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Work Experience

Career History
1987 - Present. LOCRIS Limited - Managing Director.
LOCRIS Limited: Interim Management Consultancy, specialising in business efficiency, the exploitation of IT for business benefit, International Shipping and Freight Forwarding. Relationships with a number of other consulting firms enable provision of extensive resources and a wide range of services and skills.
Major Consultancy, Project Management and Engineering Assignments (reverse order):

06/04 - to date CONFIDENTIAL – acting CEO 2 x Innovative New Venture Business Start-up – innovative application of mature IT technologies and untried marketing strategies to create a world betting SME and Consumer service to overcome every day computing issues, increase the penetration of computing amongst SMEs and provide low cost computing to people everywhere. Identify and recruit Board (Sales and Marketing, Company Secretary, Technology, Finance). Secure Enterprise funded support, develop and implement investment readiness plans, identify and solicit technology and marketing partners, identify and solicit channel partners.

12/03 - to date CONFIDENTIAL – Programme Director – Business won by competitive tender - Major Change Business Project - Structuring and Implementation Planning for Legal / Financial Services Outsourcing Company involving establishing and leading a team undertaking Feasibility, Analysis and Design for re-mortgage process re-engineering, call-centre processes, etc. Board Presentations of findings and recommendations also to 3i Venture Capitalists.

. 09/03-05/04 - Royal & SunAlliance - Global Procurement Programme Director - Professional Services Rationalisation Programme, strategic change management, creation and implementation of Global Governance Process (Proof of Concept Documentation), design and deployment of Web based Lotus Notes® Project/Procurement Management Support System for £200M/annum spend to reduce by 25%. Stakeholder Management, Group CEO and Board – negotiation with Accenture, E&Y, Tillinghast, IBM, etc. Consulting and Outsourcing: Audit/Non-audit, Legal, IT, HR, Sales and Marketing. Global rationalisation of procurement. Sarbanes-Oxley requirements.

. 12/03-06/04 CONFIDENTIAL – Programme Director – Business won by competitive tender - Major Change Business Project - Structuring and Implmentation Planning for Legal / Financial Services Outsourcing Company involving establishing and leading a team undertaking Feasibility, Analysis and Design for re-mortgage process re-engineering. Board Presnetations of findings and recommendations also to 3i Venture Capitalists.

. 06/02–05/03 - AXA Sun Life Services - Commercial Consultancy – with CIO and Board, review/renegotiate £150M+ Outsourcing (BPO, ITO) / Service contracts; Xansa, Accenture, Marlborough Sterling Group (MSG), etc. Identified £8M in lost productivity and resolved major contractual differences. Stakeholder management, advising CEO on negotiation positioning and strategy, total recoveries, discounts and negotiated cost reductions over £20M. Led cross functional team heads and directors of department, (IS, Finance, HR, Operations, etc.) pursuing one organisation for compensation for appalling performance. Settlements and compensation £3.5M, discounts £9.5M over 3 years. Lead in negotiations with IBM regarding £45M Systems Integration Programme. Reduced other quoted programme costs of ~£40M down to ~£28M. Risk Management and planning.

· 10/01 - Present : AT&T EMEA - Programme Director UNICORN (UNIfication, COnsolidation and RationalisatioN) - Legal Entity consolidation Programme reducing EMEA region Companies from ~100 to less than 50.
As CFO proxy, establish Programme Office, Governance, Structure, UK and US Liaison and Communications Programmes, define Plans and Methods, etc. Risk, Issues and Opportunity Management. Lead Company wide team including Company Secretarial, Legal, Finance, Taxation, HR, PR and Real Estate in a corporate restructuring programme which touches every part of the business. Processed 61 Legal Entities, including 30+ closures. Details confidential......

· 04/01 - 09/01 : M&G Group (part of 'the Pru'), M&G Retail Operations ("MRO") - Commercial Consultant - IT Strategy Review - M&G is amongst the UK's largest Unit Trust Management firms and provides financial product administration services using the Logical Investment Services Administration (LISA) software products of Wealth Management Software plc (WMS) to other Group operations and third parties; termed Third Party Administration (TPA) services.
Working with the Director of Change Management and CEO, investigating and advising on future business and systems strategy to support increasing business demands and marketing aspirations for Funds Supermarkets, OEICs and Unit Trust to OEIC conversions, and other managed assets.

