Dr. Dave Sharrock

Responsible for setting up and leading international operations for agile42 consulting in the United States and Canada. agile42 is dedicated to visible and valuable change through lean/agile practices. After working with us, our customers: • deliver higher quality, faster • improve ROI, revenue generation and time-to-market • increase employee motivation

agile42 is dedicated to visible and valuable change through lean/agile practices. After working with us, our customers: • deliver higher quality, faster • improve ROI, revenue generation and time-to-market • increase employee motivation

Responsibility for ensuring the IT Organisation delivers against rapidly changing and expanding company goals. Focus includes building a process-driven service delivery organisation, re-introducing quality assurance into all stages of the product development process, designing and building a scalable technical architecture, and improving development and project management processes to meet a new paradigm of rapid development and fast, flexible product changes.

Provided direction and experience to key product development projects; drove process optimisation in IT Development and Product Development organisations to help meet expectations generated by high growth; defined and implemented CRM strategy as part of a company-wide move to improve impact of customer communications

Achieved multi-million dollar return in cooperative marketing discount incentives through effective communication, better team work, and key strategic changes to European content delivery organization. Evaluated and managed restructuring of key online publishing processes to meet stringent cooperative marketing requirements with multi-million dollar to bottom line.

Defined and implemented e-business strategy, creating strategic and tactical plans for implementing a step-change strategic plan while maintaining business-as-usual services. Provided management coaching/training on project management, leadership topics and organizational issues after optimizing project management and production processes.

Planned and managed customer engagements, developing strategic plans, integrated marketing strategies, financial forecasts and implementation plans. Recruited, trained and managed project managers, application specialists and account team members to ensure successful e-business implementations. Consulted with clients to develop and execute innovative short- and long-term strategic marketing programs and competitive strategies in fulfillment of corporate revenue and margin objectives.