Andrew Sterling

Experience

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  Ioannu Frondisteria

  Aug 1986 - Jan 1988

  Teacher of English As A Foreign Language

  Worked as a TEFL teacher in a frondisteria ("cramming school") in Athens. What a fanatstaic time - my gap year! Got the first student through the Cambridge Proficiency Exam - no mean feat.

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  Bridon International Ltd

  Sept 1988 - Sept 1993

  IT Manager

  Started as a Graduate Trainee on their programme that was pretty good at the time. Spent stints on the shop floor (Q: What differentiates a ropeman from a wireman, A: the number of fingers!), Engineering, Technical, IT!. Got offered a role in the Computa Department working for the infamous Allen Cowles and have been in IT ever since - no regrets though. Some great people there.

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  Accenture

  Jan 1993 - Jan 1997

  Consultant

  Worked in the automotive sector implementing MRPII/MPS/KANBAN systems and practices.Also helped clients put together application strategies and assisted with selection of vendors.

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  Oracle

  Sept 1997 - Aug 2001

  Business Development Manager

  Selling Oracle solutions and services into pan-European retail and FMCG companies across the Nordics and mainland Europe.

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  Diagonal Consulting - acquired by G3G in February 2013

  Jan 2001 - Jan 2002

  Sales Consultant

  Selling Content Management, Microsoft and JAVA technologies into UK based organisations.

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  Simpson Associates/Cognos

  Sept 2002 - Mar 2005

  Business Development Manager

  Selling Cognos Corporate Performance Management & DataMirror solutions into UK based companies.

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  Atlantic Global PLC

  Mar 2005 - Jul 2006

  Sales Executive

  Selling Project Portfolio Management software and services into blue-chip clients

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  The Initiative Consultancy Limited

  Aug 2006 - Apr 2012

  Director

  The Initiative Consultancy - Simplicity, Integrity, Honesty, Value – a new approach to IT. I am a Director of The Initiative Consultancy Limited, TheIC, a company designed to help businesses get more value and benefits from their current and future IT systems.We provide IT Director, IT Manager and IT Support services for smaller organisations through IT strategy critique & creation, IT Health Checks, contract negotiation/re-negotiation and license audits, budget management, business continuity and "IT responsibility" services.We focus on "making IT part of the business", "re-negotiating software supplier contracts to get more value and benefits" and "taking away the pressure, the mystique and the pitfalls of IT" all with an honest, pragmatic, value-add approach.We also provide software selection/procurement management, project portfolio and performance management solutions.See www.theic.co.uk for more details. Show less

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  ANEW Solutions Limited

  Sept 2007 - Nov 2016

  Managing Director

  ANEW Solutions deploys IT solutions, both server & cloud based, to increase our clients' competitive advantage through better communication, collaboration and business productivity.We offer infrastructure support to organisations that either do not employ technical staff or need supplementary skills to their staff. We are a Microsoft Silver Competency Small & Midmarket Cloud Solutions provider.Our objectives are simple: to provide the highest quality service in all aspects of IT support & consulting to make our clients more efficient.All of our clients are either referred to us by other clients or partners which means we have developed a relationship of such "trust" that we can be introduced to others.We offer IT planning & budgeting, IT equipment sourcing from routers to servers, technical IT support for networked servers, PCs and laptops on a telephone, remote or on-site basis.We host website & emails, provide online data backup systems.We become your IT department. Show less

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  Doncaster Chamber

  Jul 2012 - Dec 2018

  Non-Executive Director

  Now retired from the Board after 61/2 years but was a non-executive member of Doncaster Chamber board, initially co-opted to assist with IT strategy and projects, elected to fulfil the role of a non-executive challenging the Chief Executive and made certain the Chamber wass at the forefront of business, representing members' interests and driving economic growth.

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  AJSPRO Services Limited

  Dec 2016 - Jul 2019

  Director

  Having sold the goodwill and specific related assets of ANEW Solutions, AJSPRO Services is the newly renamed ANEW Solutions. We provide IT consultancy services to the SME sector and are looking for opportunities directly or through established consulting/coaching/mentoring partners, whether public or private sector.

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  DHL

  Jul 2019 - Dec 2023

  Driver delivering BMWs
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  BCA LOGISTICS LIMITED

  Dec 2023 - now

  Demonstration Car Driver