William Wright currently combines academic and consultancy work with professional training related primarily to project management and IT. He is CIPS examiner for Advanced Project Management and Examiner in Information Systems for the IFA. Following the completion of an MSc (in information systems engineering) four years of professional project experience was gained with BP on various North Sea oil and gas projects as a systems engineer.During this period he gained an MBA at Oxford Brookes (by distance learning) and drew on work experience across the UK, Norway and France. This was followed by a sequence of contracts as a freelance IT consultant with professional experience across a number of UK industries (health, petrochemical, energy, defence etc.) plus a 12 month contract in the Middle East. Since 2002 he has combined academic work in a university business school with consultancy projects, and enjoys the teaching and coaching process as a key part of his current workload.
