John Woodman
Project Engineering Manager @Leonardo
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WORK HISTORY
Project Engineering Manager @Leonardo
Basildon, GB
Hostile Artillery Locating Systems (Acoustic weapon locating) & Modular Integrated Protection Systems - Active Protection Systems (MIPS - APS) & Sensor testing facility + SPO (Software Product Owner) for the enduring capability development and FPECM soldier systems. HF communications primarily for land based applications.*Lifecycle management (LCM derived from APM for phase reviews and SDLCs and DRs for Eng milestone setting)*Workflow management *Stakeholder management *Configuration management *Creation and management of lifecycle management documentation *Application of gate reviews (design and phase reviews)*Application of the stages of Physical hardware design process (mech and elec), common software process framework and milestone firmware design process as supporting evidence for product maturity for DRs.*Project delivery*Requirements analysis and management*Cost account management *V&V*Coordination and input to business winning activities*Identification and management of background, developed and foreground IP*Reports & returns including but not limited to DRs, CSRs, Eng SOAP*Leading bid work and the creation of TPS, CPs and EoIs.
EDUCATION
Royal Military Academy Sandhurst
Military and Strategic Leadership
University of Staffordshire
BEng (Hons), Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering
Redden Court Senior School
High School
School of Electrical and Aeronautical Engineering
NVQ 3, Electrical and Electronics Engineering/Maintenance
The Open University
BSc (Hons) Computing & IT, Computer Systems, Networking and Communications
Army Foundation College
High School, Technicial Foundation Maths, Engineering Drawing & Materials, ICT, ECDL, Bench Fitting, Key Skills.
Chartered Management Institute
Management and Leadership
ABOUT JOHN WOODMAN
BSc (Hons) BEng (Hons) CEng MIETProject Engineering ManagerChampioning DevOps and Agile Engineering best practices.Multi-discipline workforce leader.Work packages breakdown and management.Working through PV and customer funded Systems Engineering activities such as integration projects, creation of technical documentation such as work instructions and mod/deviation instructions,(D) FMEA and reliability calcs. Production of TPs, CPs and EoIs in support of bids and delivery of projects.Use of systems engineering life cycles across various SDLC models and project management methodologies.Submitted through the frameworks to DSTL S&T for procurement;* WSRF (Weapons Sector Research Framework)(operated by Qinetiq)* Serapis * ASTRID (Analysis for Science and Technology Research In Defence)(operated by BAES Corda)Elicitation of requirements, decomposition/derivation of requirements into single testable elements, top level and detailed system design, creation of requirements specs for software and hardware, disseminating to the relevant design authorities/functional leads. Lead major requirements traceability activities.Matching milestones to deliverables in support of creation of engineering management plans - application of critical path and review gates.System requirements and object orientated system design. Previous use of UML + SysML in modeling and definition of the problem and solution domains and the application of MBSE principles.Software testing (UAT), requirements derivation and modelling of the problem and solution domains. Creation of requirements specifications. LTS of systems. FAT and SAT experience. Lifecycle management of products - s/w and h/w.Interests in use of gaming engines for modelling and simulation particularly for the creation of synthetic environments for M&S for end to end performance modelling and training use cases. Including Unity and VBS3/4.Frequent use of tools of the trade such as IBM DOORS, Atlassian JIRA/Confluence/Bitbucket/Bamboo, MSP, Cameo MagicDraw, Azure DevOps Boards, Git, SvN, Visual Studios.Potentially relevant & historic/qualifications/experiencesIOSH Managing SafelyITILv4 foundation passAzure DevOps developer associate (203)CCNA Routing and Switching Challenger 2 Electronics Rapier FS’C’BOWMAN systems maintainer and userPAT Former British Army - REME Electronics Technician, worked on RADAR, Ground Penetrating RADAR imaging Systems, Challenger 2 Main Battle Tank, Communications Systems, Weapons Systems and vehicle electrics, network engineering.
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