ABILITIES
Provision of general and specific advice on and practical assistance with:
Business management issues such as Technology Search, Location & Transfer, partnering arrangements, mergers and acquisitions;
Formulating Business Development Strategies
Interpreting Government requirements and policies especially in the Technology and Maritime contexts
Development and presentation of tenders and proposals
EXPERIENCE AND ACHIEVEMENTS
Sollerta (Since 2000)
Assisting a supplier to negotiate and implement a Prime Contractor regime for a major defence procurement programme
Advising a major UK dockyard on changes to its business processes and working practices
Contributing to a number of working parties investigating new technologies, for example the Department of Trade & Industries's Marine Foresight Panel and its task group for fast commercial ships
Editing the MOD's Journal of Defence Science
Providing Quality Assurance management for a number of European marine technology projects concerned mainly with coastal water quality
Creating and managing 'Nereus Technologies Limited' a consultancy specialising in advising start-up Companies
MOD (Before 2000)
Building up sales from £2.8M to £8M, established DERA Haslar as a Science Park with commercial tenants
Director of the Haslar Marine Technology Park Gosport, responsible for:
Marketing spare capacity and filtering applicants to ensure synergy with DERA's activities on the site.
Mentoring DERA Science Park Managers;
Establishing general principles of operation, particularly for technology transfer issues.
Marinetech South Ltd (as a Director), a company jointly owned with local universities to carry out graduate-level research for public bodies.
Member of the New Ventures team with responsibility for setting up the Defence Diversification Agency (DDA) involving recruiting staff, marketing it within the Ministry of Defence and to other Government departments
Head of DERA Hydrodynamics, Signatures and Engineering Systems Department (1994 - 1996)
British Embassy Washington Attaché (Naval Science & Technology) (1991 - 94)
Project Manager / Technical Manager for Submarine Sonars, Acoustic countermeasures and the Advanced Sea Mine (1985 - 1991)
Research in Mine Hunting and Disposal (1982 - 1985)
Management of MOD Noise Ranges and Analysis (1979 - 1982)
Research in Signal Processing, Acoustics, Oceanographic aspects for new generation of torpedo (1967 - 1979).
