Engineer Management

Ian Law

Email: *********@********.***

Address: **** **** *****

City: San Mateo

State: CA

Zip: 94403

Country: USA

Phone: 650-***-****

Skill Level: Senior

Salary Range: $100,000

Willing to Relocate

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Job History / Details:

Ian R. Law

San Mateo, CA 94403 mobile: 650-***-****

email: *********@********.***

Goal

Join a dynamic and fast moving enterprise, either established or start-up, as an all-round problem solver, major

contributor and key team player.

Key skills

1. Resourceful problem solver, thinker and achiever experienced in dealing with a wide range of issues from

leading business units, training sales forces, developing strategic plans to designing and building IT

services;

2. Programme & project management, financial analysis, commercial and contractual negotiation,

procurement, corporate out-/in-sourcing transactions, due diligence, performance benchmarking, crisis

management;

3. Multi-disciplinary team leader/member, public speaker, communicator and problem analyst.

Selected accomplishments

1. Startup Exec: entrepreneur and co-founder of internet services company developing and delivering a local

trading platform. Concept research, service design, web service system development.

2. Management Consultant: senior strategic and delivery role with FTSE 100 international telecoms client

transforming $600M revenue business unit. Strategy developed and implemented. Business unit

restructured. Q1 2012 sales pipeline growth 40%+.

3. Management Consultant: Led turnaround of $800M+ government IT services procurement contract to

deliver on time to budget.

4. Management Consultant: Leader of financial negotiations in large IT outsourcing deal, reporting to CFO.

Telco full IT outsource (UK and Ireland) to leading global outsource provider. Deal value 1.2bn.

Negotiated significant cost (>30%) reduction and better contractual terms.

5. Program Director: senior Programme Director responsible for mixed KPMG/client team of 40 to deliver

significant supply chain cost reduction programme at major UK broadband provider. Targeted to deliver

$150M cost savings from the business in 18 months; overachieved, delivering $215M in 15 months.

6. Advisor: External advisor to Unilever global information assurance programme. Designed and delivered IA

courses and facilitated multi-disciplinary IA assessments in India, Europe, South America, North American

and Asia.

7. Advisor: Played leading role in strategic analysis and transformation of $11BN+ public sector citizen access

strategy.

8. Systems engineer: Highly skilled IT engineer providing 3rd level on-site emergency support to companies

in Germany, Austria & Switzerland.

Employment

Date Company Position Role

Jun. '10 - Sept. '12

Vivendar

Limited

Co-founder/CEO Internet transaction services platform (Kantu).

Nov. '02 - Sept. '12

Performance

Exchange Ltd

Co-founder/CEO Various senior advisory and delivery roles in

public and private sectors.

Jan. '02-Oct. '02 KPMG Director Head of Strategic Sourcing.

Oct. '00-Jan. '02 KPMG Director Leader - Outsourcing.

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Oct. '97-Sept.'00 KPMG Principal Consultant Head of Outsourcing Advisory Practice.

Jan. '95-Sept. '97

KPMG Executive Consultant Data centre subject matter expert. Benchmarking

expert.

SLA subject matter expert.

Oct. '93-Sept. '94

Student MBA Cranfield School of Management.

Oct. '91-Aug. '93

Computer

Associates

GmbH

Systems Manager

Systems Programmer/

Systems Engineer

Head of CA German, Austrian and Swiss data

centres.

Additional deeply technical client-facing roles as

3rd level support for core products.

Mar. '89-Sept. '91

Computer

Associates

GmbH

Systems Engineer Lead client support IT systems engineer for

Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

Oct. '85-Feb. '89

SWS GmbH Systems Engineer Systems programmer on IBM mainframe systems.

Education

1993 - 1994 MBA, Cranfield School of Management, United Kingdom, 1994

1993 - 1994 Professional Qualification - London Chamber of Commerce Advanced German

Certification (1st class distinction)

1982 - 1985 BSc (Hons), University College Cork, Ireland, 1985

Subjects: Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, Applied Mathematics

1981 - 1982 Leaving Certificate (A-level equivalent), Presentation Brothers College Cork, Ireland

Other

* Industry recognised outsourcing expert. Author of Harnessing Outsourcing for Business Advantage,

published by the Financial Times (1999). Trade press publications.

* Considerable international experience including USA, Brazil, India, Singapore, Dubai, France, Australia,

Austria & South Africa. Fluent German speaker. Frequent conference speaker.

* Pro bono: Citizens Advice Bureau, Myotubular Trust (http://www.myotubulartrust.com)

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