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Date of Birth: ** November **** Mobile Number: +61-413******

Nationality: Dual Australian/British Email Address: *******@*****.***

Profile

A Laboratory Manager turned LIMS Product Manager currently managing, developing, programming and implementing global, multi-site, multi-million dollar laboratory information management systems. Over nineteen years of expertise of software and laboratories in a very diverse range of industry types. Enthusiastic, with excellent software, laboratory, scientific, technical, presentation, project, market and problem solving skills, dedicated to finding, making and implementing the perfect solution.

Current position

2008 – Date Mincom – Product Manager CCLAS LIMS and Assay Management

Mincom is a leading global software solutions and services provider to asset-intensive industries. As a Product Manager my role includes:

Identify customers future requirements of the Scientific laboratory and Assay Management systems

Writing high level product requirements documents

Production of detailed software specification documents

Organising the design and development of the products

Signing off user acceptance procedures and use cases

Managing global sales and development partners.

Build global sales and marketing plans

Manage the profitability of the products

Present roadmaps and solutions to existing and potential customers

Project Management

Software development and lifecycles including business strategy.

Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) design.

Laboratory Consultancy.

The basis of my role is to manage the implementation of laboratory information management systems and solutions.

Education

1982 – 1987 Archbishop Holgates’ Grammar School, York – 10 ‘O’ Levels including an Advanced ‘O’ level in Mathematics

1987 – 1989 York Sixth Form College – 5 ‘A’ levels including an Advanced ‘A’ level in Further Mathematics

1989 – 1993 Leeds University – BSc Food Science

1997 – 1998 Sunderland University - Msc Management of Information Technology

2000 Microsoft NT4 and SQL server Administration

2002 Australian Computer Society – Recognition of Prior Learning and a Diploma of Computer Science.

2007 Oracle 10g Database Administration

Previous employment

2002 – 2008 Thermo Fisher Scientific - Senior Consultant

Thermo Fisher Scientific is the world leader serving science. As senior consultant in the APAC region my role included:

LIMS Product Strategy and Management, business analysis and strategy.

Professional Services Management including staff and budgets.

Global Project Management and Methodologies such as PRINCE.

Quality based implementation methodology including IQ, OQ, PQ, SOP, RTM, specification and design documentation.

Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) design and implementation.

Laboratory consultation – Including Validation, Accreditation, GLP, GMP, FDA, ISO and ICH.

Sales - negotiations, presentations and tender procedures.

Instrument and System integration, financials and process e.g. SAP and PIMS.

Database administration – Unix, Oracle and MS SQL server.

Training design and delivery, both external and internal.

My role was solving the more challenging projects and feed requirements back to product strategy. Highly technical global projects were my speciality.

1999 – 2002 Analytical Information Systems Ltd, UK

LIMS Developer and Systems Administrator

Analytical Information Systems is a developer and supplier of LIMS. Some of the highlights of my role included:

LIMS design, development and implementations.

Module programming using .NET tools, including Visual Basic, Visual Objects and Clipper

Product Management and business strategy.

Network administration; Novell and NT LANS, VPN, RAS.

1991 – 1999 ALcontrol Laboratories, UK

Technical Services, LIMS and Chemistry Manager

ALcontrol Laboratories is Europe’s largest chain of food contract laboratories. Highlights of my role included:

Founding and growing the food business from one site to nine sites.

New laboratory building or acquisition, design and setup.

Laboratory method development.

Database administration; LIMS, MS SQL server, Exchange and Lotus Notes.

Other useful information

Keen sportsman, representing my state at athletics, cricket, soccer, rugby and hockey

Travelling gourmet, wine maker and connoisseur

Excellent state of health, non-smoker; Full clean driving licenses - Australian and UK; Current APEC travel clearance; References available on request.

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