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~ Benjamin Franklin

About Doldrum Bay Consulting

Doldrum Bay Consulting specialise in project and risk management related services, including business continuity, root cause analysis and crisis management.

With over 40 years of experience, David Foley of Doldrum Bay Consulting can provide a variety of consultancy services. These include:

  • Designing and delivering consultancy and training around project management, risk management, the Maturity Model for Lean Teams (MM4LT), and business productivity. Current and previous client experience includes designing and/or successfully delivering training for:
    • Priority Management International Training
    • Fujitsu (Ireland, UK, France, Germany, Scandinavia and North America)
    • Aer Lingus
    • An Garda Síochána (Irish Police Force)
    • An Post (Irish Post Office)
    • eBay & PayPal
    • Pioneer Investments
    • SIAC
  • Providing support and guidance for project management competence development. Current and previous client experience includes consultancy for:
    • Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (GSOC)
    • Aer Lingus
    • Airtricity
    • An Garda Síochána (Irish Police Force)
    • Lombard Ireland
    • AIB
    • Enterprise Ireland
  • Designing and delivering bespoke business continuity, root cause analysis and crisis management training.
  • Providing support and guidance for project management methodology selection
  • Designing and setting up a project or programme management office so that organisations can better manage projects enabling them to gain better control of critical business activities .
  • Providing support and personalised training and coaching for the following Microsoft office products:
    • Outlook (in association with Priority Management International Training)
    • OneNote (in association with Priority Management International Training)
    • Teams (in association with Priority Management International Training)
    • Word
    • Excel
    • PowerPoint
    • Project

Doldrum Bay Consulting Limited is registered in Ireland no. 604881, Registered Office Earlscliffe, Ceanchor Road, Baily, Howth, Co. Dublin.

About David Foley

Profile & Experience Summary

David has over 35 years experience in Governance, Risk and Compliance, Projects & Programmes and Quality Management and training. His experience is across a variety of industries and business sectors and covers a number of technologies and disciplines.

He previously worked for Fujitsu in Ireland (formerly DMR Consulting and Amdahl) for almost 22 years, having worked prior to that as a Project & Programme Manager for IBM in the UK for almost ten years.

With his broad experience, David has provided project and programme management consultancy to many clients and has helped a number of them to develop their own project and programme approaches and methodologies. He has also helped clients to implement project and programme offices, along with project portfolio management, and has provided audit services to enable clients to assess their project management maturity against a number of Project Management Maturity Models.

David has provided detailed Projects and Programmes and Quality Management training for clients. He has developed a series of Project & Programme Management courses that cover the complete project life cycle, from initiation and planning, through executing and controlling to closing. These training events include courses that compliment both the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK®)*, as defined by the Project Management Institute (PMI®)*, and also the PRINCE2®** methodology.

David is a member of the Project Management Institute and has contributed to the writing of "A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) since 2004. His most recent contributions are published in the sixth edition. 

David has an MBA (Technology Management) from the Open University.

* "PMI" is a service and trademark and "PMBOK" is a trademark of the Project Management Institute, Inc. which is registered in the United States and other nations

** "PRINCE2" is a (registered) Trade Mark of AXELOS Limited. All rights reserved.