Background to
Transform Your Career!
Hi - I'm Paul Hogwood and I'd like to take this opportunity to introduce myself and give you some background as to why I set up this site, and how I am uniquely qualified to help.
During many years on the corporate ladder in
several different companies, I have noticed more and more how people
have reacted to the effects of the company bureaucracy, the people
around them and, most of all, their own attitude to work.
More and more,
I found I was enjoying two aspects:
a)
Programme management and fixing company processes to ensure that departments worked
efficiently and together.
b) Helping people - my staff and others outside - to change the way
they think and enhance their careers.
Having seen industry, both in manufacturing and services, in good and bad
situations, with good and bad management, good and atrocious leadership, I
felt I could better help by branching out by myself with direct help to
individuals - and companies - everywhere.
I decided to set up
P.J.Management Solutions Limited in 2002 in the UK to provide both
consultancy to industry and help with career and management issues to
individuals.
I created two sites:
- This one, directed at SMEs and providing a link for consultancy
work, advice and articles for the small and medium business manager and
entrepreneur
- And Transform Your Career!, targetted at helping
individuals improve their career prospects and achieve a worthwhile and
satisfying career.
Because many personal and management
development issues are common, some of the pages are shared. In
particular, visitors to this site are encouraged to browse the articles
that I have researched by clicking here
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Paul graduated in 1974 with First Class Honours at the University
of St.Andrews.
In 1982 he became a Fellow in Manufacturing Management from Cranfield
University, and a Chartered Engineer.
Paul has progressed through a number of managerial positions covering
a full range from marketing, sales support, through to procurement,
production planning and telecoms planning and implementation, project and
programme management. He has held positions in BICC, Marconi, Microvitec,
Cable & Wireless and mmO2. He has driven multi-million pound projects
and has been instrumental in the adoption of the quality management
standard ISO9000 in the days when it was still referred to as BS5750.
He has come across all management styles, from the inspiring leader to the downright
crude blustering manager. It was as a result of his observations and
his own involvement in pursuing a personal development agenda for
his staff that he decided to find ways of sharing his experience, and
so help employees, managers and self employed businessmen and women
to progress in their chosen business and career
Paul is active in the Institution of Engineering & Technology, currently Chairman of the Buckinghamshire Branch, and is active in Mentoring members, and co-ordinating the mentoring activities.
He is married with three children, the youngest now at university.
Nov 2002
to Dec 2006: BUSINESS & CAREER CONSULTANT
P J
Management Solutions (Owner)
·
Responsible for the project management of contracts &
assignments for various clients
·
Sourced telecoms
requirements for Europe, Middle East & Africa for Johnson Diversey
·
Enabled
40% saving on UK
phone bills & made recommendations for Europe-wide
VoIP
·
Recommended savings of 45% on the PBX deployment costs: $1.8m
reduced to $0.98m
·
Produced an analysis of convergence trends in today's networks
for a major client
·
Conducted ISO process mapping, project administration &
support for MLL Telecom
·
Tutor
for Learning & Skills Council contract for long term unemployed
·
Acted
as a mentor to a number of managers & engineers through the IET
membership & own network
Dec
2006 to date
Having joined Ciena Limited full time as a Programme
Manager in the telecoms sector, currently commissions are accepted only
for short term analysis and reports, and not in the telecoms sector, so as
not to interfere with current obligations.
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