A Client Partner / Chief Technology Officer / Global Solution Director with over 20 years in the industry. Holding leadership level positions, winning and delivering sizeable transformation programmes across several large organisations in both the public and private sector. With extensive experience in stakeholder management and client engagement, Matt has unique insights as he has taken sizable programmes from bid through to closedown.He has held numerous senior management positions leading large teams and had multi-million pound budgetary responsibility. With the remit of growth, innovation, mentoring, staff development, shaping up an organisation, bringing costs and delivery under control, defining the strategic direction and making the hard decisions. He has been accountable for the overall architecture (including Business, Security, Integration and Technology), all technical risks, IT strategy, technology change and sub contractor engagement on a number of major engagements. Matt has extensive experience at engaging with senior / board level stakeholders with significant budgets. He often operates at a strategic level as a trusted advisor helping to shape opportunities, which he has the rare ability to balance against deliverability (and in some cases he has actually done the delivery). Matt is also a Fellow of the British Computer Society (BCS) the highest and most senior grade of professional membership. His high level of professional experience is evident from subsequently being awarded the title of Chartered Engineer (CEng) by the Engineering Council..Specialties: Strategic sales, business development, IT Leadership, Large Programmes, Complex Integration, Enterprise Architecture, Interim Management