I retired from paid employment in September 2018 and am now pursuing a range of interests and activities including local history, voluntary work, walking and drinking premium coffee. I have recently become a volunteer at my St Ives Museum and a Senior Watchkeeper with the National Coastwatch Institution at the St Ives Coastwatch Station. I'm also the Assistant Curator at St Ives Museum with a particular focus on digitalisation. I'm busier now than when I was working!Prior to retirement I was an experienced IT professional executive with 25+ years of operational IT management experience, 10 at Director level. I have substantial experience of strategy development and execution, large scale programme management, outsourcing and resource management. I also gained some hands on Enterprise Architecture experience working as Chief Architect for a large global company.In my IT Leadership roles I was responsible for leading large teams and managing substantial budgets. In particular I liked the challenge of managing change and implementing significant projects, and enjoyed seeing how the successful deployment of innovation and technology could deliver business benefits. In my Executive Partner role I sought to use my experience and the significant resources of the Gartner organisation to help my clients succeed.Specialties: Enterprise Architecture, strategy development, outsourcing, large scale project management, contract negotiation, mergers and acquisition, change management, service management.
Listed skills include Enterprise Architecture, Outsourcing, Program Management, It Management, and 29 others.