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Ireland

Current semi retired focus is on short term consultancy assignments and professional development training worldwide.Experienced Management & Financial Consultant with 30-years+ extensive practical experiences as a senior strategic consultant working on a wide range of international projects. Practicing Chartered Accountant with significant experience in all accounting issues. Actioned numerous effective business and financial budget plans. Implemented numerous computerised financial and performance management systems. Worked in many EU countries for clients in information technology, international traded services, manufacturing, food, services, and construction and consumers sectors. Clients include EU, World Bank, USAID as well as multinational private sector. Assignments related to Business Support Units, Innovation Centers, Technology Parks; Campus based knowledge intensive start-ups with strong R&D and venture funding requirements etc.

Qatar

A bold $100m social initiative called Silatech, based in Qatar, that promotes large-scale job creation, civic engagement, and entrepreneurship throughout MENA. Developed numerous entrepreneurship, employability and civic engagement programs from concept, through strategic business planning to implementation. Examples include the Bedaya Center for employability and entrepreneurship, Arab Mobile App Challenge, Qatar Volunteer Network and more.

Qatar

Part of the multibillion dollar Qatar Foundation http://www.qf.edu.qa organisation at Education City within which the Qatar Science & Technology Park http://www.qstp.org.qa. This is a significant $500m initiative that aims to be an international location for the development and commercialisation of technology. It is a place where companies develop their intellectual property and deliver it to the marketplace; where research institutes undertake collaborative R&D; and where entrepreneurs create and grow start-up technology companies. QSTP is part of Qatar Foundation’s Education City, a one-thousand hectare campus of schools, universities and research centres in Doha.The foundation’s purpose is to develop and utilise human potential by advancing Qatar’s educational, scientific and artistic infrastructure. www.qstp.org.qa

Dublin, Ireland

The Dublin Business Innovation Centre (Dublin BIC) was established in 1987 with support from the EU and local private, public and higher education sectors to assist the creation and development of enterprise and innovation in the Dublin region. The purpose of the Dublin BIC is to increase the level of entrepreneurial activity and innovation within the region and improve the survival rates and growth prospects of new and existing small enterprises. It does this by providing assistance, on a selective basis, to prospective entrepreneurs, start-up businesses and established small businesses with potential for growth, exports and employment creation. Dublin BIC can assist Entrepreneurs find practical solutions to problems in a responsive non-bureaucratic way. These activities complement the assistance and services provided by the state agencies and the private sector.

Ca, Accountancy

Project Management Methodology

PRINCE2 (an acronym for PRojects IN Controlled Environments, version 2) is a project management methodology that encompasses quality.

Batchelor Of Commerce, Accountancy,Business