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Shrewsbury, GB

Bulford Barracks, England, United Kingdom

• Led a front-line infantry company of 120 soldiers, developing the individual and collective competence, motivation, determination, wellbeing, and welfare of officers, soldiers and families. Managed the continuous.
• Planning and delivery of a training package for 400 Ukrainian soldiers, maximising their capability & readiness for active service. This included cross-functional resource management, scheduling, monitoring and agile.
• Led and directed a diverse, multi-function team and engaged with multiple stakeholders from both across UK Defence, Sweden, and Finland to deliver the UK land component contribution to a 26,000-person exercise in.
• Leadership advisory and development. Monitoring and improving KPIs through review of information management, clear communication of intent, and fostering positive working relationships with internal and external.

Bulford Barracks, England, United Kingdom

• Led the delivery of all activity and worked closely with financial management teams in a 10,000 person organisation – half of the British Army’s armoured warfighting capability and reported directly to organisation’s.
• Generated and deployed 10 x multifaceted teams (1000 personnel each) to meet customer requirements, both standing and dynamic.
• Organisation design – agile redesign of deployed headquarters structure and supporting operating model, shaping function and form to fit environment, resulting in a 15% resource saving. This produced a HQ fit for.
• Change management - planned, directed, engagement with multi-national customers and enabled the strategic movement of >150 armoured vehicles from Canada to Germany, saving Defence c.£250,000 through identification of.

Defence Academy Of The UK

Post-Graduate level professional development in command, leadership and management, staff and communication skills, higher management of defence, global effects on defence, equipment capability and land warfare. Top 5% finish amongst 200 peers.

York, United Kingdom

• Principal staff officer leading the delivery of overseas deployments (Afghanistan, Iraq, Mali, Poland, Somalia, South Sudan, Cyprus) for an organisation of 35,000.
• Accountable for generation of programmatic schedule, including setting of milestones, financial controls, and related conditions to ensure that deployments met customer delivery timelines.
• Improvement of risk and opportunity control by developing a Unit dashboard reflecting workforce, equipment, finance, training and sustainment work strands for the senior stakeholder in an operationally focussed team.
• Planned, directed and enabled the deployment of 6 battlegroups (each 400 people and 60 vehicles) over 3 years to Mali, with a yearly budget of £40m through collaboration with partners across Defence. Principal staff.
• Generation and conditions setting for the deployment of over 10,000 soldiers per year on overseas operations; requiring stakeholder management and engagement to deliver against requirements.
• Improvement of situational awareness by developing a Unit dashboard reflecting key metrics across work strands including workforce, equipment, training and sustainment for the 2* General.

Brecon, Powys, United Kingdom

• Delivery of specialist infantry training to young officers both as an instructor and operations manager.
• Delivery of efficiencies in course design from 11 weeks to 9 weeks without any loss of training time, saving training and personnel costs of 9 weeks per year – representing a saving of £500k per year.
• Optimisation of a £250k training enablement contract through a robust Training Needs Analysis process, resulting in a redesigned approach to training which was utilised as best practice across an organisation of 20,000.
• Graded as the best captain instructor in competitive cohorts at the Infantry centre of excellence (1 of 23) and Infantry Training Centre (1 of 41).

4th Battalion The Mercian Regiment

• Delivered an organisation wide (>700 people) assurance and resilience programme to ensure best practice, conceptual competence, probity, cultural behaviours, mental health and values and standards are continually.
• Improvement of management practices for complex discipline and welfare cases through revision of management processes and tracking systems; this resulting in all Unit cases resolved well within timelines.
• Development of junior manager educational pathways with internal and external stakeholders to secure funding. Execution of novel training including lectures from British and US subject matter experts.
• Enhancement of conceptual understanding through delivery of an in-depth academic study to Sicily where careful planning saved £10,000 of the projected £27,000 budget.

2nd Battalion The Mercian Regiment

Planning and coordination of all training and operations for an Infantry Company Group, alongside day to day running of and career management/tracking within the Company.The role also requires the fiscal managment of the Company Fund, ownership of Information Management, record keeping when on Operations, maintaining an overview of equipment care, the.

Catterick

• Leadership of a training team delivering initial training to 48 infantry recruits in every 6 month block, managing all responsibilities from Human Resources including welfare and health, equipment and training.
• Graded as the best captain instructor in competitive cohorts at the Infantry Training Centre (1 of 41).
• Acted as a local Major delivering tactical training in Qatar to Qatari officers, managing stakeholders and developing training pathways to deliver value for money.

Belfast And Afghanistan

• Combat experience leading a platoon of 30 soldiers on operations in Afghanistan, training of 48 infantry recruits, second in command of an infantry company deploying on operations with NATO and training
• Conducted iterative planning against a complex threat, whereby management of risk to life was inherent in all activities on an enduring basis for 6 months.
• Awarded a mention in despatches for gallantry in the face of the enemy.

Camberley

Leadership training to command, train and manage the welfare of British Army soldiers through physical, academic and military training.

Aberystwyth

Study of a BSc [Econ] degree in International Politics and Strategic Studies.

A team member in the processing and reworking/engineering of specialist aero-engineering parts.

International Politics & Strategic Studies Bsc [Econ], Politics, Strategy, Conflict

Msc Leadership And Strategic Studies (Executive), Merit

Level 7 Diploma, Leadership And Management

Level 7 Extended Diploma, Strategic Management And Leadership

Cmi Level 6 Certificate In Management And Leadership

Diploma Of Education, Professional Development

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