Brendan Tate Email & Phone Number

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Cleata provides SaaS solutions for managing and collaborating on datasets.

Sheffield, United Kingdom

Provision of IT Services to SME using outsourcing to keep costs down for clients.Past projects include:iPhone Development (iBetCalc - Top 15 sports app UK)App Development (Rotherham Council)Web Development (Various SME)Specialist Recruitment for projects (Labview Developer - University of Sheffield)Consultancy services

Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Responsible for the Implementation of an integrated Electronic Corporate Asset Management system (TF.Cloud) including:Re-engineering the approach to be focused on business led requirements with delivery based on an agile approach. Managing external suppliers to ensure delivery to agreed timescales and budgets.Data cleansing of the corporate asset register to create a single master record set.Delivery of a mobile working condition surveying solution, based on industry standards and legislative requirements.Delivery of a corporate wide Facilities Management system from performing helpdesk functions, to integration with Finance and issuing of work orders to 200+ mobile devices and new users of technology.Migration of Project and Investment services onto the platform.Delivery of management information reports and implementation of controls to monitor KPIs against agreed SLAs.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Responsible for reviewing the proposed ICT architecture and proposing changes in relation to the closure of an existing service and the implementation of a new Council service.Delivery of the new proposed ICT architecture comprising of:Data analysis and cleansing of over 250,000 records.BPMN process re-development of the new service.Leading the development of a requirements specification for a new case management solution.Development of a database to support a pilot phase of the new service.Implementation of a new case management solution and controls, to ensure the new business processes are followed in a standardised manner.Development of audit and management information reports to track progress of service delivery against agreed KPIs and SLAs.Strategy development for the proposed integration with new, corporate solutions and the decommissioning of legacy solutions.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Responsible for the development of a detailed Enterprise Content Management requirements specification for the purpose of inclusion in the Council's ICT re-procurement exercise.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Responsible for the development of an E-Discovery strategy for the purpose of categorising and cleansing the Council's Electronic unstructured information assets.Development of a detailed requirements specification based on the strategy.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Managing the transition of the previous PSN circuit to the new circuit.Organising UAT for PSN services pre and post migration.Arranging for an annual IT Healthcheck and completion of Annex B Code of Connection documentation.Liasing with external ICT providers to resolve issues identified within the ICT Healthcheck to ensure re-accreditation within the timescales.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Responsible for the delivery of a phase 2 project of the previously implemented Mobile Device Management platform, deliverables included:Facilitate access from a mobile device to the Council's Intranet and other resources.Provide the provision of a whitelisted application portal.Project Management of the implementation of a new MDM upgrade containing additional features.Associated guidance and training for end users to utilise new features.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Responsible for leading workshops between key stakeholders in both the NHS and the Council in relation to the move towards inter-agency working.Development of as-is and to-be Business Interaction Models (BIM) based on the workshop outputs to outline identified issues in relation to how they affect the stakeholders involved and what the future state should look like.Delivery of a report detailing findings and risks/issues that would affect the delivery of the to-be model based on the factors raised at the workshops.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Responsible for managing the business change for a corporate wide rollout of a Microsoft Lync (now Skype for Business) pilot to all 12,000 members of staff, leading to a live rollout across multiple council services.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Contracted to implement a corporate wide rollout of a mobile device management solution based on Airwatch.Implementation of configuration policies based on industry best practice and associated PSN zero tolerance guidelines and CESG principles.Change Management to retrospectively implement required policies on over a 1000 devices in a mixed mobile platform estate, supporting staff of all levels to understand the need for said changes and increased security, developing guidance and providing training to the ICT service desk.Development of a Mobile Device strategy for the Council, based on a Corporately Owned, Personally Enabled approach, incorporated into the Council's ICT & Digital Transformation strategy.Management of PSN accreditation of the Council, arranging IT Healthcheck, remedial actions and necessary changes in policies.

Edinburgh

Responsible for the development of a strategic business case for the implementation of an Enterprise Content Management for corporate wide rollout.

Part of the Enterprise Architecture Function delivering ICT Assurance of large scale Projects and Programmes and defining element of ICT strategy for Sheffield City Council. Past projects include:Working as part of the technical & governance teams delivering EDRM using 2E2 Wisdom.Designing the strategy & governance for EDRM use corporately including development of the Corporate File Plan, Security Permissions and ACL's for 2E2 Wisdom and SharePoint 2010.Categorisation of 350,000 Documents and migrating documents from network shares to the EDRMS using AI.DataPoint.Designing the strategy & governance for SharePoint 2010 as a collaboration platform corporately to 8,000 users.SharePoint Workflow using K2 Blackpearl.Information Management evangelist throughout business change projects to help the wider council understand the concepts of document and records management. Information Management Expert for Schools including site visits, developing Information Management Policies & Information Asset Audits.Amongst other things also responsible for Business Functional Requirements gathering, Solution Design & TDA, Process modelling using MEGA Modelling tool to BPMN standards and working towards an EA standards framework based on TOGAF.Strategic Application Ownership ensuring changes to systems under my remit relate to the application roadmap.Business Requirement Specification & Functional / Non Functional requirements documentation including BPR, UML Use Case designs for projects & large transformational programmes.Ensure the council achieves value for money from its corporate system platform.Achieving cost savings for the council by business problem solving utilising innovative reuse of corporate systems, system consolidation, streamlined business processes & adoption of best practice information management. Board membership for several projects & programmes to facilitate IT related changes & impact assessments.

Responsible for ICT Techincal Assurance and Support for Street Force.Provide a technical steer in meetings, support day to day running of the service and develop ICT Training.Develop systems and processes to improve the service.MS SQL Database Administration, Crystal Reporting & Business Objects Enterprise Administration.

Managing and Maintaining the Windows Enterprise.IT Support for 1000+ users.Crystal Reports DevelopmentLine Management of 3 Staff.