I am responsible for ongoing ICT operations and transformational change. I lead a department that covers the full range of technology services comprising teams that deliver; an ICT Service Desk, Infrastructure & Technical Services and Business Systems applications. My experience has centred on modernising the organisation from using old technology to fully embracing cloud and innovative computing. My work has maximised organisation efficiencies by enabling staff and partners to be highly mobile and effective.• Delivered and implemented a corporate technology strategy consisting of - New IT Governance - Office 365 Full Roll Out - Microsoft Azure - Cyber Security & PSN - New LAN and WAN networks - Technology Advisory Board Setting Standards & Principles - Cultural & Behavioural Changes o Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity - ITIL Service Management - Anytime, Anywhere, Any Place Mobile Computing - Digitising Services - Data Centre Migration - Intranet and SharePoint• Member of Senior Management Team and Transformation Board Member• Budget controller for revenue £2.5million p.a. and capital projects of over £4m• Responsible for the Yorkshire wide travel on street/online journey prediction system• De-risked, implemented cloud services & removed single person dependencies• Representative on the Yorkshire & Humber Public Services Network

I joined Nacro, the criminal justice charity, at a time when it was downsizing following changes of government funding. The ICT department was significantly affected with the departure of several key managers causing a period of organisation risk and instability.- Recruited new ICT management team- Wrote and obtained approval for a three year ICT Strategy- Project Executive ISO/IEC 27001 in information security- £2m p.a. revenue budget controller- Responsible for technology services delivered to 1300+ staff in over 100 locations, with staff working in prisons, outreach centres and high security locations

DIRECTOR OF BUSINESS SYSTEMS, March 2009 – October 2010BUSINESS SYSTEMS MANAGER, September 2005 - February 2009NOCN, one of the UK’s leading education Awarding Bodies, was the headquarters for 11 independent awarding organisations that delivered vocational qualifications; its federal structure collectively formed a national company but with a complex arrangement of single and regional governance and management structures- Responsibility for all aspects of technology- Managed the service delivery of national awarding solution- Recruited / managed a technology team, oversaw key vendor contracts- Gained experience of working with central government & agencies

I was the lead ICT member of staff within an autonomous section of the University. I wrote and delivered a technology strategy, and managed operations

COMPUTER PROGRAMMER, ANALYST, SENIOR ANALYSTSeptember 1988 – September 2002, Sheffield• Developed and deployed Enterprise Resource Planning solutions• Gained in depth knowledge of computer programming and business analysis• Led the implementations of large integrated systems in medium sized manufacturing organisations.