Derek Mitchell Email & Phone Number

Reading, Reading, United Kingdom

Product development of wireless environmental datalogging using Bluetooth 4.0, Android, Java spinoff from Experimental research into the Heat Transfer of man made and wild honeybee habitats. wired and wireless Data acquisition systems, modelling of thermal flow.Lecturing at Beekeeper conferences and meetings

a Contract consultancy in Mobile and Fixed telecoms with a focus on the following:· Product marketing· Product management. pre-sales. Market enalysisLast Contract - may 2009 to feb 2013Signalling technical presales, pricing analysis and modellng for Teklec product lines being sold into the Tier 1 customers in EMEA and India.

World-wide Signalling product portfolio (hardware/software/services)Accounts included: Vodafone UK, Comverse, Roamware, Bharti Telesoft.Signalling products were too difficult to sell, changed direction from product features to customer value and flexibility. Through market & Segement analysis ,product roadmap, pricing structure, marketing and sales proposition to the Messaging and OSS/BSS markets. This resulted in a 25% increase in sales.

Built the strategic plan of the Signalling group, and how it would be implemented in the product direction, the technical product development, and marketing proposition

Advanced, automated mobile relationship marketing. Loyalty driven (Messaging & OSS/BSS platform based) automated marketing solution for mobile operators. Concept beyond personalisation to conduct real time conversations and long-term individual subscriber campaigns across multiple media

Leading team of 10 marketing/product managers in IT based software/hardware products (mobile prepaid, business intelligence & M-Commerce billing), reporting directly to the MD of the division. The team had had 4 managers in two years, collapsing, not successfully issued a roadmap, and products were late. My mission: to fix the teams personnel issues, products and processes to hand over to a selected permanent director. I coached this team to create valid long term road maps and detailed business plans ($75M) these were considered best practice in the group and resulted in the increase in revenue ($15M).Changed ISO compliance in product management, taking them from “bound to fail” to according to the auditor “best company practice”. I introduced Logica to a rapid software development technology from Kabira for a major joint development.

Product management of products and integration services for mobile data.Technical pre-sales, bidding, product marketing, and project management of the Systems integration projects in Messaging and OSS/BSS solutions for end to end mobile telecoms converged data, voice & m-commerce solutions, projects, consultancy and products using Wireless IP on GPRS and 3G . Implemented with leading middleware technologies and integration services, including CISCO and Motorola IP and Wireless network products. Identifying and validating solution partners

Managing products in SMS messaging group

I created the EMEA solutions & consultancy business to supply OSS/BSS software solutions & consultancy out of the lack of OSS/BSS features in the core products. My role included the marketing, project management, presales and delivery. Clients included: BT, O2O (now EE) and TNT. I also introduced PRINCE2 to the company