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An industrious and astute, Chartered Engineer and Chartered Manager. Over 20 years’ experience in operations management, asset management and programme/project management roles within pharmaceutical, defence, aviation, engineering and the logistic support sectors. Strong technical acumen, supported by firm, dynamic leadership and excellent interpersonal skills. Adept at facilitating complex, multi-stakeholder programmes, requiring acute organisation awareness and timely decision making to deliver desirable outcomes.KEY SKILLS- Strategic Management and Leadership. Extensive experience in highly complex senior leadership roles, managing up to 150 multi-disciplined, geographically-dispersed personnel, conducting both business-as-usual and novel approaches to engineering and logistic challenges across the globe. Using an evidence based approach, frequently responsible for instigating organisational change. Realising a 15% uplift in technician manpower in Afghanistan, delivered an immediate 30% increase in aircraft availability by adopting new shift patterns and introducing a surge capacity, an achievement maintained throughout the deployment.- Programme and Project Management. Strong engineering, analytical and PPM skills. Proven ability to deliver high value programmes and projects to time and budget. Lynx Aircraft Depth Maintenance Programme, totalling 27 aircraft projects/c.230k maintenance hours delivered within 1% of £49m budget. - Innovation and Change Management. Significant experience in leading and delivering innovation and organisational transformation. Able to analyse and comprehend complexity in the pursuit of delivering simplicity. Recipient of the 2008 Civil Service Award for Innovation – as Chair of the ‘ideas’ group in Iraq, received award for a ten-fold increase in the total number of idea submissions received and for initiating the in-theatre adoption of ‘life saving’ standard operating procedures in high-threat environments.