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York, England, United Kingdom

Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

York Yorkshire

Leeds, United Kingdom

Stirling, Stirling, United Kingdom

• Direct the Business Development, Programme and Project Management of British Army engagement with the Armed Forces of 9 foreign nations.• Management of resources and production of business cases for a wide range of projects ensuring that these projects stay within the resource envelope identified in the business case and provide corrective actions if required.• Stakeholder engagement across government departments, foreign nations and Embassies, private sector companies both in the UK and overseas and build consensus underpinned by a professional approach.• Building contacts and networks including Key Leader Engagement resulting in a significant increase in business with foreign nations.• Change-management synthesising complex higher-level policies and strategies into useable plans and frameworks to enable smoother delivery of effects.• Lead the planning of complex programmes drawing expertise from various organisations and often in oversight of more senior individuals.• Empowered and trusted to represent the British Army at high level government to government staff talks both in the UK and overseas resulting in a programme of projects being agreed for implementation, all the while remaining within tolerances of cost, time and resource.• Conduct through-life analysis of a number of diverse projects ensuring continued business justification and ensuring that post-project benefits-analysis was considered throughout. The framework developed for ensuring project and programme management within this field was subsequently adopted as 'business as usual' across the entire organisation.• Regular briefings and production of reports to very senior management and large audiences including government, using a full range briefing aids and resources across time zones and diverse organisations.• Risk management of all the above ensuring projects are scoped in conjunction with extant policy, risks identified and brief risk holders on responsibilities.

Cyprus

• Security and Risk management for an organisation of 700+ people. Ensuring establishment compliance with doctrine and policy through regular inspection regimes, briefings to senior management and synthesis of complex documentation.• Managing projects across a wide-range of tasks and theatres including Germany, Cyprus and Afghanistan. • Briefing senior management on high-level security and intelligence threats to the organisation and making recommendations on courses of action through the colligation and analysing of information. • Leadership and Management of an intelligence team at home and overseas. • Implemented transition to new Government Security Classification system through the production of briefing materials, reference documents and implementation of an inspection regime to ensure transition was achieved within tolerances of quality and time.• Selected as the first individual from the organisation to deploy to Afghanistan and subsequently managed and deployed 500 people from Cyprus to Afghanistan on operations. Subsequently project managed the delivery of training at reach, engaging a wide-variety of stakeholders to deliver outcomes above standard.• Produced daily verbal and written briefings to the senior British Military representative in Helmand province and his HQ staff on enemy and coalition activities across the country.

Catterick Garrison, North Yorkshire

• Deputise for the Company Commander. • Responsible for the career management, leadership and training of a team of 130 individuals. • Equipment Care manager ensuring compliance with all equipment directives, producing reports and directing and conducting inspection regimes.• Planning and resource management of all aspects of the operation of the Company's activities both in the UK and overseas.• Commanded the Company for a period of 3 months guiding the Company through a very difficult period of management transition and ensuring it was selected as an operations company in Afghanistan ahead of other peer organisations commanded by more experienced individuals.• Prepared a Company of 130 individuals for military operations in Afghanistan involving complex resource management and critical path analysis• Trained and deployed the Company on a 6-week training exercise to Canada ensuring all due diligence checks, training progression and equipment and personnel transportation.• Use and Management of complex military communications equipment.- Project Manager

Catterick Garrison, North Yorkshire

- Leadership and management of a group of 30 individuals in the UK and a further 70 individuals on operations in Afghanistan.- Military operations including war fighting.- Training and standards assurance.- Liaison with UK & foreign security services and motivating them to achieve goals.- Career Management and report writing.- Trained and deployed a disciplined, motivated and professional team on operations in Afghanistan.- Security of a 30km square operational area maintained, capacity of the local security forces increased, malign threats partially defeated.- Team cohesion and motivation maintained through the toughest of working environments.

Bsc, Geography, Bsc

Graduate, Military And Strategic Leadership, Graduate

A Level/Gcses