Liam Crane Mbe Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

Greater London, England, United Kingdom

A pivotal role supporting a multi-billion pound capability portfolio, Senior Responsible Owner, and cross-functional teams from: Science and Technology; Warfare Development; Future Force Development; Future Capability; and Capability Delivery Equipment Programme.Key responsibilities:▪ Chief of Staff and Deputy to the Senior Responsible Owner for specialist military capability, supporting the management of a cross-functional portfolio of X hundred projects totalling over £XBn.▪ Direct support to 40+ Capability and Acquisition (C&A) Officers and subject matter experts; providing Portfolio, Programme and Project Management (P3M) advice.▪ Regularly brief at C-Suite Senior Executive level on specialist capability, translating complex technical concepts into business value; assisting with strategy development and investment decisions.▪ Working across organisational boundaries, engaging teams throughout Defence, Delivery Organisations, Partners Across Government, International Partners, and Industry to drive change and improvement.▪ Implement digitisation of working practices and generate organisational efficiencies through process optimisation and use of management information systems.▪ Create conditions for programme success and work closely with Team Leads across the programme to understand capability requirements or gaps to inform risk management and organisational prioritisation.▪ Setting the direction for positive team culture, engagement, ways of working, as well as promoting equality, diversity, and inclusion; encouraging team building and social events.▪ Knowledge management, brief preparation and delivery, and information support; exploiting data through PowerBI to enable visualisations to inform senior decision making.▪ Communications and coherence responsibility across the functional area.

Colchester, England, United Kingdom

Responsible for providing Defence’s Global Response Force and Airborne Extremely High Readiness Communications and Information Systems (CIS) and Command Support.Key responsibilities:▪ Deployed as the Communications and Information Systems (CIS) Commander and lead communications planner on two successful Non-Combatant Evacuation Operations.▪ Commanded, led, and managed 10x multi-functional and specialist technical teams (200+ personnel).▪ Achieved ‘best in class’ during a capstone overseas Divisional exercise, solving operational problems through innovation with technology.▪ Led junior officer development, mentoring and coaching, generating opportunities for technical up-skilling and leadership development through lectures, industry visits and on the job training.▪ Executed powers of Commanding Officer, including: strategy, discipline, legal, reporting, risk, finance, operations. ▪ Force Generated and deployed Command Support at Extremely and Very High Readiness (<24hrs).▪ Accountable and responsible for £31M of CIS equipment, including operational assurance.▪ Ensured coherence in capability and interoperability with wider Defence and coalition partners.

London, England, United Kingdom

Responsible for enabling the strategic direction, planning and management of all future Command Control Communications and Computers (C4IS) capability projects for the Specialist User (£XBn over 10yrs). Managed a complex portfolio of the most advanced communications and information systems technology in Defence.Key Responsibilities:▪ Informed the C4IS Strategic Through Life Capability Management Plan.▪ As the Subject Matter Expert, contributed to Strategic policy development such as: Capability Planning Group, Programme Board and C-Suite Executive Capability Management Group.▪ Identified and planned the financial resource required to enable the Capability Management Plan and initiate programming action accordingly.▪ Informed communications research programmes and effectively managed stakeholders such as Defence Science Technology and Laboratory to ensure research objectives were aligned to capability gaps and requirements.▪ Staffed Annual Budget Cycle Options, Business Cases and [Urgent] Change Requirements.▪ Promoted relationships and collaboration with key stakeholders including Other Government Departments and international partners.▪ UK co-chair for the C4IS Special Operations Force Capability Development Working Group.

Shrivenham, England, United Kingdom

A comprehensive military training programme that focuses on developing critical thinking, leadership and staff skills for officers, demonstrating advanced training in strategic leadership and management.

Shrivenham, England, United Kingdom

Awarded the Burch Prize for ‘Top Student’ out of a talented cohort of 48 officers.PG Dip

Completed the following technical training courses:- CISSP- CISMP- Comp TIA Network+- Comp TIA Security+- SABSA Certified Security Architect- ITIL Foundation Certification in IT Service Management- Information Risk Management Course for HMG IA Practitioners- Fundamentals of Information Assurance in HMG- Information Assurance Accreditor Introduction

Stafford, England, United Kingdom

Lead the HR functions of a 550+ military organisation as the principle staff officer to the CEO.- Leadership development- Discipline and welfare- Appraisals and reporting

Milton Keynes, England, United Kingdom

Deployed

North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Blandford Forum, England, United Kingdom

Artificial Intelligence: Implications For Business Strategy

Grade: Exceptional KEY SKILLS ON COMPLETION OF THIS PROGRAM: 1. A practical grounding in artificial intelligence (AI) and its business.

International Management Msc, International Business, Distinction

Awarded the Exeter University School of Business and Economics Award for ‘academic excellence’. MSc designed to provide key skills.

Pg Dip, Battlespace Technology

This course is delivered by Cranfield University and the Battlespace Technology Course (BTC) Directing Staff on behalf of the Technology.

Exercise And Sports Sciences Bsc (Hons), First

Chartered Manager (Cmgr)

Chartered Manager is the highest status that can be awarded in the management and leadership profession. Recognising individuals.

Miet

Pgdip, Strategic Management And Leadership

Diploma Units: Strategic Leadership and Management Strategic Change Management Extended Diploma Units: Strategic Leadership and Management.

Leadership, Commission

PREPARING FOR EXCELLENCE The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst (RMAS) is where all officers in the British Army are trained to take.