Ken Tomlinson - Operational Director

·         Ken is a professional IT Project Manager, working in all stages of the project lifecycle.  He has substantial experience in:

o        Project feasibility and requirements management; management plans, planning and PERT analysis, WBS and risk management.

o        Project running, progress tracking and progress reporting.

o        Project health-checks/audits and successful project turn-arounds.

o        Ken is a practitioner of APM accredited Project Management Methodology.

o        Ken is a proficient user of MS Project and has also used Pertmaster, Project Commander, Artemis and PMW. Ken has trained many people in project management techniques and supporting software tools.

o        Ken has managed vendors, suppliers and contractors on several occasions.

·         As a Management Consultant, Ken has worked on many different IT Project Management and Technical roles and has substantial experience in:

o        Bid management

§         Development of proposal, presentation of solution to customers.

§         Analysis of customer requirements, designing “world-class” solutions, development of business plan, resource planning and costing.

§         Risk assessment of solution.

§         Follow up activities to achieve sign-off and sale.

§         Project Initiation – ensuring the infrastructure is in place.

o        Operating on-site for customers

§         Maintaining the required level of quality on the assignment.

§         Meeting deliverables within the allotted timescales.

§         Facilitation and design of workshops - transfer of knowledge and skills.

o        Assignment management

§         Team leadership/mentoring on the project to the consultancy team considering individual development needs against project requirements. Line management of the project team.

§         Formulating and agreeing project plans and deliverables across multiple disciplines. Developing sign-off criteria and managing the assignment progress.

§         Coordinating the assignment revenue, responsibility for invoicing to customer finance departments.

§         Relationship management with the customer, ensuring their needs are met in a timely and cost effective manner.  Generating further revenue through track record.

§         Post Project Review.

·         Ken is an industry expert in the fields of Information Management, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Product Data Management (PDM), Document Management, System Integration, Computer Aided Design (CAD) and Digital Mock-Up (DMU).

o        Ken has worked closely with many of the systems and vendors including: Metaphase, Windchill, Sherpa, Iman, Unigraphics, EDS, Intergraph, CATIA, AutoCAD, HP and IBM.

o        Ken has developed the requirements, implemented and rolled out several enterprise-wide solutions.

o        Ken has designed and implemented interfaces and integrations between PDM, CAD and ERP.

o        Ken is an authority in life-cycle management, configuration management, product and system structures, and object oriented architecture.

·         Ken has extensive knowledge of Complex Data Management including:

o        data architecture and distributed data environments,

o        logical and physical data models and data mapping, data migration and data cleansing,

o        relational, object oriented, hierarchical and other database technologies.

o        Ken has designed and owned the data models for projects on several occasions.

·         Ken has considerable experience of working in IT development, using different software development methodologies including waterfall and rapid prototyping. Ken has also worked with software quality standards.

·         At the technical level, Ken is very familiar with Oracle (as a user, programmer and DBA), SQL, Unix, MS Office Applications (Word, Powerpoint, Excel, Access, Outlook, FrontPage), several structured programming languages (incl. C, Pascal, Fortran, VBS) and Source Management Environments (CASE, DSEE, SCCS).