· 01/01 - 04/01 : Wincor Nixdorf ("WN") - Programme Director 800 Store Systems Roll-Out - Formerly Siemens Nixdorf Retail and Banking Systems WN has over 3,400 staff with 21 subsidiaries world-wide, with annual revenues more than doubled in 5 years, to 2.6 billion DM. Specialising in IT solutions and products and after-sales service for the retail and banking sectors, currently third world-wide in the retail market and fourth in automated teller machines.
Working with the Director Retail Systems and his Account Directors, troubleshooting the planning and management of the roll-out of £11.7M POS, back-office and supply chain systems to 800 Woolworths stores (Kingfisher plc), including scanning, portable computing (Symbol RF) and corporate networking. Established Programme Office, Team and Plan. This project was running at a time of significant organisational change for Kingfisher and WN and was subject to a number of unforeseen pressures.

· 07/00 – 01/01 : Centrica plc – Business Information Systems Manager Trading – The Trading Business Unit markets energy under the British Gas brand, including Gas, Electricity and LPG. It is the largest Centrica company and contributes in excess of 80% turnover and 50% profit. Other Centrica brands include The AA and Goldfish.
Working with the Business Unit to develop its operational and change plans (including annual budgets). Liase with the Board Directors of the Business Unit to provide specific, expert advice to business managers as part of the initial decision making process for system development/change. Manage requirements; develop financial and business proposals; manage issues & risks – escalation path; ensure the timely delivery of solutions; gain solution acceptance; working with Centrica Programme Management, manage resource supply and suppliers; ensure the effectiveness of operational services (Service Delivery); mediate in resolution of operational (and other) issues.

· 10/99 – 04/00 : Boots The Chemist – Head of Commercial Services – £60M savings made ~£8m...
BTC is the largest division of the Boots Group which Manufactures and sells a wide range of “Look Good, Feel Good” products. Programme Management of ERP Supply Chain procurement: Stores Hardware, Installation and Support Services - 3 year deal - ~£50M; Retail Supply Chain Core Systems Replacement Procurement (SAP / Oracle Retek) - 5 year deal - H/W, S/W, Consultancy (Systems Integration and Business Change) ~ £60M; Pharmacy Systems Replacement - 5 year deal - S/W £2.8M, Consultancy, Development and Deployment services £20M; Dentistry & Chiropody Systems - 5 year deal - ~£2M; Contracts renewals - Outsource service provision - ~£4.5M; EPOS (and other existing stores equipment) maintenance & support - 3 year deal - ~£18M; etc. Working with Boots staff plus CAP Gemini, Andersen Consulting. Negotiating with: SAP, Oracle, Retek, Andersens, CAP Gemini, McLernon Lockie Systems, Software of Excellence, TMS, IBM, HP, SUN, Compaq, ICL, Computacentre, First Data Bank Europe.
· 02-10/99 - LIFFE – Director IT Communications Services - Global Network Roll-out – Business restructuring - 50 staff - £15M. effective supplier and resource management and internal business restructuring delivered a Global e-trading capability and the 50 strong directorate to run it

· 05/98 – 02/99 - Paribas - Programme Director euro2000 - euro conversion and year 2000 compliance, most successful euro conversion in the City – 90 staff (150 matrix) - £17.5M. Established the Programme Office, Team and Plan that delivered!

