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October 17th, 2008
RivCom Consultant Published in ‘Semantic Web for Business’

A description and explanation of the technical solution used by the MYCAREVENT project to provide a single point of access to automotive repair information has just been published in a new book focusing on the application of Semantic Web technologies to solve business problems. (more…)

September 4th, 2008
RivCom Returns to Independent Operation

After four years working within the CSW Group, it has been agreed that RivCom should recommence operations as an independent organisation. (more…)

July 17th, 2008
AutoRepair.eu.com Moves to RivCom Host

The AutoRepair.eu.com site, set up by CSW Group Ltd and MUL GmbH in the follow-up to MYCAREVENT, is now hosted by RivCom Services Ltd, in parallel with the move by Jay Cousins and Antony Scott to RivCom from CSW. There are no changes in the services offered by the site, and RivCom will be working in partnership with MUL under the same arrangements as applied at CSW. (more…)

 

Mark Stone

 
       
  Summary Mark has more than 20 years’ experience as a learning and development professional. He has worked as trainer, consultant, teacher, researcher and author. For the last five years he has been the training lead at CSW, a medium-sized software house designing and delivering large-scale healthcare and publishing training programmes. Mark is particularly interested in helping organisations develop and implement learning and development strategies to support their strategic business goals.  
  Core Competences: Training:
  • Delivery
  • Materials design and development
  • Programme design and delivery
  • Project management
  • Environment design and development
  • Team leadership
Other:
  • Consulting
  • Writing
Domain experience:
  • Health and social care
  • IT/Software
  • Publishing
  • Education
  • Pharmaceuticals
  • Automotive
  • Newspapers/advertising
  • Oil
  • Shipping
 
  Recent accomplishments:
  • Successfully delivered 10 major training programmes over last five years for clients including BT Health, Connecting for Health & Wales Informing Healthcare
  • Developed modular training materials for more than 30 training courses meeting all client requirements
  • Designed and developed complex managed training environments, supporting up to 200 simultaneous end-users
  • Established new training department, defining standards, processes and skills to full ISO 9001:2000 compliance
  • Environment design and development
  • Initiated and attained IITT accreditation for training department with 100% conformance at first inspection
 
  Employment History:
  • 2008 – present: Associate, RivCom Services Ltd. Focus on using learning and development to support strategic business goals.
  • 2004 – 2008: Knowledge Transfer Team Lead, CSW Group Ltd. Responsible for managing and delivering training programmes and supporting services to support CSW’s products, primarily in health and social care and publishing.
  • 2001 – 2004: Consultant, RivCom Ltd. Responsible for development of process definitions, procedure guides and training materials, both for in-house use and for corporate clients.
  • 1996 – 2000: Teacher, St Clare’s, Oxford Teacher, resource teacher, Assistant Director of Studies, teacher-trainer & IT teacher at an International College in Oxford.
  • Co-ordinator of the Learning Independence SIG at IATEFL (International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language), author of a successful teachers’ resource book, regular contributor to teaching journals and magazines, teacher-trainer, workshop facilitator and presenter.
 
  Education:
  • Triple TAP-certified, (Training Design and Development; Delivery; Facilitation)
  • ISEB Foundation Certificates in Project Management; Business Analysis; IT-Enabled Business Change
  • RSA/Cambridge Diploma TEFLA; RSA/Cambridge Certificate TEFLA
  • MIITT (Member of the Institute of IT Training)
  • MBCS (Member of the British Computer Society)
  • MA Interactive Multimedia, London College of Communication, University of the Arts, London, 2001
  • BA (Hons) English Language and Literature, Manchester University, 1984
  • UKCHIP Level 3 (UK Council for Health Informatics Professions)
 
         
 
 
 
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