David Dobson Email & Phone Number

Leicester, Gb

East Midlands

Helping you to leverage the power of advanced digital technologies to streamline your processes and improve efficiency. Ultimately, to make better products for less. Made Smarter helps you secure this competitive edge.

Leicester, England, United Kingdom

Working closely with the ERDF funded Growth Hubs and Innovation & Growth Specialists across the East Midlands to provide information, support, advice and guidance to established businesses that have a track record of rapid growth or the ambition and opportunity to grow, scale up, change or diversify their business model.Provide a strategic digital technology consultancy service to SME’s who have the potential to grow by investing in technology solutions. Supporting the delivery of the Digital Upscaler Project (DUS), to all industry sector businesses, across all three East Midlands counties. Ensured business technology capital investments were aligned with their digital transformation journey’s. Provided strategic guidance and consultancy support to senior management, and supported a number of business to commit to digital technology investments (£750k+), with an aid of grant support.Key Responsibilities • Provide strategic technology consultancy support to senior management• Provide Digital road mapping planning• Support businesses in securing grant funds for project investments• Ensure digital investments have positive impacts to business operations• Digital dashboard reporting

Games demonstrator; conventions (UK Games Expo, Comic cons, etc), high street stores (Waterstones, John Lewis, Smyth's and more).Spreading the love and enjoyment of tabletop games in my spare time.

Loughborough

This is a non-salaried executive management role operating above the day-to-day operations and personnel. In a consultative capacity I bring all my experience and skills to further the mission of the community association.In the past 12 months [and ongoing] I have provided technical, business, personnel and leadership mentoring/direction. Highlights included personnel restructuring & recruitment, leadership, successful grant application to the value of £18k and accepting the role of Deputy Chair.

Loughborough, Leicestershire, Uk

Coaching & mentoring business owners and teams to achieve more;Working with a range of clients, I specialise in partnering with business owners and their teams to achieve greater success and productivity.Together we create genuine actionable goals with accountability, ensuring completion by increasing focus, maximising engagement and thereby increasing confidence.I do this by;✔️Developing a deeper understanding of your purpose and focus.✔️Creating a greater clarity of the challenges faced.with the use of✔️Proven strategies and planning methods to establish success, satisfaction and enjoyment.Enjoy the Journey

Leicestershire, Uk

Worked with a number of different SMEs to enable them to achieve their goals and make best use of technology.I also provide web development, cloud and web hosting.

Loughborough, United Kingdom

After purchashing this failing high street business I successfully took the business online, rebuilding the online presence and community.Having been involved in the hobby for more than 30 years, my primary skills were not be hobby related; Logisitics, Supply chain, Sales/Marketing, Social Media, E-Commerce, Stock Control, Resource planning, Project Management, were all of partof my day-to-day activities.Cost increases from US distributors on the UK supply meant that it ceased to be profitable and therefore no longer a viable business venture. With sadness, stock was cleared and the business finally closed.

Swithland, Leicestershire

Respond to and resolve client technical support queries within Masters Allen SLA’s.Organisation, coordination and streamlining of technical support activities.Contribute to the growth and improvement of technical support to the business product and service offerings.Increasing the internal efficiency of operational processes with regards the delivery of Service and Support to the company's client-base.Highlights included increasing SLA performance from sub-70% to a permanent performance of above 95% in all areas.

Leicester, United Kingdom

E-Commerce and web development based on Drupal v6 & v7 and Magento v1.4. Also bespoke offerings.Data/Database development and integration; MySQL, SQL & MS Access.R&D towards a potential Mobile (web & apps) business stream\added-value offerings for Masters Allen.Also aiding in creating/adapting a tailored project/programme management process.Following successes and the right methods I have been offered a full-time role with Masters Allen.

Project management of HRG4 & Clinical Coding Submissions Deadlines 2009 project using Prince2.Project assessment/focussing following departure of previous Project Manager.Recoup of targeted £21M/annum in potential lost income.Advise Project Board of status and direction of project.Updating of all project documentation, plans, RAID logs and communications.Management of project tasks versus resources and staff.Starting the Project Closure process, including cost analysis, Final Trust Briefing.Advising on follow-on actions and writing business cases/briefs for further projects.

Nottingham, United Kingdom

Further Development of bespoke Service Desk PHP/CSS/CMS code.Creation of Up-to-the-minute/hour/day/week performance reports, via intranet and Blackberry enabled.Expansion of Service functionality through Intranet technologies.PHP/CSS coding to present HTML/XHTML accurate reporting from live MS SQL 2005.Availability of Intranet reports & Service Desk application on mobile BlackBerry devices.Expansion of Service functionality through Intranet technologies.Comment, document and handover of PHP/CSS/XHTML & MySQL to new in-house personnel.Continued development and support of PHP & MySQL.Expansion of IIS and MS Access back-end services and reports.

Project Management of IT Projects (Infrastructure/VOIP/Office Move) using structured Methods.ICT Requirements analysis and consultation for multiple Estates projects.Project managed the relocation of 3 services into new EMAS Leicestershire HQ (full life-cycle projects).Design, layout and process approval of Small Power and Data on Building schematics.Development of simple structured project methodology.Writing Systems specifications for bespoke systems development (E-Procurement/Stock).Consultation and management of 3rd party organisations.Key member of Service & Programme Delivery team, support of team members.During the last month, as projects came to an end, I helped EMAS ICT by working as a PHP/Web Developer (see below).

Project Management of IT Projects using structured Methods.Consultation and specification of Tenant ICT requirements.Design, layout and process approval of Small Power and Data on Building schematics.Development of simple structured project methodology.Consultation and proposition on use and development of technology to support 25 year growth.IT and Project support to all members of project team including mentoring.

‘Hands-on’ technical and operational management of IT/HR/Admin/Operations departments.Project managed corporate audit for software licensing and hardware.Project management of upgrades, installs and operation/FM related work.Side-by-side management of LAN services and infrastructure with IT team.Financial Controller (Budgets/Accounts/Suppliers) for Company, with liaison to parent company.Facilities Management with responsibility for all company property and maintenance contracts.Server and Client roll-outs of Windows-based software and operating systems.Ownership of company telecommunications, mobile and leased.Negotiation with key 3rd parties for delivery of services, equipment and licensing.Managed ‘in-house’ development of MIS databases using PHP/HTML/MySQL/Linux.Handling of personnel recruitment, appraisals and training and development plans.

‘Hands-on’ technical and operational management of IT/HR/Admin/Operations departments.Project managed corporate audit for software licensing and hardware.Project management of upgrades, installs and operation/FM related work.Side-by-side management of LAN services and infrastructure with IT team.Financial Controller (Budgets/Accounts/Suppliers) for Company, with liaison to parent company.Facilities Management with responsibility for all company property and maintenance contracts.Server and Client roll-outs of Windows-based software and operating systems.Ownership of company telecommunications, mobile and leased.Negotiation with key 3rd parties for delivery of services, equipment and licensing.Managed ‘in-house’ development of MIS databases using PHP/HTML/MySQL/Linux.Handling of personnel recruitment, appraisals and training and development plans.

Linux Server admin and management of the hosting platform offered to clients.Assisting in all aspects of IT within the business and also worked with the company's principal in setting up a IT service called "IT on Demand".Continued to work with local businesses and SMEs on a number of different projects; networking, databases, email, etc.

Gcses

Activities and Societies: Running Club and Cross-country team. GCSEs

Education record

Activities and Societies: Running Club Standard Curriculum