Kristina started in MOD War Pensions in 1992 in various special project posts. It then became the Veterans Agency and she took the post of Business Continuity Manager.
She was deployed to Baghdad for a 6 month secondment in 2004 before leaving the Civil Service and working in the Private Industry as a Account Manager and Service Desk Manager for over 150 Corporate Customers, including John Lewis and Waitrose for 5 years.
She has been at Dstl since 2009 in various team leader roles and is now Smart Working Communications and Change Manager.
Kristina Butterworth describes how an award-winning project is transforming the way the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) works by putting people first.
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