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CEO of 3 high-tech companies with strong business and technical background. GM and CTO with various public companies.
Raised $85M at valuation of $835M and grew startup from 12 people to 225. Grew ATM division to $400M in 2 years, managed over 100 directly and 200 matrixed.
Interim management and international consulting expert in High Technology sector…
Senior ICT Consulting. IT Outsourcing. Global Business Development. Brought in international software development contract on time, under budget.
He is a charismatic business leader who builds passionate high performing teams who work with him to achieve challenging sales goals. He makes the complex simple, making average people good and good people great! His teams have called it ‘tough love’ but it means that he gets great productivity out of minimal resources.
Major achievement: Our interim manager has a history of leading global sales and marketing teams within IT security organizations. Top Executive, Interim management and international consulting expert in software and IT sectors.
Written By Waseem Hussain
In the mid 1990s, large corporations in Europe and the USA realized there was a huge lack of skilled software engineers. The need to solve the Y2K problem within a short timeframe, combined with unsuccessful education policies of the respective governments were two of the major causes for the increased demand. In addition, the gaining impetus of globalization produced a common management dogma:
„Speed up at high tech but low cost, and grow along large scales.”
Also Subcom of the erstwhile National Transport Group (NT Group) followed this trend. To quote a senior manager’s public presentation: “The Customer is demanding more, faster and at better prices while Subcom is struggling to recruit specialists in reason- able time to satisfy this demand.”
The evolution of Cloud Computing and Rich Internet Applications (RIA) has brought about some fundamental changes in IT that is drawing attention to how IT projects are being managed and paid for.
The real goal of software development is the fulfillment and delivery of requirements. Yet, the puzzling reality is that (according to NIST) 70% of the defects in a delivered application are injected during a project’s requirements and design phase, and 60% of those are discovered only during user acceptance testing! At that point, the cost of fixing defects is 20 times higher compared to if the problem were fixed during the design phase…
