User:MalFarrelle
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Background & Experience:
1991-2006 Thales Defence Ltd (formerly Racal Radio Ltd)
2002 – 2006 Programme Manager for Land & Joint Systems (http://www.thalesgroup.com/land-joint/)
I was the designated Remote Ground Sensors (RGS) programme manager responsible for
- Legacy Products such as the Covert Local Area Sensor System for Intruder Classification, CLASSIC2000. Product information is available here: http://www.thales-communications.ltd.uk/classic_2000.htm
- PV development of the Miniature Intrusion Sensor (MIS) family of products from Critical Design Review to Production Readiness Review. MIS product information is available at http://www.thales-communications.ltd.uk/mis_defence.htm. MIS comprises a buried passive ground sensor with an internal seismic geophone and provision for external transducers such as magnetometer (primarily to detect vehicles), PIR (personnel and vehicles), Piezo-electric cable (perimeter monitoring of both personnel and vehicles) and make/break devices (to allow connection of proprietary detection devices).
- Initial pre-production and production supply of MIS equipment and production of legacy equipment when Sales Order value exceeded £1M
- Western European Armaments Organisation (WEAO) Eurofinder research programme to exploit Ultrawideband (UWB) technology in applications of Radar and Localisation. I managed this programme from concept to implementation, culminating in a functional demonstration of a 5-node UWB network using Time Domain Evaluation Kits (EVKs).
- The Thales RGS subcontract of Australian Government LAND 53 Project NINOX UGS (primed by US defence contractor Textron Systems). An overview of this programme may be viewed here: http://www.defence.gov.au/dmo/lsd/land53/land53_v2.cfm My budgetary responsibility was in the region of £1M annually. I managed several teams of generally six core staff in a matrix organisation, to meet the various programme requirements. My responsibilities as Programme Manager for Thales Land & Joint Systems included:
- Representing my employer to customers and suppliers at all levels, for example in contract negotiations, progress meetings and programme presentations.
- Planning and controlling work using assigned Work Package Managers.
- Financial Control and Reporting, responsible for material and labour costs, Estimates to Complete and hence Estimates at Completion & Project Margins.
- Production of financial monthly status reports at period end, providing highlight narratives of progress, risks and opportunities.
- Production of detailed engineering reports mid-period, identifying progress, expenditure and technical risks against each work package.
2001 Bid Manager
For Phase 2 of a DERA requirement, Application of Waveform Description Language (WDL). This was a low value (£300K) but strategically important project to implement aspects of a number of WDLs including the WDL developed in phase 1 and proprietary WDLs such as SATURN on a number of radio platforms, including JTRS. I led a small bid team to provide a compliant proposal against extremely tight response time.
2001 Project Manager
For closeout phase of PV funded Cougar 2000 PMR radio products, http://www.thales-communications.ltd.uk/cougar_2000_civil.htm Despite many production runs of these products the programmes had never previously been completed and as a consequence continual demands were made of the engineering team to support the production of what had become legacy products. Most of the required work had been completed but not formalised.
This was my first assignment as PM and I managed a gap analysis of the products against the requirements to transfer the designs to the Post Design Services (PDS) department, tasked the team and oversaw timely and efficient delivery. Some original test results were missing and many design changes had not been introduced formally necessitating a mini Environmental and EMC qualification programme and data pack revision.
1998-2000 Project Segment Manager
of multi-million pound Single Channel Radio Access segment of Canadian DnD TCCCS/IRIS Programme. Assistant Project Manager for TCCCS/IRIS project, value £74M.
1996-1998 Configuration Manager
of TCCCS/IRIS Programme. Specified and implemented Relational Database Configuration Management application to meet stringent CM requirements of this programme. Implemented using Access 2 with VBA and SQL (later ported to Access 97).
1991-1996 Technical Author
Attached to Automatic Test Equipment (ATE) development department, producing HPIB/GPIB-based Test Equipment technical manuals, Production Test Schedules and Operating Instructions.
1988 – 1990 Intel Corporation (UK) Ltd
Freelance Technical Author
Produced various hardware, software and system technical manuals. Wrote the Programmers’ reference manual for the DOS/iRMX operating system (OS released subsequently as iRMX for Windows). Targetted at C Systems Programmers. Responded with a compliant bid to an invitation to tender for the revision of the iRMX operating system’s technical manual suite.
1986 – 1987 Marconi Command and Control Systems
Technical Author
Wrote several Army Equipment Support Publication volumes for the Battlefield Artillery Target Engagement System
1982 – 1986 Ferranti Computer Systems Ltd
Trainee Technical Author
Formally trained as a technical author. Assisted in the maintenance of AvP and JSP service manuals for various Naval and Royal Air Force systems.
Education:
- Dip Comp (Open) with Distinction, Open University 1999
- BTEC HNC – Electronic Engineering, Stockport College of Technology 1986
- BTEC ONC – Electrical Engineering, College of Further Education 1984
- Prince II certified – Foundation 2006
Expertise:
- Project Management, Configuration Management, Software Development, Technical Authorship, Relational Theory.
- Software Languages: AutoLisp, DXF, Lisp, PostScript, C, VBA, SQL, Pascal, Z80, 6502, 8086, 6800 and 68000 assemblers and machine code
- Development Applications: MS Access, AutoCAD
- Operating Systems: DOS, ROM BIOS, iRMX
