An IT Automation, Systems Management and Transformation Specialist with more than 30 years experience. I Jointly founded Proxima Software Solutions Ltd to provide new and innovative systems management, service management, security management and datacenter automation solutions and consultancy services.Proxima selects the very best innovative new technologies that will help our customers improve service, reduce cost and generally both.Our Consultancy Services help you get the most out of your IT Infrastructure using a tried-and tested methodology that quickly enables us to get to the heart of process and technology issues that are limiting your capability to efficiently deliver the highest quality IT services.

Having been co-opted to the Board of Directors in 2021. I was elected to the Board in 2022.The aims of the Society are:Promoting the keeping of usable items out of landfill.Promoting and supporting local community groups working in the area of reuse.Empowering and supporting volunteers working for local Freegle groups.Informing and educating the public about environmental matters related to the reuse and recycling of unwanted usable goods.Promoting sustainable waste management practices.

Responsible for business development and enterprise systems management consulting for SXC. Since Joining I have helped build a portfolio of best-of-breed systems management and security management solutions. Our aim is to become a trusted advisor to out customers to help them acquire and derive great benefit from the most innovative systems management solutions available.

Tactica Partners help companies develop IT strategy and deliver transformation programmes using proven methods and hand-picked specialist people.

Systems management subject matter expert in Dell's Global IT Consulting Services team. I helped to define, build and deliver their systems management IT Simplification processI worked with major global corporations such as Lloyds Banking Group, Barclays, BP and Rolls Royce to streamline and simplify their IT enterprises, thereby reducing cost, improving service, and employing best practice.

Project Manager and Liason between the different organisations involved in a major Workload Automation conversion.

Managed a team of pre-sales software specialists responsible for IT Systems and Performance Management, Capacity Management, Enterprise Systems Management, Storage Management, Security Management, Identity Management, Business Service Management and Job Scheduling and Workload Automation.

As UK Technical Director at Boole & Babbage, I was responsible for Customer Support, Professional Services, and Pre-Sales technical teams. I was also responsible for managing our infrastructure. Boole & Babbage provided market leading Enterprise Systems Management and automation solutions to enhance systems and performance management and operational productivity.Our best of breed products included Control-M (job scheduling)Control-D (business information/output management) Control-SA (identity management) MAX/Enterprise and Command/Post (now BMC Patrol Enterprise Manager) for enterprise management and Mainview for IBM mainframe performance management and automation.We 'merged' with BMC in 1999

As Implementation Services Director I was responsible for overseeing the successful completion of enterprise implementations of MAXM's MAX/Enterprise enterprise systems management tool.This was a really great product and was used (and still is by some) by companies in the UK such as Cap Gemini, ICL/CFM, ITNet, AT&T, British Gas(Transco) Lloyds Bank, HSBC, Nat West Bank, Woolwich Bank, TSB Bank, Clerical Medical, Severn Trent Systems (now Aseriti), Direct Line, Securicor - SecurIT, Anite Networks, Bank of America, VISA and many more.In my time at MAXM, I worked as an implementation specialist and as a senior systems engineer in Pre-SalesThis was a truly market leading product and a great company to boot !

Candle (acquired by IBM) specialised in system and performance management and automation. The flagship Omegamon performance management range of products were the defacto standard for IBM mainframe performance management.I cut my teeth at Candle - working for the first time in a US owned sales organisation. I started in customer support and moved from there into pre-sales where I focused on systems management and automation and automated performance management. Progressing to senior systems engineer, I was manager of a team of software engineers involved in pre- and post-sales activities for the Eastern Region of the UK.Candle was a great company with a lot of great people. It taught me most of what I needed to know to be a success in a global software sales organisation.At Candle, I managed the automation team and generated strong product sales before promotion to regional technical manager • Delivered performance and automation solutions to a wide variety of blue-chip clients. • Responsible for a large number of enterprise automation projects in the UK, Scandinavia and Benelux • Developed and provided education courses and sales presentations to many customers and potential clients. • Managed and developed a team of Pre-Sales technicians.

Systems Programmer• COBOL and Assembler programmer.• Promoted to IMS development team and provided data analysis, dataflow design and DBA services.• Promoted to Systems Programmer (MVS/IMS).• Developed an online database editing system and ISC links to Lloyd’s Bank.