Michael Breare Email & Phone Number

Bristol, United Kingdom

Looking for Development Manager Roles (including / excluding Quality/Testing) for a Product Vendor

Bristol, United Kingdom

Relocated to Bristol from Bedford, our home for 23 years, supporting my wife in a promotion in her career

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

Worksmart is the market leader in regulatory based people-centric software to the financial services industry in the UK. Products can be deployed stand-alone or integrated with Worksmart’s other products and customers’ existing systems to drive, automate and monitor corrective action as a result of Business Quality performance indicators, Learning and Development needs or Customer Complaints Employed as Head of Product Development and Testing to drive the ‘productisation’ of the Company:• Formalise product processes covering requirements through to launch to meet market needs and reduce ‘idea-to-cash’ cycle.• Move from customer-led project releases to market-led product releases.• Improve the quality, predictability and repeatability of product releases.• Improve the processes, consistency and robustness of the Product Teams to provide scale and capacity whilst ensuring quality and timeliness.• Introduce new and retire existing products (or features) as market needs arise.

Framework Software Ltd is a member of the 3i Infotech (Western Europe) Ltd group of companies specialising in delivery of products & services to the Private Equity market globally. (Framework Software: £10m turnover, 100 employees worldwide).Employed as the Software Delivery Manager to:- Improve the quality, predictability & repeatability of delivered releases- Improve the processes, consistency & robustness of the development organisations across London & Bangalore to provide the scale & capacity to effectively meet planned revenue targets

Director of Products for the CDC Respond Product Line. The Respond product suite enables companies to quickly and easily capture and analyse complaints and customer & employee feedback to drive business change, reduce customer dissatisfaction and improve profitability.

The Respond product suite enables companies to quickly and easily capture and analyse complaints and customer & employee feedback to drive business change, reduce customer dissatisfaction and improve profitability.Joined Respond as Development Manager in June 1999 promoted to Director of Development (including D+Q) in Aug 2001, additionally taking responsibility for Product Management & Customer Support in Oct 2002, then on to a Board Director (Director of Development) responsible for Product Management, Development, Quality & Customer Support in Feb 2005

Accenture is a world leading management consultancy, involved in business process improvement through the alignment of a company’s people, processes and technology with its strategic goals.I joined Accenture in Jul 1989 as an Analyst Programmer. I was promoted to Consultant in Apr 1991 then on to Manager in Apr 1994 and Senior Manager in Apr 1997