· 11/97-04/98 - British Standards Institution [BSi] - IT Programme Manager - FM Transition and Infrastructure Replacement, Internet Site deployment and support. Established the Programme Office, Team and Plan that delivered!
· 10/95 – 10/97 - BG plc Transco:
· Quality Manager, QPET - UK LINK £80M ORACLE/HP Client Server projects, Intranet QMS.
· Commercial Manager, Hercules - Outsourcing implementation project.
· Project Director - Remote Meter Reading - BT Syntegra Contract £7M - Project value £20M.
· 07-10/95 - SEMA Group - Outsourcing Bid Management - £14M bids HMG Heritage and Health Trusts.
· 03-07/95 - Legal Aid Board - Technical Architecture Review - £7M ORACLE Client Server project.
· 11/93 – 03/95 - Legal & General Assurance Society - Manager, ISS, NCS, Service Delivery.
· RRR Branch Network downsizing deployment compliant systems.
· 08 – 11/93 - Racal Network Services - Project Manager £300M+ network for UK. National Lottery.
· ’93 - DSS - ITSA, Network Services Requirements and Design - Consultant, Special Projects.
· ’93 - PA Consulting/London Underground Limited - Line LAN Office Automation project.
· ’91 – ‘93 - North West Water: Manager, ISS Networking Programme, £9M Core Data Network. Vision 2000, Telecommunications, Release 1.5 design and implementation. Billing Systems / Call Centres Review, Project, Design and Implementation. Manager, Telecommunications Engineering, £8M/annum.
· ’91 - PA Consulting - National Power, design, build of fibre optic/copper LANs at power stations.
· ’91 - Glaxo Group Research - Manager, Data Networks:
· Design/implementation transatlantic multi-point switched video conferencing,
· X.25 and Routing - 3 UK and 4 US locations via T1.
· ’90 - INMARSAT - Audit of World-wide Satellite Ground Communications Control System.
· ’90 - Micro Computer Unit - Lecturing in networking techniques including PC-LANs.
· ’90 - BT - Network audit of Networks House, Hemel Hempstead.
· ’90 - Siemens/Ford - Structured wiring design, documentation and management.
· ’89 - British Aerospace - Structured wiring of new buildings for 1,200 Engineering staff.
· ’89 - 3-Net - BBC Engineering College, design/implementation - site wide broadband LAN.
· ’89 - Rover - Broadband LAN audit and design and cost justification for total rebuild:
· Procurement and implementation of site-wide broadband LAN at Longbridge.
· ’89 - Lee Beesley - Corporate wide area networking strategy, procurement and implementation. £1.7M bid preparation for Ethernet LAN for Government Agency.
· ’89 - Mesh Communications - Engineering consultant to clients and customers including:
· BA - Gatwick and Heathrow Engineering site-wide broadband LAN implementations.
· HOW Group - Corporate wide area networking strategy for voice and data.
· ’87 - BACS - Corporate Ethernet local area networking strategy, procurement and implementation. UK's first implementation of 4Mbps remote Bridging. Integrated voice and data strategy.
1977 - 1987. BL Automotive Group - now Rover Group.
Full-time Line Management Roles:
1986: Unipart Group's first Group Telecommunications Manager - pulled together the disparate office services, telephony and data communications functions under a single organisation and developed a group wide strategy for communications cost reduction.
1984: Land Rover's first Networks Manager. Established telecommunications operations and engineering team. Design, build and operation of Europe's largest integrated broadband communications network supporting access to over 35 DEC VAX and IBM mainframe systems and services, from 3,500 locally networked terminals. Major PABX implementation 2,500 extensions.
1982: BL Systems (subsequently AT&T ISTEL) - Automated factory, Minicomputer Operations Manager, Project management RJE implementation pilot, Computer operations manager in an automated computer controlled engine-manufacturing plant.
1977: Land Rover, computer operations controller.

Major Project Management and Other Achievements:
Unipart Group: Development of Group-wide integrated voice and data strategy. Audit and rationalisation of methods realising £180K/annum savings. Design and implementation of X.25 and dialled access to IBM Mainframe services.
Land Rover Group: Development of Group-wide voice and data strategy. Design, implementation and management of World's third largest broadband LAN. Implementation of Europe's first Ethernet over broadband. Implementation of 2,500 extension PABX.
1974 - 1977. Previous employers.
1975: Allied Breweries Management trainee in wages and salaries, and then computers.
1974: Derby and Burton Co-operative Society and Rumenco Group.

