Space-Based Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance (ISR) Requirements Manager

• Jun 2023 - Present

Space Based Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance (ISR) Requirements Manager to UK Space Command. Responsibilities include: - Development of Space-based ISR capabilities within allocated projects that support activities across the Defence Space Portfolio. - Develop capabilities for UK Space Command by overseeing requirements development and delivery for assured ISR information. - Manage assured ISR information stakeholder relations with the MOD unified customer, other services, units and industry partners. Show less

Commissioned Officer, Corps of Royal Engineers

• May 2009 - Present

Intermediate Command and Staff College (Land)

• Sep 2018 - Mar 2019

Career course required to qualify and prepare for Staff and Command appointments up to and including Lieutenant Colonel.Key modules include:- Staff and Communication Skills.- Command, Leadership and Management.- Global Effects on Defence.- Higher Management of Defence.- Equipment Capability and Acquisition.- Operational planning at the Brigade and Divisional level in a multi-national environment.

Acting Officer Commanding, 8 Armoured Engineer Squadron, Royal Engineers

• Mar 2017 - Jul 2017

- Commanded 8 Armoured Engineer Squadron during maternity leave cover.- Responsible for all aspects of Squadron business for up to 150 personnel in an operationally focused Armoured Engineering Squadron.- Responsible for giving direction and guidance to the planning team for all training activity, ensuring that personnel and equipment were operationally ready at all times.- Successfully wrote a paper on delegation of financial authority outlining several specific recommendations, all of which were subsequently endorsed at Brigade level. Show less

Squadron Second in Command, 8 Armoured Engineer Squadron, Royal Engineers

• Mar 2015 - Mar 2017

- Responsible for the professional and personal management of up to 150 Squadron personnel while managing the conflicting manning demands in a busy operationally focused Squadron.- Responsible for ensuring Squadron personnel are maintained at operational readiness at all times.- Responsible for the force generation of personnel meeting the specific qualifications needed for each manning demand placed upon the Squadron. This has varied from Armoured Warfare to Construction and Artisan trades.- Deployed to Kenya on an austere overseas construction tour for four months as acting Officer Commanding covering the whole spectrum of design, resource and construct. This involved two separate construction sites working to me along with resource and logistical teams spread across two continents and a real life support team in country to meet our basic life support needs.- Management challenges included the requirement to overcome climatic and logistic hurdles as well as ensuring that the 90+ personnel deployed remained motivated, disciplined and focused while separated from their families for an extended period of time.- Fund manager for the Officers' Mess, responsible for budgetary control and spending on Officers' Mess functions and community events. Show less

Operations Officer, 31 Field Squadron, Royal Engineers

• Jan 2013 - Mar 2015

- Planned, resourced and executed multiple exercises and training serials for a squadron of 150 personnel.- Acted as the Regimental Operations Officer, responsible for budgetary forecasting and control of regimental exercises for up to 500 personnel.- Planning officer within a small team on a multi-million pound construction project in the Falkland Islands. This came with major logistical and technical challenges that needed overcoming.- Successfully achieved APM(P) and M_o_R.

Troop Commander, 33 Armoured Engineer Squadron, Royal Engineers

• Nov 2010 - Jan 2013

- Commanded a Troop of 35+ Royal Engineers from regulars to reserves with the full spectrum of artisan trades.- Deployed operationally to Afghanistan which involved working with Danish, American and Afghan forces on several construction and combat engineering tasks.- Responsible for overseeing delivery and payment of locally delivered contracted construction solutions.

Officer Commanding 13 Geographic Squadron

• Jul 2021 - Jun 2023

- Accountable for all aspects of Squadron business for up to 100 personnel in an operationally focused Geographic Squadron held at very high readiness within Defence Intelligence. - Accountable for budgetary planning and control for all training and operational activity. - Responsible for identifying and establishing metrics for technical validation of the business outputs. - Responsible for identifying both contemporary business requirements and future business requirements through regular stakeholder engagement and capability development with our customers, suppliers and parent organisations. - Responsible for the provision of deployed geospatial intelligence support to cross Governmental organisations including the the Cabinet Office, MoD and NATO. - Responsible for providing direction and guidance to the planning team for all training activity, ensuring that personnel and equipment are operationally ready at all times. - Chief Geographic Intelligence Officer to 3rd (UK) Division, the UK’s Warfighting Division, responsible for for assurance of all spatially referenced data used for planning and operations. - Mentor on the NATO Geospatial Orientation Course; NATO's biannual functional induction programme for all GEOINT specialists across the alliance. - Speaker and panellist at the Geospatial Intelligence for National Security (DGI) conference in 2022 & 2023. Show less

Geospaitial Operations Officer

• Mar 2019 - Jun 2021

Geospatial operations and Engineer staff planner within Headquarters Allied Rapid Reaction Corps (HQ ARRC); NATO's only rapidly deployable tactical headquarters held at readiness. Responsibilities include: - Acquisition and provision of all geospatial information to support planning and the decision making process through evidence based analysis and the fusion of geospatial intelligence, meteorological, oceanographic and space based assets. - Provide geospatial and engineer advice to assigned formations, host nation(s), NGOs and other NATO organisations. - Responsible for identifying and defining the technical validation criteria for Geospatial support to NATO’s first accredited Corps Warfighting headquarters in over 30 years. - Coordinate geospatial support and the supply of geospatial information including digital and physical mapping and associated data to HQ ARRC and other formations. - Management of all Geographic Information Systems, both hardware and software within HQ ARRC. - Exploit opportunities for experimentation and innovation with data, insights and data visualisation. - Responsible for the planning, resourcing and delivery of NATO's leading functional annual training exercise for geospatial intelligence practitioners from across the alliance and five eyes community. - Guest speaker on the Geospatial Intelligence MSc delivered by Cranfield University. - Line manager to the data managers and system administrators charged with running and maintaining the permanent and deployable Geographic Information Systems within HQ ARRC. Show less

MSc Student, Geospatial Intelligence

• Sep 2017 - Aug 2018

Read an MSc, with distinction, in Geospatial Intelligence through Cranfield University. Read an MSc, with distinction, in Geospatial Intelligence through Cranfield University.

Ski Host

• Dec 2008 - Apr 2009

- Integrated as a valued member of the resort staff. - Responsible for the welfare of clients and their ski holiday experience. - Integrated as a valued member of the resort staff. - Responsible for the welfare of clients and their ski holiday experience.

Site Manager

• Jun 2004 - Jun 2008

- Site manager on the Centre Court redevelopment project at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club. - Package manager responsible for temporary works on Centre Court for the 2006 championships. - Site manager on the Centre Court redevelopment project at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club. - Package manager responsible for temporary works on Centre Court for the 2006 championships.