James. Tattersall

Experience

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  Sony Electronics

  Jul 1993 - Sept 1994

  Process Engineering Intern

  Process Engineer Intern at Sony’s European TV facility producing 3500 TV sets a day. I had responsibility for introducing a kanban parts replenishment process with a wire harness provider to supply parts in containers suitable for direct presentation to the line, eliminating non-value adding operations and inventory reduction resulted in a annual £22K cost saving.Additional two month placement at Sony HQ in Weybridge, in the Computer and peripherals’ division supporting sales and marketing manager with basic marketing and sales incentive collateral creation, and product forecasting. Show less

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  Ealing Electro-Optics

  Oct 1995 - Mar 1996

  Manufacturing Engineer

  Manufacturer of electro-optical equipment for science and defence industries

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  Teledyne e2v

  Apr 1996 - Dec 1998

  Production Engineer

  Production process responsibility for civil and military marine and aviation radar and radio frequency products.

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  Pitney Bowes

  Apr 1999 - Jun 2024

  Responsible for cascading International Postal Regulation and Compliance requirements into product development roadmaps and project managing through to deployment across product software, SaaS online services, system infrastructure operational procedures.• Translate national Carriers and Posts requirements into technical specifications for development and manage projects to deliver compliance.• Monitor changes in shipping and mailing market to detect opportunities and threats to products and services. Identifying gaps and develop solutions.• Provide business with postal compliance and regulation subject matter expertise across international markets.• Work directly with National Posts and Carriers, to develop and sustain appropriate relationships to protect and increase revenue and gross margin targets from product sales.• Regularly review Pitney Bowes’ compliance with postal operating agreements to maintain market regulatory approval.• Work with European Weights & Measure Notifying Bodies to acquire and renew product certifications. Show less Extensive experience delivering complex technology infrastructure change and digital/software product development projects. Projects spans systems integration, new product development (NPD) and new product introduction (NPI) to feature enhancements across SaaS, Software and IT systems. • Accountability: Developments for a portfolio of 130,000 IoT enabled SaaS, Android, and proprietary software technology solutions to achieve circa $150 million annual revenue targets.• Project Management: Manage development projects from initiation to deployment and through extended product lifecycle. Monitoring project progress, providing updates, and mitigating risks. Defining and analysing metrics to ensure product performance aligns with project objectives.• Leadership: Leading multi-discipline teams, guiding through project lifecycle milestones, ensuring high-quality delivery, cost, and functional outcomes.• Communication: Effective in influencing and managing external and internal stakeholders, providing timely project updates, and being the primary contact for project queries. Show less Developing supply chain networks from OEM suppliers through to End Users throughout Europe, Asia and the Middle East. Achieving the lowest achievable landed costs that provides the necessary degree of configurability to meet the unique country localisation requirements. These supply chains covered countries to minimise SKU cost.Key achievement was being the Supply Chain Engineering involved at the product development stage of Pitney Bowes highest volume OEM product (DM60) with responsible for developing and implementing a supply chain process covering the full product life cycle. This involved BoM and SKU Management, minimising, non-value adding operations and Landed Costs and designing a logistics network covering product distribution to end user, product return, retest and refurbish and return to finished goods inventory for UK, central Europe and the Nordic countries. I project manager the product introduction, ensuring all product launch steps were undertaken to schedule. Oversaw the progress of the product specification approval, product demand forecasting, product bill of materials creation, SAP setup and supply chain development to ensure the role out of the product into the EAME markets were to schedule. Show less Responsible for the product remanufacturing business unit, I lead a cross functional team that increased product volume from 5000 to 25000 units/year within 2 years. This was achieved through raising the profile of the product range with the sales and marketing side of the business, supported with product portfolio expansion, standardised production processes, quality control and cost down exercises. I successfully managed this business unit by setting clear objectives and direction, fostering team spirit, motivating, supporting and empowering others to resolve issues.Attained ISO14001 certification, becoming one of the first UK organisations to meet the Environmental Management System and WEEE (Waste of Electronic and Electrical Equipment) standards by creating reuse, recycle and salvage channels as well as waste stream management. The operation was able to be self sustaining and even created a profit in the initial years.Through discussion with the Asia Pacific Vice President I successfully developed and introduced the ‘Newly Assembled’ range of products to meet the low cost, high quality expectations for these emerging markets.Project managed the transfer of an OEM product configuration process in house, leading to total stock flexibility, reduced inventory costs and customer delivery lead-time. Show less

  • Technical Project/Product Regulation & Compliance Manager

    Mar 2022 - Jun 2024

  • Technical Project Manager

    Oct 2006 - Feb 2022

  • Supply Chain Engineer

    Jul 2004 - Oct 2006

  • Production Engineer

    Apr 1999 - Jun 2004