Julie Predescu
Midlands based
Experienced management consultant having carried out programme and project management including change management across a variety of sectors within many Blue Chip organisations
Bilingual English/French
Significant international experience including bilingual Anglo-French business acumen
Innovative ‘out of the box’ strategic thinker
Experienced tactical and operational manager including recruitment, staff management and motivation across UK, France and Jersey
2010 - 2011Management and leadership of Programme Delivery staff at all levels across all programmes within QCDA, provide guidance and direction across all programmes and projects whilst leading a professional practice across the portfolio.
Latterly managed transition & closure projects, change management and decommissioning of agency
2003 - 2009Managing Director – Management Consultancy Change Management Programme and Project management for various offshore and onshore clients on an interim or contractual basis.
Clients included:
BNP Paribas Securities Services, Jersey
KPMG (Jersey) Limited
Ogier, Jersey
Offshore legal and fiduciary professional services as Interim Group Programme Manager (budget in excess of £200M)
Barclays Bank, Jersey
Keldon Compliance Limited, Family run trust and fiduciary company - HQ in Jersey and Russia
Les Greffes Landscapes Limited, Family run landscaping and outdoor products company based in Jersey
Itex (Jersey) Limited, Offshore IT professional services Jersey
Radcliffe Gower Limited, UK
Salway Bradbury Chartered Surveyors Limited,
Helen Crockett & Co Solicitors, UK
Women’s Business Development Agency, UK
Advantage West Midlands, UK
1999 - 2003Headed Project Delivery department within Sun Professional Services delivering full systems integration services and third party products in a programme/project capacity across all vertical sectors across all Sun offices nationwide and in Eire - Direct and matrix management of cross-functional national team of 120 project directors/managers with annual salary budget of £4M and revenue potential of £20M.
1994 - 1995Responsible for Business As Usual functions.
Introduced team ethos and built up department introducing methods and standards.
Managed and achieved customer satisfaction both internally and externally to suppliers and customers, extended product range resulting from customer survey analysis, generated additional revenue stream by contracting team to rest of the GMF group.
1990 - 1994Headhunted to create & manage a centralised support function for the software systems serving all European offices together with establishing a centrally based liaison with USA HQ:
Start-up including needs analysis, justification, budget proposal, department planning and recruitment of team to set up a help desk service and subsequent roll-out across Europe.
Formalised and developed technical support function with improved European-wide satisfaction and system reliability enhanced to 98%.
Managed the transfer of the group to Zeist in Holland following the worldwide headcount reductions in 1992-1994.
1987 - 1990Technical support contracts around client server technology and relational databases for merchant bank Robert Fleming in London and the BT Applied Technology group.
1984 - 1987Relational database projects, general project leadership
1981 - 1984Mathematical modelling projects mainly for MOD clients.