My name is Fintan Hanbury, and I established Finjana in early 2020 to offer my expertise and skills as a Professional Service in commercial, defence, national security, and intelligence sectors. This followed a career break where I decided to support my terminally ill mother.

I am recognised for my ability to think critically and tackle projects and programmes systematically and ethically, even in challenging and politically sensitive scenarios. I excel at devising strategies and innovating to simplify complex programmes, resulting in financial benefits and operational enhancements during major transformations and organisational restructuring. My expertise in safety-critical, waterfall, agile, and other systems and software engineering processes has been ’honed’ in diverse sectors, including commercial, defence, national security, and intelligence.

Finjana has undertaken business solution and product reviews (Bid, implementation, and recovery), determining and advising on any identified mistakes and creating revised programmatic, technical, and business initiatives.

One global Indian engineering client came to me after they had lost a large part of their UK work following the decision by a significant Aerospace company to bring work in-house and reduce contract staff due to COVID-19. They wanted to replace and increase their UK presence and enter the UK Defence sector. I authored a UK Defence Requirements definition advising how the Ministry of Defence (MOD) procures equipment and identifying opportunities and prerequisites for sector entry. I determined that one of the quickest entry routes would be acquiring a company already in the sector and suggested a company that fast-tracked its initial MOD Accreditation.

But you are probably asking yourself why you would choose Fintan and Finjana, so perhaps an insight into my background may help.

From August 2013 and July 2017, I was the Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Consultant and Advisor at Hankina Limited. During that period, I was contracted to undertake the following:

Project 1 - European Internet Service Provider.

·       Invented, designed, and introduced new ideas for a secure ‘big’ data solution using an SAP-enabled Service.

·       Established and managed a complete and successful business change solution, removing all legacy limitations.

Project 2 - Charteris – Home Office Advanced Passenger Information (Data quality).

·       Envisioned, proved, developed, and introduced a secure information capture & assurance process.

·       Achieved accurate pre-processing of “UK Bound Advanced Passenger Information” by changing from ‘adding data quality’ to 100% confidence in data capture, enabling reliable identification of anomalies against “UK Watch Lists”.

Project 3 - Thales – MOD LE TacCIS (Land Environment Tactical Command Information System).

·       Evaluated and devised the adoption of ‘open systems’ using commercial mobile communications and computing technologies.

·       The solutions and demonstrations secured the £14.4 billion LE TacCIS contract.

Project 4 - General Dynamics - Mission Systems

·       Steered on the “Collaboration & Relationship” approaches.

·       Transformed the Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISTAR) business to support the MOD aspirations for next-generation tactical communication information systems.

·       Demonstrations captured the General Dynamics contract for MOD’s nearly £4 billion Morpheus programme.

From April 2008 to July 2013, I was contracted by Thales as their Capability Director for their Bid for the CIPHER Programme. CIPHER was the Government Communication Headquarters (GCHQ) & MOD programme that determined the future of Information Assurance (IA) at all information classification levels up to and including Top Secret.

·       Created and introduced all the capability content for the Thales solution and won the contract.

·       Envisioned a paradigm shift in IA and identified a reduction in MOD’s cryptographic costs by £3 billion over 15 years.

During my time on the CIPHER Programme, Thales additionally contracted me between December 2009 to December 2010 to be the Chief Technology Officer for the National Security and Resilience business group. In this role, I established a revised scope and strategy for the department.

·       Characterised the types of critical national infrastructure, potential security solutions and further research.

·       Recognised growth opportunities and identified existing solutions with little future business potential.

·       Defined the ‘exit strategy’ for low-return offerings and achieved 30% more profitable business within 12 months.

Following my involvement with GCHQ, Lockheed Martin contracted me as Senior Consultant from January 2008 to April 2008 to support their involvement in SEVERN, a capability improvement agenda within GCHQ that included Lockheed Martin systems & software.

·       Recommended how Lockheed Martin systems and changes should be adopted, ensuring a timely and successful Transitioned To Operations (TTO).

