• Set-up own company to provide interim senior management consultancy services.
• Defined, initiated and managed a business transformation programme comprising 18 work streams to drive change across all business functions to deliver key elements of new strategic plan for the business.
• Extremely fast start, work streams kicked off and up to speed in days, stakeholder goals defined and projects established to deliver those goals.
• Work streams delivered to completion successfully. Remaining work successfully transitioned to client executive team as part of their “business as usual”.

Valista Vice President Services 2005 - 2007
Valista Director of Professional Services 2003 - 2004

• From 2005, member of Executive Team contributing to strategy and business planning.
• Responsible for four departments: pre-sales, professional services, customer support and MIS; team members worldwide including off-shore resources in Sri Lanka – circa 50 reports.
• Following the merger of iPIN and Network365 to form Valista, was awarded the title of “The First Valista Employee” by the CEO as a result of rapid adaptation to the merged organisation and contribution to the success of it.
• Adoption and thorough experience of the ETP “Ten Step Process” project and programme management methodology including the ability to kick-off a project in a single day no matter the complexity of the project.
• Delivered e-commerce and m-commerce solutions: mobile and electronic payment, merchandising and mobile top-up to the convergent telco and broadband (and latterly TV and media) marketplace. Responsible for industry award winning solution delivery – e.g. ‘payforit’, ‘Simpay’ and ‘m-pay Bill’ for Vodafone Live.

iPIN Director of Professional Services 2002 - 2003
iPIN Partnership Engagement Manager 2001 - 2002

• During 2003, spent 50% of time in the US to provide motivational management and introduce process to the Core Software Engineering and Support teams there. Turned around performance and rescued the schedule of a major product delivery - a resounding success, resulted in award of 150% of contractual bonus.
• Set the benchmark for others as a result of work output and work ethic. As the – only member of the company in the UK, earned the description “the lowest maintenance guy on the planet” from the COO in the US.
• Undertook significant pre-sales and business development activity in addition to management of solution delivery.

• Responsible for product development, pre-sales, professional services, customer support and MIS - teams based in the UK, Ireland and the US.
• Implemented organisational change to improve product development, shorten time to market and align with product marketing goals.
• Performed operational due diligence for M&A targets.
• Developed and implemented structured project methodologies.

Prior to 1995, held a number of positions across several organisations:
• Software Engineering for the educational software industry authoring several published titles.
• Systems and Functional Analysis.
• Project and Programme Management.
• Departmental Management.
• Successfully achieved ISO9000 accreditation.

In the early 1980s, appeared on a number of television and radio programs relating to educational software and sat on a British government committee dedicated to implementing microelectronics in education.