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Doha, Qatar

Supply Chain Operations Manager for greenfield startup supporting Typhoon Aircraft operations for the Qatar Emiri Air Force. Management of Imports/Exports via air, land and sea. Management of all storage and transport arrangements IAW with all relevant governing licences. Management of accounting and goods receipting processes, including quarantine and discrepant goods segregation. Coordination of DLF start up activities. Management of all customer expectations in relation to logistics capabilities and support alongside a business awareness of all cost related operations which are aligned to ensure all financial overheads are kept to a minimum and within contract agreements.

Saudi Arabia

Provide direct logistics support to the Royal Saudi Air Force in order to maintain operational tempo. In particular, management of high priority orders, tasked with ensuring high turnover short supply spares are expedited to and from vendor through the Supply Chain in as short a time as possible and within expected costs to support the aircraft fleet. Also responsible for managing a multi million GBP budget and charged with ensuring that the correct level of procurement and repair orders are in place to meet required stock levels. Responsible for monitoring performance of 3rd party Supply Management company, highlighting turn around time failures and excessive long lead times. Also consulting on obsolescence issues both current and potential. Responsible for providing advice to senior military personnel on all aspects of the Supply Chain. Managing 20 staff of Expats and Saudi Nationals and all associated SHE and HR issues. Producing, chairing and delivering meetings and meeting presentations at all levels regarding supply chain issues for both procured and repairable items.

Responsible for all operations of the business, managing 12 members of skilled staff and up to 26 contractors worldwide. Managing the continued effectiveness of the company’s integrated management system through internal audit, management review and liaison with Senior Managers. Development of quality standards, procedures, policies, documents and business risk evaluations. Compilation of analytical statistics to map performance and continual improvement. Providing auditing/QMS Consultancy services to existing and new clients, primarily on logistics issues and solutions, whilst hosting all external accreditation audits for SQA, OPITO and DNV. Maintenance and development of Annual Audit schedules. Delivery and development of the Business Budget whilst drafting and supplying financial proposals for existing and new business bids. Personnel Management, disciplinary issues and mediation. Regular client liaison and new business presentations. Development and delivery of training materials and skills awareness programmes for basic and management levels. Regular overseas travel to Middle East to liaise with key clients over training needs, resource and pricing. Regular briefings to training staff on the importance of multi-cultural awareness when dealing with crews from different countries, backgrounds and levels of experience. Finished role as Operations Director responsible for all aspects of four business streams.

Dyce Aberdeen

Consulting on, developing and implementing management systems for a number of important clients within the oil and gas industry. External, internal and 3rd Party Auditing and advice including client 3rd Party audit support. Having been professionally trained by the Royal Air Force, 26 years of Logistics experience in a number of environments has proven invaluable to a number of clients, as savings through smarter and leaner systems become ever more desirable. Providing consultancy on training needs and appropriate training solutions.

Senior Manager in charge of 12 members of staff, 10 vehicles and 3 forklifts, coordinating the distribution of all equipment within the organisation; maintaining a service window of 1hr to over 30 departments for the delivery of priority demands and receipts including the collection, SAP recording and management of immediate repairable solutions that required direct bay servicing support. Responsible for processing 2 40ft vehicles each day, unloading and accounting for all receipts whilst ensuring best back-loading use of the empty vehicle. IT Administrator for 30 terminals, carrying out user registration, de-registration, permissions and password resets on Windows 2003 server. Unit ADP Systems Manager.

Senior Manager responsible the effective audit of 19 internal departments. Training and mentoring coordinator for new employees, identifying and addressing any training shortfalls and delivering on the job training for over 250 members of staff. Conducted inductions and NVQ Coordination for all new arrivals, assigning mentors and providing advice and guidance on NVQ and training needs. Conducting NVQ Standardisation meetings. Unit ADP Systems Manager.

Senior Manager SCM responsible for 12 members of staff divided into 2 shifts and working around a 600 mile supply chain. Provided logistical support and SAP solutions for over 60 aircraft positioned worldwide under the 1 Point of Contact principle for all engineers. Management of repairables, alternatives, conditional alternatives and modification programmes. Provided advice and solutions to management for the creation of established working stock levels to ensure cost effective and just in time supply chain solutions. Worked closely with BAE Systems in the identification of potential servicing bottlenecks in relation to short supply items that were or had the potential to be Airframe state demands. This also lead to the management of robbed items to ensure the best use of serviceable and available assets whether that be safe custody ADF/LIM assets or assets fitted to unserviceable Airframes. Project managed the move of the whole department to another building with no loss of service to the customer at any point in time. Unit ADP Systems Manager.

