About T750

"But in reality, intuition is the condensation of vast prior analytical experience; it is analysis compressed and crystallized"
Elkhonon Goldberg - "The Wisdom Paradox"

It looks easy for the surfer, but his intuitive command of the board and the wave is only arrived at by repeated occurrences of similar but differing experiences. Likewise, what you get with t750 is business wisdom through experience that will give you the acceleration on the road ahead for your business or project.

T750 is the vehicle for business design services provided by John Caldwell. John works not only on individual assignments, but also as part of a team, whether in your team or as a team of associates.

Here's a summary of experience which John can bring to a project or business:

Career Summary
Industry Sectors
Recent Project Types
Education & Training

Career Summary
(Life before T750)

	4 years to 2005: co-founding Director of Compertum Ltd, a business improvement consultancy - included raising over £2.5M funding for SMEs,
	11 years from scratch as co-founding Director of an international CRM software business - Initiative Software Ltd,  more...
	1 year technical services manager for Task Systems Ltd, including packaged manufacturing systems implementation,
	4 years technical consultancy and sales for Cognos Ltd, including setting up and opening the Scottish office; manufacturing systems specialist,
	2 years as Manufacturing Systems Project Manager for Levi Strauss, Northern Europe, including setting up local manufacturing support,
	3 years as developer and production systems designer for Ciba-Geigy Pigments UK Ltd,

7 years in education as a Physics Teacher,

3 years part-time as a Tutor-counsellor with the Open University (and the day job in systems)...

Industry Sectors
Looking at that experience in another dimension, it covers the following business areas (in no order of preference):

• Software Development
• Manufacturing systems
• Precision Engineering
• CRM
• Contact Centres
• Garment Manufacture
• RFID
• PCB
• Financial Services & Banking
• Telephony
• Chemical Manufacture
• Skincare
• Motor Trade
• Healthcare
• Brand Marketing
• Airline ticketing
• Local Government
• Economic Development
• Education
• Designer Jewellery
• Water-borne security
• .... and more!

Recent Project Types

Over the past three years or so, the type of projects that John has been involved in are:

MRP implementations for manufacturing firms,

CRM Systems design specifications for a local government council,

Research Project for SQA on future direction of SVQs related to Contact Centres,

Accounting System implementation for a software development company,

Market feasibility for University spin-out,

Technical & market evaluation for an ERP software product,

Bid-team leader and project manager for bespoke budget system for international shipping organisation,

Accounts management for automated multimedia contact centre,

Day-to-day management for outsourced fulfilment for a major UK bank,

.... and more!

Education & Training

BA (Hons 1) Physics & Computing - Open University

BSc General Science - University of Glasgow

Strategic Business Planning - Glasgow Opportunities

Managing for Productivity - Organizational Dynamics Inc.

Systems Analysis & Design - John Matchett Ltd

PowerDesign - Cognos Ltd

Structured Analysis & Design - Yourdon Inc.

Structured Programming - Paul Noll

Diploma in Secondary Education - Jordanhill College of Education