SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

STRONG HISTORY OF ENGAGING PEOPLE AND RESOURCES IN COMPLEX TECHNOLOGY BUSINESSES; CREATING MOTIVATIONAL ENVIRONMENTS AND DELIVERING COOPERATION FOR MUTUAL BENEFIT

• Product Definition – Working with customers to define need; in SaaS solutions understanding skillsets and usage, in leisure products to understand what excites, in safety products to understand risk

• Project Management – Lead the top, business critical, projects in several organisations, Agile expert introducing Agile in to several businesses, managing and coaching the process

• Team management – Managed teams of one hundred plus highly technical staff working across multiple disciplines, managed companies coordinating activities and shifting resources to focus on goals

• Cross business projects – Primary business representative in key industry projects; built an organisation to assess new technologies, worked with academia to investigate challenges of artic navigation

• Industry support committees – Worked on shipping industry committee to define guidelines for measuring vessel performance, sit on Institution committee to look at alternative fuels for shipping

• New customer engagement – Built and analysed sales strategies and websites to entice new customers, experienced in use of HubSpot

• Customer relationship management – Frequently been primary contact for the most business critical customers with contract experience including penalties and legal challenges

• Supplier management – Including joint innovation projects and building binding partnership agreements

EXTENSIVE HANDS ON EXPERIENCE IN TECHNICAL MANAGEMENT WITH BROAD KNOWLEDGE; ENABLING COMMUNICATION AND ALIGNING GOALS FROM OWNERS TO ENGINEERS, CUSTOMERS TO INNOVATORS

• Product Approvals – With final responsibility, taken products through approvals processes in safety critical environments (fire and aircraft), managed security and data compliance checks of online systems

• Software Strategy – In the management role closely associated with and key driver in development of Machine learning technology, transition to cloud computing (AWS) and software architecture decisions

• Software processes – Expert in Agile, including using JIRA, with management experience of Test Driven Development, Test Automation and IT security

• Software technologies – Hands on experience of Cloud computing, Machine Learning, Big Data and of working closely with Engineers to define front end, back end and data architecture

• Data Analysis – Extensive experience of sensor data manipulation; sonar, radar, thermal, flow, stress and the collection of the relevant data through networks on remote vessels

• Manufacturing processes – Technical figurehead for introduction of Lean Manufacturing, offshoring of manufacturing, introduction of design for manufacture

• Hardware and Mechanical – As an Engineer; digital, analogue, power electronics and ASIC design, in a management role; casting, moulding extrusion and metal folding

EXTENSIVE EXPERIENCE OF MANAGING BUSINESS CHANGE PROGRAMMES AND DEALING WITH RELATED BUSINESS AND STAFFING ISSUES

• Hands on involvement at a senior level business change programmes – Through acquisitions (from both sides), mergers and department integration, downsizing and building teams (including from scratch)

• Complete understanding of budget reporting and transparency needs – Full financial ownership at business, departmental and project level

• Acute knowledge of Director responsibility – Board and Trustee experience enhanced through working with administrators to close a business

• Experience of staffing challenges and opportunities – Extensive recruitment experience across business disciplines, responsibility for managing various challenging staffing issues (redundancies, disciplinary) and appeal processes, and of a GDPR subject access request