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Blandford Forum

An experienced and highly motivated Applications Test Engineer with vast experience of working in the testing industry, conducting test activities within test procedure frameworks. Experience includes test preparation and validation of Test Environments, the production of Test Configuration documentation, Task Agreements, repeatable Test Schedules and post-test reporting. Experience working with network emulation, stimulation and monitoring tools, conducting analysis of data captured during testing activities and producing formal reports to be disseminated to customers. Successfully managed projects and tasks that involved a high degree of interfacing with customers to establish project/task requirements, from inception to completion, conducting planning activities and establishing test networks, their configuration and validation for the task.

Lsrc Blandford

Primarily working as an Applications Engineer, responsible for the configuration of software applications and networks prior to conducting testing, including Network on application, application on network and application on application characterisation.

Defence College Of Communications Informations Systems

Appointed as a military instructor and subject matter expert for the Defence Operational Application Training Team. Delivered training and support of the trainers within the deployed Brigade groups deploying to Afghanistan.• Trained up to 16 students daily to be instructors with regards to Information Management/Information Exploitation (IM/IX) applications used on operations.• Coached and mentored instructors weekly on the delivery of IM/IX applications training to allow them to deliver training to their respective organisations.• Reported on large organisation training on a regular basis to ensure IM/IX procedures and processes are correctly followed.• Developed and implemented training material as required for IM/IX applications improving training given to various organisations.•An instructor with proven experience as an IT trainer.•A sound knowledge of MS Office applications. •Experience working in the MOD sector.•Experience with Windows Servers and hardware.•Experienced with applications such as; JADOCS, JChat, ICC, TiGR, CIDNE.•Planned and executed training on future applications, including the production of training plans and documentation in accordance with the DSAT principles. Including as a minimum:•Training objectives•Enabling Objectives•Instructional Specifications•Devised assessment and evaluation strategies.•Conducted basic management of personnel on courses.•Visited distributed training to assist in learning and validation.

Germany

Worked as a team member delivering communications and operational applications training to a wide and disparate audience and development of training material for use by team members.• Delivered theory and practical based communications training to students on a daily basis covering multiple systems and applications.• Coached and mentored T3 instructors delivering training to their organisations/units.• Developed training plans and instructional material for use by BowTAG (G) instructors.

Uk & Overseas

Appointed as an organisation’s communications and systems manager in overseas sites and on pre operational exercises.• Managed and accounted for all communications equipment and infrastructure, both in and out of barracks• Coordinated the internal training of the organisations personnel, keeping and updating training records• Created and implemented the organisations communications information systems plan to enable effective command and control and robust communications between the units and higher echelons• Managed and secured cryptographic material• Managed senior staff and communications systems in an operational environment

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