Paul Johnson

Experience

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  Ford Motor Company

  Oct 1990 - Apr 2001

  Powertrain Calibration Manager

  Led 10 engineers to develop new calibrations, calibration tools and a new control system for the 2001 Ford Mondeo and Focus. Creation and management of high level development plan, risk analysis(RPN), resources and budget control. Directed development work and design selection based on results analysis and performance against vehicle fuel economy, emissions and drive attribute targets. Working with Powertrain developers in Ford’s other subsidiaries, Mazda and Volvo, to establish “best practise” engine test and development processes and procedures where possible.Also worked as a Engine Mapping engineer, and a Exhaust Component engineer in the first few years of my time in Ford. Show less

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  Motorola

  Apr 2001 - Mar 2011

  Senior Product Manager

  2008-2011 Motorola – Global UMTS Business Development DirectorProvided global sales teams with a full go-to-market service, responsible for bid responses, product costing and pricing. Generated marketing collateral and presentations to potential and existing customers up to CxO level. Trained Go-to-Market Teams on product and roadmap as well as key selling points of HSPA+, IP transmission, Total Cost of Ownership(TCO), objection handling and competitive analysis. Developed sales forecasts and projections to provide long range sales plans to the business. Managed the annual price negotiation with main UMTS supplier, Huawei. In last six months of this role, also took on responsibility for the Motorola GSM BSC also sourced through Huawei. By proposing splitting a software order into what was needed for mid term and then longer terms, saved $0.3M in third party software cost.2005 – 2008 Motorola - UMTS Senior Product ManagerWorked with internal development teams to translate customer and market requirements into engineering specifications to support front-end design processes for UMTS RAN software releases. Managed Motorola’s third party UMTS supplier Huawei, addressing commercial and customer issues as they occurred, and providing annual forecasts. Became a subject matter expert on IP transmission to support customer networks migration from legacy transmission networks to full IP. Quantifying system and cost benefits, whilst acknowledging the remaining issues regarding latency, jitter and network synchronisation. Developed an inter-department IP Wiki to capture collective learning, as well as external references and case studies.2004 – 2007 Motorola - Product Manager, UMTS Software Releases Business case development for overall UMTS hardware and software features. Competitive Analysis of Motorola’s UMTS products versus competitors. Supported various UMTS RFx responses and customer meetings to support business development opportunities in EMEA, APAC Show less

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  Nokia Siemens Networks

  Apr 2011 - Jan 2013

  WCDMA Regional Product Manager for Western Europe

  Roadmap communication and customer requirements capture for key telco’s. Covering product and feature presentations as well as initial system dimensioning to support customer network upgrade proposals.• An analytical thinker. Developed retirement plan for 3G equipment. Communicating with account teams, capturing contractual commitments and liabilities. Consequently tailored support levels to reflect phase-out plan, saving project costs by releasing support staff early to other projects.• Technical project management. Pulled together required design team members to develop a proposal to roll-out a new network software version to “3” RoI. Developed High Level Design(HLD) document collecting current and new proposed architecture and presented it to the customer, gaining their acceptance before entering implementation stage. Overcoming set-backs as necessary to meet customer deadlines. • Customer issue management. Captured development process and quality improvements being made using Agile, iterative development cycles and automated testing to address customer software quality concerns. • An enthusiastic and strong team player, keen to share knowledge and learn from both from internal and external contacts. Developed Microsoft Sharepoint site and blog to share product information and plans with regional and account teams. Show less

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  PwC UK

  Mar 2013 - Nov 2016

  Senior Consultant

  Working within the Telecoms, Media and Technology(TMT) Sector as well as Industrial Products. Leveraging extensive experience and network gained working for automotive OEMs and vendors as well as telecoms OEM's and vendors to provide Management Consultancy Services to new and existing PwC clients. Advising clients on business transformation opportunities and efficiency improvements following audit actvities. Project managing transformation process in private and public sectors.

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  GENPACT

  Dec 2016 - Jun 2022

  Heading up the global Finance and Accounting solutioning across digital/cloud/automation and analytics solution, business case and commercials development with a focus on Consumer Goods, Retail and Life Sciences. Leading end to end RFx process as well as standalone consulting engagements. Motivating and coaching a culturally diverse team on achieving their part in the overall team goal. Training these architects in developing their solutions and providing quality assurance. Working across industry verticals, led the digital and automation solution development, commercials and business case for RFx led multi-year deals ranging from $20-$120m. Developed an innovative Cloud RPA hosting solution for a client featuring Automation Anywhere and AWS cloud and based on a Build-Operate-Transfer model to allow the client to get up to speed with the RPA solution and AWS cloud before migrating this to the client IT team downstream.

  • Vice President, Digital Solution Architect

    Jan 2019 - Jun 2022

  • Assistant Vice President, Digital Solution Architect

    Dec 2016 - Dec 2018
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  ServiceNow

  May 2024 - Jun 2024

  Solutions Consultant

  Solution Consultant, learning about the versatility and rich capabilities of the ServiceNow platform

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  Capgemini

  Jun 2024 - now

  Senior Director

  Winning working in F&A solution advisory and automation aiming to address client challenges and issues. Often this entails implementing the “best of breed” solutions based on ERP (S/4 HANA...etc) module selection, and where capabilities were lacking, with industry leading applications like High Radius, Blackline, Tradeshift and Tungsten.