John has had an extensive career progressing from professional engineering in the power, mining and telecommunications industries, via technology and general management in the IT sector and through to the development, growth and sale of his own product manufacturing business. This journey has taken him through working stints in Europe, Africa, the USA and Australia. In recent years, John has focused on consulting within the high-tech SME marketplace, usually in assignments that involve aligning technical product development and marketing operations. John gained his electrical engineering degree in England, undertaking professional development with GEC-AEI, before accepting an appointment as an engineer with RCM in Zambia. He subsequently traveled to Australia and had extensive engagements with Svenska Australia and Telstra, before embarking on a career in the management of technology development with JNAlmgren, NetComm, AWA and MSI. During some of this period he was based in Denver, Colorado. Over the past 10 years, John has mixed the development of his own businesses (Simplecomputing and Business Vision) with consulting assignments. John's role in Gramercy is an extension of his previous consulting interests, emphasizing market research, marketing and technology development plans, business planning, re-focusing of key staff and accessing government lines of funding. He undertakes a key role in quality assurance and project supervision for Gramercy consulting assignments. |