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IT Director

Work Experience

INTERNATIONAL
Consultant/Business Unit Manager – February 2003 – January 2004, Brussels/Luxembourg

¨ Based in Brussels, responsible for all Application Development projects in Belgium and Luxembourg. Business Unit of 60+, working on 15 projects and managing 6 project managers, mainly with the European Commission.
¨ Annual budget 6 Million Euros. Responsible for project profitability, steering meetings with customer, SLA definition, recruitment.

EUROPEAN COMMISSION – DIRECTORATE GENERAL FOR REGIONAL POLICY
National Expert/Project Manager – September 2001 – February 2003, Brussels

¨ Brief: to introduce transparency to business processes, greater interoperability between systems, significant reduction in the number of support systems (approx. 12) and exploitation of new technologies.
¨ Supervise and monitor the resources of the Contractors development team, liase with the Contractors management, chair steering committees, ensure performance of the Contractors development team activities. Annual budget approx 3 million Euros.
¨ Development of 2 major new systems, implementing new technology to the Commission based on Oracle IFS, Workflow, Oracle DB, Java.
¨ WFS, a workflow management system to control approval and funding of Member State projects. Annual budget of approx 30 billion Euros.
¨ Sysaudit developed for the Audit group to plan, report and follow-up Member State Audits related to projects funded by the Commission.
¨ Worked on several EDI projects with National and Regional administrations, to implement Electronic signatures on documents transmitted between Member States and the Commission.
¨ Managed the relationship between DG Regional Policy and the Commission’s Data Centre in Luxemburg. Chair regular steering meetings and ensure SLA objectives met.
¨ Was Member of Policy group on improving Interoperability of Commission systems, indirectly reporting to Commissioner responsible for Reform in the Commission.


MANPOWER INC, OCTOBER 1995 – JUNE 2000
International IT Director, Brussels

¨ Set up the new International IT Department for this 12 Billion-Dollar multi-national.
¨ Analysed and reviewed the company’s existing systems installed in each country, liasing closely with personnel within each country to ensure that they bought into the change management process.
¨ Defined the strategic IT direction for international operations, devising common solutions for the business that the countries could easily adapt and tailor to their own particular culture and the legal requirements of the country.
¨ Sourced appropriate software packages/systems and developed them in-house.
¨ Set the global IT strategy as a proactive member of Manpower’s IT Council.
¨ Managed feasibility studies, consultancy and development projects.
¨ Reduced purchasing costs by negotiating high-level contracts with leading manufacturers to enable countries to secure better terms and conditions.

BLUE ARROW PLC / BROOK STREET PLC, 1974 – 1995
IT Director, Brook Street Plc, 1991 – 1995

¨ Re-engineered the business (as part of the Boardroom team) to refocus on particular market segments and to restructure sales and the branch network.
¨ Pioneered the setting up of a recruitment web site – one of the first agencies to realise the full potential of the Internet to change our business.

Director of Blue Arrow Information Services Ltd, 1987 – 1991

¨ Managed IT services to the UK subsidiaries of Blue Arrow (250 branches) and provided consultancy for the US subsidiaries.

Education

A level English, Economics
Institute of Bankers Part1
City and Guilds 150, Hotel and Catering Management
MBIM

Skills

An innovative and self-motivated IT Director with a wealth of experience in devising and delivering real business solutions and cost effectively exploiting technology. Inspirational and diplomatic leadership style, including defining a strategic corporate vision and managing and energising others to achieve this vision. Results orientated and thrives on focussing teams on the needs of the business and on implementing change.

Languages

Native Language - English
French, Reading Good

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