kennbyrne

CCS Ltd - Head of Products & Technical Operations

New product/solution & Market assessment to develop business case and market requirements.
•Assess product/solution performance(feedback, win/loss analysis, operational metrics) to identify opportunities for improvements.
•Managing the product platform and solution roadmap and portfolio-develop product strategies to maximize market share and revenue.
•Driving build, buy or partner decision analysis.

Operations Duties:
Management & Delivery delivery of all technology functions including software development,application support for e-commerce business channels and associated partner relationships.

Team Responsibility: (Internal, Contract & partner)
Web Development Team
Software Development and QA
Online Technology Operations (Technical Support)
Data center facilities.
Release Management

Amend/Develop existing operating policies to support overall company policies and objectives
Identify risks, define problem solving and risk mitigation strategies and facilitate conflict resolution

Management Consultant

Product Management professional focusing on organizational change and business transformation within the product development function. Identifying and implementing high performance business value creation and transformation opportunity services focused on the CEO, CTO and/or Board of directors/Investors agenda. Program, process and project transformation within client companies based on senior management criteria. Process implementation for continuous delivery of products and services.

NavaraSoft Ltd - VP Product Marketing & COO

Managed Software start-up from concept to revenue generation through two trade sales with product platform and multiple product lines.
Conceived core value proposition and financial model to create and implement wireless solutions in Global 2000 companies. Ensured that NavaraSofts product line portfolios were cohesive and complementary. Effectively managed Program teams in the implementation of mobility solutions and architecture for complex (multi-product/multi-vendor) mobility/wireless solutions in Global 1000 companies. Developed RFx technical and business database which enabled efficient and effective processing of RFx's by customer facing Sales teams and Navara business partners

NavaraSoft Ltd - Senior Product Manager

Mobile Softwae Devleopment Product Manager, full accountability for WAP Gateway Devleopment and for Client Side WAP device devleopment for Siemens.

Masters/PostGrad - MBA (1st class)

University of Liverpool

Masters/PostGrad - Marketing

DCU

Higher Diploma - Marketing

MMII

Diploma - Electronic Engineering

LIT

Links

• IEEE Member - http://www.ieee.org
• BCS - http://www.bcs.org
• AIPMM - http://www.aipmm.com
• PMI Member - http://www.pmi.org

Interests

Trekking Enthusiast, - have completed treks and mountain challenges in Europe; USA and Canada; Peru, Chile and Argentina in South America; Cuba and Jamaica in Caribbean.

Munster Rugby, Charity Work, Technology

Memberships

FRSS - Royal Statistical Society (Fellow)
Royal Economic Society (Member)
MIEEE- Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (Member)
MBCS- British Computer Society (CITP under review)
AIPMM- Assoc. of International Product Marketing & Management (Member)
Marketing Institute of Ireland - MMII.Grad
Project Management Institute - (Member)

Awards

ISEB ITIL v3 Foundation (Certificate)
European Marketing Conference - Dip. EMC (Awarded)

Recent Courses.
PMI - PMP (Completed)
PMI- PgMP (In Progress)
CompTIA Project + (Completed)
IEEE Risk Management for Prof. Engineers (Completed-0.3 CEU)
IEEE -Green IT: An Introduction (Certificate)
IEEE -Green IT: Data Centers and Virtualization (Certificate)
IEEE Data Protection and Disaster Recovery (Certificate)
IEEE Storage Area Network (SAN) Concepts (Certificate)