Dave Thornton Email & Phone Number

Sheffield, England, United Kingdom

Leeds, England, United Kingdom

Retired from I.T. after a mere 42+ years (since school) and now looking after GDPR and other areas relating to compliance and governance at Q-Park in the UK and Ireland

Leeds, United Kingdom

Q-Park is an internationally renowned company running off street quality car parking across 10 countries in Western and Northern Europe. We fulfil the need for quality parking solutions at strategic locations, primarily through Multi Storey facilities in major cities.We have almost 100 Car Parks throughout the UK and Ireland serving over 13 million customers, with 60,000 spaces in the UK, including over 5,000 spaces at marquee sites throughout Westminster.Technology is at the heart of our business with a reliance on speed, uptime, and innovation.Currently, as the Privacy officer for the UK and Ireland, I am working with colleagues from the wider European group on setting the ground rules to ensure Q-Park remains compliant with the GDPR legislation.

Manchester, United Kingdom

Responsible for all Applications across Europe for the $20bn Li & Fung Group. Was primarily focussed on migrating numerous Legacy applications specifically across to Oracles E1 Suite. Worked closely with Hong Kong Corporate HQ and Group CIO in executing locally, the global strategy for all businesses, for all Divisions, that are based in Europe (over $2.5bn turnover). Responsible for co-ordinating/reporting all IT activity in the geographical region stretching from the UK to Turkey, and all points between. Reports: 5 Senior IT managers, 1 Applications Manager, 20 Analysts and Developers in the UK, Germany and Turkey. Worked closely with 3rd party Software Consultants and development teams in Asia.http://www.lfeuropeandlfamericas.com/

Sheffield, United Kingdom

Restructured & reduced the IT team so that it could best adapt to the move from Legacy to Corporate systems, while at the same time maintaining & improving service and support.Migrated the legacy Warehouse Management System to Exceed 400 along with a strong reliance on RDT technology.Worked closely with LF Logistics own offshore WMS development team in Malaysia.Implemented sophisticated automated conveyor Store, & E-commerce solution, supplying 120+ stores and E-comm via shared inventory. Introduced Click & Collect and Nominated Day delivery.Implemented a biometric Time and Attendance system, linked to the payroll systems.Rolled out Truckstops Transport Management System & EPOD for the Transport division.Replaced the legacy AS400 Customs Bond systems with Ricardo from Grosvenor. Introduced ITIL based SupportWorks Service Desk system. Replaced existing reporting with Oracle Hyperion/Brio, including dashboards.Launched the LF logistics UK website where working with and external Web providor, designed much of the “look” and collated the content which became the template for the worldwide web site. Technology in use: SQL Server, iSeries, DB2, Dot.net, Linux, JavaScript, VB script, Oracle Hyperion, Atlas EDI, MPLS. Reports: I.T.: 1 Infrastructure Manager, 1 Business Systems Manager, 3 Systems Analysts and 4 IT Technicians. D.C.: 2 Operations managers and a total staff of circa 120 (400 @ peak).For the final 18 months I had the dual role of Head of IT, and Head of the 390,000 sq ft Sheffield DC.The UK IT team provided 24/7 cover for 364 days a year.

Wakefield And Shirebrook

Implemented a sophisticated RDT Warehousing system leading to 50% Headcount reduction.Executed a £5m, 2 year project to standardise the various ERP systems throughout Europe. Set up a single consolidated Data Centre and removed 5 local data centres in Spain, France, Germany, Holland and Italy. Re-motivated an inherited dispirited and unfocused IT Systems team, creating a credible, approachable, productive, and respected department. Provided visibility for the 1st time of the key numbers that enabled us to re-shape the business, including reducing Inventory by 70% whilst at the same time raising Customer Service levels. Implemented a Telesales/CRM solution (Saleslogix) bringing together the entire customer facing areas of the business, reducing duplication and arming both the inside and outside sales teams, with up to date intelligence on their customers and market. Successfully and seamlessly completed the IT element of the high risk consolidation of the 4 Continental Europe warehouses into a single third Party logistics site in Holland. Implemented a common Chart of Accounts to 10 companies across Europe while at the same time ensuring all country specific legal reporting requirements were met. Introduced hardware/software standards in order to improve security, efficiency, and reduce Total Cost of Ownership. Implemented a Frame Relay Network to 11 sites and later replaced this with a low cost, flexible, resilient MPLS solution.Introduced the CorVu Business Intelligence tool across Europe to consolidate reporting.Implemented the Demand Solutions Requirements Planning product to improve Supply chain efficiency from both our own Factories and external suppliers. Reports:UK: 1 Project leader, 1 Systems Support manager, 3 Analyst programmers, 2 Infrastructure + contractors. EUROPE: 1 IT Mgr + 3 developers (Germany), 1 IT Mgr (Holland).

Sheffield

After starting as an Analyst/Programmer ultimately was responsible for all IT activities for the multi-site UK manufacturing businesses & headed the European Development team at the Sheffield European Data Centre. Sole European representative on the Stanley Works Global IT project team challenged to streamline systems throughout the corporation and given personal responsibility for the ERP consolidation required in the 17 separate European businesses, across all 11 Stanley Divisions. Key Achievements:Played a major role in the set up of the European IT Shared Service Centre on a single IBM AS/400, and the decommissioning of numerous existing computer systems and software across Europe, providing the platform for existing and newly acquired businesses to achieve the new Stanley business model of 1, not many, European businesses. Through my Development team successfully rolled out both bespoke, and package (SSA BPCS, JBA INFOR), solutions to large and small businesses in the UK, Holland, France, Germany, Italy and Eastern Europe. Often projects were in parallel and complex.Sole Systems member of both the UK and European cross functional teams to re-design logistics for the European business and its 47 Manufacturing, Distribution and Sales sites.Implemented EDI to a point where 50% of UK business came in through that medium. Our use of EDI was market leading at the time. Led the systems Integration of both external acquisitions, and sister companies, both in the UK and on the continent, onto standard Applications A vibrant, varied and challenging period where the skills of the respected Sheffield IT Team, led by myself, moved from supporting the UK Manufacturing business, to a group operating at a pan European, multi site, multi platform, multi ERP, level with 000’s of users. Reports: UK 1 Project manager, 3 Project Leaders, 9 Analyst programmers & up to 5 concurrent Contractors.Europe 1 IT manager & 3 developers in France plus 1 IT manager in Italy.

Sheffield, United Kingdom

Worked with Cobol, RPGII, RPGIII, Assembler, and Honeywell proprietry language (Screenwrite)