Edward Goddard

Head of Mission Management Systems UK. Responsible for strategy, technical, people, investment, delivery and budget oversight. This covers overall responsibility for three groups through our management team for: Engineering Simulation and Synthetic Environment, Airborne Software and Mission System and Programmable Elements Assurance. Selected to participate in the Leonardo global Accelerate leadership programme, successfully completed programme participation.

Technical Management. Leadership of the Simulation and Human Machine Interface Department UK. Responsible for definition, design, development integration and testing of Synthetic Environment products and services to support customers and the business. Primary responsibilities. Strategy development for simulation capability, identification and capture of new business, department workload and resource management, professional development of staff, oversight of vendor activity, delivery of company management and HSE responsibilities, briefing and engagement at executive level, budget management and proposal delivery.

Product Marketing focus. Supporting competitive analysis of existing and developing products within the competitive environment. Leading commercial response to customer enquiry for Unmanned Air Systems. Support to Unmanned Air Systems Development of Technology Roadmap. Secondment to assess, define and communicate executive level company strategy for long term company development. Selected to participate in NATO Next Generation Rotorcraft study. Working in collaboration with international colleagues to reach consensus on technology and platform level recommendations.

First class consultancy environment working with a diverse range of clients and sectors (defence, rail, energy, aerospace) with a focus on technology management and technical due diligence. Progressive increase in responsibility through development from Senior Engineer, Consultant and Senior Consultant. Highlights include organisational capability assessment in the nuclear sector, transition support for technical authority in submarines, investment appraisal for new technology in rail and senior secondment as interim corporate head of engineering for large enterprise transformation. A great environment - intellectual challenge, the stretch of broad client problems and contribution to company growth in new service offerings. Responsible for internal research team, working in collaboration with University of Bristol Systems Centre, applying and developing advanced Systems Engineering Techniques from academia directly into industrial commercial applications.

Undergraduate engineering apprentice Sponsored undergraduate, with technical experience in avionics, flight controls, blade design, technical design production support and electrical systems Applied final year project at University of Bath - The Unmanned Lynx Helicopter Engineer within Technology and Simulation following graduation

Research to develop, apply and test novel methods to enhance technological innovation in engineering firms. Engineering Doctorate sponsored by Frazer-Nash Consultancy