Jon Chitty Email & Phone Number

Brampton, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

Set up Venture Diving as a registered company to manufacture and sell the Tank2Go carrier for use with twin cylinder (and latterly single cylinder) combinations of diving equipment. UK patent achieved, with IPR for USA, Canada, and Europe.Tank2Go was certified for use by the Canadian Military diving teams for use during their winter Olympics security activities.

Director of JCC Ltd that provides strategic consultancy services, including business & strategic planning, operational & corporate leadership, and customer liaison & expectation management.

Brampton

Providing marketing and sales activity primarily in the United Kingdom, but also in Europe. focusing on the provision of high-fidelity simulation and communications systems, that provide the ideal environment for innovative training in a common operational picture for the air space control and air battle management communities. Our products offer real-time live or simulated radar feeds, exercise generation, data-link messaging capability, direct link interface, dynamic simulation entity play, and radio communications. We manufacture the ASCOT Radar Simulator®, the AWACS Mission Training Centers (MTC), and the Advanced Simulation Interface Buffer (ASIB). In addition, we offer a variety of software tools for scenario development and creation, database management, and data collection. These tools include ATOXGEN and ASCOT Editor. Our radio simulator, PLEXComm®, requires no unique hardware and supports multiple radio configurations.So specifically for the UK, our efforts concentrate on the capabilities that these equipments can provide into the future Defence Operational Training Capability-Air [DOTC(A)] requirements currently being staffed by the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD); especially in the support of training for Distributed Mission Operations.

Programme Director for the DSALT facility based in the Air Battle-space Training Centre at RAF Waddington, Lincolnshire; which each year provides 44 weeks of specialist synthetic training to HQ-level fire planning cells and fire support teams, plus the RAF pilots who will operate alongside them when deployed.6 Weeks of applied research is also scheduled as are periods of equipment enhancement that ensure the facility remains completely aligned with current techniques and in-Theatre equipments.To quote a recent MOD report: "The technology provided allows the ABTC staffs to deliver training that realistically simulates actual engagement situations, that until now troops and pilots probably only experienced in actual operations. This helps ensure our forces are better trained, minimizing the risks to both them and civilians in complex urban environments like Iraq and Afghanistan."

Devised and managed the inaugural International Youth Day for the Farnborough Air Show. This entailed engagement with a wide range of education and company stakeholders across the UK in selecting 1,500 children to attend the day; arranging a series of guest speakers and presentations; support from the aerospace companies present at the air show; and the timetabling of the day itself once all were on site.

A series of appointments as an engineering officer - specializing in armament systems, culminating in a 1* air rank appointment.Retired from the RAF and set up my own consultancy company, working with initially the RAeS; Farnborough International Ltd; the DTI and QinetiQ on a series of contracts: some to do with youth and recruitment initiatives; others to do with specific engineering project management issues.

Managed the entire RAF munitions stockpile within its annual budget of £80m.

Managed the logistics organisation of the six 2nd-line squadrons (totalling 1200 men) in support of the Tornado GR1 squadrons on station: 9 Sqn, 14 Sqn, 17 Sqn and 31 Sqn totalling some 36 aircraft + 4 in-use reserves.

Ma, Defence Studies

as part of the studies for the ASC, undertook a Masters in War Studies, with Kings College.

Batchelor Of Science, Aeronautical Engineering

Aeronautical Engineering