Impact Teams works with professional services organizations to create a one team approach across all engagement professionals both internal and external, from implementation specialists to technology diplomats to generate extra-ordinary team impact, productivity and customer intimacy.So that you will have increased and sustained employee engagement thereby reducing turn over significantly increasing the value of your implementation services and strengthening your position as a trusted adviser to your clients.

Natural communicator and leader recognized for building high-performance teams sharing common vision and goals. Expert in guiding the build out, optimization, implementation and management of infrastructure, enterprise application, systems integration and security strategies with strong ROI and TCO.

Consistent success in aligning technology investments with strategic business goals to accelerate growth for national and global organizations in North America and Europe. Noted ability to establish, centralize and strengthen strategies, technologies, teams, and processes that have delivered strong financial results and profitable growth within intensively competitive markets.


Successful in building synergy and consensus between leadership, teams and partners to support key objectives across complex environments. Skilled in spearheading the evaluation of needs and issues, managing stakeholders from sponsorship to sign-off, developing integrated business and technology solutions, and implementing processes and systems to meet client needs.


Specialties: Team Development & Leadership — Alignment, Productivity, and Innovation, through a One-Team framework that includes all stakeholders internal and external.
Improve Customer & Partner Relations through a proven structured processes
Business & Operational Planning — Innovation, Transformation, & Turnaround Leadership

Huddersfield
PGCE Adult Education
1991-1993
Post Graduate Studies in Education

Nottingham University
BSc. Thoretical Mechanics
1980-1983
Enjoyed using the complexities of mathematics and the power of computing to solve engineering problems.
Kayaking, Climbing, SciFi

Producer and Host
Impact Teams Radio
4/2014
Producer and Host of the Impact Teams Radio show. The show features proven leaders from Corporate America, sharing inspiration and practical tips about achieving success in corporate life. Previous guests include CIOs, VP from corporations across the globe. You can visit the show at www.impactteamsradio.com. Topping 40K listens a month this radioshow has rocketed to become one of the must listen to Internet Radio shows on how to succeed in corporate America.

Senior Project Manager
Bit9
9/2013
Working with professional services, to deliver large enterprise security solutions.

Founder and Implementation Rabbi
Impact Teams
9/2013
Impact Teams works with professional services organizations to create a one team approach across all engagement professionals both internal and external, from implementation specialists to technology diplomats to generate extra-ordinary team impact, productivity and customer intimacy.So that you will have increased and sustained employee engagement thereby reducing turn over significantly increasing the value of your implementation services and strengthening your position as a trusted adviser to your clients.

Professional Services Project Manager
Empirix
11/2010-9/2013
Leading and delivering multi-million dollar projects at Empirix, in the Voice QA services and Unified Messaging space.

Director Infrastructure Operations Support
LogicLab, a Merkle Company
2/2010-11/2010
Responsible for the infrastructure design and implementation. Designing a high availability (HA) solution using virtualization (VMWare) and a HA MS-SQL to deliver a ground breaking SaaS solution for the Advertiser, Advertising and Media markets.

Successfully project managed the implementation and testing of the infrastructure solution and its high availability.

Solution Architect and Enterprise Application Manager
Merkle Direct Marketing
10/2008-2/2010
Recruited as a Product Architect to drive a major architectural redesign of newly deployed Statistical Workbench Solution for key financial services client and improve overall stability and scalability of product. Based upon success, promoted to Technical Operations Manager and charged with building and managing a centralized application support team for internal corporate.

Provided leadership and framework to identify needs and resolve critical issues. Scope of responsibility spanned team development and leadership, technology needs assessments and solutions, issue identification and resolution, project planning and management, processes and procedural development.

Principal Consultant
OTIBIS
2000-9/2008
O-TBIS is a privately held project and business development company, aimed at helping customers and their clients deliver high value through software and infrastructure development.

We offer strategic consulting, project management and business development. We offer comprehensive project management. Setting up projects, building the plans, and managing the delivery teams. We also offer businesses systems analysis and development, and use solid IT solutions to deliver these strategies.

A few of the clients we have work with include Electronic Arts, Silverstream, Icodeon, IT Global Source, AtWorkResources.com, Tri-Tec international.

for example O-TIBIS took AtWorkResources.com a complex enterprise website from initial concept to initial customer. We did this through using distributed software development teams, and Agile project management techniques to manage this Web based product. They subsequently sold the company to Presagia, a Canadian company.

Senior Architect and Project Manager
IT Global Source
7/2000-8/2002
IT Global source was an offshore development company with teams from Romania, in the early days of the .COM boom

Senior Architect and Project Manager for a distributed development company. During my time there I helped the company generate a productized offering encapsulating their core expertise into high value, high profit, and quick delivery components.Key technical closer in business deals enabling IT Global Source to demonstrate their technical depth and convince their customers of their ability to deliver. During my time at ITGS I worked closely on Microsoft to Linux ports, Cold-Fusion to Java rewrites, Pure Java/EJB applications and one concept to beta product involving controlling devices attached to the PC, a full PC based app in C++/Java and then a web based data collection point where the data is analyzed and sold.

