Dave Slade Email & Phone Number

June & I exited the rat race to take on our own business, in the form of a 13 room hotel, restaurant and locals pub.It's hard work, but so far so good!What I like is that you have to be an accountant, marketeer, DIY expert and IT Manager.....and be able to pull a pint - often at the same time!Always looking for ways to take advantage of further revenue.

• Involved in multiple collaboration tool projects based on Opentext and Vignette technology. Leading project from an IT perspective in partnership with business owners. Tools are deployed around a Sun enterprise portal.
• Previously, EMEA IT Lead on the deployment of a financial multi-application field reporting system throughout all European countries, for the use of financial analysts and Sales operation teams.
• Achieved: deployment of sales hierarchy maintenance tool in all European countries, working with business units on all aspects including training.
• Achieved: IT Lead in channel point-of-sale data collection project, in which European partners will securely submit their sales data to a database within the company for analysis and data-merge with other internal.
• Achieved: IT Lead on deployment of an ‘automated credit decisioning’ system, that will credit-analyse existing and potential customers to set credit limits and minimise total exposure worldwide. The system will also.
• Participate in the yearly Sun IT mentoring programme; helping younger colleagues through career development or personal crisis.

• European IS Manager reported to the Director, Supply Chain based in Kentucky, US.
• Achieved successful year 2000 remediation programme. Project had stalled. On arrival, re-organised Y2K team to ensure chemical production, IT and administrative systems would survive the date changeover. Project.
• Achieved SAP deployments with specially formed teams using in-house methodology. Four successful rollouts achieved using global SAP system in: UK, Cowie in Scotland, Barry in S. Wales, Rouen, France and Rotterdam.
• Resolved IT & admin issues concerning the acquisition of Blagden Manufactured Chemicals Plc.
• Responsible for capital equipment of over £1m and budgets of over £2m.
• Ran vendor evaluation project to decide future WAN strategy for Borden Europe; looked at both managed and unmanaged solutions from various Telco’s. Finally implemented Frame-relay solution from AT&T in all European.

• Set up initial Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) lab using HP-UX/DCE and performed testing of the Composer ODC product. Worked with Sterling software on product enhancements required for operational production use.
• Contracted Open Group consultant to perform study into required DCE cell architecture for the PO. Worked closely with consultant through study and later.
• Establishment of DCE standards and a team to form a ‘DCE centre of excellence’.
• Implemented pilot and production DCE infrastructure within the post office data centre.
• Implementation of support infrastructure for DCE, by liaising with post office technical support group to devise SLA’s, technical tools and training for Chesterfield based Post Office support personnel.
• Conducted marketing/liaison presentations/meetings to familiarise Post Office businesses (Parcel Force, Royal Mail) of the benefits of DCE and why their development projects should support it.

• Technical Advisor to the Technology Marketing Group of the TI Software Business Marketing Headquarters, concerning the Composer (Cool: Gen) CASE Tool.
• Dealt with customer or pre-sales support matters outside the scope of the customer support organisation, for various customers in UK & Europe.
• Achieved a port of the Composer run-time environment to Windows NT/DB2
• Instructed on new product functionality to internal consultants and external customers.

. Responsible for the support, security and recovery procedures of a small network comprising SUN SPARC, DEC VAX, Ultrix and WFWG/NT servers/workstations, in a development/software house environment.

Electronics Artificer with REME, repairing and supervising the repair of Fire Control and other electronic systems in all parts of the world. Worked in IT for last 5 years of service supporting Projects FLOS and UNICOM. Founder member of UNICOM project team in Worthy Down, Nr Winchester.

2.1, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: MBCS - Member of the British Computer Society

Electronics &Amp; Control Computing

As part of Artificer (EC) course in 1980