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Martin Hughes
Lead consultant Carranmore, management consultant, company formation/structure, local advisory, exit strategy (ME/UK/US)
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Summary
Having spent over 20 years in management and strategy for companies in the multinational, SME and boutique spaces, in Houston, London and Dubai, I'm also a Project Management Professional in good standing and almost finished an MBA from Manchester Business School. I believe that everyone fundamentally wants to do a good job and that we have the tools and the experience to enable them to do that at all levels of business.
Do you know what ‘done’ looks like?
Specialities:
Management consulting
Company formation and structure
Business model canvas
Local advisory for legal, IT, HR, accountancy
Exit strategy
Finance
MBA events and student representative
Project Management
PMP
ITIL
Service Management
Change Management
International management consultant with 20+ years of business and back-office teams interface and integration, enabling business strategy definition and project/information/process delivery of successful operational implementation, corporate goals and scorecard KPIs. A strong communicator, with a deep network of contacts across the region and core belief in data-driven decision-making. Background in functional team alignment and superior project/service management in multi-million dollar IT programmes across energy and communication sectors. Articulate, widely researched and fluid business developer who marries long-range thinking with measurable execution practice at all organisational levels.
Do you know what ‘done’ looks like?
Specialities:
Management consulting
Company formation and structure
Business model canvas
Local advisory for legal, IT, HR, accountancy
Exit strategy
Finance
MBA events and student representative
Project Management
PMP
ITIL
Service Management
Change Management
International management consultant with 20+ years of business and back-office teams interface and integration, enabling business strategy definition and project/information/process delivery of successful operational implementation, corporate goals and scorecard KPIs. A strong communicator, with a deep network of contacts across the region and core belief in data-driven decision-making. Background in functional team alignment and superior project/service management in multi-million dollar IT programmes across energy and communication sectors. Articulate, widely researched and fluid business developer who marries long-range thinking with measurable execution practice at all organisational levels.
Education
Manchester Business School
MBA Project Management
2012-2014
University of Phoenix
BSc Business Administration
2003-2006
The University of Manchester
BSc Physics and Computer Science (2 years)
1990-1992
MBA Project Management
2012-2014
University of Phoenix
BSc Business Administration
2003-2006
The University of Manchester
BSc Physics and Computer Science (2 years)
1990-1992
Experience
CEO and lead consultant
Carranmore
6/2013
Carranmore provides consulting services to help you find out where you are, where you want to be, and most importantly, how to get there. We execute the following:
Delivering business transformation via strategy planning and implementation, performance improvement and project management, utilising targeted research and proven management tools.
Presentation and promotion of best practise for most appropriate company formation and relicensing across the GCC.
Nurturing leadership by providing a roadmap to unleash potential for businesses in the region; addressing challenges through networking and industry experience; pursuing culturally relevant innovation.
Empowering clients to make informed decisions and enabling measurable advantage through close relationships built on the power of listening, integrity and authenticity.
Founder and lead consultant of strategy and company formation practice, providing business modelling, local advisory, operational improvement, financing and exit strategy. Recent projects include feasibility studies for corporate intra-UAE relocation (saving $1m over 3 years), market entry for supercar dealership, strategy sessions for a regional utility/governmental working group and and business development/sales pipeline for an multi-million AED IT company. Regular network and business development activities at wide range of business groups and forums and contributor to multiple media outlets for SME-focussed strategy. Facilitating sales process for numerous 1+m AED businesses.
Team Manager
Dubai Hurricanes Rugby Football Club
9/2008-4/2014
Manage 60+ under 11 players, arranging training, games and tournaments across the GCC
Service Manager ME
Hermes Datacomms
1/2012-3/2013
Executed Service Delivery management for voice and data services over satellite and fibre-optic to energy verticals in Saudi, Iraq and throughout the Middle East, with contract values of $20+ million (BP/ROO, KBR)
Designed Service Level Agreements and Key Performance Indicators for all contracts and exceeded monthly targets in service uptime and customer satisfaction.
