James Valentine
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Carrie Foster - Chartered FCIPD
It's easy to focus on the magician like ability that James has when it comes to technology. His responsiveness demonstrated in meetings where members of the board express a desire "it would great if [add technical fix needed]" and before the sentence is finished it's done. 4iforum literally would not exist without the technical genius. But James is so much more than the tech whizz. I love co-hosting dialogue with James because I can guarantee he will ask THAT lighting the blue touch paper question that infuses the group with exceptional energy and insight. His experience and body of knowledge outside of the technical is phenomenal and I always learn something new speaking to James. James is a linchpin for the 4iforum team, his insightful reflection adding refinement to ideation. In my experience James is the man with his hand on the tiller, gently steering our team interactions to keep us on course. An absolute joy to work with.
Shane Marsh
Couldn't recommend James more highly. He has worked on a couple of projects now with our large Wordpress installation. In our latest project he helped us plan the migration of two hundred websites from Cloudflare to Route53/Cloudfront CDN. He fortified and optimised our entire AWS infrastructure which included writing custom tools using Ansible to do the heavy lifting. Since then our performance and traffic has increased and our setup has been very stable. James is world of knowledge and we have found his experience to be invaluable. I look forward to working with him again on our next project.
Justin Cross
James is very professional and has a pragmatic "can do" attitude. James has a thorough understanding of software technologies and is diligent in understanding a client's requirements. James ensures that work is appropriately prioritised and that solutions are built with reliability and performance in mind. James is a strong advocate of Open Source technologies.
Carrie Foster - Chartered FCIPD
It's easy to focus on the magician like ability that James has when it comes to technology. His responsiveness demonstrated in meetings where members of the board express a desire "it would great if [add technical fix needed]" and before the sentence is finished it's done. 4iforum literally would not exist without the technical genius. But James is so much more than the tech whizz. I love co-hosting dialogue with James because I can guarantee he will ask THAT lighting the blue touch paper question that infuses the group with exceptional energy and insight. His experience and body of knowledge outside of the technical is phenomenal and I always learn something new speaking to James. James is a linchpin for the 4iforum team, his insightful reflection adding refinement to ideation. In my experience James is the man with his hand on the tiller, gently steering our team interactions to keep us on course. An absolute joy to work with.
Shane Marsh
Couldn't recommend James more highly. He has worked on a couple of projects now with our large Wordpress installation. In our latest project he helped us plan the migration of two hundred websites from Cloudflare to Route53/Cloudfront CDN. He fortified and optimised our entire AWS infrastructure which included writing custom tools using Ansible to do the heavy lifting. Since then our performance and traffic has increased and our setup has been very stable. James is world of knowledge and we have found his experience to be invaluable. I look forward to working with him again on our next project.
Justin Cross
James is very professional and has a pragmatic "can do" attitude. James has a thorough understanding of software technologies and is diligent in understanding a client's requirements. James ensures that work is appropriately prioritised and that solutions are built with reliability and performance in mind. James is a strong advocate of Open Source technologies.
Carrie Foster - Chartered FCIPD
It's easy to focus on the magician like ability that James has when it comes to technology. His responsiveness demonstrated in meetings where members of the board express a desire "it would great if [add technical fix needed]" and before the sentence is finished it's done. 4iforum literally would not exist without the technical genius. But James is so much more than the tech whizz. I love co-hosting dialogue with James because I can guarantee he will ask THAT lighting the blue touch paper question that infuses the group with exceptional energy and insight. His experience and body of knowledge outside of the technical is phenomenal and I always learn something new speaking to James. James is a linchpin for the 4iforum team, his insightful reflection adding refinement to ideation. In my experience James is the man with his hand on the tiller, gently steering our team interactions to keep us on course. An absolute joy to work with.
Shane Marsh
Couldn't recommend James more highly. He has worked on a couple of projects now with our large Wordpress installation. In our latest project he helped us plan the migration of two hundred websites from Cloudflare to Route53/Cloudfront CDN. He fortified and optimised our entire AWS infrastructure which included writing custom tools using Ansible to do the heavy lifting. Since then our performance and traffic has increased and our setup has been very stable. James is world of knowledge and we have found his experience to be invaluable. I look forward to working with him again on our next project.
