Welcome to Inzpire Sutina!
22 Mar 24
New Joiners
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We’re delighted to welcome Sutina Richardson (Sooty) who joins the team as a commercial bid executive. Sooty is a former offshore seismic engineer, and before that was an avionics technician who spent her nine-year military career with the Royal Air Force, and alongside the Royal Navy.
After completing phase 2 technical training, Sooty was assigned to work on Merlin helicopters for anti-submarine warfare at RNAS Culdrose, deploying on a variety of operations within Europe. Her experience on an aircraft carrier was a challenge unlike any other, and she holds high respect for the Royal Navy.
Following the end of her tour with the Navy, she was posted to RAF Waddington and continued her career on the E3-D Sentry aircraft, working in the UK and on operational deployments abroad. The bulk of avionics involved with this aircraft type meant years of additional avionics training, but Sooty found it was valuable for the focus on the values and ethos when returning to RAF culture.
Sooty made the difficult decision to leave the military in 2011, and later pursued a new career working offshore, in oil exploration for Schlumberger. Now a marine seismic acquisition technician, she explains that “boring seismic, is good seismic”, and gives humble appreciation to every person operating on an oil exploration vessel. Gaining exposure to multi-vessel operations over vast survey areas, enduring arduous work environments, along with extreme weather conditions; she accepted the unfortunate news of redundancy as a chance to realign her goals for the future.
Returning to the UK in 2018, she became an avionics field service representative with Northrop Grumman. Working alongside the RAF was familiar territory, and it provided insight into internal processes at a business level. With an appetite to learn, Sooty was given an opportunity to step into the Ops Team as a delivery and assurance engineer, gained the APMP qualification, which then led to business and commercial acumen.
It was at that time that NG UK announced the programme was no longer active. This was a shock, but rather than leave, she took on the role of senior commercial officer and assisted with the closure of contracts and management duties. After obtaining the Certified Change Management Professional (CCMP) certification, she decided to remain in the commercial world thanks to the ever-growing achievements that can be made in defence contracts.
With a vast knowledge of industries, an engineering background, and a collaborative style of working that aims to align goals, Sooty is looking forward to settling in with the Inzpire family, and we’re thrilled to have her in the team.
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