Guiding a team that is charged with delivering innovative and disruptive solutions for the UK insurance market, including a high capacity rating and fulfilment platform, and insurance broker trading solutions. Achievements:● Key player in acquisition of UK business by Applied Systems.● Built Product Management team that developed modified product strategy.● Created new pricing model and quotation tools based on sensitivity analysis.● Drove adoption of management tools giving visibility into development and product life-cycles.● Developed acquisition strategy, including identification of acquisition targets, to drive growth.Responsibilities:● Member of the UK Management Team.● Leading and shaping discussions with internal and external stakeholders to identify solutions that solve client problems, and opportunities that increase the value of our products and services to our clients.● Enabling the effective management of the product life-cycle for all products provided to UK customers, from strategic planning to tactical activities.● Ensuring that the market requirements for current and future products are fully understood, by conducting market research supported by continuous engagement with internal and external stakeholders. ● Driving the UK product solution set across a matrix of teams (primarily Product Management, Development, Marketing and Sales) by ensuring the market requirements, product features and functionality, and product positioning are clearly communicated. ● Leading the development and implementation of go-to-market plans for all products, working with all departments to execute. ● Continuously reassessing and optimizing all aspects of each product’s relationship with its target customers, including (but not limited to) features and functionality, pricing, support, marketing, user experience, user community, legislation, and competitor products.● Researching potential acquisition targets and partner relationships.

Commercialization of a truly extraordinary ‘real-time’ Social Business Engine.

Provider of product management consultancy services in product globalization (LION) and commercialization, next generation ERP, cloud, product strategy and change management.Evangelist in opensource technologies and agile methodologies.Open to challenges to drive organizational change, either on a consultancy basis or full time.

Creator and Leader of the Product Management function challenged with developing a global product strategy and delivering a 100% SaaS enabled ERP product.Achievements:● Established and led the Product Management function within Openbravo resulting in 143% revenue growth in 2011.● Created, promoted and achieved Board acceptance of a modified product and partner strategy.● Managing the successful evolution of a Spanish ERP solution into a globally viable, commercial, SaaS product resulting in 187% growth in cloud deployments in 2011.● Delivered on a complete refactoring of the user interface resulting in an acclaimed user experience.● Led designed and delivery of a completely re-engineering functional core of the application based on a modular architecture..Responsibilities:● Direct management responsible for the Product Management function, including User Experience and Documentation teams.● Owner of the product roadmap and strategy.Product owner of the product development backlog in an agile development environment.● Key focus on requirements gathering and smooth, rapid release cycles.● Owner the internationalization strategy of the product.● Management of a matrix of remote multinational teams● Evaluator of core requirements and prioritization of features via partner and community interaction● Driver of significant usability and user performance enhancements.

“International” evangelist in design and development of Epicor’s next generation product lines.Achievements:● Drove the global product ethos and functional capability evolved in iScala into Epicors’s next generation solution (Epicor 9).● Successfully managed the international (non-US) system, alpha and beta testing program and product rollout of Epicor 9.Responsibilities:● Direct management responsible for Product Management Localization and Translation (globalization) teams.● Owned the internationalization and translation of product; managed a translation budget in excess of $1million USD for translation into 32 languages.● Managed product specifications for internationalization; primary functional architect● Facilitated communication between development organization and international partners in design and development of localization features.● Maintained the project schedule and reports project status (reporting directly at Board level)● Managed international (i.e., non-US) alpha and beta programs, including user acceptance testing.● Managed user requirement gathering via direct customer interaction and leadership of user groups.● Drove usability and user performance enhancement trade-off decisions● Provided interface for escalation of international functional requirements based on business case.

Responsible for the iScala core suite of global ERP products. Internationalization leader with solutions sold into more than 140 countries in 32 languages. Achievements: ● Drove year on year revenue increases through targeted verticalization of iScala.● Created, and delivered on, a multi-year business development plan to merge multiple local product versions into one global single stack solution, targeting the subsidiaries and divisions of global multinationals.● Developed and drove integration strategy for Latin American, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Danish, and Austrian localised product versions, working with Channel Partners and in-house lawyers in the successful transfer of ownership of the associated intellectual property rights.● Led the design, development and successful launched a new, component-based, Asset Management product and a new Human Capital Management product. ● Established and led User Groups within the Industrial Machinery and Light Engineering market sectorsResponsibilities: ● Owner of core iScala Financials product roadmaps, including providing Business Intelligence and Key Performance Indicators to the Board. ● Owner development backlog, prioritizing and scheduling development effort of two remote development teams (Financial and HRM) based in Moscow, Russia.● Lead in support arbitrage process, prioritizing issues for resolution under support agreements.● Expert on global taxation, transaction handling, audit and security requirements, workflows, and number handling including redenomination and rounding algorithms.● Owner of Bank Payment Interface, Asset Management, Human Capital Management, Payroll, Time and Expense, and Resource Management solutions.● Positioning of existing solutions within SOX and IFRS domains contributing to BASDA White Papers. ● Owned key 3rd party OEM relationships. ● Educator in global Sales training events.

Creator of an online, web interfaced, multi-currency equity derivative product, the Dividends and Derivatives Directory.● Managed technical architects and external development team.● Developed commercialization, packaging and pricing models.

Founding Editor of the North American Estimates Directory.● Managed development of data integration workflows● Constructed SQL database and user interface to manage data quality for publication.● Managed North American research desk.

● Provided management skills and administrative services to the Receiver in Insolvency in Scotland

● Managed a team of 12 Business Analysts evaluating corporate strength, including full fundamental analysis.● Managed the first regional-hub computer network for workflow optimization and management reporting.