Employment and Career

Excellent technical, financial and policy skills, delivering both core business and special projects. With experience in procurement, contract, and supplier management, forging strong and lasting relationships with third parties and providers. First-rate people skills, running inclusive, safer recruitment, as well as HR and payroll services. A talented team leader, supporting permanent and contract staff to grow in their roles both professionally and personally.

Broad experience in understanding and implementing industry trends to provide solutions using the most appropriate services.
Leveraging Microsoft Services; extending from on premise to cloud services, as suitable, while using the most robust lean yet effective technology choices to deliver tangible business savings and efficiencies.
Experienced in multi-site multi-body organisations, with an understanding of site and group identity.
Device management, including corporate and personal (BYOD), experienced in multi-platform tools and management such as Apple Business Manager, Intune, Autopilot, Google Admin Console and others using syndication across platforms to simply and unify the end user experience.
Broad experience in accessibility and design of accessible systems including auditing and consultancy. Using assistive technology to provide usable and accessible environments.
Highly skilled web, digital and graphic designer. Developed solutions for charities, independent businesses, and community organisations.
Well-informed and proficient in HR and Finance services including payroll.
Strong leadership skills, supportive team leader and experienced people manager.

Core Competencies:

  • IT Change and Development
  • Procurement and Supplier Management
  • Recruitment and Employment
  • HR and Payroll Management
  • Asset Management
  • Data and Device Security
    • Device Management
    • Data Retention
    • Business Continuity
    • Process and Performance Improvement
    • Financial Advice and Reporting
    • Policies and Safeguarding

    PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

    St Peter’s School, York, UK

    IT Systems Manager, 06/2024 – Present

    Technical and operational leadership for IT systems across a historic and high-performing 2–18 co-educational day and boarding school. Responsible for maintaining and modernising the school’s ICT services to support teaching, learning, and administration.

    • Provide full IT support to staff and pupils across the school’s multiple sites, ensuring systems are resilient, secure and user-focused.
    • Administer and develop the school’s Microsoft 365 tenancy including licensing, SharePoint and Teams.
    • Implement and manage Microsoft Intune/Autopilot for device provisioning, configuration profiles and application deployment.
    • Oversee core infrastructure including VMWare, Azure IaaS, telephony, network configuration, filtering and identity protection services.
    • Manage data protection and security baselines using Microsoft Defender, endpoint protection and conditional access.
    • Maintain asset management, antivirus, backups and disaster recovery solutions in line with GDPR compliance.
    • Author and maintain the school’s IT policies, ensuring they remain current, compliant and aligned with operational practice and safeguarding requirements.
    • Produce documentation, reports and user guides to improve operational efficiency and knowledge sharing.
    • Deputise for the IT Operations Manager when required, contributing to technical strategy, system upgrades and change initiatives.

    Key Achievements:

    • Key technical lead for the school’s 1‑2‑1 device programme, responsible for procuring devices, sourcing and managing hardware cover, coordinating with academic and operational staff, and delivering all three phases of the project; the initial 2025-26 rollout, the 2026-27 expansion to full Year 7-11 coverage, and the ongoing rolling replacement programme.
    • Strengthened resilience and user experience across the school through automation of device deployment and security baselines.
    • Delivered significant savings on Microsoft licensing by consolidating agreements, reducing overheads and moving the school to a campus model; lowered annual costs from £82k to £55k, achieving £27k savings for the current financial year and a further £5k per annum reduction through converged licensing.
    • Reduced mobile phone expenditure through contract rationalisation and a new fixed‑rate agreement; lowered annual costs from £26,477 to £6,750, delivering savings of £19,727 per year compared to the original arrangement.
    • Delivered improvements to backup and disaster recovery processes to ensure compliance and rapid recovery.
    • Enhanced collaboration and teaching delivery by streamlining Microsoft 365 and cloud-based services.
    • Built strong relationships with academic staff, ensuring IT solutions are aligned with educational delivery and future digital strategy.

    Logical Personnel Solutions, Leeds, UK

    ICT Operations Manager, 11/2021 – 06/2024

    ICT Operations management for Logical Group Limited delivering organisation wide rolling development and efficiencies. This includes:

    • Providing a complete approachable service across the organisation’s sites to enable the organisation to work effectively.
    • Responsible for the management and development of the company’s infrastructure, ICT architecture and systems design and development.
    • Maintains, delivers, and develops the Operations department’s documentation, guidelines, strategy, asset management and business measures across the Logical group.
    • Responsible for the company’s house style, artwork, social media and marketing.

    Key Achievements:

    • Leveraging Microsoft 365 services utilising the most appropriate licensing for on premise, managed data centre and cloud services as suitable to deliver licensing savings of £8,100 in 2023 and forecasted savings of £15,660 for 2024.
    • Researched and developed an ICT strategy for 2024-25 to migrate data from the MSP to M365 and servers to on premise over a phased deployment providing further reductions in IaaS costs while increasing resilience and flexibility.
    • Identifying where capital expenditure purchases, when most applicable, can reduce IaaS operating costs; representing an 83% saving.
    • Delivery and deployment of unified zero touch, vendor agnostic, device management across the organisation’s different hardware platforms.
    • Additional features leveraged through the Microsoft 365 licenses represented a minimum of £4,000 saved per year from additional spending on endpoint security and device management.
    • Identified more appropriate IaaS licensing saving £10,821.16 per year over a three-year period.

