Established as a freelance consultant to deliver short to medium term project management assignments in the education and training field, write bids and undertake research in education and training.

Recent assignments include:

- Research into lifelong learning qualifications on behalf of SVUK.

- Project Management for UK NARIC Pathways to Skills Project, representing NARIC in this international project to develop a database on international vocational skills in Europe.

- Bid Management for University of Edinburgh: Supporting the University to win a tender for an education project to design specific e-learning language materials.

- Bid management for Binley’s NHS database supplier: Supported Binley’s in writing tenders for database management projects.

- Bid management for EC LLP: Written a number of tenders and studies for Lifelong Learning projects including developments of European Qualifications Frameworks; Leonardo mobility project for construction apprentices and Leonardo Transfer of Innovation opportunities on behalf of Bedfordshire Chamber of Commerce.

- Bid management and feasibility studies: Supported Bedfordshire Chamber of Commerce in writing tenders and EOIs for a number of potential clients including the FCO and the TDA.

- Bid management for UK NARIC: Projects include Establishing Equivalence of Workforce Qualifications on behalf of the Singapore Ministry of Manpower; UFI project work and LLP projects in the vocational education sector.

- Designing Yemeni Higher Education Legislation and Bylaws: legislation to support the implementation of a new quality assurance and accreditation system in the higher education sector.

- Writing EOIs for City & Guilds: Wrote expressions of interest for EC PHARE vocational education and skills projects in Turkey, Romania and Egypt.

UK NARIC provides specialist advice and educational services through electronic databases, consultancy and development.

Divisional Manager responsible for undertaking national and international consultancy work. Previously, IT Manager leading team developing websites and databases. Specific responsibilities include:

- Project Manager for Bulgaria EC Phare developing vocational education standards.
- Writing successful tender for World Bank funded $370,000 project to develop an accreditation system for Yemeni higher education institutions.
- Writing tenders and delivering projects for several projects including EC Socrates, Leonardo and ESF programmes; World Bank, LSC and London Development Agency.
- Editorial control and project management of International Comparisons database of education systems and qualifications used by universities to assess and compare international qualifications.
- Managed IT upgrade exercise, selecting replacement hardware, software and suppliers resulting in annual savings of over 40%.
- IT Project Manager for £300,000 LSC Migrant Skills Project developing an online database and tracking system.
- Managed several e-commerce projects based on MS SQL and ASP, using MS Project and MS Access.
- Project Manager for £80,000 Malawi Skills for Development project on behalf of UK DFID investigating links between higher education and employers in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Crown Agents is an International company undertaking consultancy projects in institutional development.

- Responsible for marketing communications, writing letters of interest for business opportunities, managing client database, staff newsletter and market research.
- International experience includes Ghana, Egypt, Cote d’Ivoire, Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda.