Experience

Rexel UK Ltd

• United Kingdom
• Wholesale
• 700 & Above Employee

• M3 Operations Manager

  • Jan 2020 - Present



HUF UK Ltd

• Head of IT

  • May 2015 - Dec 2019

  Huf Hülsbeck & Fürst develops and produces mechanical and electronic key systems, lock sets, steering locks, remote control systems, telematic and tyre pressure monitoring systems for the automotive industry.* Management of local team of 7 people and working closely across a much larger global IT team* Management and maintenance of the ERP system (MFG/Pro) and implementing new applications * Worked closely with fellow senior management team members and global management in several countries* Dealing with high profile customers such as Mercedes and Jaguar Land Rover * Management of costs and budget requirements* ISO27001 plant Information Protection Officer and Joint Data protection Officer for GDPR* Analysis and design requirements for shop floor control systems controlling equipment that manufactures customer product* Overseeing all IT requirements from infrastructure needs to software development* Identified and introduced areas for cost savings across the UK plant of up to £70,000+ per year* Implemented new solutions and removed legacy systems to improve productivity and performance* Building a strong team focused on constantly improving the business processes and systems* Implementing new key solutions for internal and external business focused on both hardware and software solutions* Ensuring that a 24 hour production site continually operates with minimal disruption which could affect customer delivery* Delivering all software projects to budget and scheduled delivery dates



Trimble MEP UK and Middle East

• United Kingdom
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Business Analyst / Systems Designer

  • Oct 2012 - May 2015

  Amtech is the UK market leading manufacturer of specialist software for the building services industry.Primary responsibilities are the design of several of the key software applications provided: * Design of the various areas of the new Amtech XG Estimating Application which brings together functionality of several existing products into a new framework and single database structure. * Design of the new improvements to the Service Manager 2014 Application which introduced key new features required by customers and the industry in general * Design and Project Management of the financial SEPA integration into the Extreme and Enterprise Accounting Applications * Design of the Onsite Requisitions Application which allows the ordering of items between the "Luckins" pricing database and the Procurement applicationsAn AGILE approach is taken towards design and development and all areas of the business are involved.My main tasks have been the design of new or improved features in the applications and to liaise between product champions, customers, developers and SQA team to ensure that tasks are completed to requirements. I have also taken Project Lead on applications which has involved learning new management techniques and reporting standards/methods as per Amtech requirements.Amtech are currently investing in new and exciting products for the customer base and it is a great and rewarding challenge to be working for the company at this time.



Fairline Boats

• Senior Business Systems Analyst

  • Apr 2006 - Oct 2012

  Identify and work with all levels of the business to seek business systems improvement especially with regard to the Syteline ERP product. All valid projects would be designed, specified and developed with myself being lead of many of those projects and sole contact to users and suppliers of any none-internal source products/resource.Was key member of the Infor10 upgrade project in which I single handedly performed in depth data cleansing and converting of data from a Progress 4GL platform into an SQL Server environment. I Successfully migrated data into a new SQL Server application with over 40GB of business critical data. This was a major project moving from one database application into a complete new environment. I was involved and lead in most aspects of this project, from specifying the hardware requirements, the business and application structure as well as the underlying data and system application.Also key in introducing and maintaining the Cognos appplication and business intelligence throughout the company.



Smiths Aerospace

• Aviation & Aerospace
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Business Systems Administrator

  • Jun 2004 - Apr 2006

  Business System Administrator looking after Database Servers and developing software applications using Progress and Syteline.Also developed reports and cubes using Cognos Business Intelligence.Key at installing and upgrading the Business systems for Syteline and Progress. Business System Administrator looking after Database Servers and developing software applications using Progress and Syteline.Also developed reports and cubes using Cognos Business Intelligence.Key at installing and upgrading the Business systems for Syteline and Progress.



Sunrise Medical Ltd

• Senior Software Engineer

  • Nov 1999 - May 2004

  Key developer in Progress 4GL for MFG/PRO Key developer in Progress 4GL for MFG/PRO



QAD (Largotim)

• Software Engineer

  • 1995 - 1999