Project Manager
Charles Schwab
3/2000-6/2001
Charles Schwab is a leader in personal investment strategies.

During the fast growth era of early 2000 I was contracted as a senior project manager to over see complex international infrastructure rollouts. My role was to work closely with the Global business manager to ensure their business venture had the best infrastructure needed to deliver the high standard that Charles Schwab is known for.

I finalized their US to Japan infrastructure, set up their application infrastructure for their Chinese Language offering this involved a complex systems integration of as well as integration with standard infrastructure projects.

I was also heavily involved in their international infrastructure security and instrumental in improving the relationship between the infrastructure team and their customers by spearheading various communication and planning initiatives.

Snr. Project manager
SAIC
4/1998-3/2000
A successful project manager for the nationwide network infrastructure audit. I was promoted to project manager of the Kaiser Permanente PC/Client Server Y2K remediation. Within a short space of time we had restructured the project, redesigned the processes, and re-staffed to ensure effective use of resources, this quick turn around enabled us to capture further business. I continue to lead the project until May when I was again promoted to overall Program Manager.

I was then promoted to a project manager managing a $16.9M systems integration effort. By teaming strong technical teams with hand picked senior managers they succeeded in there objectives of delivering high quality software in budget at each milestone. We used C++ and JAVA for the front end client, C++ & COBRA for the middleware and porting existing Sybase code to Oracle 8, on an AIX platform.

IT Security Manager
Euro Stat
1/1997-3/1998
As lead IT Security Office I was involved in all security aspects of networking, and software development security.

I successfully led the implemented of their first security-auditing plan. Concurrently I redesigned the Workstation/Server configuration for Eurostat's secure environment using Windows NT for both workstations and authentication server, and Solaris as the main application server offering. This was then scaled up to include all access to the secure environment.

Operational responsibilities involved secure access (Firewalls and secure tokens), managing security patches and backups, anti-virus tools, Internet access, and cryptographic software. Developing and monitoring the network security and intrusion detection system.

I was involved on a daily basis with technical teams throughout Eurostat, ensure security policies and procedures were embedded into all aspects of the development cycle and on going operations.

Project Manager
IBM Global Services
2/1995-12/1996
Initially the role there was to lead the implementation of New International Customers and to develop the EMEA (Europe Middle-east and Africa) wide 7x24 helpdesk for IBM's Global Network offering. Once those projects were in place my main role was implementing special projects such as Global Frame Relay service, EMEA wide Lotus Notes, and Internet Content Hosting, ML 1/2, an SNA tool for viewing customer global networks.

Whilst working in Zoetermeer I was responsible for a number of large international customers: RINET, a worldwide group of insurers and re-insurers.The Dutch securities exchange (NECICOM) .Timberland & Johnson & Johnson.

Internally for IBM I arranged the RFPs, and wrote the initial procedures for New International Customer Environment.

Snr. Network Engineer
Northern Electric
6/1993-2/1995
I was involved in supporting a wide variety of I.T. They run 31 Novell networks 2.15 - 4.0, along with about 30 UNIX boxes running a variety of UNIX platforms (mainly ICL, but also AIX, HP-UX, and Bull). These are, in the main, all connected over SPX/IPX, TCP/IP, and X.25. As well as improving my skills in connectivity and security in both UNIX and Novell, I improved my experience with WAN intercommunication between various services and the security aspects of large-scale networking.

During this time I was also a contract developer for Chapman Hall and developed a number of packages for them in C++ using ZINC a platform independent GUI library.

IT Coordinator
Wakefield MDC
5/1988-6/1993
As the College IT coordinator, this involved developing and delivering a company wide strategy for I.T. training to both staff and students. This involved development and delivery schedules,I.T. access and purchasing policies across a range of conflicting sectors agreed.

Before I finished he set up their first collegewide I.T. resource center. This involved RFPs, design of the layout, purchasing of equipment and software, designing, installing security and maintenance of Novell and UNIX networks.

I also took the lead in the design and delivery of I.T. courses such as C++, C, UNIX administration and various business packages to industry. This involved looking at a variety of features such as: the method of delivery, the relevance of the material, and the costing structures. Which enabled me to use and strengthened my business and marketing skills, understanding the needs of other companies whilst ensuring the business unit's profitability.

Actively involved in community building activities. this includes civic activities include eagle scout projects and friends of the library. When I am not helping clients build solutions my current passion and love is EarthBoxes and bee keeping