Experience

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  Freelance

  • Wokingham, Berkshire

  • Integrated Entreprenneurship Coach

    • Dec 2014 - Present
    • Wokingham, Berkshire

    I am a freelance business planning coach, mentor and consultant focussed on 'integrated entrepreneurs', with four bottom lines: topline are the two aims of (rapid) profitability and being an openly spiritual blessing to all in it's networks; supported by being generous socially and ca...

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  Lindsey Ralph

  • Berkshire

  • Property Management

    • Mar 2012 - Present
    • Berkshire

    I manage a small portfolio of properties, this is a legacy business that is not open to new clients. As part of this I am on the board of two property management companies, one with around 53 properties, the other with 14. I also consult with a third property management company with hundreds.The...

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  Tearfund

  • United Kingdom
  • Non-profit Organizations
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Emergency Response Finance Manager

    • Oct 2014 - Dec 2014

    I was deployed to Iraq as this NGO's emergency response was starting up to help assist people displaced by ISIS (Daash). I inherited $56,000 and IQD2,000,000 in the safe, and was responsible for the entire finance function. The most I paid out in a day was $158,000 for a cash transfer to about 300 families who had lost everything. We spent a lot of time bidding for funding from the EU, the Netherlands, Canada, the USA, and other countries. The largest amount recieved as a result was CAD1,000,000 for water and sanitory health (latrines), but this followed endless co-ordination and budgeting. After I left the INGO went on to supply clothing sourced locally to IDP's as they escaped from Mosul, with needs based grants of $6m at a time.

  • Bid Coordinator

    • Aug 2014 - Sep 2014

    This project encouraged country reps in the field to outline the projects they were going to need funding for. Initially this was anticipated to be about 260 projects in the 50+ countries Tearfund operates in; eventually the final tally was around 480 projects. This played a role in changing the relationship country directors had, as piggy in the middle between funders and recipients.

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  University of West London

  • London; Slough; Reading; in companies & college...

  • Principal Lecturer and Management Consultant

    • Jan 1989 - Aug 2013
    • London; Slough; Reading; in companies & col...

    Initially employed to teach finance to undergraduates, I was quickly headhunted to manage the post experience management development programmes in the regional management centre. I also developed our first ever degree programme and adapted this for delivery in the newly freed Warsaw Pact countrie...

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  University of Reading

  • Whiteknights Campus, Reading

  • Visiting Lecturer

    • Jan 1991 - Aug 2004
    • Whiteknights Campus, Reading

    Visiting lecturer for finance lectures for a wide variety of undergraduate courses in engineering, surveying, and the sciences.

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  Reading College

  • Reading, United Kingdom

  • Lecturer two

    • Jan 1987 - Dec 1988
    • Reading, United Kingdom

    Specialised in teaching finance to non financial managers and students, and management simulations.

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  Bracknell & Wokingham College

  • Bracknell

  • Lecturer one

    • Sep 1984 - Dec 1986
    • Bracknell

    Lecturer in Economics and Accountancy for post school students.

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  Edgware School

  • Edgware, London

  • Assistant Schoolmaster

    • Sep 1982 - Aug 1984
    • Edgware, London

    Taught Maths and Business Studies from special needs to A level.

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  AMF Engineering

  • Bristol, United Kingdom

  • Sales Engineer

    • 1975 - 1978
    • Bristol, United Kingdom

    I started as the interface between clients and the firm, but the firm had recently relocated both administration and manufacturing. Consequently it had a huge backlog of unmet orders so the real issue was supervising the whole process of meeting customer requirements. I left to go to university, ...

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  East African Holdings

  • London, England, United Kingdom

  • Factory Controller

    • Feb 1975 - Aug 1975
    • London, England, United Kingdom

    East African Holdings manufactured dental equipment when it had the financial resources to do so. My responsibility here was to convince my colleagues that the considerable parts shortages would be eliminated, largely through finding new suppliers, so that it was worth scheduling to eliminate bac...

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  British Tissues

  • Worthing, West Sussex

  • Assistant Office Sales Manager

    • 1974 - 1975
    • Worthing, West Sussex

    Managed telephone sales team selling high volume low margin consumables; specialised in tracking delayed and lost orders.

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  Eschmann Brothers and Walsh

  • Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex

  • Management Trainee

    • 1972 - 1974
    • Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex

    Traditional Management Trainee inducted into all departments of this surgical instrument and equipment firm, followed by specialised factory, sales and marketing placements. Special projects undertaken included elimination of specific production bottlenecks, and the annual review of prices and co...