Simvolos can offer a variety of services tailored to your needs, ranging from individual courses for your employees, to full design and implementation of measures addressing human factors within your procedures and operational philosophy. This can include bespoke educational software and reporting software to allow trends in human factors events to be monitored and learned from.
By using our services, you will demonstrate to your clients, staff and investors that you benchmark the safety standards of your organisation against the most safety-conscious industry in the world. `
Reduce accidents and incidents, improve safety, follow the example of the world’s safest industry.
We have combined our team of experts from the airline industry with our technology partner Impluto, who are specialists in custom software and web development. This allows us to provide professional consultancy and training, and combine it with tailor-made IT packages, including computer-based training software, IOS/android development, interactive checklists and safety reporting systems.
In terms of considering and integrating human factors into operational philosophy, commercial aviation leads the way and has developed a unique and cutting edge safety culture which we can bring to your organisation.
By using our services, you will demonstrate to clients and investors that you benchmark your safety standards against the world’s leading industry in this field.
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James has trained and operated as a commercial airline pilot for over a decade. He is a Captain for a major European Airline, and a Type Rating Instructor (TRI) on the Airbus A320 family.
Having studied a combination of human physiology, psychology and biochemistry at the University of St Andrews, he embarked on his aviation career in 2006. James was selected to be on a trainee scheme for GB Airways (a British Airways franchise partner) and completed his flight training in Flight Training Europe, Spain.
Having seen the culture and standards of safety within the Airline industry, James realised how much other sectors could benefit from the same principles. He appreciated how far behind many other safety critical industries were in understanding and mitigating human factors and so the vision for Simvolos was born.
James has a wealth of business experience outside of flying, having started two successful companies in real estate and furniture. He also is a very keen musician, playing several instruments.
Roger is currently a Professor of Clinical Oncology at the College of Medicine at Swansea University and Honorary Consultant Clinical Oncologist at South West Wales Cancer Centre, Swansea. He has held many significant positions of responsibility throughout his career, most recently being the Vice President (Clinical Oncology) at the Royal College of Radiologists. He was also Clinical Director for the South West Wales Cancer Centre. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Radiologists and the Royal Colleges of Physicians in London and Edinburgh. He is Senior Clinical Adviser to the Rutherford Cancer Centres.
Roger has provided expert opinions on medico-legal cases for many years, and he is also a member of the Committee on Medical Aspects of Radiation in the Environment (COMARE) and past member of the Independent Advisory Group for Health Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP), medical and surgical outcome review program.
Born in Swansea, Roger studied medicine at University College, Oxford and St Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical College.
He held positions in the Royal Marsden Hospital, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh and a Consultant Clinical Oncologist in Leeds before taking up his post in Swansea in 2006. Roger has supervised and advised on radiotherapy and chemotherapy for many types of cancer, however he gained international recognition for his work on paediatric cancers.
He has been a guest speaker at international seminars and advises on proton radiotherapy. Additionally, Roger has been a member of many children’s cancer trial groups and has been author of many peer-reviewed papers and book chapters on children’s cancers.
Roger will advise and collaborate with the aviation experts on our team, giving Simvolos the ability to be the industry leader for integrating aviation safety standards into the medical sector.
Dani has been a commercial pilot for over two decades. She is a consultant Simulator Flight Instructor (SFI) and Simulator Flight Examiner (SFE) on the Airbus A320 family. Throughout her career in aviation, she has been actively involved in creating, rewriting and delivering courseware training material.
Dani is honest, creative, organised, motivated and reliable. She has experienced many personal and professional challenges throughout her career. Dani has a positive attitude and tireless energy, that along with her other attributes, shines through in her training style, encouraging others to work hard and succeed.
Dani was selected to learn to fly with the University of Birmingham Air Squadron, whilst studying her honours degree in History of Art with Italian, at Warwick University in 1994. On leaving university, she worked as an Operations Manager at a flying school at Southampton Airport, whilst self-funding her flight training. In 1999, she was one of 15 candidates selected from 15,000, for a sponsorship with British Midland.
Dani’s commercial flying career began on the Airbus A320 in 2000. She then enjoyed 7 years of flying the A320 with GB Airways (a British Airways franchise partner). During her time at GB, she wrote and taught many technical courses, including a pivotal role in the creation, content and delivery of the GB Airways cadet sponsorship scheme. In 2007 Dani was promoted to Captain having successfully completed her command course.
Dani is currently teaching and examining in the simulator on the A320 and working on global courseware development projects.
Jonathan Shaw Joined Bristow Helicopters in 1976 after a brief career on the stock exchange. He flew for eighteen months on many types of helicopters before being made a commander, enjoying flying across the globe, including the Middle East, Caribbean, Antarctica, West Africa, Bangladesh, Brunei and finally Scotland. He became an instructor at the company headquarters in Redhill, which led to his conversion to fixed-wing aircraft, flying business jets and becoming an examiner for the Civil Aviation Authority.
After 22 years with Bristow, Jonathan joined GB Airways, a British Airways franchise partner, where he soon returned to training. His first post was a Line Training Captain for the Boeing 737; he subsequently became a trainer and examiner for the Airbus A320 family. After EasyJet acquired GB Airways in 2008, Jonathan was welcomed into what is probably the most respected training department in Europe and continued as a pilot trainer and examiner until he retired in 2014.
Jonathan has observed a significant change in the aviation industry over a varied career, spanning 40 years. He joined an industry that early on paid very little heed to Crew Resource Management (CRM) and the use of non-technical skills. Jonathan has witnessed and embraced a sea change in training philosophy in relation to the education and development of interpersonal communication, leadership, and decision-making.