Tony Gruber

Managing Director @ Logistex

Country

United Kingdom

City

Milton Keynes

Industry

Logistics & Supply Chain

Skill

Software Project Management, Automation, Web Services, SQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Team Leadership, C++, Change Management, Linux, Java, Software Development, C#, C, Engineering, Unix, Integration, ASP.NET, Testing, MySQL, Agile Methodologies

Experience

Managing Director

Logistex

2021-5 - Present · 5 yrs 5 mos

Kettering, England, United Kingdom

Proud to be leading a great team at employee owned Logistex Ltd - experts in warehouse automation.

Director - Systems Engineering

Logistex

2018-2 - 2021-5 · 3 yrs 4 mos

Kettering

Actively seeking to improve the software development and delivery processes. The aim is to improve software quality, reduce the delivery timescales and make developing software a more satisfying experience for our Engineers.

Head of Systems

Logistex

2017-1 - 2018-1 · 1 yr 1 mo

Kettering

Responsible for the software team that develops solutions for manual and integrated systems, core product and bespoke developments.

Business Stream Manager - Reflex

Logistex

2015-1 - 2017-1 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Kettering

Responsible for delivering Reflex systems - standard product warehouse control systems, with minimal bespoke software, for manual operations.

Hotline Services & Support Manager

Logistex

2012-3 - 2015-1 · 2 yrs 11 mos

Responsible for ensuring that customer's Warehouse Control Systems are performing as expected. Driving continuous improvement to reduce the number of incidents reported, and to reduce the incident resolution time.

Senior Systems Architect

Logistex

2003-7 - 2012-2 · 8 yrs 8 mos

Architect for Warehouse Control Systems for Distribution Centres in the UK & Europe. Responsible for requirements analysis, design, leading the implementation team, on site acceptance testing and early life support. Customers included Inditex (Zara DC Zaragoza Spain, Bershka DC Tordera Spain) Arco DC Hull, Footlocker DC Heijen Holland.

Software Team Leader

Ericsson

1996-4 - 2003-6 · 7 yrs 3 mos

Working on software for Access products under the great Phil Healy at New Century Park in Coventry. I started on C-MUX+ and C-MUX2, with some top engineers - Jit Sangha, Paul Heywood, Ajinder Gawera and Tony Grosvenor, then some involvement with the Genoa office and their MAT-15 product, where I got to know an excellent Italian engineer - Massimilliano Piastra. The swan song was Deep Fibre - a collaborative project with the Dallas and Frankfurt offices to deliver cable TV, internet access & telephony via a fibre optic cable to within 100M of the user.

Senior Design Engineer

Marconi Avionics

1981-9 - 1996-6 · 14 yrs 10 mos

From Apprentice to Senior Engineer.

Education

Hult Ashridge Executive Education

Creating strategy in a disrupted world

2018 - 2018

The Open University

2014 - 2017 · 3 yrs

Management Perspectives and Practice, Dynamics of Strategy, Corporate Finance, Strategic HR Management, Sustainable Creative Management, Management Beyond the Mainstream & Making a Difference: The Management Initiative. This MBA has an emphasis on the application of theory to real world management issues, which makes it really relevant for practicing managers.