Greater Guildford Area, United Kingdom
Experienced professional, with 15 years’ experience in space project management, mission systems engineering and technical leadership. Over the past decade I have held engineering and project management roles on several European and British flagship programmes including Galileo FOC/Batch 3, Lunar Pathfinder, LCNS Moonlight and several Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) programmes. Throughout this time, I have gained a wealth of experience in technical leadership, bid management, large-scale programme management, and a deep understanding of the space project delivery life cycle, from Phase 0 to Phase E. I have also demonstrated successful management of international supply chains and delivery teams, collaboration with institutional and commercial partners to architect and deliver complex end-to-end systems, and effective stakeholder management of internal leadership teams and external entities such as ESA, JPL, NASA, MOD, and the European Commission. I am a strategic thinker who can strike a balance between technical capability and commercial awareness to influence large programme teams and drive operational efficiency. I am able to take a wide view, simplify complexity and use this perspective to creatively solve problems and identify opportunities.
• Management of the UK Optical Centre of Competence (a joint SSTL and Airbus initiative), responsible for establishing and implementing the trans-national operational framework agreement for this initiative and the construction/commissioning of world-class optical payload manufacturing facilities in Guildford. • Project Management of the TRUTHS Space Segment (Phase B2/C0) and Ground Segment (Phase B1) projects, and other Non-Mission-Projects and T&M contracts with Airbus and General Atomics. • Programme Management of all optical payload projects within SSTL, including ESA Harmony TIRI Phase B1 and InCubed Precision. • Bid management of optical mission and non-mission prospects.
• Principal Engineer within the Chief Engineering Office, responsible for establishing business quality management and engineering processes and supporting business development opportunities. • Mission Lead for the AZALEA programme, responsible for technical strategy and end-to-end system architecture of a dual-purpose (military and civil/commercial) IOC ISR cluster of satellites, featuring EO, RF and SAR sensors, Software-Defined Radio and Edge-Processing payloads capable of ML/AI Application hosting and autonomous on-board object detection, recognition and detection. • Derivation of user requirements, mission, and system requirements, ISR use cases, operational concept, WBS, WPDs and DRDs for programme milestones. • Coordination of engineering teams (>80 engineers) across In-space Missions and BAE Systems (Integrated Project Team). • Technical leadership and technical proposal coordination for commercial and MOD (ISTARI) mission ITT proposal submissions. Technical Assurance for other In-Space Missions (review of milestone documentation and ad-hoc project support).
SSTL Lunar Engineering Manager (Mar 2020 – Mar 2022), responsible for: o Technical strategy and delivery across the lunar business line, reporting directly to the Engineering Director. o Driving business use-case creation and customer negotiations alongside engineering management duties for the Lunar Pathfinder mission (an in-orbit service demonstrator for communications relay services between Earth and Moon). o Generation of user requirements and Service Level Agreements, and mission requirements for Lunar Pathfinder. o Definition of user requirements, use cases, mission and system level requirements, CONOPS, trade-off and system analyses, and the baseline technical solution for the LCNS Moonlight end-to-end system. o Generation of Systems Engineering, PA/QA, Technology Development, and Implementation Plans for the follow-on Phase B2/C/D/E1 activities. o Leadership of international industrial consortium, and management of stakeholder/user relationships. o Technical interface to ESA, JPL, NASA and other commercial/institutional customers for coordination of partnership agreements, launch procurement and service delivery. Galileo Technical Lead, Project Deputy & Functional Manager (Jul 2012 – Mar 2020), responsible for: o Representing the Galileo Programme at customer and business reviews. o Manufacture, integration (to satellite & ground systems) and system verification of all FOC/B3 Payloads. o In-orbit Commissioning and in-service engineering support to the Galileo FOC fleet. o Technical coordination of all Galileo Milestone reviews, including IPSR, EQSRs, KO, PDRs, CDRs, QARs, ARs, TRR/TRBs, FRRs, IOCRs and Management Reviews. o Timely assessment, analysis and resolution of Payload non-compliances and in-orbit anomalies/safe modes; and the presentation of these analyses at NRBs, ARBs and ESA Inspector General’s Office. o Writing of technical and commercial documentation, stakeholder management, and resource management of GNSS Signals engineering team.
Systems Engineer supporting the ESA/SNSB REXUS/BEXUS sounding rocket and stratospheric balloon experiment programme, including evaluation and down-selection of experiment proposals, coordinating experimentation manufacture and vehicle integration, launch campaigns and project reporting.