William Dorrington 🤘

William Dorrington 🤘

London Area, United Kingdom
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My absolute passion is scaling, growing and enabling successful teams & strategies around…

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    Kerv Digital

    Birmingham & London

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    United Kingdom

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    London, United Kingdom

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    London, United Kingdom

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    London, United Kingdom

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    London

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    London, United Kingdom

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    Chatham Docks

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    London Victoria

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    Medway

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    Buckingham Gate, London Victoria

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    London, United Kingdom

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Education

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    University of Cambridge

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    The course focused on DNA at the core of life - how DNA works and how it informs the structures and functions of living things. The course explored key scientific advances and recent changes in our understanding of genetics. It also includes medical and biotechnological breakthroughs and future possibilities. It allowed me to explore the mechanisms by which genetic variation is created and how genes are passed from generation to generation.

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    Activities and Societies: Whilst attending this University, I involved myself actively with the Microfinance society and the Oxfam society.

    Dissertation Title: 'Strategy: The need to change with change itself.'

    The dissertation critiqued the strategic tools that are in use today (Porters '5' Forces, SWOT analysis, Ansoff Matrix, Porter's Value Chain) and explained why we can not use tools that were designed for the industrial era in the knowledge and information economy. It then went on to to make recommendations for new strategic analytical tools that would be better suited for today's analysts.

    Throughout my Masters…

    Dissertation Title: 'Strategy: The need to change with change itself.'

    The dissertation critiqued the strategic tools that are in use today (Porters '5' Forces, SWOT analysis, Ansoff Matrix, Porter's Value Chain) and explained why we can not use tools that were designed for the industrial era in the knowledge and information economy. It then went on to to make recommendations for new strategic analytical tools that would be better suited for today's analysts.

    Throughout my Masters and my degree I covered an array of topics which include: Marketing, International Marketing, Developments in Modern Marketing, Marketing analysis, Auditing, Taxation, Management Accounting, Financial Accounting, Treasury Management, Global Accounting and Finance, Strategic Decision Making, Managing People in a Global Context, Retail Corporate Strategy, Global Business Strategy, Green strategy- though throughout my Masters I focused mainly on strategy and ended up writing my thesis on this subject.

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    Activities and Societies: Leader of the CCCU group for the IBM University Business Challenge (UBC).

    As well as studying various modules for accounting and finance from intermediate to advance (taxation, auditing, advanced management account, advanced financial accounting) I also studied many modules of statistics and strategy.

    Throughout my Masters and my degree I covered an array of topics which include: Marketing, International Marketing, Developments in Modern Marketing, Marketing analysis, Auditing, Taxation, Management Accounting, Financial Accounting, Treasury Management, Global…

    As well as studying various modules for accounting and finance from intermediate to advance (taxation, auditing, advanced management account, advanced financial accounting) I also studied many modules of statistics and strategy.

    Throughout my Masters and my degree I covered an array of topics which include: Marketing, International Marketing, Developments in Modern Marketing, Marketing analysis, Auditing, Taxation, Management Accounting, Financial Accounting, Treasury Management, Global Accounting and Finance, Strategic Decision Making, Managing People in a Global Context, Retail Corporate Strategy, Global Business Strategy, Green strategy- though throughout my Masters I focused mainly on strategy and ended up writing my thesis on this subject.

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Volunteer Experience

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    Microsoft MVP - Business Applications

    Microsoft

    - Present 5 years 11 months

    Education

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    Hackathon Organiser and Mentor

    Power Platform School

    - Present 4 years 6 months

    Economic Empowerment

    The Power Platform School works with adults from the BAME community, providing training on the Microsoft Power Platform as well as mentorship from industry professionals, during an 8 week program.

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    Co-Founder

    TDG a Microsoft Community

    - Present 7 years

    Education

    TDG is is a community where we discuss, share and celebrate the Microsoft Product Stack. The Microsoft Product Stack is a constantly moving, advancing and improving suite of integrated applications that we have a BIG passion for and this is the forum where we like-minded individuals can come together and share!

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    University Society Member

    Oxfam

    - 1 year

    Civil Rights and Social Action

    Helping raise awareness of various humanitarian actions and issues through innovative fund raising and guerrilla campaigns.

Projects

  • Exchange Migration

    Assessing and planning the migration of mailboxes from one environment to the new for sub units of the company. This also involved creating reports and issuing them to focal teams.

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  • IT Audit

    Global IT hardware audit for the entire company.

    This spanned over 40 countries.

  • AX upgrade

    Assisting with the upgrade from the AX 4.0 environment to AX 2012.

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  • SCCM

    Assisting with the deployment transition of SCCM. This also included sites visits overseas to deploy new images onto hardware.

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  • Maritime Piracy Tracker

    There was a need for information gathered from an intelligence source about piracy incidents across the globe to be tracked and analysed in a quick and timely manner to spot trends and anomalies. I achieved this by creating an application that looked for specific words and timings to present graphical representations of the data to predict future movements.

Organizations

  • The Chartered Institute for IT

    Member

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  • EToro

    Trader

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    Social trader

  • Parliament

    Member-All-Party Parliamentary Maritime and Ports Group

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    Discussing all matters to do with the Maritime Industry from security to conservation.

  • Royal Insitution

    Member

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    The Royal Institution of Great Britain is an organisation devoted to scientific education and research, based in London.

  • Wallwood Lodge No. 5143

    MM

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