John V Newcomb Email & Phone Number

Mevagissey, GB

United Kingdom

Enjoying a step back in a comfortable semi-retirement role.Providing administrative support to the Logistics Manager; meeting and greeting yard customers; checking inbound supplier and outbound customer deliveries; ensuring all stock records are accurately reported; maintaining all paperwork for delivery and maintenance records; liaising with external IT.

New York, United States

Consultant business advisor to various top tier international organisations around North America, Europe and Australasia.

ICT SKILLS & COMPETENCIES:Team Management / LeadershipMediation and Conflict ResolutionNetworking / Relationship BuildingOperating within Regulated EnvironmentsFinancial Services / Insurance / BankingCommunication, Public Speaking / PresentationsBusiness Technology Value AppreciationCapex / Opex Budget ManagementBusiness Continuity / Disaster Recovery.

United Kingdom

Bodmin, Cornwall, United Kingdom

Management of the internal web development and outsourced offshore development partnerships; management of the IT support engineering team; responsible for marketing, administration and recruitment activities. Full P&L and general management responsibilities for the organisation of the business as a whole with the view to business expansion across the.

St Austell, Cornwall, United Kingdom

As company project manager for this software component supplier to the vehicle manufacturing and after-sales service sector my responsibilities cover project / programme / product management of outsourced and in-house software development plus on-going maintenance for several products; P&L profitability of development & e-learning projects; localisation.

United Kingdom / United States / Europe

• At various times in my career history I have worked freelance on a range of short and medium term contracts through agencies, including:
• Interim Head of IT - management of infrastructure, application development, product development, project management, customer implementation teams during recruitment and overlap periods.
• Interim Business Relationship Partner – provided stakeholder management during recruitment period (financial services organisation)
• IT Management Mentor - provided guidance to IT senior management, board members and non-executive directors through period of considerable business change (property business)
• IT Advisor - providing guidance to the ICT steering committee of a London based insurance company, assisting with a company wide overhaul of all ICT application and infrastructure systems. Providing oversight on.
• IT Consultant - working on software localisation project planning and delivery for a software company producing back office administration systems, from base US to all English speaking international markets.

Financial Services Company (Insurance) / Coventry, UK

• In 2005, joined Pavilion Insurance Management as Company Programme Manager. Pavilion was a multi-site online retail personal and commercial insurance broker with 100+ staff and revenues of £12m.
• contract managing 100+ exceptionally diverse projects covering in-house application development; multiple insurance product web developments; infrastructure updates, building alterations and security enhancements.
• process mapping the development of products end to end, providing a cost to build analysis which revolutionised their approach to bringing on new products.
• recommended separation of IT department into an IT Services company to develop a saleable version of their web portal, web sites and back office business systems.In 2006, appointed Managing Director of PavTek IT.
• instrumental in ICT transformation and the subsequent growth of the Pavilion business.
• launched a strategic redevelopment of the in-house on-line quotation and integrated back-office systems, C#,.NET Framework, SQL Server and co-hosted architecture.

United Kingdom

I owned a number of businesses including a retail and wholesale giftwear/clothing company, a magazine management company, a website design and a software and infrastructure development company.

United States. Mexico. United Kingdom.

Consultant/advisor to various FS/Fintech advisory committees.

CRM Software Package Company / Leicester, UK

• Built and managed system testing & documentation authoring departments for this CRM solution provider. Project managed all product localisation towards expansion into Western Europe. Responsible for supporting the CRM.
• Expanded the remit of the authoring group from writing user manuals, into developing installation guides, interactive help and FAQs, building of a Sharepoint based knowledge management database and standardising all.
• Responsible for managing the development department's ICT infrastructure; designing and building the testing area platforms; introducing automated testing using RoboTest scripts; development of disaster recovery plans.
• Created adaptable test environment with ghosted system images, which proved extremely successful reducing support issues by ensuring all bug fix updates and full releases to be automatically tested on over 110.
• Project managed the translation, integration, implementation and support of a number of foreign language version releases. This included visiting the local resellers across Europe, identifying areas of functionality.

Software Company (Insurance) / UK Chicago & Canada

• Joined the company just after the UK office opened as part of new senior management team to introduce the Windows based integrated insurance broking back-office system to UK and World marketplaces. Reposnsible for.
• Develop system functionality in line with changes in the technology market place, user requirements and regulatory changes
• Developed and integrated various 3rd party software, using their brand recognition to add perceived quality and increasing sales opportunities; also the specification providing dual currency functionality in advance of.
• Software house representative on two industry initiatives, CLMI and Polaris, developing industry data and process EDI standards for transmission between brokers and companies
• Developed first e-mail based trading initiative between brokers and companies
• Answered questions before the parliamentary committee on technical developments in the financial services industry both specific to the UK plus globally

Software Company (Insurance) / Sutton Coldfield, UK

The company produced a fully integrated back office administration system for the insurance broking sector that delivered workflows from customer retail insurance quotations through business take-up on to nominal ledger accounts. Starting as a software trainer and progressing to consulting to improve customers usage of the system via focussed user training.

Storage & Logisitics Company / Birmingham, UK

Short term contract to manage the branch and the building conversion project from 100% warehouse to 50/50 split with new self access storage facility.

Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

Dealing with any customer problems (pre/post sale); organising and managing the handover of new & used vehicles to customers on collection day; liasing with the workshop, dealership, manufacturer and the customer to ensure that problems were resolved and general vehicle servicing completed in a timely manner.

West Midlands, UK

• Managed the day to day operations of various branch offices across the UK.
• Authorised loan applications both unsecured and secured.
• Managed outstanding debt collection activities.
• Supervision of clerical and junior management staff and their development training.
• Seconded to cover holidays and absences of branch managers.

Lichfield & Kingswinford Branches

United Kingdom

Sweeping up stone dust back from crushing machinery into bags.

Mathematics & Physics A Levels

Computer And Information Sciences And Support Services

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Business Management And Geo-Politics