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Ifold, Gb

Crawley, England, United Kingdom

Crawley, England, United Kingdom

Crawley, West Sussex, United Kingdom

Responsible for all Bids and Proposals output for Thales Avionics UK

Crawley, West Sussex, United Kingdom

Responsible for the teams delivering Planning, Project Control, Risk Management and Integrated Business Planning for Thales UK's Avionics Business (AVS).

Crawley, West Sussex, United Kingdom

Responsible for flight avionics bids and proposals into multiple prime customers and OEMs. Managing internal teams to deliver business winning proposals and working closely with customers to frame requirements and iterate solutions.

Westferry, Canary Wharf

Project Controls Manager on Jubilee and Northern Line Upgrade Programme (JNUP).

New Malden, Uk

Project Manager overseeing aspects of the Astute and Successor Platform Management System (PMS) Programmes.

Northrop Grumman Sperry Marine, New Malden

I provide a comprehensive array of services to project managers on defence contracts of between £2m and £50m. This includes prospect analysis, bid preparation, pricing, schedule production and development, Resourcing and Resource Analysis, Earned Value Management (EVM), Risk Management, Schedule and Cost Risk Analysis, Project Reporting, Information Management, Configuration Management and Project Audit Support.

New Malden, Uk

Responsibilities included:Generating bid schedules and prices for proposals; Managing and updating plans in MS Project; Earned Value Management via Deltek Cobra and Winsight; Risk Management and Schedule/Cost Risk analysis via Predict! Risk Analyser; WBS/OBS/RAM development; CAM training; Project Management Plan development. Responsible for a wide array of UK MoD contracts including T45, Astute Submarine, QE Class, etc. ranging from £1m - £45m in contract value.Obtained the Association for Project Management's ‘Professional' qualification (APMP).• Assisted in the re-baselining of a major UK MoD contract with a contract value in excess of £30m.Personal responsibilities included performing Critical Path Analysis and liaising with Control AccountManagers in development of a new integrated schedule. Subsequent internal baseline review waspassed with minimal corrective actions. Responsible for managing the schedule, risk registerand contract reporting for the same project.• Developed a ‘process improvement log' aimed at improving procedural efficiency of local processesresulting in considerable improvements to the effectiveness of tools and macros used by the function.• Personally developed an adaptation procedure for dealing with wholesale project control asset updates.• Training of numerous new staff.- Assisting engineers with three-point estimating and work package definition.- Delivering risk analysis guidance.- Performing schedule and cost risk analysis using Monte Carlo simulation tools.- Producing and reworking bid schedules and using them to generate pricing reports.- Effective management of schedules and risks through a monthly reporting cycle.- Development of a process suite and toolset.- Secure controlling of booking numbers.- Resource loading management.- Providing input for monthly tier reviews.

in a small team on an ITAR controlled assessment phase.- Part of a larger collaboration with Lockheed Martin UK and MBDA.- Carried-out processor performance review leading to reassessment of hardware requirement.- Other involvements include HCI design and requirements management using DOORS.- Hosted several design and requirements reviews attended by the customer and partner companies.

BAE Systems | Military Air Solutions / Insyte | Warton, Lancashire / Rochester, Kent; Worked in a small team to produce the System Specification and System Interface ControlDocuments for Typhoon flight data analysis system.- System modeling (MATLAB/Simulink) of Active Inceptor Systems for the purposes of aiding productdevelopment and integration.- Software Engineer with various Combat Management System projects for the Royal Navy customer- Engaged with customer relations manager to further ties with the Royal Navy with the aim ofincreasing engineer exposure to the naval environment.

Beng, Aerospace Systems Engineering

Activities and Societies: Royal Naval Reserve, RNR, University Royal Naval Unit, URNU, Coventry University Gliding Club, Lanchester Rugby.

Education record

Aerospace Systems Engineering (Hons

Education record

Physics; Grade C Mathematics; Grade C Information Communication Technology Grade C