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CIO/MIS Director - Major IS Strategy review/Infrastructure deployment - Property Management partnership |
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Duration : |
9 months |
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Location
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Reading,
Berkshire, UK |
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Acting CIO and MIS Director. Reporting to CEO and member of Executive Board. Management of all internal IS resources and external service providers. Development and proposal of long-term IS Strategy and subsequent Infrastructure deployment. |
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Conducted detailed functional, systems and technology review across 10 office locations. Full Risk analysis. Proposed a major step-jump in infrastructure to meet medium and long-term business objectives and provide an extensible IS platform. Budget to circa £ 750k annual - gained fiscal and timeline approval. Established new implementation team using in-sourced resources and out-sourced providers. Significant and sustainable reduction in Total-Cost-of-Ownership proved. Met and exceeded user mobility and secure asset access requirements. |
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Programme Director - World Bank and the Digital Development Partnership - Citrix Systems Inc |
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Duration : |
12 months |
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Location
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UK;
Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA; Accra, Ghana; 10 regional 'eCentres'
– Ghana |
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Acting Programme Director. Reporting to SVP Corporate Relations, Citrix Systems Inc, Florida, USA. Managed a rural information and communication technology project in cooperation with the Indian-Ghanaian Kofi Annan ICT Centre of Excellence in Accra, Ghana. The goal of this project was to bring sustainable ICT access to 10 cities in Ghana in partnership with Sister Cities International Network for Sustainable Development, so enabling efficient e-trade with worldwide customers. |
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Conducted detailed project requirements analysis. Technology research, assessment and programme management. Budget to $5m, also utilising further sustainable development budgets from Hewlett Packard, Citrix Systems, the World Bank, Nera and the Kofi Annan ICT Centre of Excellence. Operational business centres established in 10 rural community locations across Ghana to provide full IT business support platforms for farmers and local business entities. Concurrently led 5 project teams across 3 continents. |
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Programme Director - KLM Equipment
Services - Tracking technology deployment |
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Duration : |
9 months |
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Sussex, UK; Schiphol,
Holland |
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Acting Programme Director and Project Manager. Reporting to CEO, Pinnacle Consulting Ltd and MD, KES. Infrastructure re-appraisal, recommendations, project design and management of roll-out delivery to enable telematic tracking of all Ground support vehicles at Schipol airport, Holland. Led two project teams (Customer and Supplier). |
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Entered as technology platform trouble-shooter. Re-evaluated available tracking platforms and data collection strategies. Managed trial of a new bespoke platform to user acceptance. Managed build of 3000 units and timeline for deployment into ground vehicles. Managed board-level Customer relationship. Budget to Euro 10m. Proved significant increase in cost effectiveness of ground services through pooling of vehicle services from different operators. Success of project resulted in significant interest from Air France, BAA, Singapore Airlines and Lufthansa. |
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Technology
Director – BT Wholesale - Private Children’s Network |
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Duration : |
9 months |
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Location
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Crawley,
Sussex, UK |
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Responsibilities
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Programme
Management for design and test deployment of an innovative
Children’s content network for a British Telco. Reporting
to Director, Network Development and VP, Wholesale division. |
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Achievements
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Specified
Content management and staging systems. Managed authoring
and production of internal proposal documents, risk analyses
and development and deployment budgets (in excess of £7.5m).
Negotiated hosting and outsourced supply of access security
systems, document management systems and other required services
provision to enable a full trial to 2000 homes in the United
Kingdom. Achieved user acceptance and formal recommendation
to proceed to client. |
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Technology Strategy Consultant – Citrix
Systems Research and Development |
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Duration : |
6 months |
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Location
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Buckinghamshire,
UK |
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Research
technology and market opportunity for a Small/Medium business
software product for Citrix Systems Inc Research and Development
Limited. Recommend appropriate positioning alongside current
Enterprise product offerings. Provide guidance on enhancements
to usability and installation to enable use by any SMB customer.
Reporting to the SVP, Worldwide Product Development, Citrix
Systems Inc. Matrix-managed teams of Software engineers, Product
Marketing staff and Channel members. |
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Achievements
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Established
significant market opportunity for entry into SMB space by
a major Enterprise software vendor. Profiled channel requirements.
