Martin Urquhart Email & Phone Number

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

Canary Wharf

London, United Kingdom

Overseeing and managing day to day operations with a personal “hands on” attitude, my core strength lies in my ability to maximise efficiency, address issues and provide workable and effective solutions. I am able to arrange and coordinate site and equipment maintenance operations, manage multiple contractors, vendors and resources, monitor activities to.

• Facilitated personnel, buildings and auditing of resource budgets (accommodation/technical equipment/Soft and Hard services/Transport)
• Organising and planning essential central services such as reception, security, maintenance, mail, archiving, cleaning and waste disposal.
• Responding to emergencies and urgent issues as they arise.
• Responsible for site/building maintenance, repairs and services including outbuildings, Electrical/Gas, Fire Alarms, Building and civil works.
• Coordinate and manage contractors and allocate tasks and resources as required.
• Developed and maintained detailed project schedules which include administrative tasks of all sites and sub-contractors involved.

• Responsible for planning, co-ordinating and producing project briefs and plans for the delivery of training to a unit (3500 personnel)
• Managing and organising training avenues, logistics, transportation to achieve effective training and attendance.
• Managing and developing direct reporting staff.
• Evaluate employee training scores and prepare reports.
• Recommending changes to the existing training program to make it more effective.
• Regularly updating senior management through reports and presentations

• Appointed by corporate management to various multi-million pound project boards as ‘subject matter expert’, working directly with contractors (eg. General Dynamics, Thales, Selex, QinetiQ) on communications.
• Produced project Briefs/Initiation Documents for Quality & Verification platform trials
• Regularly produced project issues to project boards applying Impact analysis on outcomes
• Provided user advice on aspects of human engineering and supported the tasking of contractors in risk reduction activities and output review
• Stakeholder management skills
• Provided project support including configuration management on various projects

• Engineered and maintained a secure and integrated voice and data communications system network.Responsibilities;
• Managed a Communications Management System encompassing the planning and engineering of a tactical radio communications system
• Managed a tool set to support LAS management; and the Initialisation Manager (IM)
• Produce communications plans using a Windows Explorer-style Graphical User Interface (GUI).
• Planned and initialised a Tactical Internet by identifying platform routers, planning terminal and end-user locations, and generating routing tables for the planned deployment.
• Produced and implemented Information Assurance security instructions, regulations and guidelines that protected classified information