Colin Slater

Current

• Director at Logicwave Ltd

Past

• Group IT Manager at Jumbunna Investments
• IT Manager at Innovation Group
• Senior Consultant at HUON Corporation (acquired by The Innovation Group)

• IT Manager Europe at HUON Corporation
• Technical Research Consultant at Mercury Communications
• Senior Technical Analyst at Confederation Life Insurance

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Education

• University of Nottingham

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Colin Slater’s Summary

Infrastructure design and implementation. Infrastructure support and development. Application design and development in a number of languages ranging from COBOL to C# and a number of technologies from IBM Mainframe CICS DB2 through to LAN/WAN Windows and SQL Server. Experience of global IT infrastructures, teams and strategies.
Management experience with exposure up to board level, with teams sizes ranging from 3 up to 32 with direct reports. Always interested in design and implementation of IT systems fro SME and individual clients, making IT integrate seamlessly and efficiently with business processes and requirements.
Goals of: Keeping up to date with the latest technological advances and how these may be applied to current situations, Retaining close working relationships between the business and IT functions and continual review and revision of existing infrastructures

Colin Slater’s Specialties:

Third party supplier and contract negotiation and maintenance.
LAN/WAN and telecommunications technologies, security architectures
Application development

Colin Slater’s Experience

• Director

  Logicwave Ltd

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  November 2009 — Present (2 months)

  Logicwave specialises in the SME sector.
  Logicwave offers complete IT coverage; from design, purchasing, implementation and support, physical and with virtualisation. We use both Microsoft, Linux and Mac technologies
  
  Network implementation with LAN, WAN, Broadband, secure remote access.
  
  We also offer web design, hosting and support. Particularly CMS, database dynamic web sites, ecommerce and SEO

• Group IT Manager

  Jumbunna Investments

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  February 2002 — December 2009 (7 years 11 months)

  Management and development of the IT function for Jumbunna and it’s related subsidiaries
  IT and infrastructure strategy development
  Management of the suppliers and contracts for IT service provision and purchasing in the UK and Australia
  Development and maintenance of a managed office environment for SME clients
  Development of an Intelligent House concept; an architecture and infrastructure for integrated data, audio-visual, security and environmental control systems.
  Development of a C# based course booking and maintnenance system for Bluearth Institute
  Specification, selection and installation of EPOS retail solution for SME retail clients

• IT Manager

  Innovation Group

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  2001 — 2002 (1 year )

• Senior Consultant

  HUON Corporation (acquired by The Innovation Group)

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  1996 — 2002 (6 years )

• IT Manager Europe

  HUON Corporation

  (Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Insurance industry)

  February 1995 — February 2000 (5 years 1 month)

  Senior Technical Architect in the HUON research and development team.
  Key member of the HUON technical group
  Presenting the HUON application architecture to clients.
  A member of the Executive Management team, responsible for the global technical infrastructure strategy in partnership with the USA and APAC regions
  Leadership and management of the technical infrastructure, support and IS development teams
  Promotion and development of knowledge management strategies
  Supplier and contract management for IT service provision and purchasing
  Responsible for a budget of £1M p.a.

• Technical Research Consultant

  Mercury Communications

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Telecommunications industry)

  February 1994 — February 1995 (1 year 1 month)

  Replacement of VSAM Mainframe Billing system by UNIX Oracle development. Developing the data interfaces.
  
  Initial investiagtion into a multi-processor billing system.

• Senior Technical Analyst

  Confederation Life Insurance

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Insurance industry)

  May 1992 — February 1994 (1 year 10 months)

  Technical support for the Life and Pensions Mainframe based processing systems. Technical design responsibility for application developments. Resaerch and piloting new development platforms and technologies.

Colin Slater’s Education

• University of Nottingham

  BSc Hons 2:1 , Electronic Engineering with Computing , 1983 — 1986

Colin Slater’s Contact Settings

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