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 ensure complete and proper work is performed at all times. I am adept at directing warehouse and inventory operations and currently hold Project Management (PRINCE2 Practitioner) and Health & Safety qualifications.I am loyal and hard working and seek to utilise full skill set within a commercial environment.

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.•Managed day-to-day operations in product and vendor management receiving, warehousing, and stock operations.•Responsible for technical issues, documentation and site surveys/reports/Inspections, procedures and regulations of buildings and associated resources within a specified timescale.•Responsible for all aspects of Health and Safety from Risk assessments to the training of personnel and the enforcement of on-site policies.

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 installation design, providing consultative advice on the integration of a system of systems.•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