Neil Duprés Email & Phone Number

Frensham, Farnham, Surrey

Shamley Green, England, United Kingdom

Farnham, Surrey

• ‘bridging it’ (bit) has an innovative and adaptable approach using some 25 years of experience gained across multiple disciplines in a variety of businesses from FTSE 100 multinationals to SMEs.Key Areas:
• Facilitating business problem solving through change, innovation and appropriate technology
• Liaison between business and IT functions providing stakeholder and relationship management
• Managing IT partners and third parties with direction, support and challenge
• Part-time IT Director role – where a full-time role is not requiredTackling business issues in a pragmatic manner using approaches gained over the years while developing trust and accountability and building long-term.

London, United Kingdom

Freeman Clarke is the UK’s largest and most experienced team of Fractional or part-time IT Directors to ambitious SMEs.Ambitious businesses need first-class IT leaders, Freeman Clarke is the UK’s largest and most experienced team of fractional IT Directors. We aren’t interim, consultants or freelancers, we are impartial IT Directors who can become a.

United Kingdom

Responsible for driving business change and collaboration using social technologies to drive knowledge sharing and collaboration.

Global

Responsible for the identification of innovation opportunities across the Smiths Global Divisions where rapid prototyping could assist with the business case for wider adoption across the Group.External scanning of technology to apply to discovered business problems & issues.Worked with external partners to deliver solutions.

London, United Kingdom

Provided consultancy and support for a new Executive Support (VIP) Programme for the Smiths CEO and Board Directors and Global Divisional Boards.

• Led a dynamic, cutting-edge team of 80 J2EE developers, analysts and QA engineers producing quality software solutions to complex business problems using Agile, Scrum and XP methodologies
• Enabled the introduction of 'Scrum' as a part of the Agile/XP development framework Delivered Agile/Scrum developed 'Bulk Migration Tool' at TalkTalk saving £1.5m per month
• Delivered development projects for AOL Migration enabling £25m savings through consolidation and outsourced relationships (Patni/TCS/TechM)

• Brought in by the CIO to liaise between multiple programme work streams and the AOL Technology function extracting the AOL UK systems and customers from AOL Inc. after the CPW purchase
• Demonstrated an ability to work across multiple technology disciplines to uncover/tackle risks and issues (including: IT Infrastructure, HR & Finance systems, Data Centre, Call Centre and Legacy AOL Applications)
• Built relationships across Programme and Business, based on development of trust and consistent delivery
• Managed Technical Analysts, Architect and PMs to assess/ scope projects for Development delivery

A variety of clients including FMCG (Drinks), Financial, Telecomms, Software, Broadband. Roles included: Project / Demand Management, Business Relationship Management, IT Support & Consultancy.

• Managed the technical delivery of an asset management system for Vodafone in conjunction with Computacenter and Atos Origin
• Savings of £1.2m generated at Vodafone while Technical Project Manager, driving down PC asset base from 16,500 to 13,000 saving £1.2m PA
• Delivered robustly re-engineered processes to ensure successful asset management going forward
• Built successful relationship with outsourced vendor (Atos) to enable the changes required

• Responsible for evaluating and exploiting new technologies to gain on-going competitive advantage
• Used innovative first generation Smartphone technology at Allied Domecq to reduce sales processing from 72 to 36 hours to bring in line with major competitors
• Managed 'Proof of Concept' leading edge technology projects across global Allied sales forces
• Researched early adoption of RFID tags to track 5m+ whisky barrels in Scotland and Canada
• Produced research papers and technology briefings for senior management

Reported to Global CIO, responsible for managing the IT expectations, issues and problem resolution for the CEO and other Board-level executives. Engaged directly with the CIO for status reporting and issue management feedback. Managed technology rollouts and pilots for the executives.

Self-employed IT Director/Consultant with a range of clients/contracts including:Client: Allied Domecq plc Sept 02 – March 03Provided support, project management and consultancy to London-based Executives and Global Marketing function.Client: BD&M Group Mar 00 – Aug 02 - Project management.Client: Allied Domecq Spirits & Wine July 97 – Aug 02 - IT.

UK

Provided support and career guidance to individuals laid off from major UK financial organisations.

London, United Kingdom

Ran Dealing Room and International Communications networks