Martin Howitt
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James Irwin
Martin's competence goes brutal, deep, and wide. At the council, I look to him for objective views to balance my operational need to deliver with convergence to the strategic path. I barely scratch the surface of his talent. His strongly held principles should not be confused with ego.
Mark B.
While needing to take a long term holistic view of IT through his role as an Enterprise Architect, Martin also demonstrated his skills at being able to implement tactical solutions to satisfy short term organisational needs within the wider IT strategy. Martin was extremely hard working and a complete team player who consistently delivered beyond the standards needed from his role.
Simon Bailey
I have worked with Martin on a number of projects and his knowledge of the security aspects associated with the internet is second to none. He has always shown great willingness to investigate new and innovative ways of addressing problems and always challenges existing thinking constructively.
James Irwin
Martin's competence goes brutal, deep, and wide. At the council, I look to him for objective views to balance my operational need to deliver with convergence to the strategic path. I barely scratch the surface of his talent. His strongly held principles should not be confused with ego.
Mark B.
While needing to take a long term holistic view of IT through his role as an Enterprise Architect, Martin also demonstrated his skills at being able to implement tactical solutions to satisfy short term organisational needs within the wider IT strategy. Martin was extremely hard working and a complete team player who consistently delivered beyond the standards needed from his role.
Simon Bailey
I have worked with Martin on a number of projects and his knowledge of the security aspects associated with the internet is second to none. He has always shown great willingness to investigate new and innovative ways of addressing problems and always challenges existing thinking constructively.
James Irwin
Martin's competence goes brutal, deep, and wide. At the council, I look to him for objective views to balance my operational need to deliver with convergence to the strategic path. I barely scratch the surface of his talent. His strongly held principles should not be confused with ego.
Mark B.
While needing to take a long term holistic view of IT through his role as an Enterprise Architect, Martin also demonstrated his skills at being able to implement tactical solutions to satisfy short term organisational needs within the wider IT strategy. Martin was extremely hard working and a complete team player who consistently delivered beyond the standards needed from his role.
Simon Bailey
I have worked with Martin on a number of projects and his knowledge of the security aspects associated with the internet is second to none. He has always shown great willingness to investigate new and innovative ways of addressing problems and always challenges existing thinking constructively.
James Irwin
Martin's competence goes brutal, deep, and wide. At the council, I look to him for objective views to balance my operational need to deliver with convergence to the strategic path. I barely scratch the surface of his talent. His strongly held principles should not be confused with ego.
Mark B.
While needing to take a long term holistic view of IT through his role as an Enterprise Architect, Martin also demonstrated his skills at being able to implement tactical solutions to satisfy short term organisational needs within the wider IT strategy. Martin was extremely hard working and a complete team player who consistently delivered beyond the standards needed from his role.
Simon Bailey
I have worked with Martin on a number of projects and his knowledge of the security aspects associated with the internet is second to none. He has always shown great willingness to investigate new and innovative ways of addressing problems and always challenges existing thinking constructively.
Credentials
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ITIL Service Management foundation
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Experience
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Placecube
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United Kingdom
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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Product Owner
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Jan 2023 - Present
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The Data Place
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United Kingdom
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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Co-founder and Technology Lead
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Jun 2017 - Present
The Data Place is a social enterprise focused on providing accessible, inexpensive, and open data infrastructure. The Data Place is a social enterprise focused on providing accessible, inexpensive, and open data infrastructure.
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ODI Devon
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Exeter, United Kingdom
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Co Founder
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Oct 2014 - Present
ODI Devon is a community organisation devoted to connecting, equipping, and inspiring people in Devon to innovate with data. We support public, private, social enterprise and civic sector organisations to open more data for collaboration with others, and to get the best from the data they already have, ODI Devon is a community organisation devoted to connecting, equipping, and inspiring people in Devon to innovate with data. We support public, private, social enterprise and civic sector organisations to open more data for collaboration with others, and to get the best from the data they already have,
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Bristol City Council
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United Kingdom
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Government Administration
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700 & Above Employee
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Data and Technology Architecture Manager
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Nov 2016 - Nov 2017
Managed the council's data and technology architecture practice - a small specialised team, with particular focus on smart city initiatives such as Bristol Operations Centre, Bristol is Open, and the Replicate project.
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Senior Information Systems & Technology Architect
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Mar 2015 - Oct 2016
Lead a small team of information systems and data architects, providing roadmaps and built the council's first attempts at an ITSM service portfolio
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Devon County Council
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United Kingdom
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Government Administration
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700 & Above Employee
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ICT Strategy and Partnerships Lead Officer
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Jun 2011 - Mar 2015
Responsible for a team of strategy officers seeking to align business strategy with ICT programmes in order to maximise the benefits returned by the technical components of individual business projects and help services gain maximum benefit from existing corporate platforms. The ultimate goal is to maximise the return on technology spend by the entire enterprise from a portfolio perspective.
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Enterprise Architect
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Feb 2008 - Jul 2011
Worked with the business to develop an ICT Strategy and Business Applications Strategies as part of a 7-strong EA team (used Gartner EA framework). Pioneered the use of business modelling in engagements with business stakeholders and was lead technical consultant on the Authority's ISO27001 security programme
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IT Infrastructure technical consultant
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Sep 2003 - Jan 2008
Technical support and consulting for all the Council's web, internet, firewall and Linux infrastructure components; support for AIX systems; project consulting for a wide variety of software procurement projects; lead officer for the server virtualization project
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Desktop Systems/R&D consultant
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Jan 2000 - Aug 2003
Support and maintenance of managed desktop infrastructure (approx 5000 desktops running Windows NT 4 and XP); packaging and scripting of desktop applications; consultancy for software procurement and implementation projects; developed standards for Citrix servers
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Network/2nd line support analyst
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Oct 1990 - Dec 1999
All-round 2nd line support for network (token-ring, ethernet, frame relay, ATM), servers (Novell, NT), IBM Mainframe communications (3270 gateways), and Desktop (Windows 3.11-NT4 inclusive).
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Education
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1986 - 1989
University of Warwick
BSc (Hons), Physical Electronics -
2007 - 2009
Exeter College
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Business
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