I was contracted as the Project and Solution Director – Cyclamen for SERCO between May 2006 and April 2008. Cyclamen is a ‘cornerstone’ of the government's counter-terrorism strategy. It involves screening incoming pedestrians, freight, vehicles & passengers to deter and detect the illicit importation of radiological and nuclear material.

·       Headhunted to identify the necessary redesign and complete implementation of the failing programme.

·       Devised the decoupling of infrastructure works from the technical solutions leading to an effective TTO.

I was contracted as a Business Change Consultant for the British Security Service (BSS - MI5) – from January 2006 to May 2006 on their Interception Programme, which was part of their response to the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA).

·       Devised and defined the Operating Model & Solution Architecture for the Interception Programme.

My first contract with Thales was as the Strategy & Technical Director - FiRe Control between October 2005 and December 2006. The FiRe Control initiative was to improve the resilience, efficiency and technology of the Fire and Rescue Service. It was to replace local control rooms (48+) with a network of nine regional control centres. Central to the project was a national computer system to handle 999 calls, mobilise equipment and manage incidents.

·       Brought in as the programme manager to direct, manage and recover the failing Thales offering.

·       Envisaged a new solution and managed the offering preparation for the “Best And Final Offers” stage.

·       Promoted to write the revised business case for the then Deputy Prime Minister – John Prescott.

I was the Programme Manager - IATP & IADP at GCHQ from January 2005 to October 2005. IA Technology & IA Delivery Programmes were the Cabinet Office initiatives to research, implement, and deliver change in UK IA.

·       Contracted to direct and manage the recovery of the failing GCHQ research and implementations.

·       Attained Cabinet Office acceptance by authoring the outcome definition and business case for IA across Government, securing a £300 million plus enabling programme.

·       Directed and coauthored the £650 million cyber budget, leading to significant reform in Government IA within the Strategic Defence & Security Review.

As the Managing Consultant and Solution Architect for the UK Home Office - Terrorism Protection Unit from January 2004 to January 2005, I was headhunted to devise a ‘Red-to-Green’ OGC Recovery for the failing “Cyclamen” Counter-Terrorism Programme.

·       Achieved an OGC Green (No-caveat) approval for a £135 million capital and £15 million per annum operating budgets.

Design Assurance Manager and Configuration Manager – VH for GCHQ between February 2003 to December 2003. Verloren Hoop (VH) was part of the GCHQ New Accommodation Programme, moving and installing all the equipment within the ‘Doughnut’ and managing the TTO.

·       Undertook and managed design assurance and chaired the Change Control Boards for all ICT and networks.

·       Achieved TTO for all equipment and connections in computer halls, red & black rooms, including aerials & satellites.

·       Received a Departmental Award for my contribution.

Design Authority and Oracle Consultant              Ministry of Defence between October 2002 to January 2003.

·       Design Authority for the Oracle Purchase-2-Payment (P-2-P) system which manages the £51.7 billion MOD budget.

·       Reduced the time to TTO by four months through re-engineering, piloted adoption, and verification.

Before the above, I have also been:

Director and Business Systems Consultant - Icordia Limited

Chief Information Officer (EMEA) -  Lendlease Corporation

Senior Consultant (Systems & Software Engineering Centre) - Defence Evaluation & Research Agency

IT Technical Lead (Passenger Security and Penalty Fares) - London Underground

System Assurance Consultant (Frequency Hopping Radio) - Racal Research

System Assurance Engineer – (Experimental Aircraft Programme) -  Smiths Industries

System Assurance Engineer - (Airbus 300 series / Tornado / Jaguar) -    Lucas Aerospace

Quality Assurance Engineer - (Vulcain Engine – Ariane Rockets 1 to 6) - Avica Aerospace

Various -  Iver Precision Engineers

Hopefully the above has given you a flavour of my skills and expertise so if I can be of help then please contact me via email fintan@finjana.com and or mobile +44 7860 503604.