Roger Lever
Contributor
Roger N Lever - Roger Lever
Early career was in Treasury Banking and this led to my interest in financial investment, especially the stockmarket. Enjoy reading widely on business, investment, economics, financial markets and key figures such as Jesse Livermore or Warren Buffet. Later on I moved into Information Technology [IT] and have been there ever since in various roles.
Main Career and Experience
Spent many years in IT at a large Life Sciences company, progressing from IT support, through software development [previously was a member of ACCU and wrote a number of articles and book reviews] and project management to senior management. Gained many skills and experience like:
- 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 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
- 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
- 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 have been engaged as a project management consultant. Enjoy direct project management or helping project managers.
Cognizant Technology Services
Currently work at Cognizant as a program manager in their Life Sciences division.
Latest Articles
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Dance with Chance by Makridakis Hogarth Gaba
Review of Dance with Chance by Spyros Makridakis, Robin Hogarth and Anil Gaba. An interesting book looking at chance, the illusion of control and the paradox of control.
Mar 17, 2009
- Roger Lever
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Book Review: Grown Up Digital by Don Tapscott
Grown Up Digital is the latest book from the bestselling author of Growing Up Digital and Wikinomics and this book describes how the net generation is changing the world.
Mar 5, 2009
- Roger Lever
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Book Review: Making It All Work by David Allen
Bestselling author of Getting Things Done has followed up with Making It All Work, a roadmap for personal productivity and long term planning that builds on earlier book.
Mar 4, 2009
- Roger Lever
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Review: Motivate Like a CEO by Suzanne Bates
Bestselling author Suzanne Bates has followed up Speak Like a CEO with Motivate Like a CEO. This book is focused on connecting purpose and people to achieve results.
Mar 3, 2009
- Roger Lever
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Review -- Manias Panics and Crashes 5th Edition
Over the last four hundred years history is replete with manias, panics and crashes. Charles P. Kindleberger and Robert Aliber explore that history for modern lessons.
Mar 3, 2009
- Roger Lever
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Review -- Keynes and the Market by Justyn Walsh
John Maynard Keynes as an economist and government advisor had a significant world impact through his ideas. Less well known is that he made a fortune from investing.
Mar 3, 2009
- Roger Lever
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Review: Get to the Top on Google by David Viney
Online businesses must rank well on searches as many searchers never make it past page two of Google results or click on sponsored listings. This book helps to do that.
Mar 3, 2009
- Roger Lever
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Book Review: Web of Debt by Ellen Hodgson Brown
An interesting book that explodes myths about the current US monetary system. Web of Debt unravels the evolution of the money system and suggests a workable alternative.
Mar 3, 2009
- Roger Lever
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Book Review: Panic Edited By Michael Lewis
Michael Lewis, best-selling author of Liar's Poker, has picked a collection of articles by various authors on modern financial crises starting with Black Monday in 1987.
Mar 3, 2009
- Roger Lever
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Think Better Example from Tesco Business Problem
Tesco Fresh & Easy problem analysis and intended action is apparently superficial. This example shows how to think better about a business problem to find a solution.
Feb 23, 2009
- Roger Lever
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