Alan Horsfield

Company Name

ICL

Position Held

INTERIM TECHNICAL MANAGER

Dates

0000 - Present

Details

SICL LEEDS, UK Jul 2011 - Jan 2012 IT services provider. Annual turnover : £4m. Employees : 30. INTERIM TECHNICAL MANAGER Managed support function during period of change for company. Provided consultancy to customers including Taylors of Harrogate, Univar, SCA Hygiene, Yorkshire Water, Provident Insurance, Bet Genius and Aedas. Strengthened technical team. Reported to MD/FD. Direct reports : 10. Achieved 50% reduction in open support incidents by assigning role of Incident Manager and re-structuring service desk, support function and support office. Re-designed resource scheduling and allocation process to provide clarity and visibility. Managed roll-out of Cisco unified communications to multiple sites across Europe. Alan Horsfield of 3

Company Name

OPTARE PLC

Position Held

Head of IT.

Dates

0000 - Present

Details

OPTARE PLC LEEDS, UK Jul 2001 - Jun 2011 Automotive manufacturer. Annual turnover : £65 - £80m. Employees : 400 - 800. GROUP ICT MANAGER Head of IT. Led IT department : aligning IT to business strategy. Developed systems VB.Net/SQL and front-ends to compliment Enterprise Resource Planning ERP /Materials Requirement Planning MRP system. Migrated legacy systems into fully integrated warranty processing and vehicle history system. Reported to CFO. Direct reports : 5. Budget responsibility : £900k. Successfully managed IT through two changes of ownership, several expansions, site moves, changes, a reverse takeover and Plc formation. Developed extended enterprise integration as part of company restructure when Plc was formed. This contributed to 10% increase of spare parts sales to £6.6m by outsourcing spare parts. Achieved 10% reduction in order-picking time and contributed to 98% first pick accuracy rate by integrating Pickomat vertical picking machine with ERP system. Achieved £150k pa savings through various cost saving/centralisation initiatives.

Company Name

Cloud Industry Forum

Position Held

Board Member

Dates

0000 - Present

Details

AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Informix, SQL2000-2005 , MS Access, Apache, IIS4/5/6 , CISCO IOS routing and LAN switching , Cisco PIX, Avaya VOIP, VPN ERP/Applications : Tetra Plan/T2000 , Sage Line200/500 Finance, Distribution MRP , Manufacturing MRPII , Reporting and Management/Integration , Defacto CTO, Albany Albacs, Version One DBForms/Fax, MS Access, Macromedia Studio MX, MS Project Methodologies : SSADM, Agile Development : COBOL, Assembly, Modular2 , C#PLPL#, Vb.Net, ASP, VBScript, Unix Scripting including AWK/SED Alan Horsfield of 3

Company Name

Symphony Kitchens, Creation Records Redwood Publishing

Position Held

TECHNICAL EXECUTIVE

Dates

0000 - Present

Details

THE IBS ORGANISATION LTD LEEDS, UK Jun 1995 - Jun 2001 IT services firm. Annual turnover : £2.5m. Employees : 18. SENIOR TECHNICAL EXECUTIVE Delivered project planning and management, training, consultancy and pre-sales support to customers including : Kunick Leisure Plc, Symphony Kitchens, Creation Records, Redwood Publishing and Minor Planet. Managed in-house systems. Reported to MD. Direct reports : 6. Budget responsibility : £150k. Installed and supported original E-Top-up system for Project Telecom : a world first. Developed suite of financial reports clarifying pre and post conversion data as part of data cleansing/report writing consultancy at Madame Tussauds. This enabled FD to produce financial reports accurately and efficiently.

Company Name

HOLDENE GROUP PLC

Dates

0000 - Present

Details

HOLDENE GROUP PLC Jul 1992 - May 1995 COMPUTER MANAGER /SPECIAL PROJECTS Successfully managed 100 user HP9000/UX Tetra ERP system and internal network/systems. Installed DEC UNIX system at Huddersfield St. Lukes Hospital. Co-developed bespoke print spooler for Huddersfield Royal Infirmary.

Company Name

Huddersfield Royal Infirmary

Position Held

IT SUPPORT

Dates

0000 - Present

Details

DRIVE COMPUTING Oct 1990 - Jul 1992 IT SUPPORT Developed automated ERP installation system for ICL Australia. Installed and supported ICL DRS3000/6000 mini computers, Tetra ERP/MRP/MRPII and Drive Blended and Integrated Stock System BLISS . Chartered Member - British Computer Society MBCS Chartered IT Professional CITP Member - Mensa PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS Governance Board Member - Cloud Industry Forum 2010/11 TECHNICAL BACKGROUND Operating Environment : Microsoft NT Server to 2003 , Windows 2.x to Windows 7 , SCO Xenix/Unix,