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Romsey, England, United Kingdom

Romsey

Southampton, United Kingdom

Managed the preparation of offers, including pricing and proposal documents, across a range of solicited and unsolicited business winning campaigns, working on C4I systems in the dismounted combat area.- Led and project managed the delivery of responses to RFQs and RFIs against very limited timescales, into both UK MoD and export territories, with values up to £10million.- Worked with Business Development to generate innovative unsolicited proposals into existing customers with clear business cases and financial justifications showing the benefits which could be delivered from product improvements or replacements.

Basildon, Essex

Managed key product/capability developments within the security and smart solutions department.- Strategic leadership on the development of the GridKey Low Voltage Substation Monitoring, for use by the electricity Distribution Network Operators. Acted as Sponsor and provided direction and leadership to the project teams to enable the effective delivery of objectives.- Led the development of proposals on innovative inspection services solutions into Network Rail.- Jointly bid managed a competitive bid into a new business sector (the oil industry) for surveillance systems for a number of oil platforms, succeeding in winning business worth £15mllion+.

Basildon, Essex

Managed and led of a portfolio of product developments including land ISTAR systems (including acoustics, wireless sensing products, HALO and Hydra), vehicle Situational Awareness Systems and Mission Systems, and Remote Weapon Stations.- Key contributor to NATO industry advisory groups; provided advice to NATO governments on cross-industry current and future capabilities to influence future procurement strategies.- Worked with MoD and an industry team to create an open architecture for military land vehicles, now being adopted internationally. Secured internal company investment to develop new products based on these standards. This work resulted in winning the first international contract award (Denmark) based on this new architecture.

Basildon, Essex

Responsible for the management and leadership of a portfolio of Electro-Optic systems; this included surveillance and targeting turrets and pods, fixed forward looking infra-red systems and next generation Enhanced Vision Systems (EVS).

Basildon, Essex Then Stanmore, Middlesex

Worked with the Ministry of Defence on fixed wing and rotary wing platforms to create and win business for innovative support solutions to provide better equipment availability to the end user. Acted as industry expert and technical advisor. This included bringing teams together from industry, customer and end-user to proactively create new solutions and business models.

Basildon, Essex

Bid Management of Competitive Bid for Precision Landing Aid System for National Air Traffic Services (NATS). (≈£10m + Options). Bid Management of Upgrade Programmes for defence equipment into Boeing/US-SOCOM (≈$9m).

Basildon, Essex

Including staff training, facilitation of business process change, assessment against internationally recognised models, and leadership of cultural change programmes.

Basildon, Essex

Programme managed to successful contract closure a challenging “specification compliance” project phase for aerospace equipment into Boeing/US-SOCOM during litigation between the prime and the end-customer. Consequently secured additional contracts for upgrades.

Basildon, Essex

Management of the planning, development and introduction of a trial Management Information System for the Electro-Optical Systems Division.

Basildon, Essex

Management of the implementation of MRP and evaluation of MRP II within the Electro-Optical manufacturing Division.

Basildon, Essex

Basildon, Essex

Basildon, Essex

Master Of Engineering (Meng), Electrical And Electronics Engineering

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Electrical And Electronics Engineering