Software Management Consultant

Direct and motivate development teams to excel in delivering systems of value to the business

Coach and mentor managers in strategy definition, process, and task planning for complex systems development that meet the needs of the business

Establish new development processes and migration strategies for large and small organizations

Develop innovative solutions for IT systems and communicate designs to developers and managers

Establish strong relationships with customers and suppliers

Responsible for the coaching and mentoring of the development team for the new point of sale and back office systems for Next Retail which resulted in approximately £6m/$9.6m extra revenue through faster throughput (20% more transactions processed) during peak sales time

Managed the requirements definition and quality assurance of a e-Business solution that supports the commissioning and delivery of web-based content for the broadcast industry and which gave significant cost savings in page production and improved management of more than 0.5m on-line pages

Designed and implemented modern systems development processes for major ERP supplier that shortened delivery cycles by nearly 30% thereby increasing the number of new product releases per year.

Led development of an innovative new pattern design system for the knitwear industry which gave the company two years market domination resulting in a Queen's Award for Export

Next Retail, The BBC, The Automobile Association, Marks & Spencer, British Library, Royal London Insurance, Santa-Fe/ Burlington Northern Railroad, Westinghouse Signals, National Health Service

Member of the British Computer Society (MBCS) and Chartered IT Professional (CITP).
Past Technical Chair for Europe's largest component and object technology conference.
Series editor for Cambridge University Press.

"Managing Your Move To Object Technology" published by SIGS Books Inc., 1995 (ISBN 0-13-242009-0)

"Component-Based Software Engineering" contributing author; published Addison-Wesley, 2001 (ISBN 0-201-70485-4)

"UML Xtra-Light" co-authored with Milan Kratochvil; published Cambridge University Press, 2003, ISBN 0-521-89242-2

"Service and Component-based Development" Principal editor and co-author with the Aonix consultancy team; published Addison-Wesley, 2003 (ISBN 0-321-15985-3)