Engineering Leader • Technology Strategist • Digital Enthusiast
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Leading large teams and complex projects to deliver organisational
transformation and business value
Predictive and Agile PM • Stakeholder Management • Coaching and
Mentoring • Knowledge Management
Passionate advocate and strategist for digitisation of Business
and Services through tools and culture
Process Automation • System Architecture • Design of experiments •
Python (Pandas, Plotly, Django) • Javascript (React) • SQL
Owning complex digital and mechanical systems throughout the
entire Product Lifecycle
Systems Thinking • Root Cause Analysis • Requirements Definition •
Reliability • FMEA • CFD, FEA and CAD
Jul 2021 - present
Central PM, leading Product and Engineering projects spanning the entire organisation.
• Managed entire project lifecycle (Discovery to Operation) of
new ecommerce platform
• Owned redesign of sales and access system architecture,
extracting complex logic from legacy system into modern
distributed microservices
• Successfully delivered urgent project to build and implement
new event tracking software (SDK) across entire product.
Apr 2021 - Jun 2021
Spent 3 months focussing on improving my practical data and software skills by taking courses and undertaking practical projects.
Dec 2018 - Mar 2021
Accountable for all Service Engineering activities related to overhaul for a fleet of 8000+ Jet Engines, including Failure Investigations, Engine Manuals, Technical Variances and Life Cycle Cost reduction activities.
• Led organisational tranformation, including the formation of a
new engineering group
• Business Control Authority
(technical approval) for major supply chain restructure
• Managed over $1m pa contract for outsourced engineering work
• Departmental lead for People Management and Development
Feb 2018 - Nov 2018
Accountable for all Engineering activities related to lifecycle analysis, such as reliability modelling, Equipment Health Management and Design for Services.
• Managed reduction in team size by 4 engineers with unchanged
workload
• Global capability owner for Digital Services
development
• Held interim position of Chief Lifecycle
Cost Engineer
Sep 2016 - Jan 2018
Accountable for reducing the cost and disruption of operating the Defence engine fleets. Concurrently ran digital capability programme while delivering tactical improvement projects.
• Developed and deployed Digital Services Strategy for Defence
Aerospace.
• Technical, schedule and budget accountability
for $1m pa capability project.
• Manager of team of 8 cross-functional engineers.
Sep 2014 - Aug 2016
Responsible for the definition, development and deployment of digital Equipment Health Management systems on 3 Defence products - the UK-FR FCAS programme, the TP400 and the Adour engines.
• Successfully developed and deployed Automated Lifing System to
RAAF (Australia).
• Led the R-R delegation to the FCAS
consortium EHM workstream.
• Requested by RAF (UK) to
support them in User Acceptance Tests for TP400 systems.
May 2012 - Aug 2014
Responsible for Safety and Reliability investigations and sentencing damages or variations from design definition. Delivery Lead for investigations and engine maturity activities.
• Delegated signature authority from Chief Engineer for
technical deviations.
• Owned and completed the fleet's
largest safety investigation.
• Led project submission to
the Royal Academy of Engineering awards (finalist)
Sep 2010 - Apr 2012
Completed six 3-month placements across multiple business sectors and global locations.
• Prepared and passed Critical Design Review for Energy Division
(Montreal, Canada).
• Project Lead for auto-throttle for
Environmentally Friendly Engine project.
• Awarded a
patent for design of shape memory actuators for vane tuning.