Eric Baines Email & Phone Number

Tenterden

I enjoyed work as a part-time postman, covering the Tenterden area.If 'golf is a good walk spoiled', being a postman is a daily 12 mile walk put to good purpose - and like having a gym membership and a personal trainer and being paid for it. A welcome change from a sedentary career in front of a computer screen!

Kent Fire And Rescue Service HQ, Tovil, Maidstone, Kent ME15 6XB

• I was responsible for the strategic direction and delivery of ICT and all aspects of Information Management within Kent Fire and Rescue Service (KFRS). Major items delivered while in this role include: -
• Contributed to the corporate ‘Making Kent Safer’ strategy with the ‘Fighting Fire with Fact’ IS strategy, aimed at using information to decrease demand. Established and led the (now mainstreamed) corporate business.
• Founding and influential member of the best practice, award-winning KentConnects and KPSN ICT partnerships.
• Established and managed an integrated ITIL based IT function delivering 98% Helpdesk satisfaction.
• Delivered information and security governance, gaining certified compliance against the UK government’s information assurance standard in 2015.
• As Communications and Control Best Value review lead, I proposed a multi-agency emergency services Control as the best way forward and most likely to succeed. Initially locating the Fire Standby Control in Kent.

Kent Police Headquarters, Sutton Rd, Maidstone ME15 9BZ

With Kent Police, I worked as Strategic Planning Manager to help bring about the changes from the Police and Magistrates’ Courts Act 1994 including bringing about a business-like approach to their organization's planning and resource allocation

BT Research Laboratories, Martlesham Heath, Ipswich, IP5 3RE

I began my career at the world renowned BT Research Laboratories, where I started as a systems and software developer and then moved into the role of project and programme manager. These positions gave me the foundation of technical understanding and the experience of managing teams and working in partnership with others to deliver projects to time, cost.

Education record

S Level: Maths (1), Physics (1) A Level: Maths (A), Physics (A), Chemistry (A)

Ma, Natural Sciences

St Catharine's College, Natural Sciences (Theoretical Physics)