Date started at MPCT 2015 Experience

Justin Edwards lives in a small town in West Wales with his wife and two children. Justin joined the Armed forces in 1993 where he served with the Royal Regiment of Wales for 9 exciting and varied years with Royal Regiment of Wales, which included a number of postings including; Northern Ireland on Operation BANNER, London on public duties and Germany in an armoured infantry role before being posted to the Infantry Training Centre Catterick as a Physical Training Instructor training adult recruits. During Justin’s Military career, he was fortunate to have gained a broad range of experience in roles such as foot soldiering, peacekeeping, covert surveillance, reconnaissance and armoured infantry. Justin is also a keen sportsman and was fortunate enough to not only represent Royal Regiment of Wales but represented the Army and Combined Services teams at under 21 level.

In 2003, Justin became a serving Police Officer within Dyfed Powys Police where he worked within a number of specialist departments such as Roads Policing and Armed Response, policing the whole of South Wales.
Justin then made a career change into the Private Security industry and worked for a number of years as a Close Protection Officer and Operations Manager on a number of private and government contracts in hostile environments.

In 2015, Justin joined MPCT as an instructor at Bridgend College. In 2016, Justin was promoted and given the opportunity of becoming the Centre Manager of Swansea MPCT. This position allowed him the opportunity to develop his leadership skills and a display a passion of ensuring each and every learner had a clear pathway from being part of the college. Justin tirelessly searched for outside partnerships with the same vison and ethos as MPCT that could provide direction and support. In 2018, Justin was once again promoted to Regional Operations Manager of Wales - this position enables him to search out new partnerships and agencies that may or may not be aware of the college and the Learners that we teach.

Justin is a keen cyclist and is currently training to take part in this year’s Ironman Wales which consists of a 2.4 mile swim (3.9km), 112 mile cycle (180km) and a 26.2 mile (42.2km) run.

Date started at MPCT 2009 Experience

During Steve's time in the Welsh Guards, he served at Pirbright, London, U.S.A., Canada, Aldershot and Northern Ireland.

After leaving the Guards Steve worked abroad for four years. A year in Spain and three years in Italy as a holiday rep which mainly involved organising fun events and activities for guests.

Once Steve settled back in the UK he worked in the leisure industry, as a fitness instructor and took many different exercise classes.

Steve started working for the Military college in Cardiff in March 2009. Since working for the company Steve has undertaken many different courses, which has allowed him to deliver a wide range of different classes.

Steve is proud of the fact that he has helped many learners progress in to the Military, and he still keeps in touch with past learners as It’s rewarding to see learners progress and come back in there uniform.

Steve is currently work in Bridgend as a Centre Manager, he has been there since the centre opened. Steve enjoyed setting up the College from scratch and is extremely pleased with how the centre has developed. The centre is going from strength to strength and he hopes this will continue for many years to come. Steve also supports the regional operations manager Justin.

"Working in the college as an instructor we get to use team work on a daily basis, carry out physical training and work in a varied environment, the job is extremely rewarding."

Steve Tallis

Experience

Since a young age, Joe's interest in the forces have always been focused on the Royal Marines. Originally a member of the Marine Cadets, Joe was successful in joining the Royal Marine Reserves in 2009 before passing his Reserve Force Commando Course quickly afterwards in July 2010. Since then, Joe has passed his PTI course, which is his main role within the Unit that he is still employed in currently.

From June 2014 until December 2016, Joe worked as an SIO PT at the Armour Centre Bovington, delivering mainstream PT and remedial PT to both phase 2 and trained soldiers Royal Armoured Corps.

Date started at MPCT July 2019 Experience

Marc has a 16-year background in Sport and Fitness industry and considers himself lucky to work for recognized such as The Vale Hotel and David Lloyd. Within these roles, Marc has worked his way from part-time Gym Instructor to Fitness Manager in both companies. He has also worked with many PT clients and managed many Personal Trainers through their successful PT journeys. Marc has, over the years, increased his knowledge by taking on extra qualifications such as, circuits, spin, kettle-bells, TRX, Power plate, Nutrition, Synergy, to name a few.

Along with the sport and fitness aspects, Marc has completed a PGCE qualification, has taught on a Level 3 PT course and followed an SOW to successfully teach students through the course. In the 3 years of teaching, Marcs students had a 95%+ success rate.

As a keen sportsman, Marc has played rugby for 30 years at a semi-professional level and earned a Welsh Students cap, which he is immensely proud of. In addition to going to the gym, exercising and being active, Marc considers his other main hobby to be caring for his son - both he and his wife are very proud parents.

I am looking forward to a long and successful career with the company, and I am excited about the role of Sports Apprenticeship Officer.

Marc Davies