Career History

Adobe, Oracle, FatWire, Autonomy, Verity, Cardiff Software, Coca-Cola Enterprises

As a Senior Solution Architect I work with the Sales teams and Partners to create leading edge solutions for our customers. The sales focused environment at Oracle and Adobe has been a great place to hone my commercial skills and taught me a tremendous amount about how to sell the enterprise solutions I delivered at Autonomy

I completed my tenure at Autonomy as the Professional Services Director in charge of BPM and Enterprise Content and Capture for EMEA. Autonomy taught me the value of focus and that there is no substitute for deep technical understanding to achieving success

MAR2016 - PRESENT ADOBE
Adobe Experience Manager Specialist

I support 6 Sales Executives by providing in-depth technical and industry knowledge. I’m responsible for the solution architecture and sizing prior to working with customers removing any technical impediments to the sales cycle

Key Achievements
- Supported and drove all AEM CMS solutions for the territories team
- Created a model for communicating with prospects using meaningful and personailsed content delivery technoliges
- Worked with all product lines to ensure that we provided not only specialised product based solutions, but also delivered a digital programme roadmap to encompase future needs

SEP2011 - MAR2016 ORACLE
Lead Digital Specialist

Responsible for the management of enterprise pre-sales engagements through the complete life cycle from discovery to conversion and post sale customer satisfaction

Key Achievements
- Pre-sales management of AU$20M business transformation sales process
- Driven the development and delivery of cross line of business digital experience strategy as a key market differentiator
- Personally drove an increase in license revenue for my product line by 100% from FY15 to FY16

MAY2011 - SEP2011 FATWIRE (acquired by Oracle)
Senior Sales Engineer

As the pre-sales lead for APAC I worked on all aspects of sales for both direct and indirect deals

Key Achievements
- Helped mentor the APAC team through the acquisition by Oracle

MAY2009 - MAY2011 AUTONOMY - APAC
Professional Services Manager

My position was to provide technical leadership throughout the complete enterprise solution life cycle. I also fulfilled a stand in role for the VP of Technology for the Asia Pacific territory

Key Achievements
- Programme Manager for Autonomy's implementation of Case Management and Enterprise Search at KPMG ANZ
- Led delivery of nationally important Water Utility programme of works, culminating in AU$1M of license revenue and AU$½M of professional services revenue

JAN2006 - MAY2009 AUTONOMY - EMEA
Professional Services Director

Reporting directly to the head of global services I owned BPM, Enterprise Capture, and EDRMS for EMEA professional services. I was responsible for the regional services number and growth as well as team management

Key Achievements
- Established the EMEA BPM Professional Services business team (£1M in the first year)
- I created a standardised account management program and issue resolution process

DEC2005 - JAN2006 AUTONOMY - EMEA
Principal Professional Services Engineer

Leading large scale consulting services engagements and being responsible for the ongoing customer relationship

FEB2004 - DEC2005 VERITY INC. (acquired by Autonomy)
Senior Professional Services Engineer

Delivering strategic consulting services engagements throughout EMEA and USA

Key Achievements
- Successfully delivered Purchase Order to Invoice reconciliation BPM project for GSK subsidiary in the USA
- Worked extensively with the partner network to increase the range of services and product offerings

APR2001 - FEB2004 CARDIFF SOFTWARE (acquired by Verity)
Professional Services Engineer

Delivery of consulting services and training, both as part of a team as well as solo engagements

Key Achievements
- Help product management define the security integration strategy for the BPM platform based on a services engagement at SAIC San Diego
- Implemented an intelligent e-forms solution for a national government department

APR1999 - APR2001 COCA-COLA ENTERPRISES
Systems Engineer

As a Systems Engineer I was worked with internal stakeholders and customers to provide technical solutions to business problems with Microsoft visual studio and database technologies

Key Achievements
- Created the micro biological database system for recording and analysis of results from testing at the 7 UK factories
- Designed the replacement of the ageing Visual FoxPro customer complaints system with an ASP and SQL Server alternative

1994 - 1999 BRITISH ARMY RESERVE FORCES
Commissioned Officer

My service as a platoon commander and member of an army training team gave me the opportunity to expand my people management, team development and training skills

1994 - 1997 University of Wales, Lampeter
Archaeology, BA (Hons)
1989 - 1994 Kingham Hill School, Oxford
A levels: Geography, History and Law