Education

Professional Memberships
Fellow : Institute for the Management of Information Systems – FIMIS
Member : Institute of Directors - MIoD
Fellow : Chartered Management Institute of - FCMI
Member : British Computer Society - MBCS - Chartered Information Systems Practitioner
Associate Member : Institute of Management Consultancy - AIMC
Associate Member : Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply - CIPS
Member the IT Directors Network

Skills

Objective:
To be successful in all things, to add value through experience and to remain objective.
And for the Client - Profit from success and avoid the cost of failure.

A professional change manager/director with 20 years consultancy, business development, leadership, negotiation, analytical and operational skills, gained across a range of industries including process, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, research, construction, utilities, telecommunications, IT, government, legal, transportation, finance, insurance, investment banking, retail and FMCG.
Realising business benefit through IT and success through people.
Managing Director of LOCRIS Limited since 1987; working as an interim manager programme managing and trouble-shooting with a unique blend of professional skills, and an ability to turn-around and/or deliver major projects on time and budget. A focused professional specialising in business development and project start-ups, restructuring and reorganisation and project, department or business turnaround.
Assignments involving conceptualisation, development and implementation, marketing, operations and customer support. New business and venture start-ups - requirements, cost analysis and justification, procurement, project planning, management and control, organisation definition and establishment. Management of budgets and costs, rationalisation and restructuring for business benefit, outsourcing and effective procurement.
Major projects and/or trouble-shooting for manufacturing, utilities, transport, IT, financial and service organisations.
Particularly effective as a Director or Manager of:
· Change, Programmes, Projects or Crisis Management
· Contracts and / or Suppliers
· Commercial Services, Procurement, Bids and Tenders
· Organisational and/or Strategic Review, Trouble-shooting, Risks and Issues
· Exploiting Opportunity, Start-ups and Ventures
Currently engaged as Programme Director by AT&T EMEA leading their Unification, Consolidation and Rationalisation Programme to reduce costs and complexity across the business.

Languages

English, a little French

Other

Objective: To be successful in all things, to add value through experience and to remain objective. For the client - Profit from success and the avoidance of the cost of failure.
Realising business benefit through IT and success through people.

PROFILE

A professional delivery, programme, project, crisis and change director with outstanding commercial skills and over 20 years consultancy, business development, leadership, negotiation, analytical, IT and operational skills, gained across a range of industries including manufacturing, utilities, telecommunications, IT, insurance, finance and banking, retail and FMCG.

Key Skills

A focused professional programme director and trouble-shooter with a unique blend of skills, and an ability to turn-around and/or deliver major projects on time and budget. A specialist in business development and programme and project start-ups, restructuring and reorganisation, projects, department or business turnaround and third party contract management. Managing budgets and costs, rationalising and restructuring for business benefit and effective procurement and outsourcing. Getting the best from the technology, the people, 3rd parties and agreements.

Conceptualisation, development, implementation, marketing, operations and support. New business ventures, programme definition and programme office establishment - requirements, analysis and justification, planning, procurement, governance, organisation and establishment.

 Structured Change, Programmes, Projects or Crisis Management;
 Contracts and / or Supplier Management, Commercial Services, Procurement, Bids and Tenders;
 Organisational and/or Strategic Review, Trouble-shooting, Risks and Issues;
 Strategic Planning, Exploiting Opportunity, Start-ups, M&A and New and Joint Ventures.

Achievements Including
 AXA realising real savings, recoveries and cost reductions exceeding £20M.
 AT&T EMEA restructuring programme closing 25+ Legal Entities in 6 months.
 Boots The Chemist's IT cost base reduced by £8M in 4 months.
 LIFFE CONNECT™ Global e-trading platform deployed in 6 months.
 'Stop The City' Riots disaster recovery, contingency planing and crisis management - LIFFE.
 The most successful euro conversion programme for Paribas ("The Banque of the euro").
 Planned the deployment, organisation and hired the team for the UK National Lottery.
 Audit and Risk appraisal of the INMARSAT II GCCS major recommendations adopted.
 Design, procurement, implementation, commissioning and management of some of the largest Broadband (CATV) Networks in Europe.

Objectives: Realise business benefit through continual improvement and success through people.
Add value through experience whilst remaining objective.
Profit from success; avoiding the cost of failure.