Created annual regional business plans, executed business strategy and budget process. Managed all regional bid submissions and project delivery for multi-national customers, travel to Basra, Iraq as required.
IT Manager (Project Service/Service Level Management)
KBR
1/2009-1/2012
Member of 3 person management team overseeing 26 person department, providing support to 9000 end user devices in 8 countries with a $14 million annual budget.
Project managed all US Army and Department of State IT infrastructure projects (LogCAP III/IV) in Iraq, Afghanistan, Bahrain and Kuwait.
Leader of regional project and service level management teams, delivering IT services to 35 customers across 8 business units in Middle East. Partnered with Business Integration function to determine and shape IT demand throughout the bid process and to set expectations for corporate IT execution (FIFA 2022, Ashghal, Abu Dhabi Airports).
MEAP IT Project Manager
Baker Hughes
3/2007-12/2008
Project managed IT infrastructure fit-out for 7 building campus in Jebel Ali, supporting 450 personnel from multiple business units - $75m project budget, ($1.6m IT), returned 18% cost savings and on-time delivery. Awarded Silver Core Values Reward for performance.
Defined all operational requirements with business unit stakeholders and co-ordinated IT design and delivery for multiple mixed-use office/workshops projects in Middle East, India and Asia - Saudi ($1.5m), Qatar ($750K),China ($750K).
Technical IT Project Manager
OFS Portal
3/2005-3/2006
Delivered ERP systems interconnectivity between member and customer companies using multiple technologies, protocols and industry standard data formats via third-party hub-based routing.
Project managed 3 month, $200K upgrade of corporate website from legacy system to Microsoft standard.
IT project manager
Landmark Graphics
8/2002-3/2005
Project managed simultaneous Windows and Exchange migration projects to consolidate multiple legacy environments into single domain
• Reduced hardware, software license and support costs and improved customer response, redundancy and client management, without impacting product release dates and earning regular positive feedback from all product lines.
• Introduced customer-orientated, proactive project planning and reporting processes.
• Designed, configured, deployed and migrated 2000+ customers to a Windows 2003 Active Directory and Exchange 2003 environment from a mixed WinNT, Windows 2003 four domain structure.
• Provided increased environmental redundancy and improved performance
• Documented and enforced design rule set and improved monitoring and reporting facilities.
• Presented with a Spot Recognition award in Aug 2004.
Enterprise Storage Architect
Halliburton
1/2001-8/2002
Designed, tested and deployed multi-location mass storage solution, reducing fileserver count by 75% and providing fully redundant, network storage at 10% of current commercial rates
• Gathered business requirements across all product lines of organisation, completed full RFP and bench-test programme.
• Consolidated 34 Exchange servers with local disk into 7 network attached storage servers, reducing server recovery time from 4 hours to a sub-30 minute.
• Migrated and consolidated servers back to NAS devices, leading to a 75% reduction in the number of front end servers.
• Provided improved fault tolerance and disaster recovery services for mission-critical messaging and manufacturing systems.
Carranmore
6/2013
Carranmore provides consulting services to help you find out where you are, where you want to be, and most importantly, how to get there. We execute the following:
Delivering business transformation via strategy planning and implementation, performance improvement and project management, utilising targeted research and proven management tools.
Presentation and promotion of best practise for most appropriate company formation and relicensing across the GCC.
Nurturing leadership by providing a roadmap to unleash potential for businesses in the region; addressing challenges through networking and industry experience; pursuing culturally relevant innovation.
Empowering clients to make informed decisions and enabling measurable advantage through close relationships built on the power of listening, integrity and authenticity.
