David Taylor Email & Phone Number

London Area, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

Providing cloud IT advisory services to clients as a GLG council member

London, United Kingdom

Surrey

• IT transformation and advisory projects, within mostly construction, private sector and professional services organisations. As I have extensive experience of integrating newly acquired businesses and leading large.
• As Head of Professional Services, I was responsible for the turnaround of a team of IT trainers and consultants specialising in IT applications for the Architecture, engineering and construction sector. I hadfull P & L.
• Building ‘as is’ and ‘desired state’ positions for my Gulf based Design consultancy client allowed helped me create a 3-year technology strategy utilising the majority of their legacy applications.
• Remote working strategy for multi-site, multi region professional services company allowing staff to securely access Information from the corporate network using a combination of Active Directory, Forefront Unified.

London, England, United Kingdom

Following the acquisition of Scott Wilson, I was retained by URS as Group IT Director and additionally directed the $10m IT integration programme which was delivered under budget and ahead of schedule. URS Corp was a fully-integrated engineering, construction and technical services organisation which grew exponentially over a 10-year period through.

Following the appointment of the former CXO of Costain to the Non-Exec board of Scott Wilson, I was head hunted to deliver a programme of transformation to an organisation which had grown rapidly following a number of acquisitions. Following 2 promotions within the first 6 months I was given responsibility for the provision of business-critical IT services.

I joined Costain as a trainer tasked with rolling out a collaboration tool. My remit grew over 6 months culminating in my promotion to Head of IT. Responsible for all aspects of IT management, including systems, infrastructure, applications and the deployment of an effective project mobilisation strategy across the group to support business change..