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Laurence Wilson's Profile
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Laurence has been an e-learning consultant for the past 22 years. Previously he was Director of a large UK employment agency.
In March 2002 he was granted the certificate shown left - for completion of project work at the Masie Center NY, USA. (See Masie) So far he has served 20 years of a potentially lifelong apprenticeship in distance and technology-based learning in Europe and the USA. For 12 years before that he was employed as HR Director in UK commercial companies. In the 1950’s and 60’s he learned about life and work, being raised in County Durham in the North East of England.
His work revolves around the successful, practical implementation of e-learning opportunities for life, education, training and work.
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CONTACT DETAILS:
8, Cara Close
LEICESTER
LE2 3UD
United Kingdom
Telephone 0560 231 1001
Mobile 07802 386644
Email
laurence@virtualpedagogue.com
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Objective
Available for short and long-term assignments in the development, management and promotion of e-learning technologies and methodologies
• Research
• Project Management
• Sales representation
• Full P&L responsibility as Managing Director
• Non-Executive Director
His experience of e-learning covers subject areas such as recruitment consultancy, IT, management and executive development, industrial skills, end-user computing, medical
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- April 2007 to date:
Head of Instructional Design - Nov 2005 to date:
Designer, developer, deliverer of online assessments for staff and management at Vedior, one of the largest and most successful recruitment consultancies in the world. - June 2001 to date:
Designer, developer of online assessment and training programme for a UK NHS Trust
www.uhl-tr.nhs.uk
As a member of the UK Blood & Tissue Services Editorial Board, I have developed an online assessment and training programme on Intra-operative Cell Salvage techniques for nurses, ODPs and perfusionists.
- January 2001 to July 2003:
Riddlenet
London, UK
www.riddlenet.com
E-learning Practices Director
Advise on development of e-learning consultancy business
Consultancy assignments for clients
- 1998 - July 2002
Management Centre Europe,Brussels, Belgium
A subsidiary of AMA (www.amanet.org)
www.mce.be
Consultant, eLearning projects
Primary objective was to advise and assist strategic development of e-learning solutions for clients.
Project Management of development and roll-out of Business Plan to bring e-learning to MCE staff, faculty and clients
Support Market Leaders in UK, France, Benelux and Germany to supply multimedia/online solutions to clients.
Evaluate off-the-shelf multimedia programmes to determine their appropriateness as pre/post work for MCE classroom courses and seminars.
Develop web sites to deliver information and training online, for MCE internal staff and clients
Develop relationships between MCE and e-learning suppliers and developers in UK, USA and Germany to equip MCE to include technology-enabled delivery in their proposals to clients.
Research and recommend the means to put MCE conferences “live” online on the internet.
Research and report on state-of-the-art design, development and delivery of learning online
- January to June 2001:
Edvantage Group
Oslo, Norway
www.edvantagegroup.com
Director, Business Development, Europe
Advisor to the Board
E-learning Consultant to Edvantage Group clients
- Mar 99 to 2002:
PROMETEUS:SIG-Corporate
Brussels
http://prometeus.org
Member and Former Chairman of the Special Interest Group (SIG), "New ways of corporate learning using ICTs (Information and Communications Technologies)".
Responsible for the development of the group's Value Proposition and Project Proposals. Member of the CIO Team for PROMETEUS. Helping to develop communication facilities for all PROMETEUS SIGs. Responsible for the development of the “Treasure Chest” – a collection of current European e-learning initiatives
Sit on advisory committees to advise European Commission on R&D agenda for 2001/2. See www.proacte.com
Member or Prometeus Steering Committee from March to July , 2001
- April 1999 to March 2000:
Solstra (British Telecom and Futuremedia joint venture)
Europe
www.solstra.com
Consultant
Analysis of online learning products and services to provide senior management with information on competing products/services
- 1992–1997
Computer Channel Inc.
Syossett, NY
www.compchannel.com
Managing Director, Europe
Set up Computer Channel’s European sales office. This involved recruiting and training a team of Sales Executives, Telesales and Administration personnel.
Products were high level training programmes for IT Professionals, at first on video, then CD-ROM and finally on the Internet. These were sold on an annual subscription basis. Clients received 6 one hour programmes every month.
Clients were the largest corporations in Europe – commercial, industrial and government.
The subject matter of the training programmes was the latest innovations in computing and communication technologies.
Acted as Executive Producer on the production of a CD-ROM programme which covered the 1996 European IT Professionals Forum in Paris. Speakers were Bill Gates (Microsoft), Scott McNealy (Sun Microsystems), Larry Ellison (Oracle Corporation) and many other top speakers.
Responsible to President of CCI, Joe Rizzo (Now with Arthur Andersen) and Ed Kramer, CEO (Now with CMP).
- 1986 - 1992
The Learning Centre (UK) Ltd
Leicester, UK
Proprietor
Set up a distribution company to market and sell interactive multimedia training products.
Acted as agent for the major UK and US producers of interactive video, CBT, CD-ROM programmes.
In tandem with this company, also acted as Training Consultant for UK and US companies – assignments in sales, management, multimedia.
- 1974 -1986
Hestair Management Services
Leicester, UK
Personnel & Training Director
Headed up the personnel and training function for 200 employment agencies in the UK – recruitment, training and development of staff and management
Personally conducted training programmes for middle and senior management in Coaching, Finance for Non-Financial Managers, Sales and Marketing
Also responsible for sales & profit in half of UK’s 100 branches - £12m sales, £1m profit
- 1968 - 1974
Employment Services Agency
Durham, UK
Employment Officer
Placed applicants in employment in industrial, commercial companies in the North East of England
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