PROFILE – Commercial Programme Direction

An inspirational and focused commercial programme director and trouble-shooter with more than 20 years experience, a unique blend of skills, and the ability to turnaround and / or deliver on time and to budget. A knowledgeable and experienced mentor, negotiator, risk, issue and dispute resolution manager, particularly skilled in meeting ‘impossible’ deadlines and requirements including regulatory and compliance. A specialist in business development, start-ups, restructuring, reorganisation, crisis, stakeholder and third party management.

Operated at the highest levels including FTSE 100 Group Board, in Trading, Retail and FMCG, Financial Services (Investment Banking, LIFFE, Asset Management, BACS [EFT], Life and Pensions, Insurance, conveyancing/mortgage), Public Sector (DSS/ITSA, National Lottery, NHS, Heritage, Legal Aid Board), pharmaceuticals, manufacturing (automotive), utilities (gas, water, electricity), ICT and Consulting.

Highly experienced in directing major change, including cultural change, budgets and costs, spend and recovery, rationalising and restructuring for business benefit and effective procurement / sourcing and outsourcing (BPO, ITO, etc.) including TUPE issues. Getting the best from technology, people, 3rd parties and agreements, including OJEC matters and conformance.

Risk assessment, issue management and situation rescue - a trouble-shooter, with outstanding commercial skills underpinned by over 20 years consultancy, business development, leadership, negotiation, systems, process, quality management and operational experience. Skilled in organisational development, role definition, recruiting, restructuring, and reorganisation, turnaround and third party contract management. An experienced lecturer and presenter of both technical and strategic matters.

 Conceptualisation and Communication;
 Strategic Planning, Exploiting Opportunity, Start-ups, M&A and New and Joint Ventures;
 Structured Change, Programmes, Projects, Transformation, Transition and Step Change;
 Programme definition - programme office establishment - requirements, analysis and justification, planning, procurement, quality control, governance and organisation;
 Contracts, Supplier Management, Commercial Services, Procurement, Bids and Tenders;
 Disaster and Continuity Planning;
 Risk Assessment and Mitigation, Issue Management and Situation Rescue;
 Organisational and/or Strategic Review, Stakeholder, Trouble-shooting or Crisis Management.

Achievements Including
 Managing Director LOCRIS Limited 16 years of sustained growth and profit.
 AXA realising real savings, recoveries and cost reductions exceeding £20M on £150M.
 AT&T EMEA restructuring programme closing 25+ Legal Entities in 6 months.
 Boots The Chemist's IT cost base reduced by £8M in 4 months on £60M.
 LIFFE CONNECT™ Global e-trading platform deployed in 6 months.
 'Stop The City' Riots disaster recovery, contingency planing and crisis management - LIFFE.
 Paribas most successful euro conversion programme for "The Banque of the euro".
 Planned the deployment, organisation and hired the team for the UK National Lottery.
 Glaxo design/implementation first commercial transatlantic multi-point video conferencing network.
 Audit and Risk appraisal of the INMARSAT II GCCS major recommendations adopted.
 Design, implementation, and management of the largest Broadband (CATV) Networks in Europe.
EXPERIENCE

1987 - date: Managing Director - LOCRIS Limited - Interim Professional Services to third parties: specialising in business efficiency and the exploitation of IT for business benefit.
Assignments:

09/03-05/04 - Royal & SunAlliance - Global Procurement Programme Director - Professional Services Rationalisation Programme, strategic change management, creation and implementation of Global Governance Process (Proof of Concept Documentation), design and deployment of Web based Lotus Notes® Project/Procurement Management Support System for £200M/annum spend to reduce by 25%. Stakeholder Management, Group CEO and Board – negotiation with Accenture, E&Y, Tillinghast, IBM, etc. Consulting and Outsourcing: Audit/Non-audit, Legal, IT, HR, Sales and Marketing. Global rationalisation of procurement. Sarbanes-Oxley requirements.

12/03-06/04 CONFIDENTIAL – Programme Director – Business won by competitive tender - Major Change Business Project - Structuring and Implmentation Planning for Legal / Financial Services Outsourcing Company involving establishing and leading a team undertaking Feasibility, Analysis and Design for re-mortgage process re-engineering. Board Presnetations of findings and recommendations also to 3i Venture Capitalists.

