss accountability for the Software Development Department: (2003 turnover € 2.8 m, 35+ technical staff, based on 2 sites: Stuttgart and Hüttlingen)- Reduced re-work (from over 20% in 2003 down to ca. 4% in 2004) and increased project.

Frankfurt Am Main, Germany

- Defined and successfully implemented business strategy (data centres, wide area networks, B2B portals) - Prepared and submitted investment plans to VC’s and investment banks (Funding achieved: € 1.8 m)- Successfully proposed, negotiated and managed contracts with major customers (€ 2+ m value- Successfully managed contracts with vendors (eg. major.

Darmstadt, Germany

Facility Manager / Ground Segment Engineer for the Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) Meteorological Product Extraction Facility (MPEF) (1996-2000):- Successfully delivered a World Class satellite meteorological data processing facility for the European weather forecasting community (software development and hardware procurement contract, € 8 m) - Managed.

Darmstadt, Germany

System Engineer: - Successfully defined ground segment concepts of space missions of the European Space Agency (ESA)- Successfully conducted technical evaluation of ground segment feasibility studies, including: XMM-Newton Mission, Prisma Mission, Herschel Mission, Integral MissionSystem Engineer: Definition and coordination of the ESOC study programme.

Msc, Aircraft Design

Bsc, Aeronautical Engineering

Gce 'A' Levels