Large rotorcraft aircraft Test and Evaluation specialist with 15 years experience of complex test programmes including certification activity and introduction to service of several military aircraft types.Roles within Nova have included: - Test Director for Norwegian (NAWSARH) AW101 SAR and NNWM NH90 frigate integration, - Project Manager for several Modelling and Simulation projects working towards greater use of synthetic environments for Ship Air Integration (SAI) - Tech Lead for Independent Technical Evaluation of a major UK UAS synthetic training capabilityMy background is a military aviation professional (Naval Observer) with 29 years military and 9 years Test & Evaluation experience as an Aerosysems Graduate. T&E roles within the military have included IC of Merlin Helicopter Force user element of the Merlin Mk2 Combined Test Team (CTT), ATEC Trials Officer, Naval Test & Evaluation Flight (Merlin) Flight Commander and Senior Rotary Wing Maritime Trials Officer at ATEC involved with Merlin Mk4, Mk2 and Merlin Crowsnest Programmes.