Neale Daniel Email & Phone Number

Chelmsford, GB

Chelmsford, England, United Kingdom

Chelmsford, England, United Kingdom

After six great years working at the University of Sheffield, I made the decision to resign and fulfill some of my life-long ambitions rather than waiting until retirement. Time for traveling, mountain trekking, visiting friends and most importantly researching and writing a book.

Sheffield, United Kingdom

• My CRM role evolved to focus upon an innovative route to research funding that I pioneered.
• Roadmapped complex research as a simplified capability map for key Industrial partners
• Selling compelling value propositions to potential Industrial collaborators
• Generated €m+ of additional collaborative research funding with industry
• Enhanced operations efficiency, with a rapid response application process
• Designed innovative 3D visualisation analysis tool to identify & target research clusters

Sheffield, United Kingdom

• Responsible for marketing the €48m research of 320 academics to new industry partners.
• Developed, planned and implemented a new industry B2B gateway infrastructure project
• CRM growth of 550+ new industry projects, involving 5000+ people
• Multi €m long term income stream secured through new industrial partnerships
• Managed €300k financial budget, new management processes, reporting KPI via CRM tools
• Leading a new sales, marketing and project management team of 4 staff

Sheffield, United Kingdom

• After proposing a new opportunity for Intelligent street-lighting my role evolved into marketing.
• Launched a new vertical market for Jennic, opening a multi €m opportunity
• Designed a reference software package to accelerate customer R&D
• Supported sales representatives and distributors with product training
• Created new B2B marketing literature pack of white papers and marketing bulletins

Sheffield, United Kingdom

• Responsible for rescuing business critical relationships and projects.
• Exceptional service secured the €m+ business of Tier 1 clients
• Driving the troubleshooting of client software problems in the field
• Managed a task group of 7 engineers to expedite the resolution of design defects
• Released JenNet as one of the most reliable networking stacks in the industry

Sheffield, United Kingdom

• Bespoke electronics design and manufacture.Tasked with professionalising the ad hoc design and production process.
• Process improvement yielded ISO9001:2000 for design and manufacture
• Project Manager and Senior Engineer leading a design & manufacturing team of 6 staff
• Enhanced production capability by commissioning a semi-automated SMT process

Barnsley UK

• Post-merger responsibility for product R&D. Tasked with rescuing collapsing sales.
• Restored existing customer confidence & created new sales of €6m/year
• Departmental Manager responsible for 15 staff and design/test facilities
• Driving a new FMEA process. Negotiated with standards body to gain EN54 Certification

Dronfield UK

• Managing the product development of the new Landscan thermal imaging system portfolio, Embedded hardware and client/server plant wide system.Responsible for the NPD of an industrial Mission Critical ‘Landscan’ data.
• New sales of €1.5m/year, this design forms the platform of systems sold today
• Leading a new team of 4 engineers to develop ‘high risk’ IT technologies
• Responsible for global customer support across the steel and glass markets

Dronfield UK

Designed and developed embedded real time image acquisition and analysis systems in ‘C’.

Coventry, United Kingdom

Varied roles including system test & verification engineer, systems integrator and software designer.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Business Administration And Management, General

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Mathematics And Computer Science

Higher Technical Diploma (Nqf Level 5/6), Electronics And Telecommunications Engineering