With client engineers, evaluated current product design and
recommended innovative and significant changes to installation
and usability, so ensuring much enhanced ease-of-use. Also
proposed and had adopted a “take it all with you” end-point
architecture using smart USB card devices. |
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Technology Strategist – Media
Synthesis Limited – Media Delivery |
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Duration : |
6 months |
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Location
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Oxfordshire,
UK |
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Technology
platform adviser to a Media delivery software company, responsible
for ensuring existing and emerging delivery technologies were
fully considered during the design of the media delivery platform.
Reported to the SVP, Delivery Technologies. |
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Achievements
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Ensured
all relevant emerging technologies were fully assessed and
evaluated during the design of the platform. Managed confidential
technology trial programs with key vendors worldwide. Produced
and presented Risk analyses and potential acquisition/partnering
scenarios to enable well-informed technology absorption to
proceed at lowest cost and risk. |
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CIO - ‘Best Practice’ advisor
- Financial Services CIO |
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Duration : |
24
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Location
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London,
UK |
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Responsibilities
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Act
as “devil’s advocate” CIO responsible for ensuring effective
and risk mitigated knowledge management strategies within
a Financial Services organisation. |
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Achievements
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Monitored
and advised on best practices associated with risk assessment,
systems, process and budgetary impact on behalf of a CIO for
a major British financial institution, to ensure adoption
of proper due diligence throughout cycles of systems and software
acquisition. |
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Senior Director - Citrix Systems
Inc – Software Product Strategy |
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Duration : |
12
months (permanent role) |
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Location
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UK;
Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA |
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Responsibilities
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Manage
and develop medium to long-term technology strategy to research,
evaluate and propose software development and acquisition
targets for Citrix Systems Inc. managed team of 15 product
development and software engineering resources. |
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Achievements
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Identified
and structured major development and acquisition opportunities
to enable Citrix Systems to broaden its Enterprise Access
suite – WAN optimisation, Single sign-on, Collaboration,
and Conferencing. |
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Senior Director - Citrix Systems
Inc – EMEA Services |
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Duration : |
18
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UK |
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Manage
establishment of an EMEA-wide services organisation encompassing
Consulting, Support, Education and Training and Software renewal
functions. Establish and manage EMEA-wide teams for each functional
Services department. |
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Achievements
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Delivered
an operating, profitable EMEA services business to a major
US Software vendor within 1 year of inception, adding $6m
to overall regional revenue. |
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Technology and Operations Director
- Systems ReMarketing plc |
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Duration : |
24
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Location
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UK |
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Establish
and manage an obsolescent product sales/marketing plc specialising
in profitable disposal of excess/refurbished/remanufactured
IS technology. |
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Achievements
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Initially
for Apple Computer, created a highly profitable revenue stream
for the company and Apple returning circa £2.4m of annual
revenue. Trade sale. |
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Managing Director – Antigravity
Limited |
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Duration : |
18
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Location
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UK |
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Formed
a software development start-up to build applications for
the first PDA capable of handwriting recognition (Apple Newton). |
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Achievements
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Developed
and sold several bespoke applications to provide delivery
signature recognition for freight-forwarders. |
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Technical Director - Rapidhost
Limited |
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Duration : |
18
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UK |
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Formed
and managed operations for an ISP and hosting company, Rapidhost
Ltd. |
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Achievements
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Built
revenue to £1.2m within the first 2 years of operations. |
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Technology Consultant – Ernst & Young |
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Duration : |
6 months |
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Location
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UK |
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Advised
Ernst & Young on emerging Apple Computer Technologies. |
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Achievements
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Assisted
E&Y consulting services’ ability to advise their clients
on Apple’s Human Interface capabilities with respect to front-ending
legacy applications. |
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Technology Consultant – London
Science Museum |
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Duration : |
6 months |
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UK |
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Prototyped
a user information system for the London Science Museum. |
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Achievements
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Enabled the museum to publish
its exhibits in real-time internally (and subsequently) via
the Internet and so increase ticket sales by 40% over 1 year. |
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