    School ICT Services Ltd

    Information Technology Consultant – Newfield Secondary School, Sheffield, 09/2021 – 10/2021

    After moving to Yorkshire, I took an interim role to bridge relocation and supported the Mercia Learning Trust during a period of adjustment post Coronavirus, based at Newfield Secondary School with the primary role of Network Manager in the school and provided additional support in other schools at the trust.

    Bath & Wells Multi Academy Trust, Somerset, UK

    Schools Business Manager – Holy Trinity Church School, 04/2019 – 08/2021

    Business management for the Multi Academy Trust in Holy Trinity Church School; advising school leaders, governors and the Trust on finance, procurement, HR, and IT for Holy Trinity Church School. This includes:

    • Leading day-to-day accounting, monthly reporting, and bi-annual account adjustments.
    • Procuring goods and services according to framework requirements.
    • Overseeing contractors and suppliers.
    • Successfully delivering multiple school improvement projects annually.

    HR responsibilities include safer recruitment of teaching and support staff, writing inclusive job descriptions and adverts, shortlisting and interviewing candidates, handling job offers and appointments, checks and clearances, TUPE, and payroll management. Team leader for office administration and midday supervisor teams.

    Key Achievements:

    • Procured and refurbished old laptops to provide managed school devices for remote learning within 2 days of lockdown for over 20 pupil premium families, and secured broadband provision for all households within the school community as required.
    • Established annual budget planning and approval process with Headteachers, Governors and Trust leaders.
    • Organised and implemented change of the school catering supplier, bringing contract staff in-house to improve pay, conditions and team working, and sourcing better quality local food, increasing uptake of school meals by 30%.

    Holy Trinity Church School, Yeovil, UK

    Schools Network Manager, 09/2013 – 04/2019

    Technical leadership and day-to-day management for the school’s ICT. Worked at Trust level with a team to deliver an Academy-wide IT harmonisation programme for over 20 schools implementing Office 365 across multiple sites: providing integrated IT services with their on-premises networks, Outlook, SharePoint sites, and establishing a quality central support team, replacing variable or absent school-level support.

    Provided technical expertise for ICT lessons; established, ran, and supported popular after-school code and art clubs.

    Key Achievements:

    • During a period of rapid growth, was seconded to the central Multi Academy Trust team to provide and develop Trust-wide ICT provision.
    • Used own expertise to provide savings on IT expenditure by moving IT services from contractors to in-house, including installation, configuration, and support for network servers and services.
    • Conducted value-for-money evaluation of current IT contracts, successfully proposing and implementing a move to centralised provision, delivering savings, improved communications and support, and enabled networking and sharing of best practices.

    Martock Primary School, Somerset, UK

    Network Manager, 07/2012 – 09/2013

    Managed the ICT budget and provided strategic ICT guidance to the head teacher. Led technical support and management of the School’s IT infrastructure, including installation, configuration, support and administration of network servers and services. Provided in-class support for ICT lessons, and managed after-school and lunchtime coding clubs.

    Key Achievements:
    • Established in-house ICT provision, enabling and educating the staff team to best utilise and implement computing across the school.
    • Provided savings of over 30% on ICT procurement and support services.

    Julius Naim: Design and Consultancy, Somerset, UK

    Owner, 06/2010 – 07/2012

    Relocated to a market town in the West Country to focus on family, the environment and rural life.

    Building on a creative background and business experience providing bespoke design and consultancy services.

    • Graphic design including illustration, typography and logo design, page layout, image editing and manipulation.
    • Brand development and design guidelines.
    • Website development and Accessibility consultancy.
    • Database development including data modelling.
    • App design including UX design and testing.

    Business Disability Forum (formerly Employers’ Forum on Disability), London, UK

    ICT & Facilities Manager, 07/1998 – 06/2010

    During this developing role, the breadth of responsibilities reflects an ability to adapt to requirements to meet business needs.

    Business Disability Forum is a not-for-profit membership organisation with registered charity status that works with large businesses to provide advice and guidance to do business with and employ disabled people.

    Responsibilities included:

    • Management of on and off premise ICT infrastructure.
    • Line and functional management of ICT, Facilities and HR roles.
    • Support services to staff and external stakeholders.
    • ICT systems support, deployment and development including asset management.
    • CRM and database development and integration.
    • Website development and management including web accessibility and accessibility auditing.
    • An internal resource to colleagues on accessibility and assistive technology.
    • Project management, training, and facilitation.
    • Backup, disaster recovery and network security.
    • Facilities management including office redevelopment and refurbishment.

    Julius Naim Design & Consultancy (2010 – 2012) self-employed, Somerset.

    Education and Credentials

    Access to Art and Design Oaklands College, St Albans

    Graphic Communications Processes, degree module Ryerson University, Toronto, CA     

    Professional Accreditations:

    Project management training and Facilitation training, Business Development Forum

    Personal Achievements:

    • Provided support for charities and initiatives with artwork, branding, IT advice and website design.
    • Endurance ultra-runner: Multiday running and adventuring.
    • Developed, and launched an England Athletics affiliated international virtual running club.
    • Dog owner with an active interest in canine behaviour; currently studying dog behaviour to support responsible ownership and practical application.