James Lever Email & Phone Number

England, United Kingdom

New York, NY, US

Solution consultancy | sustainability | human cadence (performance) with AI

London, England, GB

Founded in 2021, Weeva's mission was to make sustainability technology available to all travel businesses to enable them to learn, measure, meet and exceed their sustainable goals to help them achieve net zero. Unfortunately Weeva closed at the end of July/Aug 2024.

Zen3 specialises in IT consulting, managed business process outsourcing and software services. Zen3 is a global organisation, with specialists in digital transformation, content management, curation, analytics, travel technology, big data, machine learning and mobile applications.zen3's technology centre is based in Hyderabad, India, we also have offices.

Brighton, GB

• Responsible initially for code and service delivery, Promoted to CTO as team increased to own technical delivery. Accountable for all aspects of Application and infrastructure management, product strategy,software team.
• Lead refactoring of the application stack to deliver turnover of £200M for over 500k passengers by providing technical architectural leadership and management of the software team.
• Migrated hosting from a capex to an opex model, later in 2016 migrated away from Dell VMware Cloud to AWS Cloud to provide improved scalability and more efficient DR solutions.
• Promoted to Board Director in March 2016 in recognition of company growth and responsibility.
• Presented product vision and strategies to align our services, created roadmaps to demonstrate how this could be realised working with department heads. Active engagement with strategic management team.
• Supported the launch of our own and our customer products at conferences and trade events.

• Initially a self-funded startup, subsequently sold to CAN group of businesses. Responsible for all aspects of IT management and systems development, including IT infrastructure,software team development, technical.
• Appointed as IT & Development Manager to introduce enhanced technology, underpinning business growth
• Product development for online celebrity presence including fan based iphone app.
• Defined and researched a customised ERP System to handle end to end retail distribution.Technical consultation to travel clients, product development and delivery of SkiSchool mobile app.

• Responsible IT management and leadership across two sites (UK and Spain), delivering mission-critical IT services, infrastructure, applications and support for a leading travel sector business within the UK
• Appointed to senior IT leadership role to develop an in-house online booking engine, supporting growth
• Leadership, management and motivation of a multi-functional team of IT, technical and support personnel
• Designed and implemented airline seat yield based pricing for charter flights across business operations.Reported directly to strategic-level business management teams, advising on technology and IT/IS issues

• Responsible for all aspects of IT leadership and business development, pitching for major projects,conducting systems analysis (UML) & client-facing product delivery, using PRINCE2-based methods
• Leadership, management and motivation of a multi-functional team of IT, technical & client support staff
• Product development, analysis, development, implementation & resource deployment management
• Developed and introduced ISO 9001-compliant standards for IT/IS maintenance processes within Nexus

• I formed IBUK Web services to provide affordable solutions to the travel industry providing booking journeys for tour operators, school travel, ski and golfing travel companies.Responsible for all aspects of strategic.
• Instrumental in growth of the business from 2 employees to a team of 10 providing outsourced IT and transactional web technology to commercial and travel segments.
• Provided IT management for All Leisure Group and Reservations systems for Accommodation Line.Definition and execution of IT strategies and technology roadmaps, aligning IT with core business direction

Msc, Digital Transformation

Mba Essentials

Bsc, Computer Science

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