Core Team
Gary
Gary is an experienced international product costing expert and manufacturing Design to Cost (DtC) engineer. His considerable expertise, gained from his work in over 200 factories across 43 countries and 5 continents, is focused on electro-mechanical product and manufacturing cost diagnostics, Should Cost Analysis (SCA), smart procurement (using Should Cost targets), factory performance diagnostics, operational improvement, and cost reduction in manufacturing operations.
He has developed unique ‘Should Cost Analysis’ (SCA) tools and benchmarks and applied these effectively to help global clients design, manufacture and procure products at the lowest possible cost. He has also worked with many blue chip OEM companies around the world to establish new processes, facilities or outsourcing partnerships with EMS including ODM companies in locations such as South East Asia, Western/Eastern Europe and the Americas.
He is an experienced Design for Manufacturing (DfM) engineer with a great deal of expertise in the manufacture, design and costing of products from a performance (vs) volume (vs) ex-factory cost perspective.
Liz
Liz has led and been involved in transformational programmes that have re-engineered the core business processes of major blue chip manufacturing, resources, banking/finance, and professional services companies. She benefits from having operated at senior levels as a client, as a professional service provider, in line management, and in both business development and service delivery roles in a career spanning some twenty nine years.
As a senior executive at both Perot Systems and Accenture over a sixteen year period, she was engaged in building and sustaining multi million dollar, long term relationships between customers, suppliers and technology partners.
Liz has gone on to personally support clients in the Customer Contact Centre, Healthcare and Legal Services sectors since becoming an independent consultant.
Well-used to fitting in to senior teams in both large and medium sized enterprises, Liz has strong people skills, with an empathetic ‘hands-on’ style. She is able to facilitate improved team working at senior management level, and ensure the engagement of key members of the workforce in critical business changes. An experienced professional, she is able to rapidly understand complex commercial challenges and develop and execute plans for growth and performance improvement.
Eric
Eric is a highly rated application developer and is a contractor to our company responsible for the maintenance of our core software, IT systems and application databases. He is an experienced database developer and an honours graduate in computer science. He began his career at an international IT services company and worked for significant periods across the UK's banking sector in various IT centres and as a contractor for a Global IT company.
Eric has performed different roles in many successful IT projects, including analysis of initial requirements, development, quality assurance, staff training and technical implementation.
Eric specialises in providing cross-platform database development, training and support services to our clients. He has successfully managed projects from their initial stages through to completion, and has developed software which has been used by staff employed by NASA and Yahoo.
Gary is an experienced international product costing expert and manufacturing Design to Cost (DtC) engineer. His considerable expertise, gained from his work in over 200 factories across 43 countries and 5 continents, is focused on electro-mechanical product and manufacturing cost diagnostics, Should Cost Analysis (SCA), smart procurement (using Should Cost targets), factory performance diagnostics, operational improvement, and cost reduction in manufacturing operations.
He has developed unique ‘Should Cost Analysis’ (SCA) tools and benchmarks and applied these effectively to help global clients design, manufacture and procure products at the lowest possible cost. He has also worked with many blue chip OEM companies around the world to establish new processes, facilities or outsourcing partnerships with EMS including ODM companies in locations such as South East Asia, Western/Eastern Europe and the Americas.
He is an experienced Design for Manufacturing (DfM) engineer with a great deal of expertise in the manufacture, design and costing of products from a performance (vs) volume (vs) ex-factory cost perspective.
Liz
Liz has led and been involved in transformational programmes that have re-engineered the core business processes of major blue chip manufacturing, resources, banking/finance, and professional services companies. She benefits from having operated at senior levels as a client, as a professional service provider, in line management, and in both business development and service delivery roles in a career spanning some twenty nine years.
As a senior executive at both Perot Systems and Accenture over a sixteen year period, she was engaged in building and sustaining multi million dollar, long term relationships between customers, suppliers and technology partners.
Liz has gone on to personally support clients in the Customer Contact Centre, Healthcare and Legal Services sectors since becoming an independent consultant.
Well-used to fitting in to senior teams in both large and medium sized enterprises, Liz has strong people skills, with an empathetic ‘hands-on’ style. She is able to facilitate improved team working at senior management level, and ensure the engagement of key members of the workforce in critical business changes. An experienced professional, she is able to rapidly understand complex commercial challenges and develop and execute plans for growth and performance improvement.
Eric
Eric is a highly rated application developer and is a contractor to our company responsible for the maintenance of our core software, IT systems and application databases. He is an experienced database developer and an honours graduate in computer science. He began his career at an international IT services company and worked for significant periods across the UK's banking sector in various IT centres and as a contractor for a Global IT company.
Eric has performed different roles in many successful IT projects, including analysis of initial requirements, development, quality assurance, staff training and technical implementation.
Eric specialises in providing cross-platform database development, training and support services to our clients. He has successfully managed projects from their initial stages through to completion, and has developed software which has been used by staff employed by NASA and Yahoo.