Mark Evans Mba Email & Phone Number

Birmingham, Gb

Dublin, Ie

Continuation of role prior to Tilia Homes• Actively contributed and participated in business development activities, winning and onboarding clients.• Acted as the company representative at conferences, industry events and networking events, establishing a reputation for thought leadership, and expanding the client base.• Developed effective pricing models, packages, training, and aligned marketing to revenue and profitability.• Established the internal IT infrastructure, tools and platforms to align service delivery.• Worked closely with clients to understand individual needs, developing bespoke solutions to protect client data and company assets. • Built and maintained strong relationships with the multi-industry client base, developing a deep knowledge of environments and trends to provide expert guidance on relevant legislative standards. • Led the internal remote recruitment of 12 technology and administrative professionals, embedding a high-performance, collaborative and knowledge-sharing culture. • Led consultations and workshops to educate clients on technology and tools for cybersecurity, data protection, risks and preventative measures aligned to industry and business requirements. Key Achievements: • Successfully delivered the business to profitability, with a turnover of £1.2m in year 2 and ongoing YoY revenue growth. • Developed a strong advisor and trainer reputation, securing assignments with large multinationals, the US State Department, the US Department of Homeland Security, the US Army, USAF and the UK Home Office.• Upon the decision to exit the business, coached and mentored the CIO deputy, ensuring a smooth handover and transition.

Provision of discrete cybersecurity and compliance services including DORA, GDPR and security strategy. A partnership of senior practitioners and strategists, driving the pragmatic implementation and scaling of protective practice into clients across world territories.Previous leadership in projects across the EU, USA, the Middle East and the Far East.

Solihull, Gb

Undertook an initial 3-month interim assignment, further extended to 12 months, to complete the IT migration project, with an MSP, following the divestiture of Tilla Homes from Kier Living. • Developed a comprehensive roadmap, outlining scope, times, required resources and milestones; identifying risks and challenges and developing robust mitigation approaches.• Worked closely with the Executive teams to align with broader business objectives, collaborating with broader functions to understand specific requirements and provide clear communication and transition coordination. • Oversaw the separation of IT systems, networks, and applications, ensuring the accuracy and safe migration of associated data and adherence to all relevant data protection and company policies. • Created enhanced data governance policies to maintain integrity and security as part of the transition and the future state.• Led a cross-functional team of professionals, setting priorities, monitoring progress, and ensuring tight control of budgets and timelines. Key Achievements: • Undertook an end-to-end MSP service review, creating a detailed play book and strategy for service improvement areas.• Created a business case with executive approval on the delivery of a 3-year IT strategy to meet the business needs. • Secured a £multi-hundred-thousand cost savings on service provision.• Designed and delivered an effective IT training programme for the IT division, strengthening the team's capabilities and aiding in tangible career development. • An active participant in the NIST CSF assessment, attaining high test scores. • Created a seamless transition to the newly promoted Head of IT.

Pro bono director of a small (30 stores) retail company, supporting Katharine House Hospice.

Joined the start-up cybersecurity and data protection consultancy in its initial stages, driving the development of the company's mission and values with a strong focus on the delivery of top-tier services to B2B clients. • Initially managed all company administration, including company name registration, Companies House creation.• Actively contributed and participated in business development activities, winning and onboarding clients.• Acted as the company representative at conferences, industry events and networking events, establishing a reputation for thought leadership, and expanding the client base.• Developed effective pricing models, packages, training, and aligned marketing to revenue and profitability.• Established the internal IT infrastructure, tools and platforms to align service delivery.• Worked closely with clients to understand individual needs, developing bespoke solutions to protect client data and company assets. • Built and maintained strong relationships with the multi-industry client base, developing a deep knowledge of environments and trends to provide expert guidance on relevant legislative standards. • Led the internal remote recruitment of 12 technology and administrative professionals, embedding a high-performance, collaborative and knowledge-sharing culture. • Led consultations and workshops to educate clients on technology and tools for cybersecurity, data protection, risks and preventative measures aligned to industry and business requirements. Key Achievements: • Successfully delivered the business to profitability, with a turnover of £1.2m in year 2 and ongoing YoY revenue growth. • Developed a strong advisor and trainer reputation, securing assignments with large multinationals, the US State Department, the US Department of Homeland Security, the US Army, USAF and the UK Home Office.• Upon the decision to exit the business, coached and mentored the CIO deputy, ensuring a smooth handover and transition.

Oo

Undertook accountability for the IT strategy, processes, protocols, procedures, and controls of a major multinational with over 120 global offices. • Led the innovation agenda, identifying technologies, software, apps and tools that enhanced organisational benefits and alignment with long-term goals.• Created strong business continuity, designing robust disaster recovery and backup procedures. • Managed and mentored an IT and technology team, fostering a culture of continuous learning and professional development and overseeing training programmes.• As a Board member, lent insight into technology initiatives, trends and investment projects to align with business needs. • Held technology OPEX budget, using strong commercial controls, cost-effective delivery, and strong ROI, and led negotiations with vendors/service providers to secure favourable outcomes. Key Achievements: • Directed the business as an early adopter of cloud technologies (one of the first in Europe), scaling the organisation in a substantial global transformation of the 9000-strong company through Azure for business operations and AWS for CAD. • Attained a 50% cost reduction in the IT budget from £10m to £5m, realigning the IT function as a profit centre.• Oversaw the company's migration into SaaS and PaaS platforms, delivering significant business value and reduced operational downtime. • Led the rollout of a tablet-based data collection tool for remote workers with immersive BI tools. • Attained zero breaches of cybersecurity measures, embedding enhanced and stringent best security controls and frameworks. • Delivered a mobilisation and digitisation of the workforce project, creating a remote staff environment, winning the Ovum Publishing "Building the Modern Workplace” award. • Recognised for industry contributions, attaining a Top 100 UK CIO placement by CIO magazine. • Won “IT Team of the Year” by IT Pro magazine.

Gb

Following the turmoil of a company coming out of administration, I novated contracts to previous suppliers and used the opportunity to provide better services for a reduced cost, for example, increasing WAN speed by 3200% at 50% of previous cost. The infrastructure was right-sized by removing server equipment no longer needed on a fast WAN and savings returned to the business. I commissioned and developed a new datacenter for the business; the centralization of services meant that regional IT was no longer required, saving accommodation costs in London which were creating a considerable overhead on IT operations. • Built the team from three members remaining after period of administration• Redesigned and re-defined the infrastructure, bringing current best practice and cost-savings to the new business• Standardised equipment and built processes to increase service efficiency underpinned by ITIL.• Team size: 22• Budget: £4m

Taking over a global team with the UK element being told that their roles would be imminently redundant, I held the team together to provide BAU support to the business and project managed the relocation of three data centres (UK, USA and Australia). The moves were completed within six weeks with no operational downtime to the business. My global responsibility was for all operations and networking to 17 offices around the world with 4,000 employees.• Held together a team under a promise of redundancy to ensure BAU for the shipping line.• Relocated UK, US and Aus datacenters with zero downtime• Improved service delivery to the business in a follow-the-sun service environment• Team size: 110• Budget: £110m

Issy-Les-Moulineaux, Île-De-France, Fr

Managing, hiring and releasing contract staff to provide on-site IT support to Orange employees across national sites. Maintaining and managing SLAs along with deploying new technologies such as SAP.

Master Of Laws, Law

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Creativity And Entrepreneurship

B.Sc(Hons), Computer Information Systems