06/02–05/03 - AXA Sun Life Services - Commercial Consultancy – with CIO and Board, review/renegotiate £150M+ Outsourcing (BPO, ITO) / Service contracts; Xansa, Accenture, Marlborough Sterling Group (MSG), etc. Identified £8M in lost productivity and resolved major contractual differences. Stakeholder management, advising CEO on negotiation positioning and strategy, total recoveries, discounts and negotiated cost reductions over £20M. Led cross functional team heads and directors of department, (IS, Finance, HR, Operations, etc.) pursuing one organisation for compensation for appalling performance. Settlements and compensation £3.5M, discounts £9.5M over 3 years. Lead in negotiations with IBM regarding £45M Systems Integration Programme. Reduced other quoted programme costs of ~£40M down to ~£28M. Risk Management and planning.

10/01-03/02 - AT&T EMEA - Programme Director UNICORN (UNIfication, COnsolidation and RationalisatioN) – Major Change Management Transition Programme to reduce EMEA Companies from 100+ to 50. CFO proxy, EMEA Board stakeholder management, establish Programme Office, Governance, Structure, UK and US Liaison and Communications Programmes, Plans, Methods, Risk, Issues and Opportunity Management. Acquisitions, mergers and amalgamations. Liaison with Tax, PR, HR, Finance, Sales, Legal, Company Secretarial, Real Estate/Facilities, Ops and Systems.

04/01-09/01 - M&G Retail Operations (part of 'the Pru') - Commercial Consultancy - IT Strategy Review/Package Selection. For CEO, review business and systems strategy re business and marketing aspirations for asset management e.g. Funds Supermarkets, OEICs, Unit Trust conversions, and third party admin. 'TPA' and stakeholder management.

01/01-04/01 - Wincor Nixdorf - Programme Director (Kingfisher / Woolworths) - With the Director Retail Systems, troubleshooting PRINCE based planning and stakeholder management of rollout of £11.7M EPOS, back-office and supply chain systems to 800 Woolworths stores.

07/00–01/01 - Centrica – Business Information Systems Management - With Board Directors develop operational and change plans in PRINCE environment. Expert advisor system development / change, requirements, financial and business proposals. Manage issue and risk escalation, timely delivery of solutions, acceptance, Programme, resource and supplier management. Effective Service Delivery, operational (and other) issues. LPGas major business change.

10/99–04/00 - Boots The Chemist – Head of Commercial Services - With Director IS and Board, Programme Management Package Selection ERP Retail Supply Chain Core Systems Replacement (SAP/Oracle Retek); 5 year deal, H/W, S/W, Consultancy (Systems Integration and Business Change) ~£60M. Stores H/W, Installation, Support Services - 3 year deal ~£50M. Pharmacy Systems Replacement Joint Venture S/W; 5 year deal ~£3M, Consultancy, Development and Deployment services £20M. Dentistry & Chiropody Systems; 5 year deal ~£2M. Contract renewals; Outsource services ~£4.5M; EPOS (existing equipment) maintenance/support; 3 year deal ~£18M; etc. With CAP Gemini, Andersen Consulting. Negotiating with: SAP, Oracle, Retek, Andersen's, CAP Gemini, McLernon Lockie Systems, Software of Excellence, TMS, IBM, HP, SUN, Compaq, ICL, Computacentre, First Data Bank Europe.

02/99-10/99 - LIFFE – Director IT Communications Services - Global e-trading Network Infrastructure Rollout. Supplier and internal resource restructuring and stakeholder management to deliver a global platform and directorate to run it - 50 staff, £15M. Disaster and Emergency Strategy Planning in conjunction with the City of London and City of London Police Deputy Commander re 'Stop the City' riots. Disaster Recovery and Contingency Site Director in REAL EMERGENCY 'May Day '99 riots.

05/98–02/99 - Paribas - Programme Director ‘euro2000’ - euro conversion and Y2K compliance. Reputedly, the most successful euro conversion in the City - 90 staff (150 matrix) - £17.5M. Stakeholder management. Established Programme Office, Team, Method and Plan that delivered! 450 business critical systems - of every flavour. Investment Bank the 'Banque of the euro!' Euro conversion and Y2K Risk, Disaster Recovery and Contingency Planning.

