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United Kingdom

Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

Driving the adoption of cloud, hosting and managed services with new and existing customers, using in-depth product and market knowledge in order to interpret business requirements and understand “pain-points”, acting as a trusted advisor, providing practical advice and delivering solutions designed to solve a particular problem, increase efficiency and bring added value.

Knutsford

Appointed as Programme Lead, delivering a high profile transformation project to migrate client-facing hosting services from multiple, legacy data centres to a newly provisioned, next generation private cloud platform. The role included responsibility for developing the comprehensive external strategic communications plan focused on engaging existing customers, along with the implementation of all associated external engagement activities designed to deliver a successful outcome with minimal disruption.

Knutsford

Advanced are amongst the UK’s largest IT companies and a leading supplier of IT solutions for clients in sectors as diverse as Legal (Solicitors & Barristers Chambers), Health & Care, Charities, Education, Financial Services, Transport and Sports & Entertainment. My role as Head of Operations for the Advanced Hosting Services division incorporates the entire end-to-end process, responsible for delivery of all cloud solution professional service & support operations, providing input and guidance from solution inception, through delivery and implementation, culminating in the handover to operational support.

Knutsford

CSH (Computer Software Holdings), provided a large portfolio of back-office solutions to UK professional services firms in areas such as Legal, Accounting & Commercial. As Head of Operations, I was responsible for the day-to-day delivery and support of all cloud service solutions. The business saw organic growth year on year by min. 40%, delivering leading edge SaaS and fully managed outsourced desktop services to clients, delivered from our UK data centres.

Knutsford

As Head of Technical Services within IRIS, aligned with the Legal Services division, I was responsible for the delivery of all on premise IT solutions as well as fully managed outsourced hosted / cloud services for solicitors, barristers chambers and coroners. Responsible for the day-to-day management of a team of over 30 staff, including technical consultants, field service engineers, project managers, procurement and technical support, with responsibility for the management of the entire technical services team, supplemented with third party suppliers and tasked with improving sales, profitability and delivery standards, with contributions to marketing initiatives and campaigns.

Grantham

Mountain Software were the leading developer of software solutions and services to the UK legal marketplace. As market leader within the legal sector, the solutions included Case & Practice Management software for solicitors firms, Case and diary management software for Barristers chambers and case management solutions for Coroners. In addition to the development of legal software solutions, the business also provided a fully managed IT service as part of its portfolio. My responsibility was for the delivery of all on premise IT equipment (Servers, PCs, Printers, Networking), as well as the full management of local network services, including break-fix, maintenance and outsourced services.

Manchester

From the point of entry to the barristers chambers market, to when the business was bought by Mountain Software in 2002, Meridian Law achieved huge success in a relatively short time, with a meteoric rise from unknown provider to market leader in less than 4 years. Specialising in the development of case & diary management solutions complemented by a range of fully outsourced managed IT services exclusive to the bar, the business quickly achieved phenomenal success and radically modernised IT services within chambers in England & Wales. Many of the systems that were deployed at the time are still in operation today. As Technical Director, I was responsible for the development of software tools, processes and procedures that enabled the migration of clients systems and data from the incumbent software provider in place at the time to the Meridian Law systems. Leading the Technical Services team, I was responsible for the implementation of all on premise IT systems, introducing a full range of managed services, which allowed chambers to outsource their entire IT requirements to Meridian.

Stockport

Meridian Information Systems were the market leader in the development of software and services for the transport market, focusing on bus and coach operators. The systems, developed in COBOL, and operating on a range of systems including Bull proprietary operating systems, UNIX systems, and latterly, Windows NT, modernised the IT services available to the transport industry. My role as Technical Manager was responsible for the build, deployment and ongoing support of hardware, server operating systems, networking services and communications.

Stockport, United Kingdom

Managed a team of developers, working on software solutions for transport and travel operators, responsible for the creation of code, system design, work scheduling, system implementation, training & documentation

Stockport, United Kingdom