Whatever organisation you lead and it’s size or vision, resilience matters. Organisations of all sizes and in all sectors face disruptions which are becoming more frequent and with worsening impacts in our increasingly complex, connected world. We create your resilience advantage. Enabling your organisation to understand your resilience landscape, quantify your resilience capabilities and support actionable change to improve your resilience.

Advising the founders on a range of strategic and pragmatic business issues during the crucial early stages of this technology company. The ongoing mentoring and support role provides SymbaSync with regular outside perspective, broader operational governance, and connections to support its continued growth. The SymbaSync platform takes an holistic values and merit-based approach to job matching and team building. SymbaSync’s ground-breaking anonymous job matching algorithm helps to reduce employee turnover costs, increase diversity in hiring, maximize productivity, and brings benefits to organisations and individuals.

Researching resilience for organisations. Creating new accessible ways to understand, measure and improve resilience which are meaningful to a specific organisation, supporting boards and senior management governance, strategies and reporting.Successful business are resilient, some by good fortune, others by deliberate effort. This resilience is usually hard won by trial and error, the steady building of experience and learning from failure at both personal and organisational levels. Today’s business environment is however evolving at an ever increasing pace, preventing this incremental approach to building resilience, whilst the volatility and uncertainty created by the nature and extent of the growth of technology, societal change and global interconnectedness magnify organisations vulnerability. Resilience has many dimensions, socio-economic, technological, organisational as well as purely physical capabilities. This research is developing new tangible and holistic methods to understand, measure and improve resilience which can be applied by senior leaders in their organisations.

Using Operational Research and Co-Design techniques to support business decision making during the significant growth in passenger numbers, the associated facilities improvements whilst providing a great customer experience.In excess of 11 million passengers pass through Scotland's busiest airport annually, averaging 28,000 a day and growing year on year. With a 5 year, £125m upgrade plan and a 24/7 operation, driving expansion in the existing facilities is a challenge whilst providing continuing services. This EPSRC funded internship in conjunction with the University of Edinburgh Business, Informatics and Mathematics Schools is also looking at resilience and bespoke software development.Operational Research techniques include;- BPMN business process mapping to understand the existing and proposed systems, - Arena discrete event simulation to test proposals a virtual environment, and - AHP Analytic Hierarchy Processes to evaluate options with different characteristicsCo-Design techniques include;- the use of workshops, - immersion learning in the workplace,- user and expert participation including suppliers, operational and project staff to gain a shared understanding from which options can be generated,- consensus building for performance metrics against which options can be measured and evaluated.

Providing the management function to realise the potential of design in terms of achieving Crown House Technologies and Laing O’Rourke Group goals and objectives by adding value, controlling risk and providing opportunity through the effective and strategic use of design.Identifying opportunities for the effective deployment and/or implementation of Crown House Technologies and Laing O’Rourke Group capabilities, resources, directives, activities and targets where they are applicable to design or dependent upon design.

An interim role to support and develop the in-house design function, sales offering and standardised solutions for HW Energy, the biomass heat specialists. The introduction of the Renewable Heat Incentive in October 2011, ever tighter Building Regulations, and increasing energy costs for heating systems, especially fuel oil, have combined to produce significant increases in enquiries and orders for the Specialist Building Services Contractor of the Year 2011.

Working across the Group to develop the technical teams, converge compliance and design practices including the provision of a technical support framework to the technical community and wider business to manage risk and identify opportunity to meet today’s and tomorrow’s challenges.

Responsible for feasibility studies, concept design, mechanical systems detail design and specification, co-ordination of services disciplines to meet defined project objectives and cost advice from budget to final account.

Mechanical systems detail design and specification, primarily of speculative offices and fit out’s within the City of London for major blue chip clients.

Wide experience as part of the sponsored graduate programme prior to and after graduation at various group companies including: Haden Research and Development, Carrier Ross and South Bank Polytechnic.

A structured traditional four year apprenticeship programme, secondment to various departments and sub-contractors with college, office and site placements.