11/97-04/98 - British Standards Institution [BSi] - Programme Director - ITO Outsourcing Transition and Infrastructure Replacement, Web Site deployment and support. Stakeholder management. Establish Programme Office, Team and Plans - £7M Programme.

10/95–10/97 - BG plc Transco:
* Quality Management - EFQM BIM / ISO 9000 / TickIT / Intranet QMS.
* Commercial Management - Outsourcing implementation project.
* Project Direction - Remote Meter Reading/Unbundling - BT Syntegra.

07/95-10/95 - SEMA Group - Outsourcing Bid Management - £14M bids HMG and NHS.

03/95-07/95 - Legal Aid Board - Consultancy - Technical Architecture Review - £7M ORACLE Client Server project.

11/93–03/95 - Legal & General - Manager, ISS, NCS, Service Delivery.
* RRR Branch Network downsizing deployment compliant systems.
* Manager 50 staff Service Delivery.
* WAN Outsourcing.

08/93–11/93 - Racal - Programme Manager - £300M+ network for UK National Lottery.
* Plan, organisation, governance, hire team for the design, build and deployment.
* Contribute to successful CAMELOT bid

'93 - DSS - ITSA, Network Services - Consultant, Special Projects.
'93 - PA Consulting/LUL - Line-LAN Office-Automation Infrastructure rollout.
'91 - '93 - North West Water: Programme Manager, ISS Networking Programme, £9M Core Data Network. Release Manager, Billing Systems, Call Centres Review, design and delivery. Manager, Telecommunications Engineering, £8M/annum.
'91- PA Consulting/National Power, infrastructure fibre-optic/Cu LAN design/build.
'91- Glaxo Group Research - Manager, Data Networks/Infrastructure:
* Design/implementation transatlantic multi-point video conferencing,
* X.25 and Routing - 3 UK and 4 US locations via T1.
'90- INMARSAT - Consultant - Audit Satellite Ground Comms/Control System.
'89-'90 - Micro Computer Unit - Lecturer/trainer telecoms, network, work and project management techniques including Novell Netware, fundamental networking techniques, LANs, WANs, VAN/VPNs, Project and Time management.
'89-'90 - Network Engineering Consultant: BT - Network audit - Networks House, Hemel Hempstead, Siemens/Ford - WAN design, documentation and management, BAe - Structured wiring new buildings, BBC Engineering College, design/implementation - broadband LAN, Rover - Broadband LAN audit and total rebuild, Lee Beesley - WAN strategy/implementation. £1.7M bid management / preparation HMG MSc, Mesh Communications/K-Net - Engineering consultant, BA - Gatwick & Heathrow Broadband MANs, HOW Group - WAN strategy,
'87-'89 - BACS - WAN/LAN/infrastructure strategy, design, procurement and implementation.
Full-time Line Management Roles:

'86 - '87 Unipart Group's 1st Group Telecommunications Manager.
'84 - '86 Land Rover's 1st Networks Manager.
'82 - '84 BL Systems (subsequently AT&T ISTEL) Minicomputer Operations Manager.
'77 - '82 Land Rover, Computer Operations Controller.
'75 - '77 Allied Breweries Management Trainee / Computer Operations Specialist.

QUALIFICATIONS

'99 - 2004
 Fellow : Institute for the Management of Information Systems – FIMIS
 Member : British Computer Society - MBCS - Chartered IT Professional - CITP
 Member : Chartered Management Institute - MCMI
 Member : Institute of Directors - MID
 Associate : Institute of Management Consultancy - AIMC
 Associate Member : Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply – CIPS

 Kepner-Tregoe – trained in the world-renowned processes for solving problems, making decisions, and managing projects and people to achieve measurable business results.

PERSONAL SUMMARY

Personal
 07/01/1956 - 48 years of age, married with 4 children.
 Excellent Health
 Full Driving License
 British Passport/Nationality

Spare Time
 Music - playing and listening
 Family
 Good food and wine
 Current affairs
 Technology

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