An innovative, highly driven and dynamic Senior Leader with a record in delivering strategic planning, operational logistics and command. Extensive experience of managing a team, individual projects, and budgets involving cross government departmental interests including policy, marketing and comms, IT, strategy, and operations. Over 30 years of command and leadership of multi-functional teams on highly demanding operations. Significant experience of leadership in the Defence sector and extensive knowledge of managing complex projects alongside academic and commercial settings.Key Skills and Achievements:•Executive Director of an operating base in Afghanistan, which at its zenith was the size of Reading increasing from 11000 to 30,000 in a 9-month period•Chief Operating Officer of c250 strong multi-disciplinary organisation that delivers leadership policy, assurance and technology for all RAF ground training, as well as delivery of all the RAF’s International Defence.•Director of the RAF’s Apprenticeship programme for 4500 apprentices. •Very high-quality verbal and written communicator; briefed at ministerial level on policy issues of a politically sensitive nature.•Routinely prepared briefing material for chief executives on board papers•A self-starter, able to foster strong engagement across a range of relevant stakeholders.•Good-humoured, emotionally intelligent stakeholder management and staff development•Directing multi-faceted, cross-functional activity to deliver hard results within tight budgets•Through board engagement and value engineering, I secured sufficient resources to create a deliverable that met the RAF’s strategic aims, within the resources it could afford•Through active stakeholder management, I have a track record of balancing disparate national policies, satisfying stakeholders as diverse as US special forces and Natural England.•Delivered a classified infrastructure programme valued at £50M•Senior Responsible officer for an Infrastructure-heavy transformation programme valued at over £700M.•As Head of Establishment of the 2,800 military, civil-service and contractor workforce at RAF High Wycombe, as well as the 10 military and 600 Civil-service staff support the 28000 US military staff and families based in the UK, I led significant change programmes, which required sensitive leadership, assiduous stakeholder management and great communication skills, though a variety of channels