 He is also Colonel of the Royal Tank Regiment (appointed in 1999), Honorary Colonel of Cambridge University Officer Training Corps and the Westminster Dragoons.Other jobs in his career have included running the Army budget as Colonel Army Programmes and posts as First Director of Operational Capability, First Director of Training and Education and Chief of Joint Force Operations.From 2006 until 2011 Ridgway was Lieutenant-Governor of Jersey, in the Channel Islands, where he acted as the Queen's representative.