Giles Thurston

Current

Business Development Manager at Sitekit Solutions Ltd
Web Consultant at Float Clear Solutions

Past

Technical Manager at Opportunity Links
Technical Development Manager at Opportunity Links
Senior Technical Consultant at Sopra

Technical Consultant at FMI Ltd
Analyst Programmer at Fermark Software and Consultancy
Analyst Programmer at Mentor Computer Graphics

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Education

De Montfort University
Swaffham Sixth Form Centre, Norfolk
Wayland High School, Watton, Norfolk

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Giles Thurston’s Summary

Content Management Systems
IT Management
Product management
Programme management
Project management
Technical sales
Web development and design
Systems design

Giles Thurston’s Specialties:

Delivering accessible and usable web based solutions to the public sector

Giles Thurston’s Experience

Business Development Manager

Sitekit Solutions Ltd

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

June 2009 — Present (2 months)
Web Consultant

Float Clear Solutions

(Internet industry)

March 2006 — Present (3 years 5 months)

Owner and Lead Web Consultant at Float Clear Solutions. Specialising in web design, development and consultancy projects for small to medium sized businesses
Technical Manager

Opportunity Links

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

July 2006 — June 2009 (3 years)

Member of the organisations management team with strategic responsibility for all IT within the organisation including web development, design and hosting
Technical Development Manager

Opportunity Links

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2004 — July 2005 (1 year 7 months)

Head of technical development team at Opportunity Links, responsible for all application and web development. Also Programme Manager for the organisations largest work stream, worth over £3million per year
Senior Technical Consultant

Sopra

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

November 1998 — December 2004 (6 years 2 months)
Technical Consultant

FMI Ltd

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

March 1997 — November 1998 (1 year 9 months)
Analyst Programmer

Fermark Software and Consultancy

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

July 1996 — March 1997 (9 months)
Analyst Programmer

Mentor Computer Graphics

(Public Company; Computer Software industry)

July 1994 — July 1995 (1 year 1 month)

Placement student at Newbury development centre

Giles Thurston’s Education

De Montfort University

BSc Hons Software Engineering , 1992 — 1996
Swaffham Sixth Form Centre, Norfolk

1990 — 1992
Wayland High School, Watton, Norfolk

1985 — 1990

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Giles Thurston’s Interests:

Web based technologies, web design, information management, rugby, mountaineering, rock climbing, snow and ice climbing, mountain biking, skiing - basically any sport that involves being in the mountains :)