Tony Smith

Experience

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  Cranfield University

  Jan 1996 - Apr 1998

  Aerodynamics Research

  Conducted aerodynamic research for DERA and NASA on airship stability &control and swept wing laminar flow control.

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  British Aerospace

  Apr 1998 - Jun 1999

  Aerodynamicist (aero loads and stores integration for Tornado)
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  DERA

  Feb 2003 - Dec 2003

  Technical Manager seconded to UK MOD for Typhoon Tranche 2 acquisition

  Technical lead for the UK procurement of Typhoon Tranche 2 during the early stages of the programme.

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  QinetiQ

  Sept 2004 - Apr 2018

  Responsible for QinetiQ airworthiness and safety advice for helicopter platforms, primarily for the UK MOD, utilising an Engineering organisation of approximately 150 people.Implemented a range of standardisation and quality improvements that increased the DE&S Key Supplier customer satisfaction score substantially by 2015. This included working with senior customers to understand medium and long term programmes to enable better resourcing and skills planning.Promoted collaborative involvement with the customer community, including not only direct customers (eg DE&S) but wider stakeholders such as Design Organisations, Front Line Commands and Release to Service Authorities. Also set up regular technology workshops with Dstl to understand future research priorities.Responsible for the Helicopters engineering strategy and working with individual capability managers to ensure that appropriate skills/competencies will be available for future technology programmes and business strategy.Customer lead for strategic engineering engagement at Team Leader, 1* and 2* levels. Show less Overall responsibility for all technical aspects associated with QinetiQ airworthiness and safety advice to the UK MOD for the Reaper, Desert Hawk III, T-Hawk and Lydian unmanned air systems (UAS). Principle activities are the design of technical solutions, management of the technical team to deliver customer-focused products to time cost and quality, including identifiying and mitigating engineering risks, being the primary customer contact for all technical aspects of those systems and accountability for compliance with all engineering governance requirements.Technical lead for bidding activities responsible for identifying customer requirements and designing innovative, focussed solutions. Show less

  • Technical Lead for Future Combat Air Systems campaign

    Feb 2017 - Apr 2018

  • Head of Engineering/Chief Engineer (Helicopters)

    Oct 2011 - Jan 2017

  • Project Engineer (Unmanned Air Systems)

    Nov 2010 - Oct 2011

  • Project Technical Manager (Unmanned Air Systems)

    Nov 2006 - Nov 2010

  • Aircraft Performance and Flying Qualities engineer

    Jan 2000 - Jan 2007

  • Member of Engineering Sciences Data Unit (ESDU) Aircraft Performance Committee

    Sept 2004 - May 2006
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  UK Defence Solutions Centre

  Apr 2018 - Mar 2019

  Head of Innovation - Air and Space
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  QinetiQ

  Apr 2019 - Mar 2021

  Chief Engineer - Land Autonomy

  System Design Authority and Product Owner for the REASON off-road vehicle autonomy system and the TITAN unmanned ground vehicle. Software development and hardware integration creating an autonomous vehicle for military off uses cases like last mile logistics and infantry squad support. Software developed using Scrum.

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  IrvinGQ

  Mar 2021 - now

  Vice President Of Engineering and Quality

  Accountable for the engineering (R&D vision, design, training and maintenance) and quality functions. Company director.