Colin Bottle Email & Phone Number

Stowmarket, England, United Kingdom

Mendlesham, Suffolk

Having worked with Trade Counter Distribution on a consultancy basis over the past 4 years, I have now joined the board in a part-time NED capacity.

Mendlesham, Suffolk

I provide IT consultancy and project management services to this business, including delivering an IT strategy review to deliver a new IT strategy & plan. This resulted in me being offered a NED role with the business.

Northampton, England, United Kingdom

Northampton, United Kingdom

I have leveraged my considerable operational leadership experience in both IT functions and as a supplier of business-critical systems with Vista & Publishing Technology Ltd to provide IT & Business Consultancy, Interim Management and Project & Programme Management. An overview of recent assignments can be found below, as well as further detail on my.

Brighton, United Kingdom

Project managed roll-out of cloud based, Cascade payroll system, across divisions of the company and subsequent phases to include expenses and overtime payments, to deliver self-service benefits, reduction in queries into payroll dept and to meet SOX compliance requirements.

Colchester, United Kingdom

I have been engaged with this business in a part-time IT Project Manager role. This includes a project to rapidly merge IT systems across IT centres following business merger and to create IT tools & a repeatable plan to move the distribution centre of all 3PP clients without client disruption.

Colchester, United Kingdom

During my time here, I acted as Project Manager for the migration of key business systems into shared data centre and Project Director for a digital and physical publishing requirement gathering and definition study.

In this role, I was responsible for the European and North American operations, ensuring profitable performance and efficient usage of shared global resources. Key achievements included: ☛Playing a lead role in the successful merger of European and North American operations resulting in improved efficiency and profitability and enhanced customer service.

I was responsible as MD of VISTA's European operation for all sales and P&L. VISTA merged with Ingenta Plc in February 2007 to form Publishing Technology Plc. Key achievements included:☛Investigating a range of exit options for the founder member and existing chairman, concluding in a successful MBO in 1998, as part of a three-man team, with backing from.

In this role, I managed several projects and customer accounts in a variety of industries, including computer distributors, building and pharmaceutical companies.

I was responsible for all IT development, operations and data input staff on behalf of a major independent Book distributor, DMS.

Having started in IT operations, I progressed through software development and into IT management at this major independent Book distribution company.