Justin Cross
James is very professional and has a pragmatic "can do" attitude. James has a thorough understanding of software technologies and is diligent in understanding a client's requirements. James ensures that work is appropriately prioritised and that solutions are built with reliability and performance in mind. James is a strong advocate of Open Source technologies.
Carrie Foster - Chartered FCIPD
It's easy to focus on the magician like ability that James has when it comes to technology. His responsiveness demonstrated in meetings where members of the board express a desire "it would great if [add technical fix needed]" and before the sentence is finished it's done. 4iforum literally would not exist without the technical genius. But James is so much more than the tech whizz. I love co-hosting dialogue with James because I can guarantee he will ask THAT lighting the blue touch paper question that infuses the group with exceptional energy and insight. His experience and body of knowledge outside of the technical is phenomenal and I always learn something new speaking to James. James is a linchpin for the 4iforum team, his insightful reflection adding refinement to ideation. In my experience James is the man with his hand on the tiller, gently steering our team interactions to keep us on course. An absolute joy to work with.
Shane Marsh
Couldn't recommend James more highly. He has worked on a couple of projects now with our large Wordpress installation. In our latest project he helped us plan the migration of two hundred websites from Cloudflare to Route53/Cloudfront CDN. He fortified and optimised our entire AWS infrastructure which included writing custom tools using Ansible to do the heavy lifting. Since then our performance and traffic has increased and our setup has been very stable. James is world of knowledge and we have found his experience to be invaluable. I look forward to working with him again on our next project.
Justin Cross
James is very professional and has a pragmatic "can do" attitude. James has a thorough understanding of software technologies and is diligent in understanding a client's requirements. James ensures that work is appropriately prioritised and that solutions are built with reliability and performance in mind. James is a strong advocate of Open Source technologies.
Experience
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Solstrand Industries Limited
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United Kingdom
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Manufacturing
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1 - 100 Employee
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Director
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Jun 2023 - Present
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Kohera Limited
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United Kingdom
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Information Technology & Services
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Owner and Founder
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Jun 2004 - Present
Through Kohera I work with multidisciplinary teams in the UK and overseas to design, develop and deploy complex business systems involving both cloud infrastructure and on prem resources. If appropriate to the solutions architecture we propose, we licence a Business Management System of my own design which supports a wide range of business processes and is currently in use in the legal, training and contractor management fields. I have sharp technical ability combined with intuition into requirements and strategy and can lead and provide ops support for a team with diverse technical specialisms. Show less
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University of Winchester
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United Kingdom
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Visiting Executive at the Business School
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Apr 2022 - Present
Engaged as a visiting expert to teach on the Help to Grow: Management programme for leaders running SMEs and to mentor some of those leaders on their growth challenges. I also advise the Business School on technology-related matters to assist in their delivery of quality programmes. Engaged as a visiting expert to teach on the Help to Grow: Management programme for leaders running SMEs and to mentor some of those leaders on their growth challenges. I also advise the Business School on technology-related matters to assist in their delivery of quality programmes.
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Brandon Cross Technologies
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United Kingdom
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Business Consulting and Services
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Senior Consultant
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Jun 2018 - Present
In the Brandon Cross team I provide systems analysis, requirements specification and dev team lead for new projects. In the Brandon Cross team I provide systems analysis, requirements specification and dev team lead for new projects.
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4iforum
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United Kingdom
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Business Consulting and Services
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Co-Founder
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Apr 2020 - Nov 2021
The world is changing. The disruption of 2020 highlighted how outdated ways of thinking and relying on past strategies will not move us forward. 4iforum enables business leaders to tackle emerging and enduring business challenges through uncompromising, impactful and innovating solutions. Industry leaders facilitate effective online dialogue, to surface assumptions and reveal alternatives. This leads to the removal of barriers and is a necessary change in mindset to identify solutions that breakthrough known and initially unknown challenges. Business leaders need the 4iforum approach to move them forward in unexpected times. Show less
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Self-employed
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Real Estate
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1 - 100 Employee
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Freelance Business Technology Consultant
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Jan 2004 - Jun 2004
Freelancer, IT support and website development, project management. Freelancer, IT support and website development, project management.
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Education
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2002 - 2005
University of Exeter
LLB, Law -
1996 - 2002
Sir William Borlase's Grammar School
A-Levels, Computing, German, Business Studies, Music
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