Printer friendly ]Principal Consultant / Director - Bedford, Bedfordshire, UK
A Consultant / MBA specialising in solution selection & implementation coupled with business change or transformation. Full lifecycle SAP project management. Track record of blue chip clients.
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Currently an independent consultant, specialising in software package selection and implementation, and associated business change. SAP implementations, and other ERP and CRM selections for large to medium sized companies.
Formerly employed by one of the big consultancies as Principal Consultant undertaking a wide range of roles spanning project rescue to cost reduction and everything in between, in UK, in Europe and USA across many sectors and multinational clients.
Before that IT project management and service delivery in high-tech sector with Texas Instruments.
Employment History
(Nov 2001 & ongoing)
Principal Consultant / Director
South East, mobile, no fixed locationIndependent consultant working in association with a number of other consultancies.
Primarily in business change enabled by IT.
Roles frequently include software package evaluation, selection and implementation, with associated business change or business transfomation.
ERP, SAP, CRM, business process improvement.
(Jul 1995 to Oct 2001)
Principal Consultant
Mobile, no fixed locationConsultant with large well known system integration and outsourcing consultancy. Client facing IT and management consultancy across many industry sectors in many locations.
Clients included AMP group, NFU Mutual, Societe Generale, Anglian Water, Budget Rent a Car International, General Motors, Fiat, Bhs and Mothercare.
Roles included project rescue, software package evaluation and selection, full lifecycle SAP implementation, outsourcing bids, cost modelling, tenders, cost reduction.
(Jul 1976 to Jul 1995)
Project Manager
Texas Instruments, BedfordSoftware development and business process improvement in the high-tech electronics sector. TQC driven "follow the sun" environment spanning US, UK and India. Requirements specification and inspection using Gilb Methodologies. Scorecard based strategy deployment.
Software product manufacturing and international software product distribution and support.
Computer services delivery management to SLAs.
Professional Qualifications
Full membership of British Computer Society MBCS
Chartered Engineer CEng
Chartered IT Professional CITP
Education
(Jan 1990 to Dec 1994)
Open University Business School
MBA Master of Business Administration
Course sponsored by employer, studied whilst working full time, and travelling internationally on business.
(Oct 1968 to Jul 1971)
Southampton University
BSc Electronic Engineering
Categories & Skills
Engineering & Technical
Categories
Skills
- CEng (Scientific & Technical - Education Level)
- Chartered (Scientific & Technical - Education Level)
- Degree Qualified (Scientific & Technical - Education Level)
- Education Level (Scientific & Technical)
- Electronic Engineering (Scientific & Technical - Education Level - Degree Qualified)
- Excel (Scientific & Technical - Software Skills - Microsoft)
- Microsoft (Scientific & Technical - Software Skills)
- Project (Scientific & Technical - Software Skills - Microsoft)
- Software Skills (Scientific & Technical)
- Word (Scientific & Technical - Software Skills - Microsoft)
HR/Training & Development
Categories
Skills
IT & Internet
Categories
Skills
- £1M to £5M (Project Management - Project Value)
- Analysis (IT Management - Business Process)
- Automation (IT Management - Business Process)
- Business Process (IT Management)
- Change Management (Project Management)
- Change Management (IT Management - Business Process)
- Communication All Levels (Project Management)
- Consultancy (IT Management)
- Coordination (IT Management - Project)
- Design (IT Management - Process)
- Excel (Project Management - Microsoft)
- Full Project Lifecycle (Project Management)
- Implementation (IT Management - Project)
- Improvement (IT Management - Business Process)
- Large Company - UK (Project Management)
- Management (IT Management - Project)
- Mapping (IT Management - Process)
- Mentoring (Project Management)
- Microsoft (Project Management)
- Multinational Organisation (Project Management)
- PC Hardware
- PowerPoint (Project Management - Microsoft)
- Process (IT Management)
- Project (Project Management - Microsoft)
- Project (IT Management)
- Project Initiation Document (Project Management)
- Project Management (Project Management)
- Project Support (Project Management)
- Project Value (Project Management)
- Re-engineering (IT Management - Business Process)
- SAP
- SLA Management (IT Management)
- Software Evaluation (IT Management)
- Software Implementation (IT Management)
- Software Selection (IT Management)
- Website Strategy
- Word (Project Management - Microsoft)
Management Consultancy
Categories
Skills
- £1M to £5M (Project Consultancy - Project Value)
- 20 to 50 (Project Consultancy - Staff (numbers))
- Back-Office Re-Engineering (IT Consulting)
- Business Plan Creation (Business Consulting)
- Business Plan Creation (IT Consulting)
- Business Reengineering (Business Consulting)
- Capital Project Appraisal
- Change Management (Project Consultancy)
- Communication All Levels (Project Consultancy)
- Contracting Out (IT Consulting)
- Cost Reduction
- Course Delivery (HR Consulting - Training)
- Excel (Project Consultancy - Microsoft)
- Excel (Microsoft)
- Financial Services (Project Consultancy)
- Financial Systems (Project Consultancy)
- French (Languages)
- Full Project Lifecycle (Project Consultancy)
- Large Company - UK
- Microsoft (Project Consultancy)
- Microsoft
- Multinational Organisation (Project Consultancy)
- Multi-National Organisations
- Multiple Projects (Project Consultancy)
- Powerpoint (Project Consultancy - Microsoft)
- PowerPoint (Microsoft)
- Process Change (Project Consultancy)
- Process Design
- Process Mapping
- Project (Project Consultancy - Microsoft)
- Project (Microsoft)
- Project Initiation Document (Project Consultancy)
- Project Management (Project Consultancy)
- Project Office Creation (IT Consulting)
- Project Office Mgmt (Project Consultancy)
- Project Strategy Development (IT Consulting)
- Project Support (Project Consultancy)
- Project Value (Project Consultancy)
- Retail (Business Consulting)
- Risk Analysis
- Risk Management
- Software Appraisal (IT Consulting)
- Staff (numbers) (Project Consultancy)
- Systems Implementation (IT Consulting)
- Training (HR Consulting)
- Training (Project Consultancy)
- Word (Project Consultancy - Microsoft)
- Word (Microsoft)
- Workshop Management (Project Consultancy)
Sales/Account Management
Categories
Skills
- Bid Preparation (Proposals/Bids & Tenders)
- Client Liaison (Account/Client Management)
- Client Management (Account/Client Management)
- Excel (Microsoft)
- Microsoft
- Outlook (Microsoft)
- PowerPoint (Microsoft)
- Presentation Delivery
- Presentation Preparation
- Relationship Building (Account/Client Management)
- RFI Responses (Proposals/Bids & Tenders)
- Tender Preparation (Proposals/Bids & Tenders)
- Word (Microsoft)
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