User:Gbaxendale

Having achieved my long sort-after swimming certificate by age 7 (a proud day), I went on to gain yet more learning, experience and wisdom... oddly, swimming as a skill has not been a requirement of any of my roles to date... I remain hopeful.

Despite my dashing young looks, I have 20 years in B2B, B2C and Health developing strategy, designing and architecting IT solutions, both locally and cloud based, as well as managing the supply of doughnuts and coffee to large development, technical and service delivery teams...

A few notable things of interest:

• • FBCS CITP Chartered Fellow • • Vice Chair for the BCS Health Executive focusing on improving Health Informatics across the health sector and establishing good-practice

• • Medalist UK IT Industry Awards 'IT Department of the Year'​ - Computing/BCS • • Team achieved the NCC ITDA Accreditation standard

• • Technology writer for The Guardian, Wired.com Innovation Insights & ITNow

• • BCS Chartered Assessor and Mentor • • SFIA® Framework Reviewer • • UKCHIP Level 3 Health Informatics • • TOGAF® 9 Level 2 Enterprise Architecture Certified • • ITIL® Expert Service Management Certified • • PRINCE2 Certified • • Microsoft Certified to Engineer/Architect levels

• • A Swimming Certificate

I currently work for the National Institute for Health Research managing the Information Services and Service Delivery function that enables IT services for the NHS Clinical Research Network. With a key focus on Informatics and clinical trial adoption we support over 10,000 users in the NHS and Industry Pharma. I lead the devops/service management teams and am responsible for the technology architecture, design and delivery both locally and for cloud services with Amazon Web Services working alongside our partner PA Consulting.

Previously I have supported B2B B2C IT companies from SME's to NASDAQ enterprises, and also in the mutual sector managing IT for a large healthcare organisation supporting over 900,000 members.