Ne Tentes aut Perfice -If somethings worth doing, its worth doing well

Jonesthephone

A significant part of a British persons life is their career. Anything which consumes 100+ hours of their waking time must reflect on what they are.  I have been fortunate to have had a full and varied career involved in some challenging projects.

These pages are my attempt to define who and what I am

Leading  a distributed global team in Cambridge UK, Denmark, Brazil, Russia, India, Taiwan, Korea and China supported by 2 ODM’s in Taiwan.

I am currently responsible for supplying mobile handset platforms delivering features required for mass market phones in Asia, EMEA, South America and the USA.

Interim task to support the CEO and productize End2end mobiles technology offering and restructure the product management organization so that it could lead the marketing and development  organisations. I also recruited my own successor to continue the work. End2end was acquired by Mach-1.

Working with the C-level team to create a compelling vision and execution plan for everything which was not voice centric in mobile devices. Repositioning the Mobile device as the single aspirational product

Development of strategic acquisition and partnership plans for GPRS and £G product evolutions.

Management of  PDA , Smartphone and Information products development programs

At emc² I created a vision which enabled emc² to provide key products, services and know how required to enable delivery of  multi-media and value added features on mobile phones.

Under my guidance emc² established a blue chip Telecoms client base (Ericsson, Motorola, Siemens) on a global basis. extended its product offering and influence with in the telecoms market.

I joined TTPCom to provide the experience and drive to transition the organization into a product lead delivery organization capable of delivering to its Tier 1 Customers.

I successfully managed operations in each of its 3 business divisions Terminals, Software and Silicon.

TTPCom was subsequently bought in 2006 by Motorola one of its Tier 1  customers.

Operations & Development Director

CTO

Head of Product Strategy— Value Added Services

Chief Product Officer /COO

Operations Director

Jones on Jones

Established the first UK based telecoms accelerator . Created the vision and governance model to manage stakeholders from government and private sector.

Successful outcomes for xpdia companies included winning the Guardian Group ‘Start-up of the year ‘ and raising money in the Dragons Den  on TV.

Centre Director

Simon Wilkinson and I created the first spin out from Philips Consumer Communications.

We created innovative IPR which is part of the global teclecomms standards  We raised $20 million in the hard times at the end of the dot com boom, established a blue chip customer base for our products and created an organisation which supplied most of the worlds leading handset manufacturers.

Within 4 years we executed our planned exit and were bought  by one of the 3 companies we had originally targeted as candidates.

 

MD, CTO and Co-founder

Technical product management and delivery Control of all aspects of Market requirement, Product Planning and Validation for products within the Small Office Home Office range. Product Groups Included: GSM phones, PC's, Organizers, PDA's, Personal Fax, Personal Copier, Calculator, Fontwriter, Typewriters

Product Development & Support Controller

Management of Global Smart phone & Information products business within PCC.  Turnover value $300 million

Managing the integration of Data and non-voice features into 2G product portfolio

Creation of mobile fax/data cards first Symbian based Smartphone ,Data Roadmap and P&L.

Business Unit Manager—Smart Phones and Information Products

Program Management of  software and market strategies for enhancing the sales potential of Sharp products i.e. Personal Computers, Palm top computers, Electronic Organizers & PDA's, Calculators, Electronic Cash Registers, Facsimiles, Photocopiers and LCD technologies

Software Development Manager

What the Shrinks Think…..

Belbin

Myers & Briggs

Jones Inventory

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