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Credentials
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Leadership Tips, Tactics and Advice
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Agile Development Practices
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Enterprise Agile: Changing Your Culture
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Executive Leadership
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Strategic Partnerships
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AWS Essentials
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Sales Prospecting
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Making Data Driven Decisions
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COBOL Programming with VSCode
IBMMar, 2021- Apr, 2026 -
Entrepreneurship: Finding and Testing Your Business Idea
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Executive Presence on Video Conference Calls
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Solving Business Problems
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Strategic Planning Foundations
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Certified Scrum Master
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ITIL Foundation
APM GroupDec, 2007- Apr, 2026 -
Supervision and Appraisal
Durham County CouncilNov, 2005- Apr, 2026 -
ISEB Software Testing
BCS, The Chartered Institute for ITJun, 2004- Apr, 2026
Experience
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The Nine Software Company
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Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
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Managing Director
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Aug 2022 - Present
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Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
Nine is a Software Development House based in the North-East of England delivering enterprise software and mobile application design and development alongside systems integration to global clients.
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Itology Technical Solutions Ltd
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Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
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Co-Founder
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Nov 2020 - Aug 2022
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Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
Co-founder and Director. Company set up, client and capability acquisition, financial management.
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Opencast Software
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Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
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Managing Director
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Sep 2013 - Nov 2020
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Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
Driving the growth and expansion and building a vibrant sociocultural system which embraces learning and empowerment and harnesses the talent of everyone within it while genuinely caring for, and looking after, everyone as individuals. Unbroken year on year revenue growth.
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TH_NK
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Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
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Service Delivery Manager
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Aug 2011 - Sep 2013
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Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
Transformed support services with major clients such as TNS, Formica, Nando's, Northumbrian Water, Anglian Water, Newcastle Hospitals and others via implementation of standard ITIL aligned processes.
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Director Business Development
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Mar 2007 - Aug 2011
Grew the major client account within Capital Markets business unit in excess of 200 people globally. Ensuring high standards of customer facing service and providing real value to our clients in helping them meet their personal and corporate goals.Managed the major account transition from SSSLtd into Capgemini FS GBU including staffing and contract novation with clients.
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Systems Implementation & Training Team Leader
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Sep 2005 - Mar 2007
Pivotal role in ensuring roll-out of government's Integrated Children's System in Durham County Council and associated agencies. Delivered on-time as one of the first (and few) local authorities in the country to do so.
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Strategic Systems Solutions
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Newcastle
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Senior Consultant
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Jul 1997 - Sep 2005
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Newcastle
Variety of financial services projects including Treasury and Listed Derivatives spanning COBOL CICS DB2, ADABAS Natural, Natural Construct, JCL.
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Team Leader
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1994 - 1997
Mainframe developer, business analyst and project lead in financial services product development. DL1, DB2, COBOL, SQL, JCL, CICS
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Education
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1990 - 1994University of Sunderland
BA(Hons), Business Computing
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