Ian S.

Extremely experienced IT professional with over 25 years commercial experience both public and private organisations. Project Management skills, involving delivery of projects with budgets of £500K, through complete project lifecycle. Effective interaction with customers, vendors/3rd parties and all levels of management.Determining project scope, gathering and understanding client requirements. Taking these requirements and turning into functional specifications and technical solution documents. Excellent use of Agile and Waterfall development methodologies. Very good understanding of business processes and solid software development technical experience. Several years experience in various administrative positions, with a variety of companies. Managerial experience in several positions over the last two decades, involving teams of varying sizes both public and private sector, Project Managers, DBAs, Development Staff, etc. Extensive training of staff at all levels, technical, non-technical. Excellent communication, presentation and negotiation skills, combined with a very high level of customer awareness and excellent client facing abilities. Wide knowledge of training techniques, having provided training courses/packages to a large number of organisation, both private and public sector.