Graham Canty
Digital Transformation Programme Manager at Royal Air Force (RAF)- Claim this Profile
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Credentials
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Level 6 Leadership and Management
ILMSep, 2015- Nov, 2024
Experience
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Royal Air Force (RAF)
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Armed Forces
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700 & Above Employee
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Digital Transformation Programme Manager
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Jan 2022 - Present
Managing a programme of Digital Transformation projects within the RAF to realise organisational benefits of bespoke software development and data products to achieve information exploitation.The programme is delivering bespoke and commercially available software to a host of business areas across the RAF to automate and digitise process. Working as a senior manager within the RAF's Digital Services organisation the role oversees data and software / application development specialists working in Agile frameworks to deliver products in Scrum ways of working. The transformation programme is newly set-up and involves financial and commercial management of contracts to deliver digital skills to the RAF not currently available organically within the organisation. Benefits management against high level financial investment including dynamic resource augmentation to deliver working software products to provide immediate, customer oriented solutions.Oversight of DevSecOps team sustaining digital application for the orgnisation.PMO setup and continued maturity to govern and cohere the programme and its constituent projects.Portfolio engagement and demand management design to shape the structure and high level processes of the organisation. Show less
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Digital Acquisitions Manager and Capability Development
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Apr 2021 - Jan 2022
Defining and maturing the Royal Air Force's communications requirements into wider MOD programmes such as;Next generation future satellite communication programme; Skynet satellite communications.Next Generation Communications network and requirements setting for a pan-Defence digital backboneCross domain interoperability to foster a Single Information Environment for MOD, GOV and Coalition partners.Supporting the production and coherence of a Communications and Defensive Cyber Capability Management Plan for the Royal Air Force.Providing subject matter expertise to Royal Air Force Capability Acquisition Teams through understanding of emerging technologies and organisation requirements.Created High and Low Level conceptual / architecture designs, delivering focused solutions to meet the demands of the Royal Air Force.Directing Air Force-funded communications workstrands of science and technology research and disseminating outputs to enable capability development.Implemented strategic plans to maintain IT and Communications consistency across a diverse set of Air Platforms and communications capabilities. Show less
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Officer Commanding Communications Services Flight
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Mar 2019 - Apr 2021
Oversight and planning for the technology modernisation and contracted delivery of communication services and secure information systems. Leading a team of 40 RAF personnel in IT Service management, Cyber security, Radio & Radar Maintenance, Photography, Deployed communications support and Cryptography whilst sustaining appropriate quality assurance, training and team management.Key outputs throughout this role are as follows;Conducted the role of IT Security Officer and Information Manager to support the Senior Information Officer (SIO) in achieving compliance across 30+ communications systems and enterprise information repositories.Supervising the organisation's ICT and telecommunications expenditure and coordinating the annual forecasting of spending for the Station.Ensuring adherence to IT Security, Information Management and Data Protection regulations across the organisation and engaging the Senior Information Risk Owner (Director) to resolve issues and set appropriate courses of action.Holding engineering authority for the maintenance of Airfield navigational aids and providing maintenance assurance oversight. Show less
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Forward Deployed Communications Planning Officer
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Aug 2018 - Mar 2019
The role entailed management of communications projects, contingent planning, and communications support across 7 operating bases across the Middle East, ensuring changes were made on a sustainable and cost analysed basis. The following were routine requirements of the role.Conduct of communications feasibility studies and requirement analysis across the Middle Eastern operating footprint and provide specialised reports to the financial authority and the Permanent Joint HQ for the MOD.Business continuity planning for the forward organisation consisting of approx 3,000 staff employed in multi-national working teams. Co-ordinate expenditure for communications assets and services with a routine budget of £0.5M pa.Provide managerial support to a team of 3 communications specialists distributed across Middle Eastern operating locations. Show less
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Tactical Communications Planning Officer
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Nov 2015 - Aug 2018
Oversight of unit communications infrastructure to support the deployment of scaled Tactical Air Control Teams into austere operating environments. This involved the planning, deployment and management of radio and radar systems used in Aircraft Control. The role also required management of the following;Synthetic training equipment and simulator services to deliver training to the organisation.Capability lead for the development of synthetic training end development of communications technology for the control of airborne platforms.Management of Cryptographic inventories and controlling logistical elements of deploying and resupply of assets.Organisation Information Manager and provision of Information Assurance. Implementation lead for new IT services and Microsoft Office 365 products to provide digital automation to the organisation Show less
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Initial Officer Training
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Jan 2015 - Oct 2015
Initial Officer Training conducted at RAF College Cranwell. Gateway to becoming an officer in the RAF. Training is conducted over 9 months and includes:Leadership & Teamwork.Written & Verbal Communications.Airpower Studies.Physical and Mental Development.IOT prepares potential officers for demanding leadership roles and as such, IOT is the first step towards becoming an effective and credible leader.
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BSc Engineering Management Study
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Oct 2013 - Dec 2014
RAF sponsored Bachelors Degree in Engineering Management (Communications Electronics) delivered through Lincoln University accreditation.
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Information Management and Local Network Manager
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Jan 2010 - Oct 2013
Conducting department wide Information Management and providing upskilling to a community of 2k personnel employed at RAF Odiham. Within a team of 3, we led the organisational change to adopt an enterprise IT systems employed by Defence. This included vast amounts of data migration and conducting domain wide administrative tasks including migration sequencing, record keeping, change management, Netowork administration, fault diagnosis and operational support to Defence activities.
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Phase 1 & 2 Training RAF
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Oct 2008 - Jan 2010
Recruit training at RAF Halton and Phase 2 training to become and IT Technician in the Royal Air Force. This consisted of CISCO CCNA networking modules, electronic, radio and radar fundamentals as well as basic hardware and software diagnostic training.
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Education
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University of Lincoln
BSc(Hons) Engineering Management (Communications Electronics), Engineering/Industrial Management
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