Project Manager ; Effective Communicator; Relationship Manager
United Kingdom
- Current
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- Project Manager, House Construction, France at Not disclosed
- Past
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- OSS Vendor Manager at BT
- Project Director at Openwave
- Programme Manager at Virgin.net
- Operations Director at mynet
- Founder/Director at The Personal Email Co
- IT Director at Energis
- Business Development Director at BT plc
- GM, IT Strategy & Planning at BT
- Education
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- LSE
- London Business School
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Howard Yates’s Summary
London Business School MBA with 30+ years experience in project management, technical / business writing and recruitment planning and execution.
Background combines a mix of technical management and business-level change management. Hands-on approach with first-class communication skills. Has held senior positions in both blue-chips and start-ups. Communicates with stakeholders at all levels.
Available for short-term assignments.
Howard Yates’s Specialties:
Project management, workshop planning and execution.
Recruitment planning, assessment and execution.
Business planning, commercial proposals, training manuals.
Howard Yates’s Experience
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Project Manager, House Construction, France
Not disclosed
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
January 2007 — Present (1 year 5 months)
Bought 0.75 hectares of land in S.W.France, obtained planning permission for eco-friendly houses. Hired architect, battled with planning authorities, invited tenders, appointed sub-contractors, contract management, budgetary control, risk management. First house is now ready for occupation.
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OSS Vendor Manager
BT
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; BT; Telecommunications industry)
June 2006 — December 2006 (7 months)
Managing vendors engaged in supplying OSS systems to BT's 21CN project.
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Project Director
Openwave
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
February 2005 — December 2005 (11 months)
Howard managed an email infrastructure upgrade for NTL, one of the UK's leading telcos, on behalf of Openwave.
Openwave are the world's leading supplier of industrial-strength messaging systems.
www.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds13032.html
www.openwave.com/us/news_room/press_releases/2004/20040115_opwv_ntl_0115.htm
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Programme Manager
Virgin.net
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
October 2003 — October 2004 (1 year 1 month)
Howard managed an email migration project for Virgin Net, one of the leading UK Internet Service Providers. This high-profile project involved migrating Virgin’s account base from an Openwave platform to Critical Path.
Virgin users now benefit from world-class antispam and antivirus filtering, webmail and other benefits. The new service has received much customer acclaim.
He also managed a number of broadband-related projects for Virgin Net.
www.virgin.net http://www.cp.net/news/pr-040713.jsp
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Operations Director
mynet
(Information Technology and Services industry)
1999 — 2000 (1 year)
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Founder/Director
The Personal Email Co
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 1996 — July 1999 (2 years 11 months)
H and a partner founded The Personal Email Co to develop and provide the UK's first webmail service in the same year that Hotmail started in the USA. Too innovative for VC's at the time, we raised private equity and went on to provide Freeserve's first webmail offering (FSmail) with over 500,000 users. Sold to a larger telecoms company and moved on.
www.sun.com/desktop/success/personalmail.html
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IT Director
Energis
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Telecommunications industry)
August 1994 — August 1997 (3 years 1 month)
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Business Development Director
BT plc
(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)
1990 — 1994 (4 years)
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GM, IT Strategy & Planning
BT
(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)
1989 — 1990 (1 year)
Howard Yates’s Education
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LSE
BSc(Econ), Economics
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London Business School
MBA,
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