Strategic and performance-focused IT professional with 20 years leading IT departments in major UK organisations. Data protection and cyber security consultant and coach. - Enables organisations to define and acquire technical capabilities that deliver real business outcomes. - Puts a priority on building relationships, and encouraging organisational ownership of IT. - Uses coaching and mentoring to lift the performance of the whole team. Expertise:- Designing and implementing IT strategies for not-for-profit organisations of around 1000 staff. - Managing IT budgets up to £8.5m, teams up to 65.- Specialism in Applications development and delivery - web and digital, CRM, resource management. - Developing teams and practices as well as technology. - Developing IT teams to get the best from the resources you have already. - Procurement and contract development of outsourced and supplier-delivered systems and services. - Creating Project Management Offices that work with minimum “paper work”.- Programme leadership - managing multiple projects and work streams- Restructuring IT when required to ensure the right balance of leaders, operations and change. - Communicating IT plans and ambitions to all levels from the board down. - Experienced at making best practice frameworks such ITIL, Prince and MSP work. - Data Protection and GDPR compliance- Security frameworks such as PCI, Cyber Essentials and SPF.