Karen E. Stanton
(nee McCracken)
Owner and Director
Karen braved
the new world as an independent consultant in 2015 when starting
KARENMC.COM Limited with over 20 years' experience; having helped hundreds of
organisations implement business systems. She's now happily
working alongside long-standing business partners such as Touchstone
Spend Management and eTS Dynamics where she's able to add to their
skills portfolio and continue doing what she does best.
Born in Barrow-in-Furness, Karen
left school and joined VSEL to start an Electrical Engineering
Apprenticeship in 1981. She enjoyed ten happy years in the
shipyard fulfilling various roles such as Electrician, Draughtswoman,
Quality Assurance Engineer, Through-life Support Engineer, etc., and
was lucky enough to be introduced to IT back in the days of floppy disks
and Lotus Symphony! Microsoft was just about to change the world
forever with its Windows applications however, and Karen was very fortunate to
find herself working alongside an inspirational external contractor both
willing and able to encourage / guide her passion for developing IT
skills through self-learning.
Having created
spreadsheets and databases for everything she could think of at home (from
personal finances to music libraries and gin rummy statistics), she
decided to look for any opportunities where she could use these newly
found skills and embark on a new career.
Karen therefore took a peak outside the shipyard gates to see what the world beyond
Barrow and nuclear
submarines looked like. She was lucky enough to come across (quite
accidentally, but that's another story) a couple of chaps willing
to take a chance on her and see if those self-taught skills could be
used to help their customers get more from their finance systems.
The rest as they say "is history", as this chance meeting
resulted in Karen joining Tate Bramald
Ltd in 1992 (acquired by Touchstone in 2004) and she spent the next twenty
years helping hundreds of customers as either Consultant, Business
Analyst, Project Manager, Director of Projects or Account Manager; all
with a focus on enhancing / optimising business processes and systems
(Finance, CRM, Procurement & BI).
Karen is still as passionate as ever about the
work she does; and her enthusiastic approach sees her continue working
with market leading partners such as Touchstone Spend Management and eTS
Dynamics to help their customers address business and/or system
challenges with a big smile!
You can contact Karen through any of the
organisations below ...
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