John Martin
John Martin (B.Eng, GAICD) has over 35 years of technical and executive management experience in a large companies, and "not for profit" organisations. Experiences include telecommunications engineering, IT project management, IT support & operations, product development, CIO, engineering management , property development and "not-for-profit" governance.
John is an energetic and lateral thinking technical & business consultant with significant achievements leading diverse range of technical teams and projects. John takes a strategic holistic approach to projects, working to business requirements, and also developing strong relationships with clients, colleagues,
and suppliers.
- Experience in creating a vision for change to improve business operations, influencing others to commit to major change initiatives, and converting the vision to operating reality.
- Success in integrating people, systems and complex technologies to support new ways of working and generate profit for the business.
- Strong experience in managing large complex projects, with geographically disbursed, cross-company team.
- Wide-ranging senior management experience in managing IT & Product development, operations and support.
- Strong relationship skills - developing high trust networks, and driving functional teams to meet those goals.
- Demonstrated ability to quickly understand the business processes and identify key opportunities to improve the effective use of process change and technology.
- Early adopter of technology, constantly exploring new processes & tools.
- Track record of successfully managing teams, including large delivery organisations requiring strong people management and executive leadership skills.
- Ability to challenge traditional thinking to solve problems.
- Helping not-for-profit management boards, thru leveraging business management skills and implementing good governance practices.