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Cara Technology Limited, Leatherhead

Responsible for the overall management of the IT division within Cara Technology Limited. Co-owner of Cara Technology Limited.Developed a number of commercial web based sites. Our web based systems are used extensively within the food and beverage sectors for sensory analysis, flavour training and flavour assessment. The systems are multi language and multi country deployed.Personally managed the development of a number of new products for SME's including product marketing / sales planning / conference management / knowledge management systems.Managed the development of web enabled validation and training systems for the brewing industry.Management of a team of project managers, developers, testers, business consultants and analysts.

Delivery and design of a new fault management system deliverd to 9 countries and 23 cities affecting over 800 users in call centres.Liased with country managers to ensure that a European wide set of requirements were delivered.

Developed the strategy for the implementation of multiple systems in Elf and subsequently TOTAL FINAL ELF.Designed the integration of multiple systems across multiple countries - successfully delivering call centres, fault management systems, call systems and training systems across multiple sites.

Management of implementation of American billing package (SCT Billing).Build and implementation of packages to support the entry into Electricity supply market.Build and implementation of systems for credit management, query management, customer relationship management, contract management, document printing, electronic data interfacing.Build and implementation of management information systems.Business process re-engineering of over 5,000 process implemented and improved.Managed a team of approximately 60 people with an IT budget in excess of 10 million GBP.

Project manager for system access to media archives.

Project manager of customer billing system. Project manager of customer segmentation system.

Analysis and implementation of Systems Integration strategy and software.

Analysis and implementation of sales front office systems.

Managed the systems for the billing of community charge for various councils.

Team leader of Membership Administration System.

Consultant - covering all system implementations in England - hardware and software

Bsc, Computing Science, Mathematics

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