Mark Stone

Current

Director at MGSt Ltd
Associate at RivCom

Past

Senior Business Consultant at BT Global Services
Knowledge Transfer Team Lead at CSW Group Ltd
Knowledge Transfer Consultant at CSW Group Ltd

Consultant at RivCom Ltd
Secretary, AdsML Process and MarCom Working Groups at AdsML Consortium
Chair, Learner Independence SIG at IATEFL
Teacher (EFL) at St Clare's, Oxford

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Education

University of the Arts London
Royal Holloway, U. of London
The University of Manchester

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

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Mark Stone’s Summary

5+ years supporting transformation programmes enabled by IT, involving process improvement, change management and training programmes.

Director at MGSt Ltd.
Associate at RivCom Ltd.

Previously, Knowledge Transfer Team Lead for CSW Group - responsible for the full lifecycle of customer-facing IT training programmes, primarily within healthcare and publishing.

20+ years experience as L&D professional: educator, teacher-trainer, researcher and author with a strong record of CPD in both training and teaching.

I am now focussed on using my analysis, project management and training skills to support complex transformation projects.

Prince2 Practitioner.
ISEB qualifications in Project Management, Business Analysis & IT-enabled Business Change.
TAP-qualified.

Mark Stone’s Specialties:

Transformation: process design, change management, project management.

Training: programme design and delivery, training management, materials development, course delivery, training environment design and development, team leadership.

Teaching: EFL, computer-aided learning, teacher development, successful author.

Domain experience: health and social care, publishing, pharmaceuticals, car manufacturing, newspapers, advertising, oil, shipping, IT, education.

Mark Stone’s Experience

Director

MGSt Ltd

(Information Technology and Services industry)

June 2009 — Present (2 months)

MGSt Ltd provides supporting services to transformational projects, particularly in health and social services.
Associate

RivCom

(Information Services industry)

November 2008 — Present (9 months)

Responsible for delivering training and L&D services to organisations to help them achieve their business goals.
Contracts:
Support for London Borough of Newham for a complex internal roll-out, working across teams and organisations.
Senior Business Consultant

BT Global Services

(Public Company; Telecommunications industry)

November 2008 — March 2009 (5 months)

Contracted to provide specialist training-related business consultancy services for two London-wide BT Health applications for the NHS.
Knowledge Transfer Team Lead

CSW Group Ltd

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

September 2005 — October 2008 (3 years 2 months)

Responsible for the design, development and delivery of all CSW customer-facing training programmes.
Knowledge Transfer Consultant

CSW Group Ltd

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

September 2004 — September 2005 (1 year 1 month)

Responsible for development and delivery of CSW's customer-facing training courses.
Consultant

RivCom Ltd

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

September 2001 — September 2004 (3 years 1 month)

Consultancy specialising in the creation, management and delivery of high-value content, particularly where technical demands were complex.

Varied role including: project management, content development & editing, marketing, sales, consulting, event management, webmaster, training development and delivery and presenting.
Secretary, AdsML Process and MarCom Working Groups

AdsML Consortium

(Information Technology and Services industry)

September 2002 — September 2004 (2 years 1 month)

Industry Consortium developing a B2B Framework for process automation in the advertising industry.

Responsible for establishing working practices, rules and procedures for new international standards organisation.
Chair, Learner Independence SIG

IATEFL

(Non-Profit; 501-1000 employees; Education Management industry)

September 1997 — September 2001 (4 years 1 month)

IATEFL is the International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language www.iatefl.org
Teacher (EFL)

St Clare's, Oxford

(Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Higher Education industry)

September 1996 — September 2000 (4 years 1 month)

Teacher, resource teacher, Assistant Director of Studies, teacher-trainer & IT teacher

Additional Information

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Mark Stone’s Interests:

Project management, change management, process transformation. Blended learning, rapid content development, continuous professional development, workplace-based learning. Classical music, dance, Shakespeare, European cinema, Flemish painting, Indian culture, cooking, wine, travel (esp rail). Enjoying any/all of the above with my family.

Mark Stone’s Groups:

MBCS (Member, British Computer Society)
MIITT ICTP (Member, Institute of IT Training - Institute Certified Training Practitioner)
UKCHIP Registered Level 3 (UK Council for Health Informatics Professions)