Technical Director
Connectus Group
Total years of experience :17 years, 8 Months
Achievements
• Achieved astronomical growth for the group by implementing innovative technology services and practices. Growth was four times annual revenue by month 9 of being with the business.
• Advocated and secured lucrative terms with suppliers ensuring an immediate commercial uplift with existing services.
• Managed an increase from 74% to 97% customer satisfaction rates. By implementing AI functions within the companys customer acquisition and support functions. Responsibilities
• Provide technology leadership and guidance at board level.
• Lead mergers and acquisition tasks across the group.
• Increase gross margins from net new customer additions and existing customer base.
• Managing a growing team of managers, architects, support engineers and sales staf.
• Monitoring and implementing changing and trending cloud practices.
Achievements
• ISO 27001 accreditation achieved for multiple clients.
• Led the industry with Azure technologies in the UK. First UK implementation of Azure Virtual Desktop across hundreds of users.
• Led the Azure and BizApps (Dynamics) ladder for UK resellers.
• Led Mango Tech to the successful acquisition by the Connectus Group Responsibilities
• Provide outsourced CIO and CTO advice to clients.
• Manage Stakeholders both internally and externally to the business.
• Managing a growing team of engineering and sales staf.
• Monitoring and implementing changing and trending cloud practices.
• Clients include Formula 1, University of Birmingham, Shell, British Petroleum, Essa.
Following the acquisition of CFM, I took the role of Group CIO of the inTec Technology Group. Achievements:
• Leading strategy for a group of eight companies with heads of terms on an additional 4 businesses.
• Assisted growth of the business from £4m to £18m within one year due to implementation of innovative technologies both internally and of the technology provided to customers.
• Amalgamated each of the acquired organisations into the operational ethos and branding of the group.
• Managing strategic partnerships and investigating modern technology routes alongside a team of technical consultants.
• Strategising a single operational workflow management tool ready for acquisitions incorporate upon completion.
• Managing direct relationships with Microsoft, Vodafone, Multiple CSPs etc. at C Suite level (UK and EU). here\]
Achievements
• Built the business over 3 years with rapid growth of over 100% year on year.
• Took CFM to the point of acquisition in 2019 due to the reputation of the company in the sector.
• Strategic cloud technology implementation in Leisure and Education which built up my reputation in these fields in the UK, EU and US. Clients included PureGym, easyGym (easyJet), Shell, and the University of Birmingham.
Achievements
• Managed the technology team for the UK arm of aircraft nacelle production of A320neo and A330neo.
• Strategised companywide move to new LAN and WAN infrastructure and negotiated purchase of hardware and software.
Achievements
• Led the migration project of worldwide infrastructure to (at the time) current versioning of OS and Applications
• Led a team of 22 engineers.