Roger Lever

My early career was in Banking in the Treasury division and this also led on to my interest in financial investment, especially the stockmarket. I enjoy reading widely on global economics, the financial markets and key figures in the investment world such as Jesse Livermore or Warren Buffet.

Main Career and Experience

I have spent many years in Information Technology [IT] at a large Life Sciences company and progressed through the ranks from IT support, through software development [for a time I was a member of the ACCU and wrote a number of articles and book reviews for them] and project management to senior management. Over that time I have gained skills and experience in a number of areas:

• Service Management - as service owner of a shared electronic document management service [DMS]. I was trained in and used ITIL [IT Infrastructure Library], Six Sigma and PS3 [People, Strategy, Solution and Services]. DMS was global in nature with ~120 servers in 9 locations, 35,000 users and 6 Terabytes of documentation
• Project Management - as a business systems delivery manager, I was primarily trained in APEX [Advancing Project Management Expertise], a derivative of PMI [Project Management Institute], which is similar to PRINCE2. I was also trained in other project management approaches and specialised topics such as quality management and testing. Managed many different projects using many different approaches, technologies, team sizes, budgets and complexity. Budgets ranged from a 10,000 to 2,000,000 with staff resource ranging from in-house staff, to contract staff to using offshore providers and team sizes from 2 to 35 people
• Programme Management - programme managed a number of projects focusing especially on governance, risk management, change management and communication
• Enterprise Content Management - involved with this technology specialisation for over ten years with most direct experience with Documentum/EMC products
• Strategy and Architecture - involved with developing IT strategy and target technical architectures associated with the shared DMS and moving towards Enterprise Content Management
• Department Head - trained in a number of management areas and leadership skills, and involved with budget responsibilities, line management and organisational design

RNL Consultancy Limited

Started my own company, RNL Consultancy Limited, and been engaged as a management/IT consultant. I offer consultancy in: general business management, IT programme, project and service management.