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Development and growth of a highly specialized international consultancy offering thought leadership, strategy development and techno-economic expertise. Our firm excels in combining technical and economic expertise with deep insight into communications strategy development and delivery.

Developing UK strategy and direction for a Thorium Molten Salt Reactor to decarbonise industry and provide low cost, 100% CO2-free energy whilst enabling removal of wastes such as spent fuel.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

Delivery of UK Strategy for the IMSR reactor technology. Development of UK supply chain, UK collaborations with industry and academia on molten salt technology innovation. Growth of forward opportunities for UK deployment and both export and import opportunities for the UK.

Warrington, England, Gb

Deputy Chair for sponsor. Development of NNL vision and strategy for clean energy, industrial strategy, resource capability and facility development. Focus area included strategic development of reactor capability, R&D into Advanced nuclear technologies, Small Modular Reactors, Advanced Modular Reactors, Micro reactors, existing generation, fuel production and associated technologies such as hydrogen production, market analysis and synthetic fuels. Responsible for leading cross company steering committee for clean energy and chair of the clean energy think tank.

Warrington, England, Gb

Account Director for Small Modular Reactors and Nuclear New Build. P&L Management, Business development and strategic development of Advanced Nuclear Technology, New Build, SMR and AMRs, accountable for setting and managing the direction and integration of new portfolio with over 70 staff across projects. Development of government business cases for submission into Comprehensive Spending Reviews for submission to treasury approval processes. Director responsible for delivery across multiple vendors work and portfolio including: UKSMR, delivery of NNL ANT programmes: Horizon newbuild, Terrestrial & Moltex MSR Fuel development, Westinghouse LFR AMR Phase 2, U-Battery HTR AMR Phase 2, AMR Phase 1 projects: Moltex, ARC, Westinghouse, U-Battery, USNC, ARC, GE Hitachi. Advanced Manufacturing & Materials Programmes: EASICS (structural integrity) and FAITH (Fuel assembly thermal hydraulics). Molten Salt reactor UK spent fuel feasibility, ANT Market modelling 2021 and UK Industrial capability for AMR. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) UK representative for SMR and AMRs, representative on FORATOM Steering groups and key presenter at multiple conferences in UK and InternationallySenior engagement with BEIS and DIT. Led strategic planning for UK/Canada on SMR/AMRs, ANT Public Engagement, support to developing a variety of national policy inputs. Chair of Molten Salts Technology Platform supporting development of HMG strategy on Molten Salts technology, MSR deployment and AMR R&D with direct relationships within BEIS, NDA, Welsh government and DITKey involvement in country to country, industrial, academic and research collaboration for SMR and AMR development for the UK and internationally.

Rueil Malmaison, France, Fr

Responsible for operations and strategy delivery including P&L responsibility and staff management for Existing EDF generating fleet of reactors. Additional responsibility for development of Magnox opportunities (sales) and business development (capability and sales) of the Small Modular Reactors business for Nuvia.

Rueil Malmaison, France, Fr

Responsible for the establishment of a Nuclear Existing Generation capability within Nuvia Limited. This includes operations and business delivery, management of strategy for growth, cost and profit centre performance. Responsible for resource and capability development in line with existing nuclear generation needs for EDF. Key activities include business development with senior executives, negotiation of contracts, opportunity development, establishment and growth of a local office location to EDF engineering centre, procedure development and succesful project delivery within a nuclear engineering and consultancy environment.

Rueil Malmaison, France, Fr

Senior Project Manager on multiple EDF projects. Projects include Investment Delivery Process strategy and business case generation for Nuclear Technology Branch, Portfolio & Project Management, Obsolescence of the Reactor Physics Workbench, MACE code development and other seed fund projects including future business planning. Other projects involved have included BAT Assessment for LLW / VLLW waste characterisation, SZB Drystore, Oily sludges and Graphite Core Project.

Rueil Malmaison, France, Fr

Responsible for Gloucester Office: Establishment of new business stream within the nuclear generation market. Key responsibilities include: Cost centre management; Strategic direction and development of generation capabilities in Nuvia Limited; Recruitment and growth of new resource pool; Line management, Development of a new location and associated infrastructure; Landlord interface and property maintenance; Training development and HSE responsibilities; Client relationship development.

Rueil Malmaison, France, Fr

Responsible for the development of Opportunties with RWMD and EDF Nuclear Generation Limited. Role includes capability development, strategy development, ooportunity identification, tendering and winning of future orders for Nuvia. The position has also required the implementation of business strategy for entering the Generation market, realignment of company capabilities, contract negotiation and marketing activities.

Rueil Malmaison, France, Fr

Manager of a team of seven highly skilled nuclear waste and environmental consultants in Nuvia's Southern Office. Responsibilities included line management, business strategy, budget accountability and profit and loss for Waste and Environmental consultancy for UK and international areas.

