Currently acting as secretary to the Technical Committee. The Technical Committee is responsible for the development of international technical and training standards for underwater activities (SCUBA Rec, Dec and Tec).
• Strategic Vision: Leading development of the 2027+ Strategy and 10 year vision for the National Governing Body (>2000 members) while restructuring the organisation for long-term sustainability. • Governance: Holding the Board to account on the Operational Plan & Strategic Objectives, ensuring alignment between financial capability and operational goals. • Strategic Operational Reform: Previous role as National Diving Officer (2021 - 2024) leading a comprehensive modernisation of technical standards, professionalising the organisation for future growth.
• Enabling Hyper Growth: Developed a scalable risk framework allowing the organisation to expand operations into AMER and APAC, quadrupling the size of the company while supporting teams with growth objectives. • Commercial Enablement: Positioning XOCAN with a licence to operate with Tier-1 offshore infrastructural clients by establishing robust audit-ready resilience culture. • Risk Culture: Embedding a “Safety as a Value” mindset during a period of intense headcount growth, ensuring cultural dilution did not occur as the workforce scaled. • Executive Partner: Strategic partner to the C-Suite, enabling the safe scaling of the company and operations globally, key to the formulation of XOCEANs expansion strategy.
• Strategic Operational Reform: Previous role as National Diving Officer (2021 - 2024) leading a comprehensive modernisation of technical standards, professionalising the organisation for future growth.
• Corporate Executive Advisory: Strategic and Operational Partner to C-Suite clients and corporate executives in Fortune 500 companies. • Global Account Leadership: Governed programme P&L and service delivery for a major global technology client, overseeing a budget of >€1.5M and delivering 30% year on year revenue growth. • M&A Private Equity Support: Led EHS&S due-diligence programmes for investors in high value transactions, identifying liabilities, impacting deal valuation and post-merger integration. • Cultural Transformation: Spearheaded multi-year cultural maturity programmes for Fortune 500 clients, resulting in measurable improvements in key cultural maturity metrics and risk reduction.
• Strategic Secondment: Regional Head of Health and Safety for all EMEA and APAC supporting a divers rage of legal jurisdictions, leading HS strategy during rapid organisational growth. • Risk Management: Transitioned the organisation from compliance-based safety to a proactive to value-add safety culture.
• Senior Project Manager: Acted as senior project manager for large infrastructural and management projects with overall responsibility for resourcing, P&L and project execution. • Major Infrastructure: Supporting a number of large infrastructural projects through design, Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and Project Management within waste, energy and transport sectors. • Agri-Environmental: Led a decade-long agricultural compliance risk based assessment programme for river basin catchments. • Function Lead: Acted as function lead for a number of different disciplines within the resourcing team with responsibilities for P&L for a broad project portfolio.
• Operational Leadership: Country Lead for the Mount Rosser Bauxite Residue Disposal Area & Kirkvine Ponds with full operational accountability and P&L responsibility for in-country operaitons. • Stakeholder Management: Led consultations with Government bodies and local communities. • Technical: Managed a team of on-site subject matter experts and operational staff.
Environmental Licensing - BSc Environmental Management Health and Safety - BSc Human Resources
• Professional Diploma in HS Management (Level 7) and the Technical Certificate in OHS (Level 3)
Member
Institution of Environmental Sciences
2009
Member
Insitute of Occupational Safety and Health
2017
Chartered Scientist
The Science Council
2013