Meet the Team
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I've been really lucky to have been be able to pursue my interest in computing and communications throughout my career. A four year stint at ESTEC, the European Space Agency
technical centre in Holland,was a great education in analysis, programming and the difficulties of communicating with hardware that's 36000 miles away - not to mention the fun of living in a new country and working with a multi-national team. Programming was mainly in FORTRAN (a real man's language?), the standard for scientific computing, but I was lucky enough to be exposed to Simula 67, the first language to introduce the concepts of object orientation.
After returning to the UK, the next really new learning experience was joining a satellite communication startup in Ilkley with the role of developing software products and bespoke real time applications. That company grew to about 50 in the two and half years before it was sold, and that rate of growth had an interesting learning curve all of its own.
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When the opportunity arose to start up The IT
Bureau, I jumped at it. This would be a
chance to deliver the types of IT services that I had been delivering for
coporates, but with a view to helping the small to medium sized
businesses. I had worked at Inmarsat, a
satellite communications company, for the last 12 years and had moved from IT
Operations Manager into Research and Development using my project management
skills. My operations and service delivery
experience are the basis of my role at The IT Bureau.
Getting into Information Technology was an
accidental process, but one that I found I loved and had an afinity for. I have taken the route of operations, infrastructure
development, networking, and project management throughout my IT career, as
well as systems management.
There is always something new to learn and to make
sense of within IT.
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