Yes, this is me, working. As you can tell from my expression, I was leaving a meeting offering grudging respect to a key, strategic supplier for the deal we'd just struck. But not so grudging that you can't discern a smug awareness that we'd come out on top... despite the supplier believing that he'd had a major coup. The fool.
OK. It's my bathroom mirror. But I'm about to go to work AND I've got a work shirt on. So that counts. Heck, what kind of saddo has a gallery of pictures of themselves at work anyway?
I don't quite have a portfolio career - but I have been around a bit. A litany of jobs in my student years that I'm rather proud of, not least a 6-month stint as a binman, followed by several years on the Natwest Bank Accelerated Management Programme. Hated working for Natwest, didn't realise quite how much so until after I resigned in a fit of pique over the misguided targeting of sales of entirely inappropriate financial products (later vindicated...). Finally managed to fall back into what was always my first love (and academic pursuit), Information Technology. I'm from that bizarre decade of middle-class English teenagers who grew up with the very earliest home computers and went on to forge a career out of geekness and the good fortune to have parents who could afford to support it.
So... spent a number of years doing analysis/coding/managing around 3D-CAD systems in the process plant industry for a US household name (not in a good way), where I met some really, really clever people, travelled the globe and learnt oodles. Moved to managing the teams that developed and deployed systems for document and information management, procurement and project management. Got myself a rare place on the company Future Leaders Programme, only to be told they hadn't quite worked out how to develop 'Leaders' in the IT realm. Then became thoroughly disillusioned with a US Management that didn't really understand the UK, found myself representing a UK workforce in the face of some drastic T&Cs destruction, did a pretty good job on it and left as soon as I could. Now in a much more comfortable and fulfilling place, working for a UK company that actually makes things - or designs them, anyway - that we can be proud of (unlike eg any bank that I care to think of). Another collection of extraordinarily clever people as well.
Atkins employs around 15,000 people globally. I have perhaps the longest job title in the corporate IS function: Product Director, Business and Personal Communication, IT Support Services. My team get to determine what the future of communication - in every guise - will look like in the company. It's a scary privilege.
OK. It's my bathroom mirror. But I'm about to go to work AND I've got a work shirt on. So that counts. Heck, what kind of saddo has a gallery of pictures of themselves at work anyway?
I don't quite have a portfolio career - but I have been around a bit. A litany of jobs in my student years that I'm rather proud of, not least a 6-month stint as a binman, followed by several years on the Natwest Bank Accelerated Management Programme. Hated working for Natwest, didn't realise quite how much so until after I resigned in a fit of pique over the misguided targeting of sales of entirely inappropriate financial products (later vindicated...). Finally managed to fall back into what was always my first love (and academic pursuit), Information Technology. I'm from that bizarre decade of middle-class English teenagers who grew up with the very earliest home computers and went on to forge a career out of geekness and the good fortune to have parents who could afford to support it.
So... spent a number of years doing analysis/coding/managing around 3D-CAD systems in the process plant industry for a US household name (not in a good way), where I met some really, really clever people, travelled the globe and learnt oodles. Moved to managing the teams that developed and deployed systems for document and information management, procurement and project management. Got myself a rare place on the company Future Leaders Programme, only to be told they hadn't quite worked out how to develop 'Leaders' in the IT realm. Then became thoroughly disillusioned with a US Management that didn't really understand the UK, found myself representing a UK workforce in the face of some drastic T&Cs destruction, did a pretty good job on it and left as soon as I could. Now in a much more comfortable and fulfilling place, working for a UK company that actually makes things - or designs them, anyway - that we can be proud of (unlike eg any bank that I care to think of). Another collection of extraordinarily clever people as well.
Atkins employs around 15,000 people globally. I have perhaps the longest job title in the corporate IS function: Product Director, Business and Personal Communication, IT Support Services. My team get to determine what the future of communication - in every guise - will look like in the company. It's a scary privilege.
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