Guy Levell

Experience

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  Praxis Critical Systems / Praxis High Integrity Systems / Altran Praxis

  Aug 2000 - Oct 2008

  Software Engineer and Systems Engineer

  Technical Career Highlights:• Held variety of roles on NATS iFACTS project: a £multi-million software engineering project to develop a new air traffic control system for the UK. Roles included end-to-end development of a major subsystem, including architecture, specification apportionment, detailed module design, code, and developer test. Also, test design/scripting; configuration and build management; Level 1 Support; definition of key technical strategies, processes and tool support.• Overall Project Manager for a €0.5M project to verify safety-critical railway signalling software against CENELEC 50128 at SIL4. Mobilised initial team of 30 engineers in India, UK and France including all supporting project infrastructure. Delivered planning and mobilisation phase to form a sound baseline for future eight months project work.• Worked with Rolls-Royce Control Systems Group to coach and mentor engineers in a new approach to requirements engineering and system specification.• Worked with National ERTMS Programme to define integrated approaches to systems engineering—providing assurance on a 40 year rail investment programme led by Network Rail for the UK rail industry.• Worked with Railtrack Chief Engineer’s Group to define and manage requirements—providing assurance on a £5.8bn upgrade programme of West Coast Main Line (WCML): one of Europe’s biggest mixed-use railways.• Provided NATS and EuroInterlocking with specialist requirements consultancy, tool development and training. Show less

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  Altran Praxis

  Nov 2008 - Jun 2010

  Offshore Manager, Altran Praxis India

  Appointed ‘General Manager’ for Praxis’s first non-European international office, in Bangalore, India. Travelled to India as an expatriate and responsible for all aspects of set up and initial operation of a highly-skilled offshore software engineering team. General management responsibility included all local HR (including recruitment and staff management), health and safety, IT (including procurement and set up), security, office environment and administration.Key achievements:• Successfully formed and expanded the team from three initial staff to twelve.• Planned and delivered all induction and training necessary to start chargeable work.• Managed the team through an initial 6-week period whilst they 'mirrored' UK activities. The team subsequently took responsibility for the software build and CM activities for a 250 KSLOC project involving over 80 developers and testers, without major issues.• Identified a local manager and provided close technical support whilst managing a phased handover.• Provided internal pre-sales function for the UK business, responsible for promoting the newly-formed offshore offer with existing business managers and for acting as a single point of contact for related sales activity.• Responsible for budget and P&L within UK business for offshore work packages. Show less

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  Altran India

  Jul 2010 - Jul 2012

  Directly accountable for entire operation of multi-discipline software and systems business unit. Leadership of 125 engineers working on projects in aerospace, rail, automotive and telecoms domains. Primarily offshore delivery with end-clients based in UK, France, Germany, Spain, Belgium, The Netherlands and India. Responsible for budget definition and P&L for multi-million Euro offshore revenues.Accountable for all aspects of leadership and management necessary to sustain and grow the business unit. Included stakeholder engagement (from Project-level to Director-level), P&L management and cost control, bid/proposal management, project delivery planning and execution, capability planning/growth, resource planning and recruitment, staff management, training, and liaison with all support functions such as HR, IT, health and safety, security, and facilities.Reported to Director-level in both Europe and in India.Key achievements:• Led initial operational merger with minimal attrition—to provide a solid foundation for future growth.• Doubled billable headcount within 9 months—to build capacity and to meet client demand.• Reduced dependency on subcontract staff—to maximise margin and improve sustainability.• Defined and introduced a harmonised Company-wide Grade and Salary framework—to provide a solid foundation for staff attraction, retention and career progression.• Introduced ISO 9001 compliant quality-approach to delivery centre activities.• Created new technical teams in areas including automotive software, railway signalling software, and model-based software and systems engineering—to broaden and diversify existing capabilities and offers.• Responsible for budget setting and P&L within India business including required liaison with Group geographies.• Assessed potential M&A targets from technical and operational perspective. Show less Appointed to define detailed implementation plan for a programme of significant organisational and operational change within Altran India. The scope was to consolidate several independent, fragmented and specialised technical project teams (comprising approximately 60 staff, each within their own history, management/ownership and identity) into a single delivery organisation, to provide a solid platform for future growth and leverage by the wider Altran Group.Key achievements:• Led a team of three to elicit vision and requirements from change sponsors (all Group Director-level).• Refined initial requirements into an implementable, phased and documented plan and schedule, successfully presented and validated with wider Group Directors, and used to drive implementation in India.• Subsequently, elements of the plan re-used as a blueprint for similar change implementations in other Group locations. Show less

  • Head of Delivery - Embedded and Critical Systems

    Oct 2010 - Jul 2012

  • Change Management, Strategy and Implementation

    Jul 2010 - Sept 2010
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  Altran Praxis/Altran Netherlands

  Aug 2012 - Sept 2012

  Technical Engineering Manager

  Provided interim technical management of a team of eight specialist control systems engineers based in the Netherlands, part of a wider multi-national programme team (UK, Netherlands, France) developing a safety-critical guidance control system for a road vehicle.Key achievements:• Led a critical re-evaluation and re-structuring of the team’s project delivery plan, resulting in a new Goal-based plan, centred around increasing levels of product functionality and maturity.• Provided increased confidence to the wider Programme Team in the expected timescales for the team’s output—a MATLAB/Simulink control system specification, covering both software and hardware behaviour. Show less

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  Altran UK

  Nov 2012 - Mar 2013

  UK Merger and Integration Manager

  Responsible for planning and co-ordinating the merger and integration of three of Altran’s operational businesses into a single UK company.Reported to the Altran UK CEO and UK Management Team.Key achievements:• Responsible for overall delivery of the merger/integration objectives and liaison across all areas of the combined business (comprising ~400 staff and ~£40M annual revenue) including Legal, Finance, Marketing/Comms, Program Delivery, HR, IT, and Support.• Provided specific leadership (ie defined the strategies and detailed implementation plans) for the introduction of common finance systems across the integrated business, and rollout of a common process framework for program delivery (from bid to delivery). Show less

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  Deloitte UK

  Sept 2013 - Oct 2018

  • Senior Manager, Technology Consulting

    Sept 2017 - Oct 2018

  • Manager, Technology Consulting

    Sept 2013 - Sept 2017
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  Smiths Detection

  Oct 2018 - Jan 2020

  Head of Technical Delivery, Digital

  Overall technical lead for a next-generation SaaS (software-as-a-service) platform for security operations – creating industry disruption by leveraging latest cloud computing (Microsoft Azure) and machine learning (ML) technologies, and novel commercial models.Led the design and implementation of two new market propositions and end-to-end technical solutions (for air cargo and passenger aviation domains) (working closely with Global Market Heads and internal product teams).Defined architectures and delivery roadmaps for IoT (Internet of Things) device integration, edge processing of ML models, and cloud architecture adoption (IaaS-to-PaaS).Drove increased maturity into engineering processes and standards, commensurate with security certification requirements for ISO27k and FedRAMP (working closely with Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)).Key contributor to go-to-market (GTM) activities, including pricing models, bid authoring, customer workshops/technical pre-sales.Provided day-to-day technical management of a third-party software engineering team (15 headcount), including governance/assurance of software design patterns, integration approaches, and DevOps tools and processes.Managed the technical advisory and assurance relationship with Microsoft – Smiths’ global technical delivery partner. Show less

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  Domestic & General

  Sept 2020 - Mar 2022

  Head of Architecture (Digital, Contact Centres and Service)