Expertise
- Business Consultancy
- Mentor
- GDPR
- Agile
- Scrum
- Waterfall development
- Blue sky thinker
- Vision and Mission development
- Automotive
- Adding value
- Affiliate Marketing
- Analytical Approach
- Attention to Detail
- Audience Engagement
- Awareness
- Budget Planning
- Change and Transformation
- Culture Change
- CPD
- Dealing With Difficult People
- Documentation & Processes
- European Countries
- Effective Communication,
- Excel
- Goals and Vision
- IT
- leadership
- Chemistry
- powerpoint
- Word
- Semi-fluent German
- policy & procedure writing
- planning
- Questioning techniques
- SWOT Analysis
- Stakeholder Management
- UAT
- Coaching
Summary
Throughout my extensive career, I have worked in a variety of industries and in combination with my out-of-work activities provide an excellent choice for a Non-Executive Director for a wide range of companies.
My key strengths are
- Visionary thinker
- Process change specialist
- Knowledge of European and American markets
- Semi-fluent in German language
- Unflappable in tight situations
- Team leadership in corporate and voluntary sectors
- Mentor/coach in corporate and voluntary sectors
- Committed to continuous corporate and personal development
Key areas of industry knowledge
- Automotive
- Finance
- Logistics
- Property development
- Multi-level marketing
- GDPR
Key areas of voluntary sector knowledge
- Mentoring/coaching teenage boys through adolescence into manhood
- Team leader for group of 40+ musicians in a local church
- Lead musician in a local church of 250+ members
I am comfortable in working with people in a wide variety of environments including
- One to one interview
- Job watching
- Brain storming
- Workshop facilitation
- Group discussions
- Story boarding
- Presentations
Much emphasis has been placed in the creation of SMART objectives for a company. Although I agree with Specific, Measurable and Time bound, I take issue with Actual and Realistic as these can lead a company to settle for the unintentional option of mediocrity.
Better is to go for BHAGs – Big, Hairy, Audicious Goals, that sets a company apart from their competitors.
The creation of BHAGs set Boeing apart from Douglas breaking the perception of Boeing only being a military aircraft provider, in 1924 turned the Computing Tabulating Recording Company into IBM Corporation, made Sony the technological giant in the 1980s, catapulted Ford to be the vehicle of choice in the emerging automobile industry and is the inspiration for global brand leaders like Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and the late Steve Jobs.
The constant setting of BHAGs creates success for the future.
As a Non-Executive Director, I seek to be the part of the oil between the management board and the wider company, their customer base and their suppliers.
Experience
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Great Property Ltd
Business Consultancy
1 - 5 Employees 2015 - Current
Investing in people, transforming communities
Business consultancy working independantly and with other organisations to bring change.
Developed a portfolio of rental properties. Liaised with high net worth individuals providing investment opportunities. Worked with various companies to increase their net worth through process improvements, generating high value connections and providing mechanisms for growth.
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Jaguar Land Rover
Senior Business Analyst
100+ Employees 2018 - 2019Contract senior business analyst on GDPR project.
- Lead analyst in the development of privacy by design standards and trainer in rolling this out throughout the entire company.
- Performed company-wide search for 3rdparty non-suppliers to ensure GDPR compliance.
- Trained the user community to conduct data inventory analysis on a process level and actioned GDPR risk analyses on the data inventory results to help manage the corporate risk to the company.
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Earl & Pelham
Investment Director
1 - 5 Employees 2016 - 2016Investment director finding funds for projects. Created company processes for analysis of prospective deals, business plans and cash flow analyses.
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Volkswagen
Lead Business Analyst
100+ Employees 2014 - 2014Contract lead business designer for the sales component of the national implementation of the new global point of sales system for retailers. Worked directly with the dealer network, UK/German HQs and systems providers to create an international system design that was implementable in the UK.
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Mercedes-Benz UK
Lead Business Analyst
100+ Employees 2010 - 2011Contract joint lead UK business designer for the new global point of sales system for retailers. Focused on the links to financial products and their integration into the system including the derivation of specification-based vehicle residual values.
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Daimler Financial Services AG
Lead UK business designer
100+ Employees 2008 - 2009Contract lead UK business designer for addition of financial service products to public vehicle configuration web sites. Liaised with German, Swiss & UK markets to determine common functions and country specific differences to create a business system specification that represented the core functions with addition of disparate national functionality. Assisted in the development of agile processes into the German development teams.
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Daimler AG
Chief UK business designer
100+ Employees 2007 - 2007Contract chief UK business designer for the new global service contract management system for all Daimler countries and all Daimler dealerships. Position based in Stuttgart, Germany with the remit to create a system design that was applicable to all European countries and therefore consulted with representatives of 5 differing countries to gain a joint understanding of common processes and where additional local processes differed from a European standard.
Education History
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Graduate of Royal Society of Chemistry
University of Hertfordshire
1980 - 1984Vocational degree specialising in Chemistry taken as a part time student. Final year project investigating structures of cement using x-ray cr
Qualifications
Graduate Royal Society of Chemistry
Clubs and Associations
Worktree
MK Buzz
Stony Stratford Community Church
MK Entrepreneurs
Property Investors Network
Progressive Property Network
British Library
Interests and Hobbies
Mentoring young men through adolescence into manhood
Musician - piano & soprano saxophone
Self-education
