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Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Reporting to the Group CIO, and CEO of Athora Ireland Services (AIS), I lead the Office of the CIO with accountability for ensuring an effective operating rhythm which successfully delivers on our strategic objectives and key results. Areas of responsibility include Group IT portfolio management, quality assurance, knowledge management, business.

Dublin, Ireland

The Dock is Accenture’s flagship R&D and Global Innovation Centre based in Dublin's tech quarter. Rapid Innovation manages the development of new Dock concepts, which aim to investigate and demonstrate the business application of emerging and maturing technologies. Concepts are prototyped and presented to senior global executives across industries.

County Dublin, Ireland

Responsible for leading strategic and organisation-wide change initiatives to improve the innovation capabilities of the Dock’s people and teams.

County Dublin, Ireland

• Openet is a technology company with offices in Dublin, KL and Brazil. With over 500 employees (incl. over 200 engineers), Openet realises value outcomes for global communication service providers by delivering.
• Operationalised this new business function and delivered on strategic objectives within budget
• Analysed market, customer and internal business insights to prioritise new opportunities
• Created strategic marketing plans to drive success in each target market/segment
• Provided direction and thought leadership throughout the product management lifecycle
• Devised marketing campaigns to build awareness and grow pipeline of qualified leads

County Dublin, Ireland

• Responsible for leading Openet’s IT and Network solutions value stream. Reporting to the CEO, and part of his senior management team, my success was measured on how well we empowered Openet Commercial teams to achieve.
• Operationalised this new business unit and deliver on strategic objectives within budget
• Assessed market, customer and internal insights to identify and prioritise new propositions
• Developed effective market strategies and partnership activities to maximise addressable market
• Drove the awareness, knowledge of, and adoption of BU value propositions by Sales teams
• Built a pipeline of opportunities through marketing campaigns and related awareness activities

County Dublin, Ireland

• Established and managed a new strategic business unit to build brand awareness of Openet as a thought leader and innovative vendor in the emerging automated network market space. Results included the identification of.
• Operationalised the BU, defined the vision, the Openet Accelerate brand, website and legal entity
• Successfully led a multidisciplinary team to deliver on our strategic objectives within budget
• Innovated and tested new propositions and prototypes to validate customer need and viability
• Established market awareness of Openet’s propositions resulting in new sales opportunities
• Built a partner ecosystem to collaborate with and maximise our addressable market potential

County Dublin, Ireland

• Supported Openet CEO and Leadership to deliver on the company’s promise to its customers, shareholders and employees. A diverse role with program / change management responsibilities spanning technology, commercial and.
• Established and facilitated a systematic and coordinated strategic business planning process.
• Put mechanisms in place to monitor business performance and address barriers to progress
• Successfully delivered strategic change programs - culture, process & systems related

County Dublin, Ireland

Supported Openet CEO and Leadership to deliver on the company’s promise to its customers, shareholders and employees. A diverse role with program / change management responsibilities spanning technology, commercial and operational aspects of Openet’s business model.

County Dublin, Ireland

• Reporting to Openet CFO, I managed a global project management office who were responsible for driving successful outcomes in the following areas:
• Timely and accurate business forecasting and P&L monitoring to meet annual targets
• Effective workforce planning to meet utilisation and billability targets
• Deployed Business Systems to improve productivity and reduce inefficiencies
• Established Vendor Management mechanisms to nurture an elastic global network of talent supply

County Dublin, Ireland

Reporting to Openet COO, I managed a global project management office who were responsible for driving successful commercial outcomes across the business.

County Dublin, Ireland

County Dublin, Ireland

Responsible for the development and commercialisation of a new mobile application within the Irish market. Sentrio was a fast-paced start-up and I was soon redeployed to manage several business-critical deployments, eventually building out and leading their professional services team.

County Dublin, Ireland

I was hired into the design department of CBT Systems and was responsible for collaborating with SMEs, writers and editors to translate technical learning content into engaging visuals. Within twelve months I was promoted to Team Lead and subsequently promoted to the role of project manager and later to the role of program manager. Projects and Programs of.

Master'S Degree, Business Studies In Business Practice, First Class Honours

Advanced Diploma, Personal, Leadership And Executive Coaching, Distinction

Post Graduate Diploma (L9), Strategic Marketing & Digital, First Class Honours

Post Graduate Diploma (Level 9), Strategy And Innovation, 1.1

Post Graduate Diploma (Level 9), General Management, 2.1

Bachelor’S Degree, Design And Visual Communications, General