
Executive Director, Employer Engagement - IT & Telecom Sector at Open University
Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

Executive Director, Employer Engagement - IT & Telecom Sector at Open University
Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
Highly proficient business development manager with 12 years experience developing high level partnerships with global finance, communications and systems integrator clients.
Developing and maintaining strong professional relationships, conveying business strategy, structuring and negotiating strategic deals and managing partners and suppliers, analysing business data, Managing the operational activities of an extensive product and services portfolio business and providing sales training and sales support to channel partners.
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
September 2009 — Present (3 months)
Responsible for promoting the Open University's mission and abilities to the IT and Telecom sector employers and employees, government, funding coucils and the Open University's staff, co-ordinating activities and information across the sector.
(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
June 2005 — Present (4 years 6 months)
Chairman of Richard Cloudesley's Charity, Founded 1517
(Public Company; JAVA; Information Technology and Services industry)
June 2007 — September 2009 (2 years 4 months)
In this role I manage the revenue earning customer training and consultancy business for Sun Microsystems UK, reporting to the Chief Learning Officer, UK.
(Public Company; JAVA; Information Technology and Services industry)
June 2004 — July 2007 (3 years 2 months)
In this role I managed the revenue earning learning consultancy business for Sun Microsystems UK, reporting to the Customer Learning Manager, Sun Microsystems UK Ltd.
(Information Technology and Services industry)
June 1999 — June 2005 (6 years 1 month)
(Public Company; JAVA; Information Technology and Services industry)
2002 — 2004 (2 years )
Lead consultant within Sun Learning Services consulting organisation delivering in a wide range of complex project delivery and account management situations.
(Public Company; JAVA; Information Technology and Services industry)
1999 — 2002 (3 years )
Line manager for a team of 17 technical staff instructors based at multiple UK sites delivering a wide range of technical courses covering Sun's Software, Systems and Storage product ranges.
(Public Company; JAVA; Information Technology and Services industry)
1997 — 1999 (2 years )
Course manager and lead instructor for the Internet and Security curricula.
(Public Company; JAVA; Information Technology and Services industry)
1996 — 1997 (1 year )
Project Manager for a US based global team specifying, implementing and deploying tools to be used worldwide by Sun's internal and customer site based support engineers.
(Public Company; JAVA; Information Technology and Services industry)
1995 — 1996 (1 year )
Technical account manager for SunSoft's Authorised Service Providers, Authorised Training Partners , Service Delivery partners and OEM's.
(Public Company; JAVA; Information Technology and Services industry)
1991 — 1995 (4 years )
European technical support specialist for SunSoft's product range specialising in the Solaris Unix operating system on x86, SPARC and PowerPC platforms and technical product support engineer in the Networks and Communications group.
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
1989 — 1991 (2 years )
Research assistant and systems administrator.
BSc(Hons) , Computer Science , 1986 — 1989
Fellow of the Institute of IT Training
Member of the British Computer Society
Chartered IT Professional