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Aegis Plc employs 16,000 staff in 80 countries, revenue £800M, annual profit around £120M. Direct report to CEO and seat on global exec. Transformed business, aligning fiefdoms into motivated IT group, with common infrastructure. Saved 20m pa by negotiating global deals, streamlining development and restructuring a US business. Introduced Java web technology for intranets, extranets, websites and client reporting. Built global WAN saving £1M+. Outsourced WAN and data centre with seven figure savings. Reduced many email systems to single global system, improving reliability, performance and service 100% and reducing cost and headcount. Introduced comprehensive IT due diligence process for acquisition target assessment: optimising price/risk and accelerating post acquisition integration. Initiated re-engineering of global HR processes global HRIS. Integrated HRIS, directory, messaging and identity management. Developed group option and stock incentive scheme database.

Then R.R. Donnelley employed 30,000 people 50 countries with turnover around $5 billion.Reported to Group CIO and responsible for IT development and integration in South America, Europe and the Far East. Transformed business from US centric to multinational, aligning fiefdoms into motivated IT group, with common infrastructure and WAN. Developed international remote typesetting leading to international financial print business worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Revolutionised BT and Swedish Telecom telephone directory production de-skilling unionised labour, and reducing headcount. Introduced desktop publishing and consulting in software and magazine industries generating $100 million new business. Pioneered warehouse and inventory management systems in US and UK, saving $00,000’s in logistics, stock control and spoilage. Personally programmed factory robots improving productivity by increasing press speeds 25%. Managed IT risk and cost assessment for acquisition targets.

I joined an embryonic consulting division in the Raytheon subsidiary, Data Logic (UK). I established some new business and sales areas for the company with the Ministry of Defence and was a visiting lecturer in technology at the Royal Mlitary College of Science.

I joined Scicon, then a computer consultancy subsidiary of BP, and applied my modelling skills to MOD Army contracts. I was immediately exposed to clients and quickly took over a major programme concerning battlefield simulation. Within two years I took over the Land Systems Department comprising six programmers. I became interested in a new programming language, Pascal, which I introduced to the company, designing and delivering an in-house training course. This was a great success and led to many new contracts. In particular I personally sold and developed a successful pilot system to model certain logistics operations across Northern Europe: this led to a large contract for the company.

I completed my PhD and was asked to continue the work as it had applications in various areas, including military. I accepted and built up and managed a small team of three post-docs and two postgraduates. I was then offered a tempting position at Cornell University (Ithaca, NY state), but turned it down because I was becoming too specialised and wanted to leave the ivory tower to join the business world.

After my first degree I went to work as a ‘Seismic Programmer’ with Globe Universal Sciences in Algeria, analysing prospecting data from the Sahara desert. The data quality was poor and I had to replace in-house analysis methods with those used by a French competitor, whom I visited and negotiated with in French to learn their techniques. This was a success and the company was able to complete its contracts.

Phd, Computational Physics

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Bsc, Mathematics & Computer Science

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