Richard Lamsdale

TECHNICAL ACCOUNT DIRECTOR
Nuance Communications

JAPANESE LANGUAGE AND CULTURE STUDENT
Kudan Institute

SENIOR PROGRAMME MANAGER
Vodafone Group

BROADBAND OPERATIONS MANAGER
Alcatel Lucent

SUPPORT GROUP MANAGER
Orange

NETWORK PLANNING ENGINEER Orange

PRODUCT SUPPORT ENGINEER GPT

SPONSORED STUDENT,
GEC Plessey Telecommunications

Global Technical Sales and Account Manager (ITIL Certified) and award-winning Project / Program Manager (PRINCE2 Practitioner) who has worked for Vodafone, Orange, Alcatel-Lucent, Nuance and several start-ups. Worked on deals and managed projects of £20-30M, managed budgets of £3M and built and led regional offices, departments and international teams of 25 people.

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Deep experience in telecoms and IT through the product and sales cycle of complex products, platforms, infrastructure and applications: Product Management, researching, developing and championing new ideas, requirements management and management of development, customisation and testing; international sales strategy, commercial modelling and account planning; Technical Sales, solution design, building credible relationships and delivering presentations and demonstrations to board/C-level, structuring deals and contract negotiation; Project and Program Management of trials / pilots, infrastructure rollout and international product launches; Account Management and Operations Management and supplier / vendor management.

Full entitlement to work in the European Union and Japan as a British citizen and spouse of a Japanese national.