Our Team
DSSEC has a dependable and reliable set of staff with a wide range of training and skillsets. A few of our team members can be seen below.
Gary Beard
Managing Director
A Chartered Engineer with 47 years’ experience including 23 years in the Royal Electrical Mechanical Engineers providing the drive and strategic direction to DSSEC’s ideology in terms of Through-Life Support, encapsulating the adoption of Engineering disciplines as ‘services’.
Katie Richardson
Lead Engineer
Katie joined DSSEC in 2012 with a BSc in Physics and has been working in Supportability Engineering and related disciplines across multiple MoD programmes. She has gained in-depth experience in the application and management of ILS and has provided real results to the customer and wider user community.
Amanda Lyon
HR Manager
Amanda joined DSSEC in 2011 as the HR and Training Manager. She leads our recruitment strategy and the company Training Programme.
Elliot Knowlson
Graduate Through Life Support Engineer
Elliot joined DSSEC in 2021 with an MEng in Mechanical Engineering and MSc in Advanced Engineering Management. He is currently enrolled in the Graduate Scheme, developing his knowledge and skills, whilst contributing to key deliverables across multiple contracts.
Ben Pamphilon
Supportability Engineer
Ben joined DSSEC in 2019 as a Graduate Analyst with a BSc in Economics. He has successfully completed the Graduate Scheme after gaining valuable experience across numerous contracts and building his knowledge base. He has since taken on leadership responsibility of a project delivering into the Programme Lead.
DSSEC is committed to the highest standards in delivery of Engineering Consultancy Services. We listen to our clients, continually reviewing our processes of service delivery in line with operational needs, maximising the efficiency of our resources and management system. The principal elements of our policy are as follows:
Understand – Understand the requirements of our interested parties,
establishing levels of communication capable of fully determining their needs and expectations;
Foster – Foster a quality mind-set with the objective of providing
exceptional services that are trusted and preferred by our clients;
Establish – Establish and maintain an infrastructure capable of
supporting all company activities and realising all company objectives;
Develop – Develop and maintain a Quality Management System satisfying
the requirements of BS EN ISO9001:2015 to ensure that our company complies with all applicable statutory
and regulatory requirements and standards.
Identify – Identify scope for improvement in every aspect of the
company’s activities by defining quality objectives, devising and implementing effective solutions to achieve them, and
monitoring progress as part of our Management Review.