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Oxford, United Kingdom

• Advising on managing complex product portfolios. Managing the nurturing of established products whilst helping conceive and bring innovative new products to market.
• Market research and voice of the customer research
• Industry tracking and futures planning
• Product strategy development
• Product go to market planningClients have included: Digital Vision, The Foundry, Pixel Power, Hawkins Brown (Architects), Augmentra (Viewranger), Freeman Christie (now Rubuss), Hibbert Ralph Animation, The IABM.

Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom

Member of the Wisdom Council helping guide the long term strategy of the network and its growth.Working closely with Siobhan Soraghan to develop the network for the blended on-line / in person future.

Ox

Assisting with strategic customer and technology partnership development for SGO's products in particular Mistika Workflow.

Pangbourne, Berkshire, UK

• Oversaw growing revenues and profits to highest ever level in 2017. Profits built around a product strategy that saw new and innovative products alongside the careful management of well established ones.Lead Marquis.
• Workspace Tools - disaster recovery, backup and sync for Avid NEXIS
• Medway - workflow automation
• Project Parking - project focused edit storage management for Avid Media Composer
• X2Pro - transfers projects from FCP X to DAWs such as Avid ProTools
• Worx4X - consolidation for FCPX projects

Newbury

Developed new ideas for both service and product offerings around Quantel's revolutionQ and QTube technologies.

Pangbourne, Berkshire, UK

Building a product strategy for a software workflow solutions company.Working between market and R&D, and Marquis and other manufacturers.Established strong relationship with Apple video product management and brought www.X2Pro.net to market within a few short months.Developed Project Parking product from point solution to one with wide benefits.

London, United Kingdom

Helping to imagine, create and bring to market, STORM, a disruptive new production tool for digital cinema production. STORM brings a post-production toolset onto the film set so that editorial and cinematographic intent can be checked on the spot.Product marketing for Mari. Product strategy.

• Product management of entire product range
• Built synergistic product portfolios; product concepts for a number of strategic opportunities.
• Gained both local and European grant funding

• 2004-05: Board level P&L responsibility for all Research, Development, Production, and non-US sales (50 people and annual budget of over £4m and turnover of over £6m)
• 2002-04: Researched new markets for OMG products and technologies, developing relationships, member of team of 4 execs completing 2 acquisitions in 18 months.
• 1999-02: Launched revolutionary high value product used on 100s of films and TV productions, awarded Primetime Emmy Engineering Award in August 2002, active role in team of 5 execs in IPO of OMG at £40m

• Led software team of 30 engineers across 3 continents and 6 cities
• Built a strategic plan for future products based upon detailed research with many internal and external groups
• Identified and approached interested parties for acquisition of the group valued at $24m, prepared joint strategy with identified purchaser

• Managed product management and development of group
• Responsibility for planning and spending of $3m budget and 25 people
• Competed for and closed $2m sale and collaborative R&D venture with Disney

• Creator and product manager of high value software product, 2,000 installed licenses, used on every Special Effects Oscar film for 10 years
• Grew sales from £0.8m in ’91 to £6.5m in ’94 with a gross margin of 71%
• Managed software development, QA and documentation group, growing it from 3 to 25
• Built relationships crucial for success with Kodak, Sony, Disney, Avid, and ILM.
• Original contact and one of 4 execs negotiating sale to Avid Technology in 1995 for $38m

• Managed 12 staff working on 4 products on Spaceward’s own hardware platforms
• Designed and developed new software product used to create daily ITV weather forecast graphics for 5 years, negotiated with ITV and ITN, managed collaboration with Meteorological Office.

Mba, Management

Ma, Design Research

Masters by research thesis on the application of computer tools to the early stages of the architectural design process.

Ba, Architecture