Founder and lead consultant of strategy and company formation practice, providing business modelling, local advisory, operational improvement, financing and exit strategy. Recent projects include feasibility studies for corporate intra-UAE relocation (saving $1m over 3 years), market entry for supercar dealership, strategy sessions for a regional utility/governmental working group and and business development/sales pipeline for an multi-million AED IT company. Regular network and business development activities at wide range of business groups and forums and contributor to multiple media outlets for SME-focussed strategy. Facilitating sales process for numerous 1+m AED businesses.
Team Manager
Dubai Hurricanes Rugby Football Club
9/2008-4/2014
Manage 60+ under 11 players, arranging training, games and tournaments across the GCC
Service Manager ME
Hermes Datacomms
1/2012-3/2013
Executed Service Delivery management for voice and data services over satellite and fibre-optic to energy verticals in Saudi, Iraq and throughout the Middle East, with contract values of $20+ million (BP/ROO, KBR)
Designed Service Level Agreements and Key Performance Indicators for all contracts and exceeded monthly targets in service uptime and customer satisfaction.
Created annual regional business plans, executed business strategy and budget process. Managed all regional bid submissions and project delivery for multi-national customers, travel to Basra, Iraq as required.
IT Manager (Project Service/Service Level Management)
KBR
1/2009-1/2012
Member of 3 person management team overseeing 26 person department, providing support to 9000 end user devices in 8 countries with a $14 million annual budget.
Project managed all US Army and Department of State IT infrastructure projects (LogCAP III/IV) in Iraq, Afghanistan, Bahrain and Kuwait.
Leader of regional project and service level management teams, delivering IT services to 35 customers across 8 business units in Middle East. Partnered with Business Integration function to determine and shape IT demand throughout the bid process and to set expectations for corporate IT execution (FIFA 2022, Ashghal, Abu Dhabi Airports).
MEAP IT Project Manager
Baker Hughes
3/2007-12/2008
Project managed IT infrastructure fit-out for 7 building campus in Jebel Ali, supporting 450 personnel from multiple business units - $75m project budget, ($1.6m IT), returned 18% cost savings and on-time delivery. Awarded Silver Core Values Reward for performance.
Defined all operational requirements with business unit stakeholders and co-ordinated IT design and delivery for multiple mixed-use office/workshops projects in Middle East, India and Asia - Saudi ($1.5m), Qatar ($750K),China ($750K).
Technical IT Project Manager
OFS Portal
3/2005-3/2006
Delivered ERP systems interconnectivity between member and customer companies using multiple technologies, protocols and industry standard data formats via third-party hub-based routing.
Project managed 3 month, $200K upgrade of corporate website from legacy system to Microsoft standard.
IT project manager
Landmark Graphics
8/2002-3/2005
Project managed simultaneous Windows and Exchange migration projects to consolidate multiple legacy environments into single domain
• Reduced hardware, software license and support costs and improved customer response, redundancy and client management, without impacting product release dates and earning regular positive feedback from all product lines.
• Introduced customer-orientated, proactive project planning and reporting processes.
• Designed, configured, deployed and migrated 2000+ customers to a Windows 2003 Active Directory and Exchange 2003 environment from a mixed WinNT, Windows 2003 four domain structure.
• Provided increased environmental redundancy and improved performance
• Documented and enforced design rule set and improved monitoring and reporting facilities.
• Presented with a Spot Recognition award in Aug 2004.
Enterprise Storage Architect
Halliburton
1/2001-8/2002
Designed, tested and deployed multi-location mass storage solution, reducing fileserver count by 75% and providing fully redundant, network storage at 10% of current commercial rates
• Gathered business requirements across all product lines of organisation, completed full RFP and bench-test programme.
• Consolidated 34 Exchange servers with local disk into 7 network attached storage servers, reducing server recovery time from 4 hours to a sub-30 minute.
• Migrated and consolidated servers back to NAS devices, leading to a 75% reduction in the number of front end servers.
• Provided improved fault tolerance and disaster recovery services for mission-critical messaging and manufacturing systems.
