Line manager, guide and mentor for a team of application development professionals to successfully develop and operationally support enterprise scale student information systems, aligning development process with departmental standards. Creating and maintaining university wide relationships with stakeholders at all levels.- Leading, managing and monitoring the performance of all staff in the team. - Providing project management and technical lead expertise.- Anticipating future needs and ensuring that expert guidance is provided.- Managing the functionality of system upgrades.

Elected County CouncillorVice Chairman Hampshire Pension Fund Panel and Board - £5 billion LGPS scheme (2012 - present.)Campaigning for election; twice successful.Representing the electorate at County and regularly reporting back to households and parish councils.Taking up individual cases and engaging local government officials to ensure problems are addressed and resolved. Chairing, in the absence of the Chairman, meetings of Hampshire Pension Fund Panel and Board.Representing the Fund at meeting of Chairmen of LGPS schemes in South East England.Representing the Fund at LGPS events and conferences.Council Nominated Trustee, Whitchurch Silk Mill Trust.Working with the Trustees to ensure good governance and to secure a strong financial future in the face of reducing public funding.Assistant to Executive Member for Adult Services, Hampshire County Council (2011 - 2013 )Member of Pension Fund Panel and Culture, Community (2009 - present) Rural Affairs Select Commitee (2009 - 2013)

County Council Appointed Director

Reporting to the Senior Project Manager IT and then to the Head of Centre of Excellence.Analysing and owning SAP automated regression testing project, engaging with outsource supplier, arranging and leading initial analysis workshops and solution propsal presentations. Submitting and project proposal and getting funding for in-depth functional requirements analysis.Gathering business use data volumes and calculating projected requirements for SAP FS-CD; feeding results into SAP Quicksizer to establish current and required data and performance capacity for major new CRM project phase.Leading on two projects to replace bank validation software and BACS payment software for use across the organisation.Analysing business requirements to unblock stalled change projects.

Managing a developer team; assigning and monitoring the team’s tasks, and reviewing performance.Ensuring that developers are delivering quality solutions and working to budgets and planned timescales.

based at NU Healthcare , Eastleigh, Hants