Karl McClelland

Current

Director at Architectural Select Ltd.

Past

Owner / Director at Thames Marketing & Professional Knowledge Limited
Senior Resourcing Consultant (IT & Financial Applications) at DBFS Ltd
Owner at Thames Research

Owner at Thames Marketing
Central European Manager at InfoEdge Inc.
Marketing / Sales Support at Gartner Group GmbH

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Education

East Antrim Institute of Further & Higher Education

Recommended

4 people have recommended Karl

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

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Karl McClelland’s Summary

Working within Talent Management and Executive Search with the centre of attention on sourcing intermediate, senior consultants and influential business leaders in a wide range of disciplines.

Architectural Select’s partners have successfully been providing management consultancy, business coaching, mentoring, career transition and business development services to a large number of organisations and individuals across the UK and Europe for many years.

We have taken advantage of years of experience gained within management, HR, local government, sales and marketing, public relations and years of networking and contacts.

Using this experience, continuous improvement and our growing suite of best practices together with innovative choice of tools and software, we are currently working on behalf of numerous IT, Technology, Consulting, Financial, Construction, Architectural, Engineering and Project Management clients across the UK, Ireland, Germany, Canada, North America and the UAE who have asked us to help find talented people.

Karl McClelland’s Experience

Director

Architectural Select Ltd.

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Staffing and Recruiting industry)

November 2007 — Present (2 years 5 months)

The name Architectural Select may be relatively new but the partners of the company have successfully provided management consultancy, business coaching, mentoring, career transition and business development services to a large number of organisations and individuals across the UK and Europe for many years.

Partnering with bespoke, specialist companies, we are now regarded by many of our clients as one of the leading providers of these types of services.

We are currently working with a large number of construction and architectural practices in the UK and Europe who have asked us to assist with their on-going recruitment.

If you have any questions or require any additional information, please don't hesitate to contact me.
Owner / Director

Thames Marketing & Professional Knowledge Limited

(Information Technology and Services industry)

July 2006 — November 2006 (5 months)

(Please also see Thames Marketing below). Involved in a number of private projects.

These have included market research and sales of Business Strategy Reports to my existing client base as well as some research projects in the retail and wholesale industry.

I have also worked on the creation of sales, marketing and business development plans for various small businesses, some website design projects and the online sales and marketing of consumer electronic equipment.
Senior Resourcing Consultant (IT & Financial Applications)

DBFS Ltd

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

2005 — 2006 (1 year )

DBFS set up a new business arm, DBFS Recruitment Ltd., to actively seek new business independent from the company’s software development projects, whilst also providing internal resourcing and support functions to on-site software development project managers.

Main Responsibilities:
• Placements included Software Developers, Project Managers, Business Analysts with financial institutes such as BNP Paribas, JP Morgan, Barclays Capital, HSBC Group as well as feeding developers into our own on-site teams.
• Creation of entire suites of procedures, best practices, USPs, training and guidelines for the business and new hires.
• Project Management: Liaising with business line managers for requirements gathering, drawing up job descriptions and negotiating budgets.
• Client presentations across the City to market the DBFS brand and its business solutions.
• Creation of branded marketing material, print brochures, case studies and fact sheets.
• Creation of IT and financial tests and exams and candidate interview Question Banks.
• Liaising with directors and chairing daily and weekly performance meetings.
• Creation of a 2nd and 3rd tier structure of specialist IT recruitment agencies.
• Managing the entire resourcing process – candidate selection / examination / grading / interviewing / contracts / renewals.
• Staff management, hiring, training, motivation and performance.

Notable Achievements: Placements with several Investment Banks, brand awareness and recognition in The City, PSL inclusion with organisations such as HSBC Group, BNP Paribas and JP Morgan.
Owner

Thames Research

(Market Research industry)

January 2002 — November 2006 (4 years 11 months)

Thames Research followed on from the work I did at InfoEdge and provided clients with IT Research, Business Intelligence, Market Statistics and Analysis reports from a wide range of world-leading sources including Gartner, Datamonitor, Giga, Meta and Forester Research.

These resources were marketed/available to clients and non-clients involving over 40,000 contacts, mainly in Europe.

Clients ranged from small consultancies to some of the most well known brands worldwide, including Microsoft, Siemens, Hewlett Packard, Lloyds TSB plc and Barclays. Some of my clients are from companies and organisations which I personally find fascinating, such as aviation, formula one and satellite manufacturers.

My database of contacts is kept up-to-date with reports relevant to them in areas of business and technology such as Knowledge Management, CRM, Business Strategy and issues relating to Internet strategy and Applications Integration. This contact is either in the form of a telephone conversation or by means of a carefully designed newsletter aimed directly at them.
Owner

Thames Marketing

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Market Research industry)

2002 — 2003 (1 year )
Central European Manager

InfoEdge Inc.

(Management Consulting industry)

1994 — 2002 (8 years )

InfoEdge, at that time, was part of Gartner and I was asked by the then CEO if I would be interested in setting up a German office and to build up the company within Europe.
Marketing / Sales Support

Gartner Group GmbH

(Public Company; Management Consulting industry)

1992 — 1994 (2 years )

Karl McClelland’s Education

East Antrim Institute of Further & Higher Education

Engineering , Engineering , 1987 — 1989

BTec National - Engineering

Additional Information

Karl McClelland’s Websites:

My Company

Karl McClelland’s Interests:

Focusing on resourcing and recruitment for the Architectural industry which also includes Structural and Civil Engineering, Project Management, Health and Safety, Quantity Surveyors, Planners, Landscape Architects and Mechanical, Electrical, Water and Gas Engineers. I have also been involved in the design, build and management of some complex website projects and have also provided full corporate newsletter solutions. I would like to develop business contacts in the UK and Europe. Flying lessons which I am keen to continue with and have always had an interest in aviation in general. I have an interest in new media, web techologies and web design as well as typography. I enjoy music, djing, traveling and spending time with friends and family.