MBA

Alan returned to education in 2012 and a desire to innovate, lead and bring all the technical experience to fruition in being able to build a business. Being resident in Brighton and the advertisement for part-time study being available, Brighton Business School gave the opportunity to learn practical leadership and management skills on the CMI Level 5 Management and Leadership course. This sawme promoted in my professional life from purely technical to leading a team, becoming an Environments Manager requiring my newly acquired managerial skills and dependence on many years of technical knowledge. My efforts on the 1 year course saw the additional award of sustained commitment to critical enquiry, to which Monica and Paul joined me on the award ceremony. With my professional career now continuing, I obtained Chartered Manager status (Cmgr MCMI) and provided a blended technical and management lead. Having been inspired by my educators at Brighton, I decided to take the next step and take on the challenge of an Masters in Business Administration part-time. The MBA at Brighton provided me with the motivation to start my own business providing consultancy services, having not only the technical knowledge to provide what consumers needed, but the leadership and management skills to provide a strategy to give the business the best chance of success in a competitive market. Units of the MBA – The dissertation was a mixture of technology and business having experienced first had the issues of recruitment and joining an organisation, I completed a study on the use of reduction of transaction costs and how the use of an empirical identity management system supported by blockchain could reduce those costs. My dissertation was awarded Merit grade and I obtained an overall Merit on the MBA.
After 4 years of part-time study, it was time for my 3rd graduation at the Univeristy of Brighton. Pictured with my lovely wife Monica.