Working in Navy Command HQ’s Director Develop C5ISR team as Combat Systems Engineer responsible for driving the transformational Naval Strike Network solution to deliver the Navy’s System of Systems Architectural vision and enable the Navy’s future distributed protean force aspiration.

Seconded into Navy Command HQ as Digital Architect responsible for driving information and architectural coherence across the Royal Navies Technology Accelerators, with a specific focus on the transformational impact of Uncrewed Autonomous Systems, and their integration across Multi Domains.

Responsible for defining and coordinating the BAE Systems product, technology and campaign strategies relating to:> Mine Warfare across the BAE Systems Maritime business units.> Autonomous Systems and Global Combat Ship Sustainment for Naval Ships Combat Systems.Looking at future disruptive technologies and how these and BAE Systems and others products should be brought together to provide flexible futureproof technical architectures and exploit digital and data analytics to deliver customer operational advantage and corperate future business opportunities.

Campaign Manager Responsible for:• Defining the overall bid strategy, managing that overall bid, reporting on bid progress and governance associated with £1.5B ship design build and delivery programme.• Additional specific responsibility as Head of Combat Systems for leading the procurement, integration and delivery programme for all elements of Combat System offer of the Type 31e bid

Programme Manager Responsible for £300M portfolio delivering the internal BAE Combat System made systems into T26:• System Responsibility includes its' transformational platform wide computing and network infrastructure (SI), CMS, EOSCS, METOC, Weapon Section Base and Tactical Datalink and other GFX Information Systems• Established enterprise level agreement approach to allow commercial infrastructure techniques to be applied within the complex high assurance real-time defence domain.• Recovered schedule and cost stability, and brought delivery certainty through the applications of contract delivery rigour and structured change control.

Responsible for defining the technological solution and requirements relating to Type 26 Frigate Combat Management System, Weapon Section Base, Shared Infrastructure including Common Console and Physical Aspects.

System Design Authority for UK/Fr MCM technology Demonstrator. Responsible for the Technical Management and cross company technical co-ordination of the BAE, Thales (UK & FR) and DCNS consortium bid into OCCAR Competitive Dialogue process for the procurement of a £130M technology Demonstrator programme, to apply disruptive drone technology to Maritime Mine Warfare challenges.

Chief Engineering for the Mine Warfare group within BAE Systems Insyte, responsible for the technical direction of all work undertaken within the Mine Warfare group with particular emphasis on establishing and achieving the Autonomous Systems Strategy.

Seconded to work within the MOD NDP Team establishing the emerging Mine Warfare and Hydrography Strategy:• Responsible for the development and communication of the MCM Autonomous Systems transition plan• Defining the long-term vision of iterative capabilities development planned for the Hunt, Sandown Class and Mobile MCM prior to the introduction into service of the MHPC platform.

Technical Authority responsible for leading the company’s Naval Business Development technical team including:• Assessment of the risk and applicability of future technologies and the development of solutions to potential future develop opportunities• Design Authority responsible for the innovative Shared Infrastructure Concept, which transformed RN Digital Solutions by bring public cloud based computing technologies to the RN.• NDP secondment as FSC C2 Combat System Design Lead > Understanding the platform and Combat System design dependencies and constraints• Design Authority for T45 CMS and Radar CFA support offerings > Understanding the cost drives throughout the acquisition and support lifecycle• Insyte Lead for CEC Assessment Phase > managed to influence the customer to achieve a fundamentally architectural change, and delivering 40% savings over baseline Combat System Design• Influencing the MOSA (Modular Open System Architecture) research programme• Design Authority on the FLAADS initial design concepts work, Translate capability requirements into specifications

Negotiation and operation of multi company partnering initiative to deliver Type 45 integration and acceptance.• Managed and represented BAE Systems Combat Systems team, contribution and reporting• Defined Risk based Integration Strategy and Overseeing assurance• Responsible for the provision and maintenance of integration tools.

Change Manager across the Team 45 portfolio covering Type 45 Combat Management, Data Transfer, Electro Optic and Gun Fire Control and Metrological and Oceanographic Systems• Developed and put in place Change Management Regime• Managed Design Change investigation and costing• Coordinated Contract Change Control activities

Undertook a number of Consultancy roles including:• Concept work and business case assessment • Initial design and agreement of Maritime Integration and Support Centre (MISC)• Lead Type 23 Frigate Ship Life Extension Programme

Undertook a variety of Combat System activities on T23 and T22 Frigates• Coordinating T23 Combat System Design Change activities• Lead the successful integration and rollout of T23s 1st full operational capability• Eventually responsible for managing all T22 and T23 Combat System Engineering Activities including agreements of functional divisions, interface definition and agreement and System Proving and Integration activities.

Various Placement covering all aspects of Engineering as part of the MOD Graduate Development Programme