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United Kingdom

Heading an enhanced evolution of the Business Development Unit. I deliver a framework for Operational Performance and Continuous Improvement, including business planning, Risk Management, Performance analysis and reporting, and management of briefing and responses of FOI/PQ requests.

I lead a Unit working on an extensive portfolio of Strategic projects supporting FSA Field Operations while developing and implementing necessary change at pace. Main functions:- EU Exit Workforce Planning.- Change Activity (Delivering identified change projects, ie. Poultry Green offal; Visual Inspection Pigs; 5th Quarter; FCI/CCIR; Timesheet consistency).- Operational efficiencies and Capacity Reviews.- Consistency activity – ensuring consistency in the field with existing policies and procedures.- Official Control Outcomes – monitoring implemented solutions to measure success.- FSA Communications – handling FoIs, communications & queries received by/or directed to Field Operations.- Field Support - Queries arising from the field business and technical, FBO/industry stakeholder challenges & data queries.

York, United Kingdom

Programme Lead FCI/CCIR National Change (England & Wales). Working closely with the meat industry, the farming community and other interested parties such as government departments to improve meat controls by developing a more efficient and effective approach to Food Chain Information (FCI) and Collection and Communications of Inspection Results (CCIR). Putting the consumer first in everything I do.It is of paramount importance that the health of the UK national herd is maintained, both in the interest of consumers at home and also when it comes to the UK’s reputation for exports.It is important that animals arriving at slaughterhouses are healthy and that the highest welfare standards are maintained both on farm and at slaughter. FSA staff are present in all approved slaughterhouses and the work they do to accurately record and report conditions at these premises is of great value to both meat processors and producers.The work is important to support a resilient UK food system that is able to cope with the increasing demand for food from a growing population. So any opportunity to and identify efficiency in the meat production cycle is beneficial.How: -Providing management expertise to improve the performance of the organisation and de-risk business change programmes-Developing and delivering change solutions for a variety of specific scenarios that may include: business transformation, process design transformations, strategic operations delivery, cost management programmes, shared service, cloud based technology deployments involving people, organisation and process impacts, etc-Building strong and sustained stakeholders relationships-Managing, coaching and developing a team of change management practitioners

London, United Kingdom

I worked in a great variety of food safety and food security issues, reporting directly to the Head of Division. • Establish and maintain strong relationships with policy colleagues across government;• Establish and maintain strong relationships with industry domestically and internationally;• Work with departments on the development of policy to ensure it reflects FSA objectives on Food Safety and put the consumer first;• Policy design, implementation and advise to the Enforcement Officers on a wide range of issues; In particular worked on:1. Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). 2. Campylobacter Reduction. Priority strategic objective for the FSA. Delivered the Campylobacter Reduction Campaign in Approved Abattoirs. 3. Food Futures4. Lead, development and embedding of an FSA Change Management Framework.Seconded from the Operations Division.

North East England

·Responsible for North East England area ensuring the Agency fulfils its statutory obligations through effective management of Lead Veterinarians, delivering Official Controls through technical management and support of the field staff and monitoring of third party suppliers.·Management of Lead Veterinarians in the performance management of Official Veterinarians via Contractor´s Representative.·Responsible for managing the consistent application of animal welfare standards and third country exports.·Operational technical responsibility and accountability into high risk products of animal origin.·Responsible for active stakeholder engagement with contractors, industry bodies and other government department on technical matters promoting consistency and improvements to the service, operational policy development from field perspective to meet the strategic goals of the Agency.Successfully:*100% successful rate reducing the numbers of C4C.*Facilitated disruptive innovations to be developed and rolled out Nationally.*Coordinated the NE investigation into high profile Food incidents.

Yorkshire

Operate as Team Leader across a span of approved establishments by providing technical advice, leadership and direction to the plant inspection team to ensure the efficient and consistent delivery of Officials Controls. Build and manage effective relationships with stakeholder. Responsible for the contract and financial management.*Successful candidate for the FSA Developing Future Leaders Scheme 2011-2012.Successfully:*100% successful rate reducing the numbers of C4C.*Successfully developed and implemented local strategies that later became National.*Achieved endless collaborative working results with other OGDs.*44.75% reduction in Operational costs and a 95 % reduction on staff idle time.

Supervision of technical performance of Official Veterinarians. Audit all OVs against the former Meat Hygiene Service (MHS) operations manual and Eville & Jones manual and standards. Constant liaison with MHS at all levels to ensure we worked aligned with MHS aims and values and to ensure team work prevailed. Highly focused on further training activities.

Protect Public Health and animal health and welfare by providing verification, audit and meat inspection in fresh meat premises.Broad experience in all types of slaughtering premises. Including Wild Game Handling establishments.Promoted to Internal Auditor for Eville & Jones before reaching one year within the company.

Master'S Degree, Master Of Business Administration, With Distinction

Veterinary Science, Veterinary Sciences/Veterinary Clinical Sciences, General

Activities and Societies: Histology, Animal Nutrition Responsible for an animal welfare organisation for a year.

High School