Interests
U11s rugby team manager
MBS alumni organizer and student representative
Functional cook
Quality movie-lover
MBS alumni organizer and student representative
Functional cook
Quality movie-lover
Recommendations
Summary
Having spent over 20 years in management and strategy for companies in the multinational, SME and boutique spaces, in Houston, London and Dubai, I'm also a Project Management Professional in good standing and almost finished an MBA from Manchester Business School. I believe that everyone fundamentally wants to do a good job and that we have the tools and the experience to enable them to do that at all levels of business.
Do you know what ‘done’ looks like?
Specialities:
Management consulting
Company formation and structure
Business model canvas
Local advisory for legal, IT, HR, accountancy
Exit strategy
Finance
MBA events and student representative
Project Management
PMP
ITIL
Service Management
Change Management
International management consultant with 20+ years of business and back-office teams interface and integration, enabling business strategy definition and project/information/process delivery of successful operational implementation, corporate goals and scorecard KPIs. A strong communicator, with a deep network of contacts across the region and core belief in data-driven decision-making. Background in functional team alignment and superior project/service management in multi-million dollar IT programmes across energy and communication sectors. Articulate, widely researched and fluid business developer who marries long-range thinking with measurable execution practice at all organisational levels.
Do you know what ‘done’ looks like?
Specialities:
Management consulting
Company formation and structure
Business model canvas
Local advisory for legal, IT, HR, accountancy
Exit strategy
Finance
MBA events and student representative
Project Management
PMP
ITIL
Service Management
Change Management
International management consultant with 20+ years of business and back-office teams interface and integration, enabling business strategy definition and project/information/process delivery of successful operational implementation, corporate goals and scorecard KPIs. A strong communicator, with a deep network of contacts across the region and core belief in data-driven decision-making. Background in functional team alignment and superior project/service management in multi-million dollar IT programmes across energy and communication sectors. Articulate, widely researched and fluid business developer who marries long-range thinking with measurable execution practice at all organisational levels.
Education
Manchester Business School
MBA Project Management
2012-2014
University of Phoenix
BSc Business Administration
2003-2006
The University of Manchester
BSc Physics and Computer Science (2 years)
1990-1992
MBA Project Management
2012-2014
University of Phoenix
BSc Business Administration
2003-2006
The University of Manchester
BSc Physics and Computer Science (2 years)
1990-1992
Experience
CEO and lead consultant
Carranmore
6/2013
Carranmore provides consulting services to help you find out where you are, where you want to be, and most importantly, how to get there. We execute the following:
Delivering business transformation via strategy planning and implementation, performance improvement and project management, utilising targeted research and proven management tools.
Presentation and promotion of best practise for most appropriate company formation and relicensing across the GCC.
Nurturing leadership by providing a roadmap to unleash potential for businesses in the region; addressing challenges through networking and industry experience; pursuing culturally relevant innovation.
Empowering clients to make informed decisions and enabling measurable advantage through close relationships built on the power of listening, integrity and authenticity.
Founder and lead consultant of strategy and company formation practice, providing business modelling, local advisory, operational improvement, financing and exit strategy. Recent projects include feasibility studies for corporate intra-UAE relocation (saving $1m over 3 years), market entry for supercar dealership, strategy sessions for a regional utility/governmental working group and and business development/sales pipeline for an multi-million AED IT company. Regular network and business development activities at wide range of business groups and forums and contributor to multiple media outlets for SME-focussed strategy. Facilitating sales process for numerous 1+m AED businesses.
Team Manager
Dubai Hurricanes Rugby Football Club
9/2008-4/2014
Manage 60+ under 11 players, arranging training, games and tournaments across the GCC
Service Manager ME
Hermes Datacomms
1/2012-3/2013
Executed Service Delivery management for voice and data services over satellite and fibre-optic to energy verticals in Saudi, Iraq and throughout the Middle East, with contract values of $20+ million (BP/ROO, KBR)
Designed Service Level Agreements and Key Performance Indicators for all contracts and exceeded monthly targets in service uptime and customer satisfaction.
