James Ibbitson Email & Phone Number

• Sample roles and project work includes, but has not been limited to, the following:Operational Analysis:
• Leading the definition, technical delivery, and management of a task to improve strategic and operational planning for CBR incident recovery. This is being achieved through provision of a discrete-event logistics and.
• OA lead supporting the options analysis and tender evaluation stages of future Milsatcom procurement projects.
• Delivery of a task to provide analytical support to Maritime stakeholders by developing a campaign level assessment framework.Technical Assurance:
• ASTRID Technical Lead for Maritime OA and Cost tasks.
• Verification & Validation on a study to project future fossil fuel burden across Front Line Commands.

Fareham

• Sample roles and project work includes, but has not been limited to, the following:Technical Through Life Support (TTLS) / Integrated Logistic Support (ILS):Provision of ILS services and analysis to the customer and.
• Supportability Analysis (including Initial Provisioning)
• Reliability & Maintainability Analysis
• Development of ILS Plans, Statements of Work, CONUSE and CONEMP documentsReliability & Maintainability (R&M):
• R&M engineer on a variety of military programmes being responsible for generation and maintenance of the R&M Case and subsequent R&M analysis (including development of a bespoke availability / reliability models.
• Performed an independent review of R&M requirement setting and lead author of a best practice guidance report delivered to DE&S on how to derive R&M requirements.Supportability and Logistics Modelling:

Yeovil

Long term capacity planning and modelling project lead. Also responsible for defining and implementing business improvement tools into the workplace and carrying out analysis on business costs/performance.

Yeovil

Various projects providing analysis and solutions in the customer support environment. Major project lead focusing on improving the logistics around the quote acceptance process.

Yeovil

Transmissions long lead spares analysis: Responsible for calculating the optimum quantity of long lead parts required in a repair process to ensure the efficient ‘pooling’ of parts. Excess work-in-progress was identified to enable workload prioritisation in the workshops whilst also highlighting £2.03million of working capital to be reduced.Transmissions.

Yeovil

Responsible for co-ordinating the flight test schedule in line with engineering requirements to capture flight test data whilst also generating MATLAB software for rapidly assessing the suitability of flight test data for the purpose of simulator validation.

Yeovil

Responsible for developing a work-in-progress monitoring system and integrating it into the production environment, driving an average turnaround time reduction of 29% across all four of the department’s major repair and overhaul deliverables from 2011 to 2012.

Sheffield, United Kingdom

Responsible for researching, planning and executing both theoretical and experimental analysis of sports ball impacts. Resulting publication: "Spin generation during an oblique impact of a compliant ball on a non-compliant surface" by Allen, Ibbitson and Haake (Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part P: Journal of Sports Engineering.

Mechanical Engineering, Engineering, First Class Honours

Activities and Societies: Founding member of the University of Sheffield Sports Engineering Society Awarded the ‘Daniel Doncaster Prize in.

Education record

A Levels: Mathematics - A Further Mathematics - A Physics - A Chemistry - A