Rueil Malmaison, France, Fr

Alignment of Nuvia to Nuclear New Build programs and the integration of Nuvia Group: Project Manager for all New Build activities within company. This included:- Identification and establishment of new business streams.- Development of Company Literature for New Build: All capability statements.- Review of partners and potential sub-contractors: Facilities inspections, supplier reviews, initiation discussion and proposal to board.- Integration of Group and parent company including internal review of all organisations, identification of suitability, joint tendering activities for in UK and internationally.- EdF Mechanical and Electrical Installations Tender £300M: Responsible for Bid management of tender. Worked in partnership with Vinci Energies to develop the tender response.

Rueil Malmaison, France, Fr

Project Manager for all work completed for Novarka including customer liaison, contract management, responsible for delivery of all scopes of work by Nuvia. Duties included manager for all Nuvia staff seconded in Kiev, Slavutich and France. 16 individual contracts of work, 28 staff with 4 larger projects / workstreams completed. Projects included: Radiological Monitoring System, Access & Dose control system during construction, Waste Management during piling operations, Nuclear design review for complete project and PM for multiple specialist consulting.

Rueil Malmaison, France, Fr

Project management of works for Eskom: Provision of engineering services and specialist and technical at Koeberg Nuclear Power Station, South Africa. This included a Quality Assurance demonstration for highest level of quality management (Q1) and gap analysis for IAEA, ASME and ISO 9001:2008. Recovery of payment for works carried out - recovered £170k.

Rueil Malmaison, France, Fr

Pensions & Benefit Scheme: Change consultation program for new and existing employees at Nuvia. Responsible for personal contract holders input and agreement in new pension scheme.Overhead reduction and change management programme: Mentoring of external programme manager working on an overhead reduction and change management programme across a FTSE 250 company.

Rueil Malmaison, France, Fr

ITER DS Review: Project management of the review of ITER designs and proposed modifications and cost saving measures. Overall capital cost savings of 60% was achieved through value engineering and compliance to international and regional standards.Major R&D tender for Experimental Validation of Replacement of Molecular Sieve Driers with Scrubber Columns in the ITER Atmosphere Detritiation System: Project Manager responsible for £3.2m tender. Tender included: Formation of multi partner international group – arrangement of commercial terms and MOU. Management of technical proposal, programme compilation and cost estimation.Vacuum Vessel Access & Control System, ITER, France: Project manager for the update and optimisation of the existing conceptual designs. Project included costed bill of materials, 2D & 3D design with CATIA and engineering substantiation.Best Practical Environmental Options (BPEO) study for Joint European Torus (JET) facility at Culham Science Centre: Project Director for the systematic examination of established and potential options for radioactive waste arising at Culham. Project included: Advice to JET on stakeholder relationship for the study (Environment Agency, local council, Senior Managers). Mentoring of junior project management staff. Corrective remedial action and negotiation with client.

Gillingham, United Kingdom, Gb

Implementation of a business optimisation and resource efficiency process for the Sales team in the aftermarket automotive component sales. Ultimately responsible for increasing turnover with a major trade group (GAU). Managed a portfolio of 184 clients, developing the sales and marketing strategy for the sales team (5 BDM's across the UK & Ireland). Achieved a turnaround on declining sales to growth. Negotiated multiple sales with clients and long term annual individual contracts including a £6m opportunity. Worked with marketing team to develop GAU specific marketing, product development, sales promotions and contracts.

Coventry, West Midlands, Gb

Responsible for the design and development of an automatic transmission system (ZF8HP) for the Range Rover. Involved with early concept level development including requirements setting and package analysis. Use of systems as per Freelander 2 programme run to updated GPDS processes.

Coventry, West Midlands, Gb

Started as project engineer and progressed to PMST leader responsible for the design and development of an automatic transmission system (Aisin AW F21) for the Freelander 2 and originally X-type from concept level to production. Responsibilities included setting of requirements, specification of testing and validation, package modelling and production process including system level bill of materials. This was a multi-cultural project involving engineers in countries within Central & Northern Europe, USA and Japan to develop a single common platform design suitable for over 180 applications. Use of WERS, eFDVS, POWER, REDPEPPER, FMEA’s, APQP, PPAP and FPDS & MPDS processes.

Coventry, West Midlands, Gb

Optimisation and cross harmonisation of testing procedures across JLR, Volvo and Ford Motor Company: Responsible for JLR input to the harmonisation team. Also developed working process for an electronic design verification system (eFDVS) and provided internal training to transmission and driveline department. This tool was used to ensure and promote configuration management throughout JLR and the whole Ford Motor Company. Involved in 6-Sigma projects for improving process and design systems to address warranty and production issues.

Coventry, West Midlands, Gb

Initially employed as a technical assistant Michael soon became responsible for fault diagnosis on test vehicles within fleet, calibration analysis using INCA and specific VOLVO calibration software, vehicle preparation and teardown reporting, benchmarking of vehicles, workshop preparation pre and post testing. Example projects include improvement to transmission noise - torque convertor re-specification after out of balance calculations and benchmarking.

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Diploma, Business, Sales And Professional Development

Bachelor'S Degree, Mechanical Engineering