Services/About
Have you ever hired expensive consultants only to recieve expensive slide packs?
Me too. I’ve tried to be different as a contractor, consultant, non-exec advisor or permanent staff. I believe if you add real value every time, people will recommend you.
Contact me if you have an interesting challenge you want me to work on: contract or permanent, London, Bristol - or for up to 12 weeks Europe/Global.
My Core Skills
- Product Management: Consumer or Business, Initiation to Delivery
- Platform Strategy & Launch: Mobile, Web, Social Networking, Web Services
- Ecosystem & Alliance Management: Major players to 1-person ISV’s
- Team Management: Large or Small, Local or Global, Internal or Off-shore
- Evangelism & Media Rep: Blogger relations, experienced media speaker
Ten projects I’m proud of
- Most recently Product Managed the initial stages of Orange’s biggest new business service of 2008 (contract PM)
- Turn around job of Skype software partner program. Launched Skype’s first distribution platform (Extars) resulting in increased downloads of partner add-ons from 2500 to 3 million+ a month.
- In 2007 I was voted one of the VoIP industry top 20 influencers.
- I am probably the only person today to have designed, launched and directed 3 world class partner programs.
- Co-founded PlugLondon, an IT and software industry networking and showcase event.
- Created and launched Orange Partner, Orange Group’s 50,000+ strong global software partner site. Project managed ‘Orange Innovation centre’ initial launches around the world
- Co-authored Orange Group 2005-2008 Strategy
- Key project lead for IBM-Orange Distributed Device design
- Executive chair on Java Community Process
- Editor of several new standards specifications, including User Profiling at 3GPP