Experience

Squarcle

• France
• Business Consulting and Services

• Manager

  • Oct 2023 - Present

  Bristol, England, United Kingdom A new dawn opens with the move to Squarcle and the opportunity to build on my years of experience in defence change in Defence and other sectors.

• Manager

  • Oct 2023 - Present

  Bristol, England, United Kingdom A new dawn opens with the move to Squarcle and the opportunity to build on my years of experience in defence change in Defence and other sectors.



Joint CBRN Centre of Excellence

• Relationship Director

  • Nov 2022 - Jul 2023

  Vyškov, South Moravia, Czechia I lead a team of subject matter experts providing specialist and technical assessments of Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear defence issues. Responsible for a change programme to reflect changes in the European security environment to deliver benefits through improved alignment of outputs to NATO's security needs.



NATO Allied Joint Force Command Brunssum

• Armed Forces
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Executive Officer

  • Nov 2019 - Nov 2022

  Netherlands Responsible for international team building, resource management and complex problem solving. Responsible for coordination and direction of 3 business units employing a total of 140 personnel. Reports directly to Board level. Business units were responsible for: • Development of new strategic planning to address the revised security environment in Europe reflecting the adoption of a new Strategic Concept for NATO and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine • Delivery of Military Partnership… Show more Responsible for international team building, resource management and complex problem solving. Responsible for coordination and direction of 3 business units employing a total of 140 personnel. Reports directly to Board level. Business units were responsible for: • Development of new strategic planning to address the revised security environment in Europe reflecting the adoption of a new Strategic Concept for NATO and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine • Delivery of Military Partnership Programme valued at €750K per annum supporting 8 partner nations. • Delivery of collective and individual training across North-Western Europe valued at €2.6M per annum delivering distributed training to a support population of 20 external business units and over 10000 personnel. Show less



EUTM

• Chief Support Advisor to Somali General Staff

  • Nov 2018 - Nov 2019

  Somalia Responsible for leading a small multi-national team developing the processes and procedures of the Somali MoD and Army. Functional lead for advising on the development of: • a defence procurement process and change agendas to improve transparency and accountability in: • logistics, • financial management, • personnel management services. Initiation of projects to: • create an Somali National Army health system encompassing primary care, pre-hospital emergency care… Show more Responsible for leading a small multi-national team developing the processes and procedures of the Somali MoD and Army. Functional lead for advising on the development of: • a defence procurement process and change agendas to improve transparency and accountability in: • logistics, • financial management, • personnel management services. Initiation of projects to: • create an Somali National Army health system encompassing primary care, pre-hospital emergency care, casualty evacuation, hospital care, medical command structures and medical logistics • address systemic issues of Arms and Ammunition Control in line and in order to address the UN Security Council Imposed Arms Embargo under UNSCR 2094 • introduce electronic document transfer and authorisation to improve accountability and transparency for employment records and budgetary control This position involved working with UN, WHO, World Bank, Mines Action Group, HALO Trust, HM Embassy Mogadishu, DfID Show less



British Army

• Armed Forces
• 700 & Above Employee

• Regional Logistics Manager

  • Nov 2015 - Nov 2018

  York, United Kingdom Responsibilities include: - Logistic concept development and contingency planning - Organisation design for staff structures (management teams) and delivery teams - Development of contracted support solutions - International engagement with NATO and Partner Nations for delivery of multi-national forces groupings - Resource management - Contract monitoring and assurance - delivery of logistic services and capability to 49 UK points of presence and an average of 14 deployed… Show more Responsibilities include: - Logistic concept development and contingency planning - Organisation design for staff structures (management teams) and delivery teams - Development of contracted support solutions - International engagement with NATO and Partner Nations for delivery of multi-national forces groupings - Resource management - Contract monitoring and assurance - delivery of logistic services and capability to 49 UK points of presence and an average of 14 deployed points of presence delivering Operational outputs and Defence Engagement tasks Key skills: - Contingency planning - Lead multi-disciplinary teams - Resource management - Project management - Organisational design - Contract requirement setting Show less



UK Ministry of Defence

• United Kingdom
• Defense and Space Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Equipment Demand Planner

  • Nov 2013 - Nov 2015

  Andover Responsible for matching demand with the reality of political and financial constraints to deliver the optimum equipment solutions for meeting the training and emergent operational needs of the British Army.



2 MEF, Regional Command South West

• Security Force Assistance Strategist

  • Mar 2013 - Sep 2013

  Helmand, Afghanistan As the lead strategist and Executive Officer for Security Force Assistance (SFA) in the USMC led Regional Command Headquarters in South-west Afghanistan I was responsible for all planning efforts in support of the 450+ advisors fielded across Helmand and Nimroz provinces. Responsibilities included: - establishing the conditions-based approach to changing the engagement strategy between ISAF and Afghan security forces. - Engagement as the lead SFA strategist in all basing and force… Show more As the lead strategist and Executive Officer for Security Force Assistance (SFA) in the USMC led Regional Command Headquarters in South-west Afghanistan I was responsible for all planning efforts in support of the 450+ advisors fielded across Helmand and Nimroz provinces. Responsibilities included: - establishing the conditions-based approach to changing the engagement strategy between ISAF and Afghan security forces. - Engagement as the lead SFA strategist in all basing and force posture issues. - Liaison with UK and USMC force generators for future force requirements for Advisors. - Assisting in the planning efforts to close BASTION whilst ensuring the advising efforts in support of 215 Maiwand Corps (Afghan Army) and Helmand Police could be maintained as outputs. - Lead for internal process reviews including the organisational design of the SFA staff Show less



MOD UK

• United Kingdom
• Wellness and Fitness Services

• Head of Contractor Deployment and Management

  • Aug 2010 - Mar 2013

  Abbeywood, Bristol Responsible for engagement across Defence and with the Defence industry for the procedures for delivering contractors to operational theatres. Compliance with UK legislation, authorship of UK Defence Standard, stakeholder management across the MoD. Key skills. - stakeholder management - communication - policy writing - leading diverse teams

• Sustainability Planner & Requirement Manager

  • Aug 2006 - Sep 2010

  Andover, England, United Kingdom / Bristol I was responsible for the development of processes to measure the sustainability of British Army equipment (FE@S). Achieved relief for British Army of 200M GBP relating to the recapitalization of Urgent Operational Requirements from OP TELIC (Iraq). Requirement definition for land based equipment support solutions covering traditional, contracting for availability contracts and innovative solutions to meet the emergent changes in Defence planning, funding and structures. The value… Show more I was responsible for the development of processes to measure the sustainability of British Army equipment (FE@S). Achieved relief for British Army of 200M GBP relating to the recapitalization of Urgent Operational Requirements from OP TELIC (Iraq). Requirement definition for land based equipment support solutions covering traditional, contracting for availability contracts and innovative solutions to meet the emergent changes in Defence planning, funding and structures. The value proposition of the project (Armoured Vehicle Support Transformation) was 650M GBP to outsource the maintenance, repair and inventory management for the UK armoured vehicle fleet. Show less

• Director Training

  • Mar 2002 - Aug 2004

  London/Croydon Head of a dispersed training team planning and delivering training across 9 locations in the Greater London area. Responsible for a £1M pa training budget to deliver both individual competency and trade training as well as Departmental functional level training both in the UK and overseas.



4LSR

• Communications & Training Manager (Signals Officer)

  • 1998 - 2000

  Abingdon Responsible for establishment of HF & VHF voice and data communications systems. Also responsible for individual training design and delivery and supporting the resourcing and design of group trading and development opportunities