About the Author 

The author is based in Berkshire, England and has lived in the southern part of the UK for all his life (48 years). His knowledge of the Algarve stems from a large number of active holidays there during the last twenty five years.

He is a highly adaptable Project Manager, Programme Manager and Consultant who enjoys the challenge of providing rapid solutions in a wide range of environments and circumstances. He has substantial experience in the Telecoms, IT and Engineering industries and specialises in the Project Management and Systems Delivery of both Business Change and IT Systems including their associated processes.

In the Telecom arena, he worked for AT&T for some three and a half years followed by some 9 months employment with Madge.web before it went into receivership (and USA Chapter 11). He has Prince2 Project Management experience and holds a Prince2 certificate gained by public examination.

Currently he is working for Fujitsu Services in the UK as a Project Manager

Please email if you would like further information or click here for a full CV in MS Word format.

Micro CV 

Madge.web - Commercial Systems Manager
Led  the development, strategic direction, day to day operation, security and business wide integration of the Billing (Geneva) and Sales Management Systems handling Content, VPN, VOIP, and Internet Services.

AT&T (UK) - Manager Systems Delivery Group
Head of group providing, Project Management, Acceptance Testing, Change Management and Internal Consultancy. Full lifecycle responsibility across the Business for the procurement, delivery, security, data migration, integration and operational readiness of Billing, Settlements, Customer internet access, Customer Care, and Network provisioning systems and processes.

Freelance Business Consultant
Thames Water - IT organisational review and recruitment of 15 IT staff for Billing group.
Foster Wheeler - Interim Manager of Welding subsidiary - Introduced ISO9001, revitalised and sold company.

Connolly Systems - Development & Software Manager
Recruited to rebuild technical capability and commercial viability for this Broadcast Automation specialist and Systems Integrator after a massive loss of staff. Authored and won BBC TV automation project (£2.2m).

Perkin-Elmer - Software Manager
Responsible for software development, integration and support for Perkin-Elmer’s Gas Chromatograph product range.

Quantel - Senior Engineer
 Team led and produced real time and graphics software for Mirage, Paintbox and Harry digital broadcast systems.

University
* PhD (Digital Thermal Analysis...) and Honours (2:1) degree in Metallurgy