Ed Daniel

Current

• Consultant at Independent Consultant (Self-employed)

Past

• Managing Director (interim) at Rare Breed IT
• Co-founder & director at 413 Technologies Ltd.
• Director at SalePlane Ltd.

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Ed Daniel’s Summary

Software Product Development, Management & Marketing (SPM)
IT Service Management (ITSM)

Industry experience:
• High tech
• Financial services
• Fast moving consumer goods (FMCG - Import/Export)
• Public sector
• Healthcare

Goals:
I enjoy participating in open source projects, encouraging and facilitating adoption of open source solutions, collaborating with various partners in the open source community and lobbying for open standards, formats & technologies.

Outlook:
One of my favorite quotes by Prof. Gary Hamel, December 2003:
"Strategic resilience is not about responding to a onetime crisis…it's about continuously anticipating and adjusting to deep, secular trends that can permanently impair the earning power of a core business. It's about having the capacity to change before the case for change becomes desperately obvious."

Ed Daniel’s Specialties:

• Software product development, management & marketing
• Information systems architecture, engineering and security
• Project management
• Consulting
• Business development in the enterprise technology space
• Mentoring / team professional development

Ed Daniel’s Experience

• Consultant

  Independent Consultant (Self-employed)

  (Self-Employed; Information Technology and Services industry)

  June 2001 — Present (8 years 6 months)

  Below is a brief overview of some of the varied engagements I've undertaken as an independent consultant...
  
  Strategic planning:
  • Strategic planning for social networking tool provider
  • Interim MD - strategic planning for a Managed Services Provider
  • SaaS product delivery strategy
  • Trust, identity, p2p, social networks, business strategy
  
  Technical decision support:
  • Due diligence for acquisitions
  • Due diligence of IT services procurement
  • SAN audit, capacity planning / information lifecycle management
  • Critical chain analysis for blade/virtualisation projects
  • Software delivery best practices
  
  IT service management:
  • ITIL adoption, service delivery cost reduction, technology selection and configuration
  • Service desk integration and capability review
  • WAN service provision review
  
  Solution consulting:
  • CoP (Communities of Practice) and other internet solutions for a range of commercial and non-profit organisations
  • Business intelligence, billing, data control
  • Extranet/CMS with data replication / synchronisation
  • Intranet modernisation - social software adoption, utilisation and analysis
  • LAMP-based mashup with Wikipedia
  
  Business development:
  • Lead generation for financial software
  • Advisor to senior IT sales professionals

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