Senior Manager supervising 7 members of staff ensuring the integrity of over 200 separate inventories. Managed a stock inventory totalling over 18,000 line items and valued at over £200,000,000. This was validated by a quadrennial stocktaking program completed IAW National Audit Office guidelines. Managed all stock anomalies, investigations and resulting accounting actions on SAP. Compiled annual and quadrennial stocktaking reports for senior management and Command heads. Unit ADP Systems Manager.

Leighton Buzzard

Senior Manager of an IT Service Desk supporting in excess of 5000 networked users worldwide including the Army, Navy and Air Force. The Team was responsible for taking details of user problems or incidents, recording them and accessing the various databases to input amendments or resolve mismatches with the central database. Also carried out collation of metrics for problem investigation IAW ITIL guidelines. Included problem resolution, testing and programmer advice to external agencies on trends and specific instances of non-compliance within the central database. All IT systems were Service specific ADP systems and all instances had the potential to shut a Unit down from an ADP point of view.

Cyprus

Senior Manager in charge of 4 members of staff including 3 local employed civilians, responsible for all contractual elements of Low Value Purchase for the military in Cyprus - £5,000 per txn. Overseeing annual expenditure of £1,500,000, ensuring stock/inventory accounting took place for all equipment purchased. Responsible for confirming correct contractual procedures were employed by all Budget Holders without exception; ensuring mandated and enabling contract solutions and all other Service supply solutions were exhausted before approving the use of public money. Regularly audited by the contracts department and the National Audit Office. Also responsible for the development, delivery and management of the Government Procurement Card (GPC) programme to the Military in Cyprus, ensuring all relevant Budget Holder delegations were in place, cards were used appropriately and accounting action took place for high value or attractive items. Unit ADP Systems Manager

Cyprus

Senior Manager supervising 40 local civilians employed in 7 separate warehouses located in 3 remote locations across Cyprus. Successfully managed the multicultural hierarchy present within such a large workforce from many different backgrounds with varying levels of motivation and work ethics given the remote nature of the locations. Responsible for all aspects relating to the supply and storage of domestic equipment and furniture to both domestic and technical facilities Island wide. Negotiated and managed value based contracts for the local repair of domestic equipment whilst over seeing the annual servicing programmes for duty of care issues related to PAT testing and the use gas fires in all buildings. Responsible for ensuring that quarters were supplied with entitled equipment well in advance of march in dates and that quarters were left in a satisfactory state upon departure. Taking recovery action against individual for damages and losses. Managing the Supply Chain element of domestic equipment that only arrived by boat and container, ensuring that established stock levels were appropriately managed to maintain a healthy balance of available stock, storage space and budgetary constraints. Unit ADP Systems Manager.

Cyprus

Senior Manager in charge of 4 members of staff and responsible for the integrity of records for over 17,000 lines of equipment, including inventory management of high value items. Batch control of fuels and lubricants and component life management. Supply Chain Management activities including the establishment of stock levels for high value, short supply and high turnover equipment. Management of bay/routine Service items, actioning inputs to stock management software (USAS) to effectively track and account for all items of equipment throughout the process. Management of repairable items for established resident airframes and the priority supply of equipment for visiting airframes. Liaison with delivery departments to ensure the quick and effective collection and distribution of technical equipment Island wide. Heavily involved in assisting external agencies during real-time operations during this period, providing adhoc supply chain solutions outside the normal parameters of Supply Sqn operations. Unit ADP Systems Manager.

Germany, Oman, Malaysia, Falkland Islands

Joined the Royal Air Force in November 1984 when leaving school and served for over 26 years specialising in Logistics and Supply Chain Management. Served all over the world including Malaysia, Germany and Oman including 6 tours of the Falkland Islands where I was on more than one occasion Senior Manager Air Wing Support, responsible for maintaining the integrity of pre-positioned stocks for 6 different airframes at the end of an 8,000 mile supply chain. Experience of all aspects of Logistics and Supply Chain Management including purchasing, contracts, ADP and SAP systems support and have handled all types of equipment from clothing and aircraft electronics to aviation fuels and radioactive minor source

Diploma, Management, Level 4

Extensively trained in the Management of staff including EO, E&D and restoring efficiency. BSI trained Lead Auditor and certified IRCA.

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