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London, GB

London, United Kingdom

• Lead the full development cycle of the Instant Detect 2.0 satellite connected wildlife monitoring and threat detection system.This revolutionary end-to-end solution consists of portable, battery-powered sensors and.
• Responsible for forecasting, budgeting and allocating the projects budget.
• Developed an extremely detailed Technical Requirement Specification and tracked all development against this through the full product development cycle.
• Planned the development roadmap and managed bottlenecks in workstreams to achieve the most cost efficient delivery.
• Managed requirement prioritisation and trade-offs.
• Identified, communicated and mitigated project risks and logged all development decisions, ensuring that ZSL managers were involved in key decision making at the appropriate time.

London, United Kingdom And Kenya

• Developed a deep understanding of the customer needs, initially through extensive customer interaction working and living alongside rangers and conservationists in the field, and then from multiple rounds of user.
• Wrote clear user journeys to guide system design ideation.
• Established the products targeted sales price and subsequently the products manufacturing BOM, assembly targets and running costs.
• Assembled and prioritised the system's functional requirements, performance tests and user acceptance criteria.

Ndola, Zambia

• Managed the day-to-day operations of ~300 individuals on a Zambian farm.
• Responsible for supervising departmental heads, overseeing the production processes, equipment procurement, product delivery and managing sales.
• Formulated new management and security procedures to prevent equipment and fuel theft and increase production and logistical efficiency.

• Planned and managed the training programme of Command & Support Squadron (~130 individuals) involving numerous training exercises, overseas expeditions and career progression.
• Instrumental in developing the squadron into a cohesive, fully trained specialist fighting unit, with a strong unit identity.
• Planned and managed the complex training programmes for specialist weapon capabilities and optical technology (snipers, anti-tank, close target surveillance, engineer support).
• Learned to use complex internal software tools for managing the logistics chain and vehicle fleet maintenance.
• Responsible for the management of the Squadron vehicle fleet and the unit equipment care (16 tracked and wheeled vehicles, specialist weapons and equipment).

• Innovated and tested new operating procedures for deploying Javelin anti-tank missiles from armoured fighting vehicles, as mounted anti-tank fire-and-forget doctrine did not yet exist.
• Led a Troop that excelled in a 2 month Brigade-level training deployment in Canada, receiving direct praise for outstanding operational success by the Brigade Commander.

• Trained and led a Police Advisory Team on frontline operations.
• Provided Afghan commanders with mentorship and training on manning, equipment logistics and acquisition, operational planning and co-ordination.
• Chaired multiple issue related stakeholder groups to solve law enforcement and unit co-ordination issues.
• Authored operational plans, situational briefings and after action reports to key stakeholders.
• As one of the few units conducting regular ground patrols my reports provided key operational intelligence and socio-political climate information to higher levels, with a report written apparently going up as far as.
• A course of action taken by my Troop was later used as a 'textbook' example, and I subsequently presented it to 450 commanders going on the next operational tour.

RMAS is recognised as a world-leading leadership academy and instills in those that commission it’s values of courage, integrity, discipline, respect for others, loyalty and selfless commitment.

United Kingdom And California

• Office Manager – I spent several months providing maternity cover, running product sales, managing invoicing and payments, tracking stock, ordering repeat manufacturing, providing technical customer support, running.
• Sales Representative – I have done product demonstrations at big trade shows, recorded product demonstration videos for YouTube and developed marketing materials. In 2010, I spent two months selling a new water.