Tiffany Kite

Experience

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  HM Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS)

  Jun 2002 - Mar 2012

  Finance/ Projects/ Admin Officer
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  Advent Project Management

  Feb 2014 - Jun 2015

  Assistant Project Manager
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  Kent Periscopes Limited

  Jun 2015 - Feb 2018

  Project Manager

  Part of the Business Group of a world-class leader of sights and observation systems for armoured fighting vehicles, with responsibility for ensuring the smooth delivery of high profile programmes (often in excess of £10m) as well as leading and managing many internal business improvement activities across functional boundaries. Some of my duties included –• Creating and managing project plans (using MS Project) from the design conception phase through to purchasing, operations, scheduling and production • Financial Project Requirements - working closely with the Finance Manager to support the delivery of the financial strategy and other management accountancy and credit control functions• Chairing regular project progress reviews with both internal and external stakeholders where necessary in accordance with formal contractual requirements (including many international customers and suppliers based in the Far East, Spain, South Africa and Kazakhstan) and ensuring requirements are clearly understood between parties• Managing customer change requests and tracking all costs and other impacts• Bid/ No-bid reviews with senior management to decide whether to proceed with a potential prospect. I was allocated the task in the business improvement plan to redesign the process for dealing with new prospects and successfully completed, this is now implemented across the company• Product proposals including a review of specifications, Terms and Conditions, subcontractor selection, equipment selection and overall cost structure Show less

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  Qioptiq, An Excelitas Technologies Company

  Feb 2018 - Feb 2025

  Programme Manager Advanced Optronics

  Part of the Advanced Optronics business group, My primary responsibility is to manage the introduction of new product or technology to ensure their delivery to the agreed criteria (schedule, project cost, performance specification etc.) in accordance with company operating procedures. As Programme Manager I am also responsible for the management and coordination of key aspects of the bid document including the statement of work, specification compliance and technical response as well as non-recurring cost estimates. My current duties include -• Management of product/ technology development programmes from Contract Review to Production Readiness Review ensuring compliance with all agreed contractual and legal obligations• Co-ordinating cross-functional teams to deliver successful programme results• Risk identification and mitigation strategy planning• Liaise with customers and internal stakeholders to ensure compliance to technical requirements• Preparation and delivery of programme status reports to senior stakeholders on a monthly basis• Management of the customer interface • Manage in conjunction with the engineering function, the configuration control of customer supplied information• Ensure that Customer Furnished Equipment (CFE) is correctly managed, recorded and stored Show less

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  Teledyne Technologies Incorporated

  Feb 2025 - now

  Program Manager