Tony Owens

Current

Technical Director and Research Fellow at ICon; Trinity College Dublin
Co-Founder at Shibumi Consulting Ltd

Past

Operations Director at Heliodynamics Ltd
Managing Director at Altran Technology Ireland Ltd
Snr Eng Manager at PDD Group

Consultant at PA Consulting Group
Senior Design Engineer at DEK
Design Engineer at HNE Healthcare

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Education

University of Hertfordshire
Trinity College, Dublin
Trinity College, Dublin

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Industry

Management Consulting

Tony Owens’s Summary

PROFILE:
Innovation and technology consultant dealing with organisational strategy, programme management, problem-solving and business development. Experienced in developing colleagues, business processes, products, services, and networks.

Tony Owens’s Specialties:

Technology and patent research; product innovation; solar technology; streamlining professional services organisations; building businesses

Tony Owens’s Experience

Technical Director and Research Fellow

ICon; Trinity College Dublin

(Higher Education industry)

May 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)

The mission of the Centre for Construction Innovation & Sustainability is to be a bridge between applied researchers in and beyond Trinity College and entrepreneurs working with or in the construction sector. We catalyse interdisciplinary research and innovation and also undertake research ourselves.
Co-Founder

Shibumi Consulting Ltd

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Management Consulting industry)

November 2005 — Present (3 years 9 months)

Mixed product development, market research and innovation consulting work. The focus is on:
* market research and patent informatics
* project planning & estimation
* engineering consulting and product development
Clients are predominantly tech start-ups and larger consulting firms.
Operations Director

Heliodynamics Ltd

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Renewables & Environment industry)

January 2007 — September 2007 (9 months)

Solar technology startup developing products and systems in the UK for sale and support in sunbelt territories around the globe.
* Bring higher performance teamwork, productivity, transparency and focus to NPD, Operations and Marketing.
* Build an ecosystem of collaborators and complementors
* Support the present MD
Managing Director

Altran Technology Ireland Ltd

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Management Consulting industry)

June 2005 — December 2006 (1 year 7 months)

Innovation and tech consulting unit; part of Altran Group. 30 staff; 3m T/O, Led successful turnaround of Irish operations, reorganised consultant roles, strengthened commercial processes, marketed new services and helped establish global innovation network. Restored profitability, 500k personal sales. Facillitated merger with UK sister company.
Snr Eng Manager

PDD Group

(Management Consulting industry)

March 2004 — November 2004 (9 months)

PDD Group Ltd, London, Senior Engineering Manager, Mar 2004 – Dec 2004.
70 staff, T/O £4m. PDD is the UK’s leading product development consultancy, Focus on medical device, pharmaceutical, telecoms and consumer goods sectors. Sold, directed, reviewed and participated in product development assignments, managed 6 engineers and developed new engineering services.
Consultant

PA Consulting Group

(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Management Consulting industry)

March 1997 — August 2003 (6 years 6 months)

PA Consulting Group, Cambridge Technology Centre, Consultant, Mar 1997-Aug 2003, 3200 consultants, T/O £450M
Member of PA’s Product & Process Engineering Practice, Technology projects for the food, drinks, pharmaceutical, telecoms, medical device and energy sectors throughout the EU.
Sold, managed, designed and developed new processes, machines and products. Contributed to selling, marketing and service development activity.
Senior Design Engineer

DEK

(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)

June 1995 — February 1997 (1 year 9 months)

Design and development of solder paste inspection technology based on machine vision and highly value-engineered mechanics. Management of outsourced software development. Transition from development into lean manufacturing facility. Marketing support and development of the technology with lead users from the SMT electronic assembly industry.
Design Engineer

HNE Healthcare

(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Medical Devices industry)

1992 — 1995 (3 years)

Tony Owens’s Education

University of Hertfordshire

Postgraduate training , Manufacturing Mgmt , 1994 — 1995
Trinity College, Dublin

Postgraduate research , Microelectronic packaging , 1984 — 1987
Trinity College, Dublin

BAI, BA , Engineering and Mathematics , 1980 — 1984