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Role:   Software Development Manager

Jun 90 - Jun 94

SHARP

SHARP

Japanese multi-national Consumer Electronics company turnover £9.5 billion marketing over 500 business and consumer products in 164 countries.

SOHO Product Group: Product Planning and Marketing Group is responsible for specification, validation and market introduction of products.

 

Role:    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.

 

Key Successes:

· Establishing Sharp as the leading brand in the SOHO market.

· Development of the  Fontwriter range of Word processor products in the UK and its subsequent position as the No 1 word processor.

· Achieving  Top 3 positions in the UK for

Calculator (2), Personal Fax  (2), Personal Copier (1), Fontwriter (1)

Electronic Typewriter (1), Organizer (1), PDA (2)

· Winning 2 Outstanding Effort awards for fiscal sales and an Outstanding Contribution award for Fontwriter (Only the second time it has been won by Sharp UK in 25 years) from Sharp Corporation (Japan)

·       Leading the development team for the Sharp (UK) Internet strategy

 The Software Applications Development & Marketing Group was responsible for product features and functionality, application and product specification.

 

Role:    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.

 

Managed technical product management of  enabling embedded applications and features, clients, drivers and protocols, connectivity, PIM’s and User Interfaces.                                  

 

 

Responsibilities:

Management and development of Sharp (UK)'s VAR, ISV and System Integration channels.

Management of 3^rd party systems development with major corporate partners.

 

Management of  relationships  with major software and hardware developers in the EMEA  supplying products which compliment Sharp ISG products.

 

Key Successes:        

· Establishing  SUK as the most successful Sharp subsidiary in terms of software development and marketing with UK producing the largest number of software developments outside Japan and sales to 20 countries.

· Design and Specification of the Sharp electronic organizer range on proprietary, Microsoft, Apple & Geoworks platforms

· Creation of the Monument Data Processing System solution for English Heritage, Free Trade System for Tetley Walker, other major clients include; British Gas, Rolls Royce Aerospace,  MOD and Barclays Mercantile.

· Development of  Integrated Systems with Oracle, ICL, IBM, DEC, CA, Microsoft, Lotus, Dataflex, Ericsson, RAM, Cognito, AT&T, Hoskyns et al.

· Launch of Sharp's strategic  PIM Tools including the Sharp IQ Electronic Organizer  (World-wide Sales 17 million +).

 

Role: Product Development & Support Controller

June 94 -  Sept 96 

June 90 -  June 94  Software Development Manager

June 94 -  Sept 96  Product Development & Support Controller