Created annual regional business plans, executed business strategy and budget process. Managed all regional bid submissions and project delivery for multi-national customers, travel to Basra, Iraq as required.
IT Manager (Project Service/Service Level Management)
KBR
1/2009-1/2012
Member of 3 person management team overseeing 26 person department, providing support to 9000 end user devices in 8 countries with a $14 million annual budget.
Project managed all US Army and Department of State IT infrastructure projects (LogCAP III/IV) in Iraq, Afghanistan, Bahrain and Kuwait.
Leader of regional project and service level management teams, delivering IT services to 35 customers across 8 business units in Middle East. Partnered with Business Integration function to determine and shape IT demand throughout the bid process and to set expectations for corporate IT execution (FIFA 2022, Ashghal, Abu Dhabi Airports).
MEAP IT Project Manager
Baker Hughes
3/2007-12/2008
Project managed IT infrastructure fit-out for 7 building campus in Jebel Ali, supporting 450 personnel from multiple business units - $75m project budget, ($1.6m IT), returned 18% cost savings and on-time delivery. Awarded Silver Core Values Reward for performance.
Defined all operational requirements with business unit stakeholders and co-ordinated IT design and delivery for multiple mixed-use office/workshops projects in Middle East, India and Asia - Saudi ($1.5m), Qatar ($750K),China ($750K).
Technical IT Project Manager
OFS Portal
3/2005-3/2006
Delivered ERP systems interconnectivity between member and customer companies using multiple technologies, protocols and industry standard data formats via third-party hub-based routing.
Project managed 3 month, $200K upgrade of corporate website from legacy system to Microsoft standard.
IT project manager
Landmark Graphics
8/2002-3/2005
Project managed simultaneous Windows and Exchange migration projects to consolidate multiple legacy environments into single domain
• Reduced hardware, software license and support costs and improved customer response, redundancy and client management, without impacting product release dates and earning regular positive feedback from all product lines.
• Introduced customer-orientated, proactive project planning and reporting processes.
• Designed, configured, deployed and migrated 2000+ customers to a Windows 2003 Active Directory and Exchange 2003 environment from a mixed WinNT, Windows 2003 four domain structure.
• Provided increased environmental redundancy and improved performance
• Documented and enforced design rule set and improved monitoring and reporting facilities.
• Presented with a Spot Recognition award in Aug 2004.
Enterprise Storage Architect
Halliburton
1/2001-8/2002
Designed, tested and deployed multi-location mass storage solution, reducing fileserver count by 75% and providing fully redundant, network storage at 10% of current commercial rates
• Gathered business requirements across all product lines of organisation, completed full RFP and bench-test programme.
• Consolidated 34 Exchange servers with local disk into 7 network attached storage servers, reducing server recovery time from 4 hours to a sub-30 minute.
• Migrated and consolidated servers back to NAS devices, leading to a 75% reduction in the number of front end servers.
• Provided improved fault tolerance and disaster recovery services for mission-critical messaging and manufacturing systems.
Carranmore
6/2013
Carranmore provides consulting services to help you find out where you are, where you want to be, and most importantly, how to get there. We execute the following:
Delivering business transformation via strategy planning and implementation, performance improvement and project management, utilising targeted research and proven management tools.
Presentation and promotion of best practise for most appropriate company formation and relicensing across the GCC.
Nurturing leadership by providing a roadmap to unleash potential for businesses in the region; addressing challenges through networking and industry experience; pursuing culturally relevant innovation.
Empowering clients to make informed decisions and enabling measurable advantage through close relationships built on the power of listening, integrity and authenticity.
Founder and lead consultant of strategy and company formation practice, providing business modelling, local advisory, operational improvement, financing and exit strategy. Recent projects include feasibility studies for corporate intra-UAE relocation (saving $1m over 3 years), market entry for supercar dealership, strategy sessions for a regional utility/governmental working group and and business development/sales pipeline for an multi-million AED IT company. Regular network and business development activities at wide range of business groups and forums and contributor to multiple media outlets for SME-focussed strategy. Facilitating sales process for numerous 1+m AED businesses.
