Four hours with a mad Materials Scientist

discussing skills, competencies and resource profiling. At the risk of sounding 'sad' and damaging my credibility completely I have to say I genuinely enjoyed my meeting with the Technical Director. He's a 'right character', brain the size of the planet and a great dry sense of humour. I learnt all kinds of stuff about that side of the business (weapons & energetics), loads about the MoD and Manchester Uni where he's a visiting Professor as well as plenty of gossip about some of our senior management. It was a real eye-opener and a reminder of what I'm going to miss.