Independent Consultant/Business Analyst
Flight Operations & ATM
مجموع سنوات الخبرة :14 years, 1 أشهر
Independent Consultant/Business Analyst, Flight Operations & ATM 2012-Present
◇ Providing strategic advice and support to clients on all aspects of Flight Operations, ATM & airline start-ups, including certification.
Eurocontrol - European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation, Brussels 2011-2012
Senior Business Analyst
Strategic advisor on IT/M2M procedures & interface design for the Flexible Use of Airspace in partnership with ANSPs, Computer Flight Planning Service Providers, civil and military airspace users
◇ Enhanced a system to allow civil airlines access to unused military airspace, to enable more cost efficient and environmentally beneficial routings for civil airlines.
◇ Re-modelled the existing business case to simplify the process for the key stakeholders saving them both.
◇ Worked pro-actively to enable early roll-out
Navtech-EAG - Stockholm, Sweden 2010
Aeronautical Analyst
◇ Actively revised & improved navigational database veracity to meet increasing navigational (PBN) demands and increased fuel efficiency.
◇ Specifically recruited to audit, correct & activate navigation databases and copies of state Aeronautical Information Publications for migration from a mainframe computer to the cloud.
◇ Provided Flight planning & operational support (helpdesk) for customer airlines to ensure that they were fully compliant.
\[**Career Note: Continued Freelance Consultancy & volunteered for various charitable organisations 2009\]
Ruslan - World-wide leafor der in the transportation by air, of outsize/heavy cargo loads 2008-2009
Flight Operations Support, AIS & Route Panning, Stansted Airport
◇ Provided full operational support to ensure safe and expeditious operations
◇ Improved fleet performance by providing audited aeronautical information to aircrews & operations staff.
◇ Reduced flight costs by ca. $1000 per flight by recalculating route plans in near real-time to reflect the latest wind & temperature forecast, thereby enhancing fuel economy and optimizing crew duty time.
Independent Consultant, UAE & Asia 2003-2008
◇ Trained & mentored staff according to FAA Dispatch License regulations for customer airlines.
◇ Deployed & implemented new computerised flight planning systems & provided training for customer airlines.
◇ Adopted data-driven fuel management & cost index strategies to manage fuel and time costs proactively.
◇ Audited operational documentation & Operations Manuals for accuracy, currency & legality.
Qatar Airways - International Airline, Doha. 2001-2003
Project Coordinator, Implementation & Integration of new flight planning system
◇ Acquired, deployed & integrated a new $10 million computerised flight planning & support system, based on comprehensive requirements, business case and cost benefit analyses.
◇ Negotiated a substantial discount on the system and delivered the project ahead of schedule and under budget.
◇ Installed and Upgraded International high-speed telecommunications links with back-ups to remote servers in Asia.
◇ Simplified training & documentation for Flight Operations personnel, as part of the overall change management and safety assurance programme.
◇ Reduced operating costs: established a Fuel Monitoring Programme and implemented Variable Cost Index to optimise fuel economy and punctuality, supported by post-flight data analysis.
◇ As a member of the Flight Operations Management Team, regularly briefed and updated all concerned to ensure the delivered product matched the planned/revised KPIs.
◇ Technical expert: successfully supported ETOPS, low-visibility operations and RVSM certification.
◇ Delivered Leading edge Technical Support to flight crews, performance engineers & flight operations managers to provide best and safest seasonal routes.
◇ Navigation and FMS Data Services unit founded & integrated with Company Aeronautical Information Services to improve safety and control fuel costs.
EARLIER CAREER
Flight Operations/Fleet Controller (Qatar Airways) 2000-2003 Senior Aircraft Dispatcher (Britannia Airways) 1999-2000 FAA Licensed Aircraft Dispatcher (Lauda Air Luftfahrt AG) 1995-1999 Clinical & Technical Manager (Asir Hospital, Saudi Arabia) 1992-1994
FAA Aircraft Dispatcher Licence, Ft Lauderdale, USA 1994
City & Guilds of London Institute: Airport Operations and Flight Dispatch, Redhill, UK 1993
BDS University of London 1974-1979
BSc (Hons), Comparative Anatomy & Pharmacology, University of London. 1971-1974 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOMENT
