Simon Winstone

- Head-up complex project from conceptual design through development, manufacture, installation, testing and certification. - 30mio USD contract value. Responsible for total project profit & loss. - Significant schedule and cost savings over similar project benchmarks. - Lead multi-disciplinary team of project managers and project team members. - Management of relationship with VIP customer - general communications, managing expectations, negotiations, additional work requests.

- Worked on series of business development projects from inception through execution. - Involved in developing company sales strategies and direction. - Conceptual development of projects, planning, stakeholder engagement, bids. - Extensive travel to companies worldwide.

- Build relationships with client PM, production and engineering teams. - Resource, plan, coordinate and manage our multi-location supplier teams. - Improved relationship with client and also improved key KPI's. - Process improvements. - Ensured responsive and continuous support to client.

- Led multi-disciplinary team based at supplier office. - Later performed hand-over of project to new supplier then managed on behalf of client. - Planned, managed, tracked & reviewed tasks. Motivated staff to deliver and understand client priorities and milestones.

- Led 25 man Engineering team (spread across various European offices) from project commencement to delivery. - Represented company at client meetings. - Presentations to client Senior Management.

- Engineering with high-technology composite materials - Stealth technology - Development work for Fifth-Generation Fighter Jet

- Engineer on various projects - Concept design - Design for manufacture - Composite and metallic airframe engineering - Systems Engineering