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Shaftesbury, Gb

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Bath, United Kingdom

MSc in Economics.

Winchester

Stood for election to parliament for the Winchester constituency.

Responsible for growing Portal’s technical vision and leading solution development, developing and leading the execution of technology strategy for technology platforms, partnerships and external relationships, and managing and developing our solutions and technology teams.

IT Management Consulting projects, including IT Strategy consulting for a department store business and web/social media strategy for a Hampshire-based charity.

Woking

• Brought in to revitalise the development and impact of the IT function. Reporting to the CEO as a member of the Board, with six direct reports and a larger team of around 90.• Established a three year product strategy and built a fit-for-purpose product management team• Transformed the software development organisation into new teams to underpin the product development strategy, enabling faster product delivery and higher customer satisfaction• Developed a new culture of co-operation in the IT organisation, overcoming geographical and political barriers. The teams were based in multiple locations in India, Germany and the UK

Winchester

• Accountable for the creation and execution of the company’s IT strategy reporting to the CEO• Built a Software-as-a-Service platform which consistently exceeded customer expectations, in both availability and speed of delivery• Achieved a listing on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange as a result of the value of recurring Software-as-a-service business• Enabled the provision of web-centric services to customers and their supply chains, enhancing the value of customers' investments and creating a new revenue stream • Directed a project to increase the performance and robustness of the global offering by implementing a world-wide system of cloud-based proxy servers, working with Akamai and other suppliers. This sped up access times and opened up sales to multi-national customers, resulting in an increase in sales of 25%• Introduced a series of efficiency improvements and targeted investments, resulting in reducing the cost of managing internal systems by 40% while adding capabilities• Moved the company to a procedures-based footing capable of meeting the ISO 27001 Information Systems Management Standard

San Francisco And Winchester

This dotcom was set up as a unique innovation and ideas generation management company.• Responsible for the development and ongoing support of the company’s website and internal computing systems and the creation and operation of company strategy and policy across all areas of the business.• Created a community of more than a hundred volunteers who managed the operation of a complex set of tasks (ideadollar assessors) – including motivation and self-policing• Specified and developed artificial Intelligence tools to support processes and run the website. • Developed crowdsourcing techniques to solve the problem of rapidly assessing thousands of ideas.

Hursley

• Accountable for a portfolio of Service Offerings. Was appointed to rescue the main service offering, turning-around a previously loss-making business and exceeding annual targets of £4.5m Europe-wide• Managed sales, marketing, helpdesk, delivery and support of a number of Software-as-a-service offerings• Identified a range of potential new service offerings• Led six service delivery teams based across Europe, with a total of 110 employees

North Harbour

• Lead architect for managed hosted systems in outsourced customers.• Assisted in the winning of large service bids (£10m+).• Conceived and constructed a new, more efficient, support service model for Lotus Notes.• Led a team to Boston which wrote and published a book; “Secrets to Running Lotus Notes: The Decisions No-one Tells You How to Make”.

Basingstoke

• Built a team to deliver a transformation project providing a new information system for PC Dealers• Directed a project to design, build and refresh the software on all 350 company laptops• Met all objectives, and helped raise customer satisfaction within the company from 66% to 78%.• Earned a Director's Award for exceptional achievement

South Bank

As a country-wide expert, worked as a UK product expert and technical consultant, working with companies such as Guinness, National Westminster Bank and Unilever. Formed an international special interest group of technical specialists.

Richmond, Warwick

Extensive training in IBM hardware, software and methodologies, graduating top in Systems Engineers’ School, and winning a number of awards for work in selling, writing and supporting software, and for providing high quality on-site customer support.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Economics

Visiting Academic, Institute Of Environmental Studies

Mres, Economics

Msc, Economics

Ma, Mathematics

Activities and Societies: Corpus Christi College, RowingMathematics

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