Aquila ATMS was set up specifically to deliver the £1.5bn Marshall contract to provide ATM at all UK Ministry of Defence operated airfields and flying ranges in the UK and overseas for a period of 22 years and is a Joint Venture (JV) owned by NATS and Thales.Headhunted initially to oversee the IT function but it became clear that my focus was required on the ERP Dynamics 365 project that had been recently started. Highlights so far:• Discovery mission to ascertain viability of SI• Restructuring of entire D365 ERP delivery team to meet company expectations• Introduce and champion a business transformation approach• Deliver a yearly attainable IT budget• Restructured IT team to meet evolving business requirements• Attained Cyber Essentials Plus accreditation providing a secure approach to IT delivery• Headed up the Risk and Opportunities register across all Aquila departments

Had the opportunity to take some time to project manage my house extension and to get married. This time was used incredibly productively to spend time with my family, travel the world and create an amazing space to work and live in

Rayner Surgical Limited (previously Rayner Intraocular Lenses Limited) designs and manufactures Intraocular lenses and associated instruments used in cataract surgery. With a reputation for quality and innovation, we are the only manufacturer of intraocular lenses in the UK.Based in Worthing, UK, Rayner exports its market-leading products to almost every country in the world, restoring sight to millions of people worldwide. Highlights at Rayner:• Managed all aspects of IT discussion in relation to a private equity takeover by CVC Capital Partners• Managed all IT M&A activity setting up or restructuring direct market offices in Germany, India, Portugal and Australia• Complete restructuring of all IT systems, servers, network, security and software• Ably lead a complex virtualisation of all systems to achieve a year-on-year uptime of 99%• Brought in Jira to manage all service desk issues and achieve a month on month satisfaction of 5/5• Turned the IT team into a high performing unit that the business relies on and trusts to deliver complex hardware and software solutions• Attended regular Executive meetings and Board meetings to proffer advice / updates• Restructured the global CRM and ERP to better serve users and the Executive team• Produced a detailed 5-year roadmap / strategy to assist with PE takeover

Head hunted for the position to provide a more cohesive global approach to the many Enterprise systems that reside in Bottomline. Highlights from the time here:- Rolling out of JIRA to better manage BAU tickets- Introduced KanBan boards to better manage the projects the EA team have- Provided visibility to stakeholders so they can track their projects in a live environment- Currently changing the CPQ system to better serve the sales and product teams- Restructuring Salesforce to be more in line with best practices

Bottomline Technologies provides collaborative payment, invoice and document automation solutions to corporations, financial institutions and banks around the world. Recently headhunted for this exciting new position taking over a national support team and managing all aspects of support delivery.- Management of a large national support team- Restructuring and refining the engagement process- Providing world class support to over 15,000 customers- Introduction of a new bespoke phone system- Restructuring of the Salesforce system to better meet support and customer needs- Providing statistical visibility of the support function to the business- Improved the case turnaround by 1000% in 12 months

Employed as a contract project manager to oversee several concurrent projects for Wiggle, these included:• Project to disclose the short fall of unlicensed or incorrectly licensed software in the Wiggle estate of equipment• Employed a team of contractors to change the entire laptop, server and PC estate with valid licensed software• Virtualised the entire Development teams server estate using Oracle VirtualBox• Project Managed the rollout of the Neolane suite of products so that Wiggle could communicate with their customers with more managed and targeted way via campaign and transactional emails

• Negotiated a large support / development contract with the CORGI group in April 2009• Worked closely with Software Teams to deliver complex, bespoke solutions• Senior Consultant to the client base providing problem resolution and IT advice / delivery• Instrumental in getting Key Systems to finalist level in the southern Inspire New Business of the Year• Provided all Project Management at a senior level for all company activities, often using Agile• Successfully developed key relationships with large clients and acted as consultant to many SMEs• Project Managed several Sharepoint Intranet sites including the CORGI group and maintained their Sharepoint website created whilst in employment at CORGI• Successfully split Siebel, exchange, MIS systems and other software and hardware systems for company resale

• Brand development, web site traffic growth, web site UI and advertising revenue. Developed brand strategy and statistics systems for Cloudnumbers• Managed all Google Analytics / SEO, we regularly sat above Vodafone One Net and other competitors• Instrumental in key relationships with large Telecoms partners• Provided support to CloudNumber’s customers for bespoke telecoms solutions• Intrinsic in finding buyers for the business in 2012 and ably led the sale of the business. This included managing the bidding and the eventual sale of the business

CORGI provided the gas registration scheme for the UK, as such the systems needed to keep the scheme operational were vast, from Siebel through to MOSS and a bank of over 40 servers and 200 field workers to support a dedicated and professional team were needed to deliver this solution.My role was to provide over all management of the development team and also to provide management to the whole IT department, one of the best and knowledgable IT departments I have ever had the pleasure of working with!Key Achievements:• Rapidly improved relations between IT, the company’s business units and stakeholders• Project managed a successful £2m Siebel rollout to time and budget, including 3rd party vendor management• Project Managed the CORGI Sharepoint website to improve administration of the 300k annual CORGI gas scheme renewals• Achieved total buy in from key stakeholders including the entire board for a strategic programme of IT work• Totally transformed the IT department into a dynamic and highly motivated unit • Introduced a unique and more effective way to manage stakeholders, staff, IT budgets and service delivery

Tasked with forging relationships with new customers in the US and Denmark, as well as 3rd party suppliers to create time critical project plans to achieve production of complex catalogues through the Stibo bespoke software.• Brought broad industry knowledge and expertise to the company to develop new business practices• Developed awareness of new technologies and implemented new solutions to streamline workflows

Shuttleworth Business Systems provides bespoke MIS systems for the printing, packaging and label printing industries. My role within this organisation were:• Understanding and interpreting Business Requirements into high level solutions;• Agreeing high level solutions via walkthroughs with various parties;• Identifying professional development needs and administering training in Access Accounts• Forged, maintained and developed relationships with major clients;• Administered speciality support and training of the whole MIS package, especially the bespoke finance package;• Liaised with customer management to ensure smooth project management;• Maintained a thorough understanding of individual business practises offering consultancy for large projects;• Instrumental in the successful implementation of I.T. solutions (software and hardware) – taking ownership of all training and development aspects of a complex finance package, remodelling parts of the finance system to customer requirements

Shore to Shore Europe LTD produces garment swing tickets for companies such as Dorothy Perkins, French Connection and Monsoon. My role here involved the following activities:• Overseeing the establishment and on-going administration of a Novell and Mac network;• Created a bespoke QuarkXpress / Xdata solution to automatically create print ready plates for the print factory• Liaising with worldwide partners in Hong Kong, USA, China and India to produce swing tickets;• Overseeing Systems Analysis of bespoke Fox Pro MIS system to ensure customer needs were met;• Assuming total buying power for all I.T. resources within the UK;• Following success in the above was requested to set up an entire PC network, including an Apple Macintosh network – encompassing all day-to-day maintenance activity and the planning of future I.T. requirements• Setup a successful print factory in Suffolk with full studio capabilities