Wayne Cornish Email & Phone Number

Ipswich, England, Gb

Employed as Digital Change Manager for a large housing and care provider with over 700 employees. Prior to employment, I had worked with the organisation as an external consultant for over 18 years. This involves helping develop the short, medium and long term ICT strategies for the organisation as well as heading the internal software development team.Responsibilities:• Act as a lead for change throughout the organisation and engage with employees in all areas.• Review the IT systems and business processes to ensure they meet the current and future needs and ambitions of the organisation on an on-going basis.• Liaise with the directors, board and stakeholders on any areas that could be improved and suggest possible solutions.• Overall management of the Digital Change team, budget and projects.• Acting as lead developer for the internal software development team, primarily developing Microsoft Dynamics platform solutions and integration of disperate systems and data. Achievements: • Implementation of a framework to instigate and evaluate suggestions for change across the organisation.• Implementation of a Wide Area Network encompassing over 40 sites to allow seamless system integration with regards to communication, document storage and performance monitoring.• Implementation of a new compliance system to ensure 4000+ houses owned by the organisation are fully compliant with regards to gas, electricity, boilers etc.• Implementation of a new Health & Safety system for all 700 staff and 7500 tenants to be able to report, manage and monitor issues.• Extensive devlopment and integration of a CRM and business information system based on Microsoft Dynamics and the Microsoft Dataverse.• Integration of Microsoft Dynamics/Dataverse with the current housing management system (Civica Cx) via APIs as well as direct back-end SQL integration.

Woodbridge, Suffolk, Gb

Employed as Head of IT / Group IT Manager for a large food producer with over 500 employees and a turnover in excess of £120M. I had previously worked alongside the company in an external advisory role for 10 years prior to employment and helped the organisation manage the very large and fast growth of the ICT systems due to expansion and acquisition.Responsibilities: Overall responsibility of the group IT and communications systems. ICT strategy relating to commercial, manufacturing and transport systems. EDI communication and implementation with customers and suppliers in both the UK and Europe. System and supplier performance evaluation and review and process evaluation and improvement. Ensuring full traceability from farm to shelf of all products.Achievements: • Implemented an ICT strategy that allowed rapid growth from 30 users to several hundred users across multiple locations.• Successfully integrated disparate systems due to large scale acquisitions, allowing the business to maintain efficiency while integrating the new organisations into the business.• Designed and implemented full integration between the main office/accounting systems and the production and transport systems.• Redesign, rationalisation and implementation of a new EDI system including a new bespoke system that allowed full integration with Turners’ transport systems.• Designed and implemented a new system to allow end production weight to be fed back into the farm planning system to allow greater control of input costs and therefore an increase in net profit.

Ipswich, Suffolk, Gb

Successfully started and grew an IT and communications consultancy business. The company made a net profit every year and the balance sheet grew throughout the period until I sold the business.Responsibilities: Managing the overall business including employees, sales, high-end IT consultancy including scoping, planning and implementing network, server, storage and security systems as well as designing and implementing disaster recovery systems.Achievements: • Successfully won business from medium/large customers including: RMA Sandhurst (Interserve FM), Orwell Housing Association, Suffolk Housing Association, Gressingham Foods, Muntons plc & Bolton Aerospace.• Migrated several major customers from legacy systems to virtualised environments, localised cloud systems and thin client architectures.• Designed, wrote and successfully implemented a middleware system for a major manufacturer to allow disparate accounting/ordering and manufacturing systems to communicate across multiple manufacturing and distribution sites.• Increased the balance sheet of the business year-on-year over the 7 years.

Employed as a senior IT consultant delivering solutions to medium sized businesses.Achievements and responsibilities: • Pre-sales and sales consultancy on IT infrastructure and security. • Project scoping and management of new systems and system migrations.• Infrastructure implementation of networks, servers, storage and security. • Implementation of multi-site data and VoIP solutions.• Supporting the other consultants on difficult projects or problems including high-end network and system troubleshooting.

Employed as both an internal ICT manager and an external advisor to commercial companies and local government partners.Achievements and responsibilities: • Managing the internal ICT systems and those of partner organisations across multiple sites.• Maintaining the Oracle database platform and WAN/Internet access for internal/external users. • Implemented internal e-mail (MS-Mail) then implemented Internet Access and external e-mail.• Organised the ICT infrastructure for a new £12 million building housing multiple tenants. • Heavily involved with the DTI millennium bug project.

Employed as a senior IT consultant dealing with large companies such as Willis (Willis Corroon & WF Corroon), Buck Consultants & Bank of America.Achievements and responsibilities: • Pre-sales and sales consultancy on IT infrastructure and security. • Project scoping and management of new systems and system migrations.• Infrastructure implementation of networks, servers, storage and security including very high availability 24/7 infrastructure for call centres. • Product evaluation and testing.• Managing the other consultants on a day to day basis.

Self-employed IT consultant dealing with large companies such as Eastern Electricity (now part of E.ON) and Chiroscience (now part of UCB Celltech).Achievements and responsibilities: • Project scoping and management of new systems and system migrations.• Infrastructure implementation of networks, servers, storage and security. • High-end network and system troubleshooting.