Ian Raper Email & Phone Number

Dorking, Gb

Departmental Graduate TutorModule Lead on 'Space Systems' taught module and 'Systems Engineering In Practice' minor research module.Lead on Space Systems Engineering Training Programme delivered to European Space Agency.

Programme Director Systems Engineering Management MSc. Module Director 'Risk, Reliability, Resilience' and 'Space Systems' taught modules and Systems Engineering In Practice minor research module. Lead on Space Systems Engineering Training Programme delivered to European Space Agency.

Holmbury St Mary, Surrey

- Member of the UCL Centre for Systems Engineering- Tutor on the MSc Systems Engineering Management- Module Director for Systems Design and Space Systems- Project Manager for CPD course portfolio- Trainer on Engineering Management Plan- Research into systems quality and strategic alignment

Seconded to ISIC (2011 – date)• Responsible for responding to customer requirements for the utilisation of the ISIC resources.• Responsible for mapping the ISIC Member’s capabilities onto the development priorities.Project Manager (2010 – 2011)• Responsible for the delivery of the £4.1M EO Hub project as part of the International Space Innovation Centre at Harwell through a team of 8 in-house engineers and 4 sub-contractors.• Liaison with customer and customer site staff for the reporting of project progress and to ensure the availability of customer furnished items.• Regular progress meetings with sub-contractors• Budget and schedule management including reporting to senior management. • Production and implementation of the Project Management Plan and Risk Management Plan. Working with the Product Assurance Engineer for the production of the PA Plan

Strategy and Improvement Implementation Manager (2008 – 2010)EPIC Project Manager• Management of the UK Earth Observation, Science and Navigation’s £0.5M per annum Strategy Implementation and Process Improvement programme. Project Office Lead for Implementing Inovex in the UK• Coordinating the activities of the Steering Committee including the CTO and other senior managers.• Communicating with the workstream leads to monitor progress and flow down key aims from the steering committee• Design and deliver all workshops and meetings to meet the aims of the project• A core member of the Leadership and Culture workgroup designing materials and workshops to support the culture change programme.During this time I also continued to provide technical, work organisation and estimating support to proposals within the Ground Segment Engineering Department, particularly GMES Sentinel 5 Precursor Ground Segment and Sentinel 1 Core PDGSEnd to End Systems Line Manager (2006 – 2008)• Conduct line management of End to End System group comprising 7 engineering staff from graduates through to senior engineers• Technical responsible for all projects conducted within the group, covering projects for the European Space Agency covering both Space and Ground Segments for the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security and in-house projects looking at UK and export satellite missionsPrincipal Systems Engineer (2001 – 2006)Technical lead for Astrium Ltd End-to-End projects specifically performing development of the Mission Operations Concept, Ground Segment Requirements, System Architecture Trade-offs and high level Ground Segment architecture. Close coordination with the spacecraft team to ensure appropriate allocation of functions between space and ground segments and agreement of interfaces. Covering mission and system level studies on radar satellite missions, ground segment studies and humanitarian aid information systems.

Portsmouth

Systems Engineering Consultant• Providing internal and external support to projects and studies in the areas of systems architecture, requirements engineering and associated tool support.• Supporting the delivery of a training programme for knowledge transfer to Japanese ship builders including the development and delivery of training material.Concurrent Engineering Manager• Acting as the IT business coordinator responsible for the effective provision and support of all IT resources to support concurrent engineering and for the management of all other IT resources. Senior Weapons Engineer• Leading on the development of structured analysis and design for the future aircraft carrier combat system concept study.

Weymouth / Frimley

Project Engineer• Responsible for the technical design of a system test facility to support a submarine update programme. Operations Analyst• Involved in the development, use and analysis of warfare simulation models. Production of high level software design documents for a submarine mission analysis model.

Master Of Science (Msc), Systems Engineering, Distinction

Dissertation: The Impact of COTS on the Realisation of Future Combat Systems

Bachelor Of Engineering (Beng), Electrical And Electronics Engineering, Upper Second

Final year project: Computer controlled lighting for St Paul's Cathedral