Neil Fry

Bringing a new hydrogen fuel cell multi-rotor UAS to market, via designing and implementing the strategy and makrketing for North America and in EU and Asia. Role includes managing global partnerships and looking for new technology and innovation, as well as de-risking the supply chain for NDAA and Blue list compliance.

Global lead for Innovation Management of new UAS/drone systems, process and services

Manage our complex programmes and team members in both enhancing our BVLOS (Beyond Visual Line of Sight) capability forward for North Sea UAS operations through software, communication systems, operational development, and technology improvements. This included successfully delivering a two-year Innovate UK Smart grant of over $2Mn and PoC for drone delivery to a remote island with grant funding.

Management Consulting

Strategic projects responsbility on global Ford Commercial Vehicles

• Develop strategic relationships and opportunities. • Strategy planning for future vehicle powertrain technologies. • Change Management philosophy to bring about business process improvement. • Lean management of agile teams to gain the most effective and cost effective solution. Often use Six Sigma and Continuous Improvement as a guiding principle. • Negotiation of contract and engineering deliverables. • Conflict resolution externally and internally to achieve the One Ford vision.

Consultant giving business turnaround services to the company's CEO.

Initial requirement from client was to identify and developing a commercial strategy entry into a new sector. • Developed innovation and market selection criteria to allow focus on a specific undefined commercial uses. • Identified and segmented potential entry strategies and analysed their demands. • Performed competitive and environment analysis as well as market analysis. • Created cost and benefits analysis that would be used to approach prospective customers. • Produced white paper of analysis.

Handled high profile clients (B2B and B2C) included Lockheed Martin, Boeing, QinetiQ, Ministry of Defence, RAF, and RAAF. Career progression: Aerospace Design Engineer, Flight Dynamics Engineer, and Senior Aerospace Engineer. Project Manager of five technical staff in a £2.8mil project to deliver a product to automate calculating aircraft flight loads and fatigue damage as part of the future aircraft certification (C-130J Hercules). Exceeded all regulatory requirements.

Project bid team leader designing and presenting special mission business jet conversion projects for Signals Intelligence, Anti-Surface warfare and troop transport with a tight timeline to tender. Defined the project plan to meet the customers’ scope, organised staff resources, and led the customer/sub-contractors. The bids were selected by the international customers to move to the next selection stage.

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and Aerodynamics, Project Management, Control Systerms, Structures and Materials.