Team Manager
Dubai Hurricanes Rugby Football Club
9/2008-4/2014
Manage 60+ under 11 players, arranging training, games and tournaments across the GCC
Service Manager ME
Hermes Datacomms
1/2012-3/2013
Executed Service Delivery management for voice and data services over satellite and fibre-optic to energy verticals in Saudi, Iraq and throughout the Middle East, with contract values of $20+ million (BP/ROO, KBR)
Designed Service Level Agreements and Key Performance Indicators for all contracts and exceeded monthly targets in service uptime and customer satisfaction.
Created annual regional business plans, executed business strategy and budget process. Managed all regional bid submissions and project delivery for multi-national customers, travel to Basra, Iraq as required.
IT Manager (Project Service/Service Level Management)
KBR
1/2009-1/2012
Member of 3 person management team overseeing 26 person department, providing support to 9000 end user devices in 8 countries with a $14 million annual budget.
Project managed all US Army and Department of State IT infrastructure projects (LogCAP III/IV) in Iraq, Afghanistan, Bahrain and Kuwait.
Leader of regional project and service level management teams, delivering IT services to 35 customers across 8 business units in Middle East. Partnered with Business Integration function to determine and shape IT demand throughout the bid process and to set expectations for corporate IT execution (FIFA 2022, Ashghal, Abu Dhabi Airports).
MEAP IT Project Manager
Baker Hughes
3/2007-12/2008
Project managed IT infrastructure fit-out for 7 building campus in Jebel Ali, supporting 450 personnel from multiple business units - $75m project budget, ($1.6m IT), returned 18% cost savings and on-time delivery. Awarded Silver Core Values Reward for performance.
Defined all operational requirements with business unit stakeholders and co-ordinated IT design and delivery for multiple mixed-use office/workshops projects in Middle East, India and Asia - Saudi ($1.5m), Qatar ($750K),China ($750K).
Technical IT Project Manager
OFS Portal
3/2005-3/2006
Delivered ERP systems interconnectivity between member and customer companies using multiple technologies, protocols and industry standard data formats via third-party hub-based routing.
Project managed 3 month, $200K upgrade of corporate website from legacy system to Microsoft standard.
IT project manager
Landmark Graphics
8/2002-3/2005
Project managed simultaneous Windows and Exchange migration projects to consolidate multiple legacy environments into single domain
• Reduced hardware, software license and support costs and improved customer response, redundancy and client management, without impacting product release dates and earning regular positive feedback from all product lines.
• Introduced customer-orientated, proactive project planning and reporting processes.
• Designed, configured, deployed and migrated 2000+ customers to a Windows 2003 Active Directory and Exchange 2003 environment from a mixed WinNT, Windows 2003 four domain structure.
• Provided increased environmental redundancy and improved performance
• Documented and enforced design rule set and improved monitoring and reporting facilities.
• Presented with a Spot Recognition award in Aug 2004.
Enterprise Storage Architect
Halliburton
1/2001-8/2002
Designed, tested and deployed multi-location mass storage solution, reducing fileserver count by 75% and providing fully redundant, network storage at 10% of current commercial rates
• Gathered business requirements across all product lines of organisation, completed full RFP and bench-test programme.
• Consolidated 34 Exchange servers with local disk into 7 network attached storage servers, reducing server recovery time from 4 hours to a sub-30 minute.
• Migrated and consolidated servers back to NAS devices, leading to a 75% reduction in the number of front end servers.
• Provided improved fault tolerance and disaster recovery services for mission-critical messaging and manufacturing systems.
Interests
U11s rugby team manager
MBS alumni organizer and student representative
Functional cook
Quality movie-lover
MBS alumni organizer and student representative
Functional cook
Quality movie-lover