James Hollingworth
Senior Customer Business Partner - RAF C130J at Marshall Aerospace
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Hollingworth is a strategic engineering leader and customer-focused partner with 15+ years delivering airworthiness, maintenance improvement, and operational support across the UK Defence sector. A former RAF senior leader who managed the service’s largest engineering team of 550 people, he drove a 10% uplift in aircraft availability and a 50% improvement in maintenance output reliability. He has held cross-organisational roles spanning performance, risk and customer management for helicopter and transport fleets and now manages the retirement and resale of the RAF C130J fleet for Marshall Aerospace. Complementing his technical pedigree (MEng in Aerospace) he holds an MBA and a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, blending systems engineering with commercially minded continuous improvement. James also contributes to open-source front-end projects—improving API usability and testability in notable React/Redux tooling—showing an unusual combination of defence-grade safety leadership and hands-on software craftsmanship.
15 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Aerospace Engineering MEng, Aerospace Engineering MEng at Liverpool UniversityMaster of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business Administration and Management, General, Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business Administration and Management, General at Cranfield University
Github Skills (20)
javascript10
bootstrap10
component-development10
css10
ui-design10
redux10
uid10
front-end-development10
flux10
html10
fluxor10
bootstra10
react10
testing9
state-management9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jhollingworth/bootstrap-wysihtml5
Mar 2012 - Nov 2014
Simple, beautiful wysiwyg editor
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:139 commits in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:James primarily focused on enhancing the user interface of the `bootstrap-wysihtml5` editor. Their commits demonstrate a transition from Font Awesome icons to Bootstrap icons, indicating a focus on integration with the Bootstrap framework. They added and styled UI elements for functionalities like links, images, and paragraph formatting, as well as fixed and corrected styling issues and added support for edit HTML and insert link functionality. They also implemented a toolbar generation system, thereby customizing the editor’s functionality.
emmetcontenteditabletext-editingckeditorconfigurable
voronianski/flux-comparison
Feb 2015 - Apr 2015
:pencil: Practical comparison of different Flux solutions
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 3 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:James implemented a Marty-based Flux application within the repository, contributing to both front-end and back-end components. Their work included creating React components for the user interface, specifically focusing on product display and cart functionality. They also developed and integrated data management stores and actions, demonstrating an understanding of the Flux architecture. Further contributions involved refactoring, dependency management, and corrections.
pencilcomparisonpracticalreduxflux
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