Experience

smartcrowds - improve together

• United Kingdom
• Software Development

• CEO

  • Sep 2017 - Present

  smartcrowds is Innovation Management & Organisational Improvement software delivered in the Cloud. Through Creative Innovation and Action Management, smartcrowds helps organisations access invaluable Crowd Intelligence, focus on their imperatives and accelerate growth. smartcrowds is radically changing the way organisations manage change and the learning that arises along the way. It drives innovation and transformation, delivering ever more successful projects and giving you the insight needed to continually improve and learn from past behaviours. With over 15 years' experience of building software that helps businesses excel, we are experts in creating solutions that drive performance. We believe that some of the best ways to learn is not only from your successes but also from your mistakes. However, many organisations do not use these learnings to their advantage. That is why we developed smartcrowds - an intuitive and easy to use performance improvement solution to help make sure you keep getting better and better. Show less



Bridgeall

• United Kingdom
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Managing Director

  • Dec 2002 - Present

  Bridgeall is a highly-dependable software solutions developer and managed IT provider and we help our clients by accelerating the digital transformation of their business. As a Microsoft Gold Application Development partner we specialise in developing scalable web-based solutions using .Net, SharePoint, PowerBI and Azure Cloud PaaS and IaaS. We have a very successful and referenceable track record on short consultancy assignments on up to 2,000+ man-day development projects. We deliver mission-critical and market-critical solutions with certainty for both Private and Public sector. We are also an entrepreneurial and innovative company and that led us in 2006 to explore an emerging idea for improving stock performance in public libraries. We subsequently spun off an operation that developed the Cloud digital solution, smartSM / collectionHQ, that is now used by over 16,000 libraries globally. The spin-off operation was subsequently acquired in Nov 2011 by Baker & Taylor, Inc. Show less



SimplyReserve

• United Kingdom
• IT Services and IT Consulting

• Managing Director

  • Feb 2000 - Nov 2001

  SimpyReserve developed and delivered an innovative web-based booking engine that enabled hotels to take confirmed, guaranteed bookings from their websites. The company was built from scratch, attracted investment funding and gained 600 UK hotel clients before cashflow problems forced the business to close. SimpyReserve developed and delivered an innovative web-based booking engine that enabled hotels to take confirmed, guaranteed bookings from their websites. The company was built from scratch, attracted investment funding and gained 600 UK hotel clients before cashflow problems forced the business to close.



ScottishPower

• United Kingdom
• Utilities
• 700 & Above Employee

• Project Management Consultant

  • 1995 - 2000

  As an independent Consultant I provided management services to ScottishPower during a time of great change in the Utilites industry. I ensured successful, on-time delivery of major mission-critical systems across Sales, Registrations and Metering before, during and after deregulation of the UK Utilities industry. As an independent Consultant I provided management services to ScottishPower during a time of great change in the Utilites industry. I ensured successful, on-time delivery of major mission-critical systems across Sales, Registrations and Metering before, during and after deregulation of the UK Utilities industry.


Oracle
• United States
• Warehousing
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Product Line Development Manager

  • 1989 - 1995

Strathclyde University
• United Kingdom
• Spectator Sports
• Research Assistant

  • 1985 - 1989