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| Competence | Proof of Competence | Work Completed for
| General Management
| Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute (FCMI). Chartered IT Professional (CITP). Company Company Director - International business and projects. | Managing Director - 2 companies. Wing Commander (Royal Air Force) - Data Centre Manager. Wing Commander, Staff Officer - MoD, RAF Germany, responsible for ground-based operational command & control systems. Business negotiations, reports, presentations, job specifications. Act as chairman/secretary at management meetings. 16 years in posts with management responsibilities. 42 working sales visits to Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Latvia and Bulgaria. Produced business proposals, agency agreements, contracts, protocols and marketing documentation. Gave technical and commercial presentations. Created company brochure in English and Russian language. Produced project management documentation. Set up project for Mariupol Steel Mill, Ukraine. GEC Marconi (95-97), Thermo Electron Ltd, Eberline Radiometrie (91-95), Flexibox International, Whessoe Varec International (91-95), Tesco (94-95), Bier Group Ltd (91-95), Lewis Peat & Bier Ltd (95-97), Royal Air Force (80-89) Exemplaris (own company) (98-09).
| Project Management
| UK EIFEL Project manager for large multinational IT/communications project. Produced project specifications for many command & control, intelligence and flight planning systems. Chaired project management meetings - MoD, JARIC, RAF Germany. Much use of MS Project, as well as ITIL, PRINCE, risk management and other methodologies. Project Manager for Eurocontrol Project TRS 078/03.
| Royal Air Force (80-89), Compaq (99-00), Siemens (00- 01), Eurocontrol (03-04).
| Bid Management and Project Planning
| Worked on wide variety of bids covering IT Services, eCommerce, IT networks, nuclear monitoring technologies, flight trials, ATM equipment and Electronic Warefare and industrial equipment. High success rate - particularly IT Service for Compaq and Siemens. Project plans for overall management, scheduling, resources, quality, configuration management, system and software development, verification & validation, installation, staffing, documentation, training and maintenance. Much use of MS Project. Recent study of qualitative and quantitative risk management. Proposal for Comprehensive (Nuclear) Test Ban Treaty Organisation (CTBTO), Vienna required a very rigorous resource management solution.
| Logica (89-90), DERA - now QinetiQ (99), Compaq (99-00), Siemens (00-01), GKN/Alvis Vehicles (98-99), Bier Group Ltd (91-95), Lewis Peat & Bier Ltd (95-97), Exemplaris (03), Eurocontrol (03-04, EADS - Germany (07)..
| Defence
| Served as Royal Air Force officer in a variety of flying, technical and management posts. Subsequently worked on defence-related projects.
| Royal Air Force (60-89), Logica (89-90), Alvis Vehicles (99), DERA - now QinetiQ (99), Rockwell Collins (05), EADS - Germany (05), Thales Avionics (06-07).
| Operational Analysis
| Reviewed existing studies, carried out data collection, made assumptions, created/used simulation software, created reports and presentations. Used techniques, such as linear programming, numerical methods, PERT (in original form and in form of MS Project), statistics and regression analysis.
| QinetiQ (68-71), Royal Air Force (71-89), Bier Group Ltd (91-95), Lewis Peat & Bier Ltd (95-97), GEC/Marconi (95-97), Siemens (01), Exemplaris (own company) (98-03), Eurocontrol (03-04), Exemplaris (06).
| Aviation
| Navigator - Trained and flew as navigator on Canberra and Vulcan bombers. | Undertook many specialist courses on air navigation, avionics and IT. Flight Trials Officer - Worked on flight testing of Concorde and Harrier equipment at A&AEE Boscombe Down (now DERA/QinetiQ). Sales representative for GEC/Marconi - primary & secondary radar. Proposal manager for Siemens in Brussels. Much knowledge of ATM/ATC in Russian-speaking markets. Analysis of aircraft performance and aircraft flight plans using Java Analysis Tool (Eurocontrol). Royal Air Force (60-68), QinetiQ (68-70), GEC/Marconi (95-97), Siemens (98), Eurocontrol (03-04), Rockwell Collins (05), EADS - Germany (05), Thales Avionics(06-07).
| Radar and ATM Technologies
| Specialist Royal Air Force aviation-related qualifications, including aero-systems, avionics, navigation, Defence Fellowship (Glasgow University). Good general knowledge of Air Traffic Control as an ex-Royal Air Force navigator (Canberra and Vulcan 2). Attended Adam Smith Aviation Conference in Moscow in 1997 and ATC’ 97 Maastricht Exhibition and gained good insight into EATCHIP, EATMS, Eurocontrol ATN Project, RADNET, CFMU, ARTAS and POEMS. As result of ATM work for GEC-Marconi gained good knowledge of technologies, concepts and standards - such as PR, SSR, MSSR, Mode S, NAVSTAR, GLONASS, ADS, FANS, ATN and ICAO. Good knowledge of EAD automated NOTAM distribution system (gained as the Siemens Proposal Manager for Eurocontrol bid) and of the CFMU (gained as the Sales Representative for GEC Marconi in Russian, the CIS and Eastern Europe for - primary and secondary radar). Good knowledge of Eurocontrol aircraft performance-related files, based on work done for TRS078/03.
| Royal Air Force (60-89), Lewis Peat & Bier Ltd (95-97), GEC/Marconi (95-97), Siemens (98), Eurocontrol (03-04), EADS - Germany (07).
| IT Strategy
| Three management posts with responsibilities for IT/communications strategy. Wrote technical papers and procurement specifications for MIS, navigational flight planning systems and telecommunications requirements. MoU and contract negotiations. Technical bid evaluation. Worked with procurement agencies and hardware/systems vendors.
