Stuart Grindle Email & Phone Number

The role is to support the future Government business opportunities of the company by working with the Sales/Business Development teams, predominantly in the Land Environments and across the international footprint of NSSLGlobal.Key Tasks• Evaluate customer RFPs & requirements.• Provide clear and articulated responses as part of the commercial proposal.• Provide defence-based knowledge of system technical qualifications as part of any solution going forward such as defence standards to meet multinational RFPs.• Develop, evaluate, and innovate solutions to meet customer RFPs & requirements.• Design product Demonstrations, Proof of Concepts, and product presentation for customer events.• Responsible for technical solution input to customer RFPs• Find added product/services opportunities to customer’s organisation.• Manage customer/supplier interaction and engagement for formal demonstrations.• Act in a professional manner to NSSLGlobal’s Government customers, showing clear technical knowledge confidently.• Customer liaison post contract/business award for solution implementation working with project engineers and managers.

Colchester, England, United Kingdom

Team leader for 20 engineers within a Network / Security Operations Centre, providing the deployment of IT systems at 24-72 hours’ notice globally. Collaborating with senior stakeholders and leading project teams to deliver professional, client focussed results on time and to an acceptable budget.Key Achievements:• Project planning, deployment, and risk management for real-time support of the Afghanistan Relocations and Assistance Policy (ARAP) evacuation. This resulted in a robust IT infrastructure, capable of processing 15,000 Afghan nationals over a 2-week period.• Identified a gap in business output for geospatial awareness, to commission and deploy a suite of software that provided geospatial information and allowed users to collaborate over geographical separated locations. This project provided real time locations and data exploitation of mobile users and was fundamental to the command and control of the ARAP evacuation.• Leading a team of 10 Network and Cyber Engineers, delivered a cross nation security domain. The domain was compliant with multi-national security, classifications and network joining rules and was delivered 2 months earlier than the six-month timescale.• Project managing and negotiating with multi-national government departments and contractors to deliver an IT system which supported 3,500 British, American, and Italian personnel. This included reach back to data centres based in UK, Germany, and Italy to provide Voice, Email, Video Conferencing and SharePoint services across three nations.

Newbury, England, United Kingdom

Managed a small team of 4 engineers to enhance processing capabilities across 10 complex security platforms for 100 users over three separate locations.Key Achievements:• Against a backdrop of COVID-19, actively catalysed IT change across three geographically separated sites; commissioning new, contentious Open-Source IT capabilities and securing security compliance to enable personnel to work from home.• The migration of four business critical IT systems, consisting of both voice and data platforms over a four-week period. The migration was achieved with 300 workstations and 100 users being migrated with 100% availability throughout and no loss of data or services.• Constant engagement and collaboration with programme contractors to provide smooth transition and a BAU environment. The programme delivery allowed users to continue to provide business outputs across four new IT systems and 6 BAU platform environments.• Negotiated 11 Business Cases, hosting viability studies with three contractors at two separate locations to redesign IT storage capabilities. The capability uplift allowed the data expansion and the relocation of 16 senior stakeholders, resulting in capability sustainment and business output cover for a three-month period and easing key stakeholder tensions.

Blandford Forum, England, United Kingdom

Leading and managing level 3 IT support team, delivering global resolution from the Service Management Centre to provide network engineering support at level 3 and 4 to provide support to thirty-two global sites with a customer base of 6,400 users.Key Achievements:• Crisis manager and software deployment manager responsible for ensuring all thirty-two military medical platforms remained unaffected by the WannaCry ransomware attack. Crisis prevention action saved an estimated £1.1m in IT Support and provided 2,000 alternative workstations for the NHS to continue BAU.• Project manager and technical lead for all innovation and trials, most notably the first interoperation between French and UK based military services. This resulted in cross platform interoperability and email exchange for 2,000 French and UK personnel saving £50,000.• Change Manager on Change Advisory Boards, ensuring adherence to Service Level Agreement timelines and management of all escalated level 4 incidents.

Blandford Forum, England, United Kingdom

Responsible for management, maintenance and development of Communications Management and Development (ComManD) IT network and communications simulator in support of training delivery to Supervisors, Application Specialist Team leaders and Military Officers.

Brawdy, Wales, United Kingdom

Employed as the senior Technician acting as the premier component in the delivery of equipment care and maintenance both UK-base and globally. Instrumental in both planning and conducting IT system deployments whilst troubleshooting complex Signal Intelligence IT systems.

North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Team leader responsible for the shift management of 4 Engineers deployed in a Network and Security Operations Centre. Duties included ensuring 100+ network links were monitored and troubleshooting any issues arising from Incident Management tools.

Lisburn, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

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