Andy Le May

Experience

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  Cyberscience Corporation

  Jan 1988 - Jan 1991

  Pre Sales, Training

  Working with sales team to write, present & demo sales propositions

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  Ingres

  Jun 1992 - Sept 1993

  Senior Pre Sales Support (Finance & Banking)

  Working with the sales team present our software to Finance and Banking community. Presentations, analysis and proposals. Delivering some courses too.

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  FileNet

  Jan 1994 - Jun 1997

  Product manager

  UK product manager for the object oriented workflow tool “Visual workflow”. Role included presenting, writing RFI’s, ITT’s, pre sales activity, consultancy, training, troubleshooting and authoring white papers. FileNet are a multi-national software company now owned by IBM

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  Touchstream

  Jul 1997 - Mar 1999

  Owner / Director

  A variety of projects for Marketing and technical projects for large CorpsApr 98-Mar 99 FileNetTraining, consultancy and pre-sales in FileNet Process and Document Management productsJul 97 - Mar 98 Unique Air (Part of Unipart group)Market research, Project mgmt (Contractor)IT and business project management. Market research into emerging technologies UniqueAir was a mobile phone service provider and part of the Unipart group. .

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  Overlandy

  Apr 1999 - Oct 2000

  Travel Bum.. err I mean world explorer

  Trans-Africa ExpeditionFollowing two years of preparation which included customising a Land Rover Discovery to expedition standard with a roof tent, running water, refrigeration and an exciting array of recovery gadgets, etc my girlfriend and I set off on a 74,000km adventure travelling around West, South and East Africa. An amazing time that opened our eyes wide to a wide variety of cultures and expanded our view of the world. www.overlandy.co.uk

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  Oceanus

  Nov 2000 - Dec 2004

  Marketing Director

  Building the brand and products of a near start-up organisation. Oceanus customers include Barclays Bank, Mellon Bank, Standard Bank, Alliance & Leicester, Zurich International, Cumberland building society, O2 & Vodafone.Re-positioning of the company’s main product CMS (Correspondence Management System). This involved a complete rebranding exercise, the redevelopment of all sales and marketing materials and the driving of a number of technical developments all of which gave the product market advantages and made the process of sales and implementation significantly more attractive and efficient. During this time I stayed very close to the developments in the market especially to FileNet (A multi-national software company) whose software forms the major component of the CMS solution and I sat on the FileNet special interest group for Process Management. During 04 I worked very closely with the product development teams to establish the feasibility and specification of a new web based product designed to reduce the amount of effort required to manage large FileNet installations. I developed all the relevant materials around this product and managed its launch. Oceanus customers include Barclays Bank, Mellon Bank, Standard Bank, Alliance & Leicester, Zurich International, Cumberland building society, O2 & Vodafone. Show less

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  Touchstream

  Jan 2005 - Nov 2009

  Owner / Director

  This company allowed me to explore a number of areas after leaving the IT industry. Through it which I did the following:2008-2009 Environmental Consultant - Started working with Grace Stead and Andrew Bennett on Social project with Schools around environmental awareness and understanding. This project twinned schools from different backgrounds and helped them to understand and feel the reasons for sustainability. The effect of this project was many fold on the kids and adults not just environmental.2007-2008 Raising awareness - I wanted to share a lot of what I had found. Consequently I started the "Awareness films and Talks" group in Cape Town showing 2 films a week on with discussion and food. This was as great opportunity to share and learn more. The films were about Social, Environmental and animal issues.2006-2007 Business Consultant - worked with a variety of organisations promoting positive social change Reciporcity, Coach matching, etc Helping with Business plans and marketing strategies. Also took a bit of a break to think. :-)2005-2006 Filmmaker - Put together a set of 4 DVD's to promote the work of i-to-i as I loved the effect it had on the people who were involved both locally and internationally. I went around the world filming volunteers, project staff, university staff and businesses to get the real feel and benefit of volunteering in peoples own words and then edited and produced the DVD set. Encourage, Prepare, In-country and Back home.2004-2005 In-country coordinator for the i-to-i volunteer organisation. I set up, ran and supported environmental, social and tsunami projects in Sri Lanka. Worked with the local in-country team to streamline processes and improve the quality of service to the volunteers and the projects. I managed a large intervention with 5000 people, 3500 children, from the war torn area of Trincomalee in Sri Lanka. Managed and coordinated Major and local NGO's and funds to drive the project Show less

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  Icologie

  Dec 2009 - Dec 2012

  Founder

  icologie inspires, motivates and educates around sustainability. We are working with individuals and organisations to engage those around us in what sustainability means, why it is important and what we can do. We focus on fun, empowering and interactive engagements through talks, courses and projects. We make sustainability an empowering and fun journey because many organisations make the mistake of focusing and dictating on what their people MUST do without connecting them to what it means to their lives first, so it feels to them like just like more work and admin and naturally they push back. Whereas, when they understand the positive benefits for them, their families and the business an extraordinary energy is unleashed that naturally drives positive change in all areas.Andy is also bringing clean, green, economic electric mobility to Africa. See www.ewizz.co.za Show less

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  EWIZZ electric vehicles

  Jan 2013 - now

  Founder & CEO

  Clean, green, economic electric mobility options are very limited in South Africa. ewizz is bringing affordable, fun, cost effective electrics here. Zero emission, Zero gas, Zero oil they are the foundation of the Green economy. Imagine 5c a km, that's what the fuel costs for electrics. With such low operating costs and virtually no servicing, electrics are our inevitable transportation future. See www.ewizz.co.zaAndy founded ewizz to bring the amazing reality of electric mobility to Africa. Andy is also the founder of icologie a Cape Town based sustainability organisation that is inspiring sustainability through talks, courses and projects www.icologie.com. The way to motivate and educate your teams to engage in sustainability is by connecting it to what they value. Show less