| Royal Air Force (80-89).
| IT Systems
| MSc (Computing Science) Chartered IT Professional (CITP) MBCS (Member of the British Computer Society) CEng (Chartered Engineer). Specialised in military command & control. Created many system specifications for command & control, intelligence and flight planning systems. | Published article in Computer Journal. Wrote Ada Report. Configured Red Hat 7.2 as DNS/FTP/Java Jakarta Tomcat Server. Created lecture notes on Java technologies, computer security and secure e-business, end-to-end IT security, Java/J2EE security, application markup languages and protocols, Unified Modelling Language (UML), CORBA. Royal Air Force (71-89)
Siemens (00-01), Exemplaris (02-03).
| Software Development
| MSc (Computing Science) Chartered IT Professional (CITP) MBCS (Member of the British Computer Society) CEng (Chartered Engineer). | 15+ years analysis/programming. Wrote flight trial analysis software. Software modelling. Implemented RAF HQ system for airspace management using ALGOL 68-RT, based on OOA/OOD/OOP principles. Created relational database. Created other on-line applications. Created company user software to calculate sales income (relational database). 7 years Java - applets, servlets, JSPs, RMI, threads, validation, Unicode, XML (and DOM/SAX conversion). Created much AWT and Swing Java. Documented using UML. Created RMI Java for input validation & server database. Created/maintained website. Created Java Analysis Tool for analysis of aircraft climbs, descents and adherence to ATC constraints. Use of jidl for CORBA generation. Software testing. Some Ada programming. QinetiQ (68-70), Royal Air Force (71-80), Bier Group Ltd (92), Siemens (00-01), Exemplaris (98-09), Eurocontrol (03-04).
| Use of IT
| Continuous use of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Project, Visio, CorelDRAW, PaintShop Pro, Macintosh software and other application software for recent bid management and other work. Much hands-on PC user experience: MS DOS/MS Windows XP, 98, 95 and 3.1.
| All listed clients (86-09).
| Electronic Warfare
| Communications Intelligence (COMINT) and Electronic Intelligence (ELINT) semi-mobile shelter-based Integrated/Tactical Electronic Warfare Systems (IEWs/TEWs); CESM, CECM, RESM and RECM capabilities in communications and radar environments; radio relay inter-communications, simulator training system; HF, VUHF, GSM and satellite signal search, direction finding, interception, analysis and reporting.
| EADS - Germany (05 & 07).
| IT Security
| Component of Defence Fellowship thesis. Managed secure computer data centre. Worked as Principal Security Consultant. Developed concepts for IT Security Managed Service - reviewed 51 implementation steps. Gave lectures on Java and IT Security. Implemented security and java security policy on Linux - Windows configuration.
| Royal Air Force (73-74, 82-85), Logica (89-90), Siemens (00-01), Exemplaris (02).
| ERP
| Evaluate Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) options.
| Inflite Services Ltd (98)
| ILS
| Wrote Integrated Logistics Support (ILS) section for an Integrated Support Plan (ISP) in accordance with DEFSTAN 00, 00-42 and 00-60.
| Rockwell Collins (05), Thales Avionics(06-07)
| Russian Language
| -A- Level followed by 8 year correspondence course. Worked in Russian market for 7 years, using the Russian language for nearly all communication. Achieved high level of competence, including use of specialised technical vocabularies (especially computers, telecommunications, aviation and radar). Created Russian marketing material.
| Alvis Vehicles (99), (GEC Marconi (95-97), Thermo Electron Ltd, Eberline Radiometrie (91-95), Flexibox International (91-95), Whessoe Varec International (91-95), Tesco (94-95), Bier Group Ltd (91-95), Lewis Peat & Bier Ltd (95-97), Exemplaris (06), Guidewire Software (06).
| German Language
| Long-term hobby. Lived in German community for 4+ years. Achieved high level of competence in German. Passed VHS Goethe Institut Mittelstufenprüfung. Translated IT procedures German - English. Used for patent write-ups. Work in German multi-national defence company.
| Royal Air Force (85-89), Compaq (99-00), JRA Technology Ltd (01), EADS (05 & 07).
| Technical Authoring
| Created technical reports. Wrote up technical patents (some German source text). Acted as Chairman and Secretary to meetings. Wrote proposals and specifications. Prepared presentations.Converted English written by native Germans into accurate, grammatical English.
| TTI Telecom & Hutchison 3G (02), JRA Technology Ltd (01), Compaq (99-00), Siemens (00-01), Exemplaris Ltd (02-03), Royal Air Force (71-89), QinetiQ (68-70), Eurocontrol (03-04), EADS - Germany (05 & 07), Thales Avionics(06-07), Serco (08-09).
| General Engineering
| Worked on many proposals for mechanical, electrical and computer/communications equipment within industrial sectors within Russia and other countries of the former Soviet Union.
| Bier Group Ltd (91-95).
| Finance
| Pricing of contracts and proposals. Equipment configuration costing. Budget management. Company Finance. Preparation of Long Term Costings. Financial Modelling. Project costing/pricing for Eurocontrol Project TRS 078/03.
| Royal Air Force (80-89), Compaq (99-00), Siemens (00-01), Exemplaris (98-09), Eurocontrol (03-06).
| Climate Change, Renewable Energy & Wind Turbines
| Climate change and its implications. Renewable energy alternatives and relative costs. Wind turbine projects, associated technology, costing and financing.
| Exemplaris (07-09).
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