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Dave Livingston

Owner / Partner
Llinlithgow Associates
United States

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Educational History

  • University of Redlands, Bachelor’s degree, 1974.
  • University of Wyoming, Master’s degree, 1979.

Professional History:

  • Owner / Partner, Llinlithgow Associates
  • Director, Avaya
  • Vice President, Viewlocity

Bio

25+ years of extensive experience in business and industry with a primary focus on new product and business development in the logistics, services and technology industries. Functional experiences in finance and planning, logistics, product development and marketing and integrated business operations. Work experience across many industries including Distribution, Retail, Manufacturing, et.al.

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Bio

25+ years of extensive experience in business and industry with a primary focus on new product and business development in the logistics, services and technology industries. Functional experiences in finance and planning, logistics, product development and marketing and integrated business operations. Work experience across many industries including Distribution, Retail, Manufacturing, et.al.

Primary focus professionally is on how to improvement overall business performance to which end I've built a proprietary framework BizzXceleration that integrates strategy and operations into a coherent and integrated whole.

Personal slogan or motto

"You've got to sail where you can to get to where you want to do".

Areas of expertise

Business Performance evaluation and improvement. Strategy, finance and budgeting, product development, technology, logistics, go-to-market

Personal Website/Blog URL

http://llinlithgow.com/

Public Profile

www.fastcompany.com/user/121906

Professional History

Owner / Partner, Llinlithgow Associates

Private, Sole Proprietor employees, Consulting industry

Llinlithgow Assoc. is a management consultancy focused on improving total enterprise performance by integrating strategy and operations with a proprietary framework, BizzXceleration. We evaluate the alignment between strategy/business model and operational capability, look for risks and opportunities in each function and in the overall alignment and recommend steps to improve each function within the bigger picture. And then develop and implement those recommendations in a stepwise, affordable and effective manner.

Director, Avaya (AV)

Public, 5000+ employees, Telecommunications industry

Responsible for leading the design, development and go-to-market of an innovative new VoIP development, integration and delivery platform that would allow for the modular deployment of multiple business communications services on new and existing networks and infrastructures.

Vice President, Viewlocity

Private, 501-1000 employees, Technology / Computers industry

Multiple. First was leading the development and go-to-market for new supply chain visibility solutions for B2B integration.

Next was serving as the enterprise Dir/VP of Product Managemtn responsible for market analysis, product planning and management, support of the development team and marketing and sales.

Third was as Dir. of Market Planning responsible for market analysis and supporting business strategy. 

Director, IBM (IBM)

Public, 5000+ employees, Technology / Computers industry

Many roles but primary focus was on building new B2B and supply chain solutions. Created first B2B framework in 1991 that was then used as a platform for IBM's e-business initiatives. Developed and led a solutions unit focused on integrated transportation management and buildling innovative new solutions using state-of-the-art integration brokers and OO development. Then expanded the role to develop multi-industry solutions for retailers, manufacturers and distributors entire supply chain and B2B extended enterprise requriements.

Professional (i.e., Accountant, Doctor, Lawyer, Teacher), Federal Express (FDX)

Public, 5000+ employees, Transportation / Logistics and Shipping industry

Initial founding member of Fedex's outsourced logistics division. Created the strategy and business plan.

Earlier as part of Finance team led development and implementation of the an integrated budgeting system that was the basis for all budgeting and pricing processes for many years and was based on full-up activity costing models and volume variable operations. 

Educational History

University of Redlands, California, United States
Bachelor’s degree, 1974.
Areas of study: Economics, political theory and math

University of Wyoming, Wyoming, United States
Master’s degree, 1979.
Areas of study: Economics (Resource and Environmental)

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