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Winchester, Gb

Reading, England, United Kingdom

Tidworth, England, United Kingdom

• Led, motivated and inspired a 110-person workforce.• Played a key role in digital transformation projects.• Drove KPI performance and developed processes and best practice.• Restructured and reskilled the department, improving performance, compliance, employee engagement and job satisfaction.• Led two successful six-month projects to create a new workshop and maintain vehicles in the Falkland Islands.• Doubled equipment availability by embedding ownership and accountability of vehicles and processes, re-working the day-to-day schedule, eliminating waste.• Delivered a change in vision and ways of working, improving staff satisfaction from 44% to 86% and Company advocacy from 43% to 67%.

Andover, England, United Kingdom

Planned, managed and delivered five major projects to design and procure equipment across the Army’s future wheeled vehicle procurement programme.• Lead author of a successful business case that won an extra £1Bn investment in new vehicles within a £5Bn+ Government Major Procurement Project.• Identified savings that released £850M for use on higher priority projects.• Evaluated requirements, developed robust business cases and monitored the performance, cost and achievement of milestones.• Managed public sector contracts and mitigated risks.• Mapped stakeholders and worked with them to swiftly resolve any issues.• Chaired quarterly review board that tracked the progress of projects and attended monthly financial reviews.• Managed project budgets, financial profiling and expenditure of several hundred million pounds.

Shrivenham, England, United Kingdom

Completed a full time residential post graduate diploma in Battlespace Technology, focussed on project management, requirements setting, through life management and automotive/weapon systems technology. Also completed a Level 7 Staff College course including Staff and Communication Skills; Global Effects on Defence; the Higher Management of Defence and the Army; Equipment (including Business Skills); Land Warfare Operational Planning; Broader Army business in the context of defence and Command, Leadership and Management (CLM).

Bulford, England, United Kingdom

Reported to the CEO and directed the coordination and deployment of personnel within a multi-discipline engineering organisation with 350 staff based across three sites in the UK and Germany, enabling them to deliver optimum technical support to operations and projects anywhere in the world, often at short notice.

Tidworth, England, United Kingdom

Principal engineering advisor to the CEO; led 100+ personnel and directed the upkeep of an operational 400-vehicle fleet. • Placed in the top 10% of all Officers in Staff Training.• Won the Institute of Engineering & Technology Award for best first line unit out of 50 eligible contenders.• Transformed the organisation’s use of information systems by developing a new, more detailed and transparent tracking system still in use today.• Developed innovative engineering solutions to maintain safety and legislative compliance when operating in austere environments.

Various

Employed as a Platoon Commander, Training Manager and Company Second in Command in various units within the UK and deployed to Afghanistan, Canada, Germany, and the USA.

Postgraduate Diploma, Battlespace Technology

Msc, Transport Engineering

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Information Systems And Management