• developed strategic IT roadmap - reviewed IT applications landscape at Welsh Water with a view to replacing legacy systems with extended SAP footprint (SAP-PLM, CRM, IS-U) covering Work and Asset Management, CRM, Billing. Managed workshops with SAP UK to identify fit of SAP products and identified best-in-class options for non-SAP targets. Report formed basis of Welsh Water's CTO's medium term technology investment strategy.
  
  
• provided consultancy on ASAP methodology and data migration for UK Water company embarking on strategic mySAP-PLM implementation. Advice shaped the client's implementation programme and substantiated the internal claim for budget allocation.
  
  
• created and delivered technology backed business propositions for Energy companies in Energy Retail and eBusiness. Propelled LogicaCMG's brand within the utilities sector as a supplier of innovation.
  
  
• consulted on product selection and deployment of Web Content Management Systems, content based services, web portals, eBilling and and eService systems. Won business to implement CMSs with AIB and Anglian Water
  
  
• produced and managed the Period Property UK web portal - a community of interest
  "For People with a Passion for Period Property" Grew the brand from start-up 'no-name' to stong niche recognition.

• strong grasp of both business and IT issues
  
  
• adept at developing and communicating visions and directing implementations
  
  
• acclaimed ability to compose articulate, substantiated and persuasive propositions and promotional articles
  
  
• strong technical comprehension with background in systems development, IT development project management, solution design, Object Oriented Design, web design, Java, JSP, Perl, Visual Basic .Net, HTML, XML, C++, SQL, Oracle, RDBMSs, Unix

• Strategic Consultancy - developed strategic IT roadmap - review of IT applications landscape at Welsh Water. View to replacing legacy systems with extended SAP footprint (SAP-PLM, CRM, IS-U) covering Work and Asset Management, CRM and Billing. Workshops alongside SAP UK to identify potential fit of SAP products and identified best-in-class options for non-SAP targets. Report formed basis of Welsh Water's CTO's medium term technology investment strategy.
  
  
• Bid Management - Managed £10M bid for IT Infrastructure and Support outsource for British Waterways. Client commended and shortlisted bid
  
  
• Marketing - produced influential promotional paper proclaiming LogicaCMG's substantial and substantiated SAP capability to Centrica. Boosted client's impression of LogicaCMG's capability
  
  
• Business Development Consultancy - mySAP-ALM (Asset Lifecycle Management) consultancy to assist strategic initiative to replace legacy Asset Management system, plus advice on application of ASAP methodology. Wrote Data Migration Strategy for legacy systems to SAP. Persuasive Document Management proposition paper promoting SAP-DM. Collaborative Working proposition paper for 'SAP-cFolders'. Stimulated client into taking postive IT investment decisions
  
  
• Business propositions - constructed and delivered 5 Energy Retail propositions - savings on wholesale electricity imbalance charges - making money from demand side bidding into balancing mechanism - advanced customer service through knowledge based eService - online service with Web Collaboration - internet bill presentation. Commissioned to write guidelines on how to prepare killer propositions for pre-sales team. Propelled LogicaCMG's brand within the utilities sector as a supplier of innovation.
  
  
• Enterprise Content Management - requirements and product selection, analysing Stellent CMS, Percussion's Rhythmyx products amongst others for Lotus Cars.Steared Lotus' procurement decision
  
  
• Bids - helped prepare 5 bids and multiple RFI responses. Industrial billing (£7M), Online quotations (£2.5), Siebel (£4.5M), BroadVision portal (£3M), eBusiness infrastructure (£2M)
  
  
• Front line sales support - researched and promoted solution and consultancy offerings on topics such as Content Management, CRM, eCRM, EBPP, Electricity Quotations using solutions from Open Market, MMT PowerQuote, Cisco Collaboration Server, Kana, Siebel, ePoint, BEA Weblogic, Intershop Enfinity, SAP Portals. Front line account staff vriefed with propositions to take to clients, confident that back-up expertise could be called upon
  
  
• External conferences - Delivered paper at "Profitable Utilities eBusiness" conference. Promoted Logica as a supplier of innovative solutions that matter

Chief Web Developer

Period Property UK

2000 - 2004

• Developed eCommerce enabled niche property website - a "community of interest" for historic dwellings - 1200 unique visitors daily and growing. www.periodproperty.co.uk Grew the brand from start-up 'no-name' to stong niche recognition
  
  
• Web design (other): hi-glazeconcepts.co.uk, farmmanagement.co.uk, clarebaptistchurch.org.uk

Senior Consultant Content Management

Allied Irish Bank 2000 - 2000

• Performed insightful independent product selection of a Content Management System to facilitate AIB's vision for a retail banking information web portal. selected product remains responsible for AIB's corporate web site - www.aib.ie
  
  
• Subsequently helped Logica to be awarded £1M implementation project

Workstream Leader
(Utility Asset Procurement eBusiness start-up)
2000 - 2000

• Achieved the definition of requirements for an extranet and document management system, the core functions of a new co-operative procurement consortium. Headed 2 (of 6) workstreams within the Technology and Business Process group to achieve this

• Led content management requirements capture project. Outcome was a detailed definition of requirements from which a multi-channel portal was developed - a forerunner of todays' "Orange World". Managed selection of a Content Management System (selecting Open Market ahead of Vignette, Broadvision, Interwoven). Sufficient confidence levels attained amongst the client's stakeholders by the substantiated selection report to warrant the purchase of the recommended product and to invest in its implementation.

• Gained SAP Consultant certification (Sales and Distribution) and IS-U (Utilities)
  
  
• Authored Logica's SAP Implementation Methodology, 'powered by ASAP' to build credibility with clients.

• Scoped, designed and delivered system interfacing Eastern Energy and Barclaycard, cementing affinity partnership to penetrate newly deregulated domestic fuel market.
  
  
• Recruited 6 man team. Met advertised deadline. Oracle PL/SQL, Pro*C, UNIX-AIX

Appointed for overseas assignment on strength of success on previous project.

• Directed development and delivery - on schedule, budget and spec - 5 consecutive releases of a nation-wide Network Management System
  
  
• Team awarded "Best Project of the Year 1997" within Logica Australia
  
  
• Influential in re-focussing development team to be customer conscious and turning a sour commercial relationship into a collaborative, respectful and productive one
  
  
• Object Oriented, Client Server application developed in C++, VB and ORACLE on HP-UX

• BSc (Hons) Maths and Computing, University of Bath, UK ('87)
• Certificate in Business Administration, Open University, UK('95)
• Member of British Computer Society ('98)
• Currently taking "Masters of Information Technology" course at University of Newcastle (NSW)