Peter Millar
TECHNICAL CONSULTANT
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Seasoned Pre-Sales and Solutions Consultant with over 20 years of combined experience in IT support and education technology across EMEA and APAC regions. Skilled in delivering high-impact software and hardware demonstrations, managing multi-vendor integrations, and supporting large-scale education transformation initiatives. Proven expertise in stakeholder engagement, RFX responses, and instructional content development.
Adept at aligning technical solutions with business needs to drive customer value and accelerate adoption. Recognized for strong communication skills, hands-on problem-solving, and cross-functional collaboration.
Experience
TECHNICAL CONSULTANT - Wacebo UK
(2025-08)
- Technical lead for the UK and USA markets
- Training for internal and external stakeholders
- Complied training assets using Scribe and Camtasia software
- Beta testing of new and upcoming products
- Installation and demonstrations of Wacebo products
- Partner training and support
- Experience of national and international Edtech events.
PRE-SALES TECHNICAL CONSULTANT - NetDragon Websoft
(2024-01 - 2025-06)
- Africa, ensuring integration of interactive flat panels, AI-driven teaching aids, and offline-first solutions.
- Configured and supported a full-scale Demonstration Lab at Saudi MOE HQ, deploying Google Admin Console, Edmesh MDM, and Promethean Panels to showcase future-ready classrooms.
- Produced and edited 30+ instructional and training videos using Adobe AI and AI Scribe to support remote partner enablement across multiple languages.
- Coordinated third-party vendor technology integration and managed project documentation, translation, testing, and product evaluations pre-deployment.
- Led pre-sales testing and user acceptance activities for multi-vendor packages, aligning with ministry-specific educational goals in limited-connectivity regions.
SOLUTIONS CONSULTANT (WMS DIVISION) - Accruent
(2022-01 - 2024-01)
- Conducted 100+ discovery sessions with stakeholders to assess challenges and demonstrate how Accruent's software (EMS, WMS) addressed operational inefficiencies.
- Delivered over 60 tailored software demos (remote and onsite) and responded to 30+ RFX/RFPs using RFPIO, directly supporting account growth across multiple sectors.
- Collaborated with Account Executives to create persuasive proposals and pilot use cases, contributing to 35% YoY growth in regional software adoption.
- Utilized Salesforce, Seismic, and SharePoint to manage sales pipeline, demo assets, and post-meeting documentation across cross-functional Teams
- Led Consensus platform adoption within the EMEA team, increasing video-driven pre-sales engagement by 45%.
PRE-SALES TECHNICAL CONSULTANT - Promethean World
(2016-10 - 2022-10)
- Acted as technical lead across EMEA and APAC, delivering 150+ live and virtual demos of Promethean solutions, increasing pipeline conversion by 40%.
- Presented at 10+ international conferences and partner events, including sessions in Australia and Europe, promoting integration of Promethean's interactive classroom tools.
- Authored multiple white papers for AV Magazine on digital transformation in education, influencing procurement strategies of education authorities.
- Created and led accreditation programs for channel partners, training over 200 resellers on hardware/software integration and IT onboarding.
- Provided live support at 5 consecutive BETT events and led deployment of Android OS integration and MDM strategies across multiple school networks.
IT SERVICES COORDINATOR - The City of Liverpool College Group
(2008-03 - 2016-10)
- Managed a £1M+ IT infrastructure upgrade that expanded system capacity from 600 to 1,200 clients and deployed 100+ networked printers and peripherals.
- Supervised a team of 4 technicians responsible for daily IT support, achieving 98% SLA compliance and 20% year-over-year reduction in helpdesk tickets.
- Deployed over 350 iMacs using Mac OSX Server and image rollout tools within a Windows environment, boosting classroom tech reliability.
- Led integration of mobile device platforms (iOS, Android, Windows) and managed a Hyper-V failover cluster for virtual server uptime.
- Maintained and enhanced network infrastructure, leveraging AD, Group Policy, Ghost, WDS, LAN/WAN to ensure seamless academic operations.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Environmental Science - University of Hertfordshire
Computer Hardware/Software Training - Alpha Training The Great Demo Training in Amsterdam