During
almost 20 years with the Royal Air Force, Alan was promoted to the
post of senior general and operations manager within the Fighter
Control branch. Between 1993 and 2001 he was appointed to the Management
Board of a number of Royal Air Force Units and was Officer Commanding
the Falkland Islands Air Defence Ground Systems in 1998/9. These
roles have provided him with considerable experience in leadership,
training and development, project management, team-building and
performance improvement. He successfully managed projects to the
value of £50 million and had responsibility for cash budgets
up to £13 million and assets in excess of £30 million.
Alan spent time as the RAF’s principle trainer and examiner
for a number of senior Fighter Control positions. In 1999 he was
responsible for co-ordinating the RAF’s Y2K planning with
the Grampian Emergency Services Planning Committee and continued
to chair a joint emergency planning committee until retirement from
the RAF in December 2001.
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Since becoming a
founding director of Agile Business Consultants in 2003, Alan has
been involved in a number of projects including:
- Business improvement consultant working with senior team leaders
to reduce Non Productive Time in Well Services from 27% to 10%
at a major Oil and Gas Exploration and Production Company
- Design and implementation of team-building workshops for major
project teams.
- Coaching of senior team leaders in major oil and gas operator.
- Facilitation of training courses for client subsea project teams.
- Provision of operational planning advice and support.
- Project Management of the implementation of Primavera P3e as
enterprise Planning tool for Super Major’s Upstream operations
in Europe
In addition, Alan has maintained his training skills, acquired
in the RAF, by becoming a lecturer on Aberdeen University’s
MSc course in Project Management. Alan is a Member of the Institute
of Management Consultants.
Email Alan here.
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| Alan gained his MBA, from the Open University
on the day he left the RAF. Using his previous experience as guidance,
Alan became a management consultant specialising in delivering improved
operational and contingency planning to clients in the UK oil and
gas sector.
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