PERSONAL PROFILE

● Highly motivated ● enthusiastic  ● ‘self starter’ with initiative ● good team working skills

● capable of working with little supervision ● calm under pressure ● task focused ● challenge is a primary motivator ● like making the impossible possible and simplicity out of complexity

● Excellent technical knowledge and professional qualifications in aeronautical engineering and accounting/finance ● 20+ years cross-functional experience in acquisition environments

● Commercial ● Programme/Project Management ● Engineering ● Airworthiness

● Proven leadership skills building, developing and motivating teams to deliverto performance, time and cost● Collaborative/ expert / task oriented leadership style ● Predominantly an INTJ[1]personality type ● dedicated to upholding high standards ● strong planning and problem solving skills● ability to see the big picture

● Significant experienceof the Ministry of Defence (MOD) and working in the public sector

● Used to working flexibly● UK driving license ● willing to travel UK/oversees● Security cleared

SKILLS & ACHIEVEMENTS

• Effectively contributed to achievement of annual business plan and objectives for a Defence Commercial business unit of circa 600 staff.
• One of MOD’s leading Government Procurement Professionals in complex procurements with a proven track record of structuring and negotiating 5 Private Finance and Public-Private Partnership (PFI/PPP) deals.
• As Head of commercial, one of the architects of the procurement for MOD’s Materiel Strategy Programme to transform defence procurement via an innovative Government Owned Contractor Operated structure.
• Head of MOD’s Private Finance Unit providing policy leadership, governance oversight and consultancy support tothe defence PFI/PPP programme covering a portfolio of 45 projects worth £47Bn (£1.5Bn pa), ensuring lessons learned and best practice applied.
• Delivered savings of over £150m in Cabinet Office and MOD contract renegotiation exercises.
• Drafted and achieved approval of military aircraft release for the MOD’s airship (1996-97).

Delivery Skills

• Project Manager and negotiator for 3 PFI/PPP deals driving them to financial close whilst key strategic risks were managed and customer requirements met to performance, time and cost.
• Experienced contract manager ensuring continued customer satisfaction, with a broad technology knowledge base including aerospace, flight trials, training and simulation, research and development, communicationsystems and infrastructure/construction.
• Experienced lead negotiator including Materiel Strategy GOCO, MODs PFI renegotiation pilot programme and HMG lead negotiator (on behalf of Cabinet Office) for efficiency renegotiations with a key supplier to Government.

Thinking Skills

• Helped transform many challenges facing the Materiel Strategy GOCO into realistic solutions enshrined in a comprehensive, robust and workable draft contract.
• Developed payment and incentive mechanisms for complex deals to effectively balance risk and reward.
• Facilitated skills transfer between MOD and external advisors.
• Developed and delivered effective change management processes.
• Experienced author of output requirements, business cases and investment appraisals used to manipulating complex financial models and evaluating tenders.
• Developed/used own tools for a systematic approach to strategic planning and organisational design to focus resources to strategic priorities and inform business planning.

People Skills

• An effective leader who has consistently motivated and inspired teams of up to 20 in multiple locations/countries tomeet challenging deadlines, delegating and organising team workloads and ensuring staff were supported along the way.
• Twice head hunted to relieve an existing team leader on a failing project, sensitively retaining them as my deputy to establish a productive relationship. Both individuals subsequently thanked me for taking over responsibility and how I handled it.
• Managed and worked in multi-disciplinary project teams (including Commercial, Finance, Project Management, Technical, Legal, Insurance, Military) with individual project values of approx £1Bn.
• Responsible for staff recruitment, training, development, coaching, and performance appraisal. Mentor for graduates on 3-6 month work placements.
• Worked in small and large teams taking on a variety of roles, including project managing 200+ stakeholders.
• Ensured the diverse social, technical and military backgrounds of staff contributed effectively to help shape delivery.
• Able to build relationships and communicate effectively both orally and in writing with Ministers,HM Treasury,industry, customers and wider stakeholders to achieve their goals.
• Good presentation skills with experience of presentingto MinistersandSenior Officialsof UK and oversees Governments, industry and the public with audiences of 100+.

IT Skills

• Experienced user of common IT applications including Excel. Have done volunteer work doing a Charity’s payroll and web-site design for partner’s business.

EDUCATION & QUALIFICATIONS

• BEng(Hons)Aeronautical Engineering & Design (Upper Second class) Loughborough University of Technology (1991)
• CDipAF Certified Diploma in Accounting & Finance awarded by ACCA (2001). 3^rdplace world-wide for Paper 3
• 3 A Levels: Mathematics, Chemistryand Physics; 9 O Levels

WORK HISTORY

Feb 12-to date

Oct 07-Feb 12

Aug 05-Oct 07

Jun 97-Aug 05

Jun 92-Jun 97

Sep 87-Jun 92

DE&S (Bristol) Head of Commercial

MOD (Bristol) Head of MOD Private Finance Unit

Defence Estates (Corsham) Team leader & lead negotiator

Defence Procurement Agency (Bristol) PFI Project Manager & lead negotiator

MOD Procurement Executive (London) Project Manager and engineering

MOD Student/Graduate Engineer training

REFERENCES

Available on request