David Woods

Experience

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  UK government

  May 2005 - Apr 2021

  Operations officer

  With a wide ranging background in HR, leading cross functional teams, communications, logistics, resource planning and capacity building. Experienced in actively managing team development, optimising staffing, and ensuring employee readiness to meet policy and operational demands.

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  The London Management Company

  May 2014 - Aug 2021

  Director

  Lived the business and people Ops challenges of doubling key metrics every 6 months. While making decisions, transforming business processes, setting sales strategies concurrently to hiring new employees, and upholding regulatory and compliance standards and quality control. A proven track record in leading a business towards profitability, managing and developing teams while empowering high performance against a backdrop of change, transformation and continuous improvement.

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  UK government

  Jul 2021 - now

  Plans and Strategy

  Significant experience and training in project management, leadership, coaching, team development, communication and strategic planning. Led a diverse technology partnership from industry, the Army and government that used machine learning and artificial intelligence to model how weak signals from diverse data sets can signpost events.