Katie Blake Email & Phone Number

Plainfield, Nj, Us

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

Bridgewater, New Jersey, United States

Iqvia, 77 N Corporate Drive, Bridgewater Nj 08807

Bridgewater, New Jersey, United States

Andover, England, United Kingdom

Establish and manage a community center building. Source funding to provide information and support to residents and establish a range of activities to support the community.

Mere, England, United Kingdom

Developing and delivering the L&D strategy for clients to establish a learning culture and implementing soft and hard skills training in line with the overall client’s strategic direction. Creating and delivering a program of business and leadership skills workshops, training and coaching and managing third party delivery. Building the profile of the new L&D function, working with key stakeholders to deliver learning and development initiatives, whilst also managing the L&D budget effectively. Working closely with the HR team, to link learning initiatives into the induction programs, graduate recruitment programs and ensure the effective evaluation of training interventions.

Providing expert advice and support for matters relating to IT infrastructure, hardware, software and training to the Board and 650 employees across seventeen sites. Manage and monitor the contract with the third-party IT provider of the organisation’s network infrastructure. Update and inform the Managing Directors and Executive Team with developments in IT and advise on which advancements could improve the company’s performance. Work across the organisation with project teams to implement technology solutions and provide IT expertise and guidance across all projects. Ensuring that the organisation’s co-owner employees have the information systems, hardware and software appropriate to their professional needs is a central part of my role and includes the management and provision of IT training through the development of the in-house training function and liaison with external providers.

Devon, England, United Kingdom

Owned and managed a hotel and restaurant business in Southwest of England.• Tripled turnover and established high profitability over the course of four and a half years.• Achieved excellent feedback from customers• Received awards and recognition from industry bodies and critics.

Identify and establish relationships with third-parties who were able to deliver training and consultancy services on behalf of Symantec across the region. Key to the success of this first phase was ensuring that third-party delivery was of a continuously acceptable standard. This achieved, my primary role was in the development of the business by marketing the business externally to create a customer base and revenue stream. This role included the development and management of multiple concurrent projects, the majority of which involved both third-parties and our own consultants. It was my responsibility to ensure that the technical deliverables for each project were as specified and that the project budgets were maintained and adhered to. As an overarching role I was also responsible for maintaining the whole cost centre and collating and presenting the forecasts, targets and results to the US-based management team. Within the first year I and my team were able to transform the practice from a pure cost centre to one of profit. I created a core team in the practice through careful recruitment and demand continued to increase into the second year.

I joined the Lotus Software Group as a Senior Instructor immediately following the acquisition of Lotus by IBM. During my time at Lotus/IBM I took a leading role in the development, management and success of the education business in my region. Reporting to the UKVP and the EMEA Education Business Director I had overall responsibility for the education practice in the North region including the line management and personal development of all the professionals within the education practice as well as owning the P&L for the public schedule training, projects and education-related product sales businesses. Whilst at IBM I had the opportunity to work widely throughout Europe, South Africa and the US conducting third-party instructor certification and furthering the development of the education business. Management of this IBM education practice included continuing development and delivery of the full range of Lotus technical courses around Notes and Domino.

At Prince the role involved my managing the delivery of training courses by a large team of technical instructors as well as the scoping, planning and delivery of project-based training. The former involved both people management and training course design whilst the latter combined project management and training delivery for blue-chip clients, notably Andersen Consulting, Guinness plc and Department of the Environment. My training delivery covered Introduction to Windows, Networking Concepts and Desktop applications from introduction to advanced. My main area of training was Novell GroupWise and Lotus Notes/Domino high level administration training.