Chris Church Email & Phone Number

Oxford, GB

Responsible for the strategic interface between the RED business and the IT & Digital group for the purpose of business technology strategy development, solution discovery, service management, risk management, and relationship management.

Responsible for providing relationship management capability across HS2 IT, acting as the single point of contact working with stakeholders across HS2 to understand the operational and developmental needs of the business.

Responsible for establishment, implementation and management of Privacy Office activities in BD Europe. Objective to deliver key privacy capabilities, remediation, and compliance of the company to the GDPR.

Responsible for Strategic IT Partnering across three European Medical Technology Businesses and across UK&I country organisation. Objective to build strategic stakeholder relationships, propose & deliver IT portfolio.

Responsible for Leadership of IS Business Relationship Management function across Thales UK (8,000+ staff). Objective to work with VP and CXX executive stakeholders to understand & align business need and IS strategy.

Responsible for all operational and project aspects of IS with Thales businesses across multiple domain sectors including defence, optronics, transportation, commercial, and corporate services (3,500 staff).

Managed all IT and IS aspects across Thales D3S division UK employing 4,000 staff, comprising Rail Signalling, Transport, Simulation, Security, Consultancy and Critical IS Business Units.

Responsible for leading design & implementation of major IT programmes for Thales UK (10,000+ staff), including design and development of £10m Data Centre and Service Centre, and £4m design build and migration to multi network campus site.

Lead for IT management, including strategies, systems, infrastructure & support across division of 4 companies.

Delivery of all aspects of IT management, including development of strategies for IT infrastructure, delivery of IT & IS improvements for the business (1300+ staff)

Three months as acting IT Manager, Thales Training and Simulation Inc, Tulsa Oklahoma.

Responsible for strategy, architecture and administration of global Internet and Intranet site.

Worked on control tools for RACE/NT based aircraft simulator systems. Simulator operation, source control, etc controlled from browser using ASP technology.

Worked on a wide range of projects for development of new and existing isolation technology products.

Bachelor Of Engineering (Beng), Computer Aided Engineering

Studied Expert En Conduite Et Ingéniérie De Développement Des Logiciels Industriel, Equivalent To Msc Level In Industrial Software Development