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I am a highly experienced consultant with a track record
of effectively fusing sales and marketing expertise with in-depth
technical skills and domain knowledged to present, sell and deliver
sucessful high-value solutions to internal and external customers.
I have over six years of management experience, leading
teams of highly intelligent, world class staff in the development of
challenging projects.
During my recent career I have worked for Synomics, a start-up focusing on
data and process integration for the pharmaceutical industry, as
Principal Technical Architect; and, more recently, for Accelrys, a leading supplier of
software to the pharmaceutical, biotech and chemical industries, as a
Business Development Consultant.
In August 2003 I took a position as a Technical Director
for Discovery Informatics Services at Tripos.
Based out of the UK this position reported directly into the Senior
Vice President of Worldwide Sales and covered a territory of the UK,
France, Spain, Italy, Belgium and Israel. It focused on selling
consultancy service
based enterprise solutions such as Electronic Lab Notebooks and
Electronic Decision Analysis tools to the pharmaceutical and biotech
industries.
Towards the end of 2004 I took the decision to take a career break and travel the Americas
with my wife, something we have talked about doing since we met twelve
years ago. We returned to the UK in late September 2005.
It
seems as if the recruitment market is getting a little more upbeat
and I am always looking to hear about interesting CTO
or Senior Director level positions, particularily with innovative
start-up
companies - if you would like to know more, please drop me an email and I'll
supply you with an up-to-date CV.
Outside of work I try to keep myself busy. My personal pages have items of more
interest for the general reader on this front.
On the professional development front, I have completed two years of a three year MBA
with the Open University, which
has proved challenging and enjoyable. I have successfully passed B800 -
Foundations of Senior Management, B820 - Strategy
and my first elective, B825 - Marketing in a
Complex World. I will take my final two electives and complete the qualification on my return to the UK at the end of the year.
Since my formal career roles have moved away from a
hands-on focus whilst I maintain an active interest in development I
have also decided to obtain my formal
Java certification. In Summer 2004 I acheived Java 1.4 Programmer certification and am currently taking Java 1.4 Developer certification. I will follow this with Java Enterprise Architect certification.
To complement my MBA and Sun Certified Java qualifications, I've
also been taking the opportunity to keep up my general technical
skills. For example, jBoss, Tomcat
(JSPs), Taglibs and getting my head round Apache struts.
I have recently rewritten my Pinball stats page (originally written using
JSPs, the Jakarta taglibs and an Access database and hosted from my home PC) in PHP and mySQL so that it can be hosted by 101 Site Hosting.
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