Kevin Evans - CTO/CIO/CPO (Fractional), Various Clients

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Work Background

AriesCTO Advisor

Jun. 2024London Area, United Kingdom

ActiveOpsInterim CEO (APAC)

Nov. 2023 - Jun. 2024Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaInterim CEO for our APAC region, responsible for hiring of new permanent replacement, P&L, sales, relationship management. With customers including ANZ, Westpac, nab, TAL, Allianz, BoQ & more, we're incredibly proud of our footprint in the Australia, New Zealand & wider region and I'm excited to lead it while finding a good long term replacement.

RosslynInterim CTO

May. 2023 - Jun. 2024London, England, United KingdomInterim CTO (contract), voice of technology on the Exec tasked with creating a plan for growth, technology investment and roadmap, recruiting a new permanent role to replace this advisory one, and transitioning to a mentoring relationship for that new hire.

ActiveOpsChief Technology Officer

Nov. 2017 - Jun. 2024Reading, Berkshire, United KingdomGroup CTO responsible for the technology portfolio, team, strategy and direction of the ActiveOps group.

SATAVIACTO (Interim/Fractional)

Nov. 2022 - May. 2023Cambridge, England, United KingdomAdvisor/interim CTO on the executive team responsible for setting future technology strategy at Satavia.

Creative Digital UTCChair, Proposing Group (Non Exec)

Apr. 2016 - Jan. 2018Leeds, United KingdomUniversity technical colleges (UTCs) are government-funded schools that offer 14–19 year olds a great deal more than traditional schools. They teach students technical and scientific subjects in a whole new way and are educating the inventors, engineers, scientists and technicians of tomorrow. We're proposing a UTC focused on Creative & Digital skills for the Leeds area to capitalise on the incredible digital economy that exists in the region. Supported by Leeds Beckett University, the University of Leeds and regional employers across multiple sectors, we're hoping to provide employer and university-led education for 600 young people with doors opening for a September 2019 intake.

SUN BRANDING SOLUTIONSCIO

Aug. 2015 - Nov. 2017Bradford, United KingdomMain Board member and director, responsible for technology and innovation across the entire of Sun Branding Solutions’ brands and business units. I am accountable for and have full P&L ownership of IT, Development and Support (with staff in multiple UK, USA and India locations), with a blue-chip client base and 24/7 support obligations, and for the development of new product offerings, maintaining and initiating industry partnerships and identifying new acquisition targets. - Delivered savings of £140k/year within first two months in-role, while modernising graphics production software and infrastructure across Bradford, London, Chennai and Bangalore - Put in place measures and practices to earn more than £1m/year in R&D tax relief against existing expenditure; a net bottom line gain in excess of £1m - Developed partnerships with Adobe, Microsoft, Insight and other industry and academic partners to improve the quality and breadth of our offerings across Graphics, Creative and Digital - Established a much-improved presence for SBS in specialist computing, design and digital press, improving our visibility and credibility in the market - Board representative for cross-business quality program – regained ISO9001 certification (lost in 2014) within first two months in role

SUN BRANDING SOLUTIONSHead Of Technology

Apr. 2013 - Jul. 2015Greengates, Nr Bradford, UKAs the most senior technical person in our group and heading up the development, support and infrastructure for Sun Branding Solutions' multi-million pound per year software division, I'm responsible for ensuring that our blue-chip client portfolio of brands and retailers get cutting-edge software, delivered on time and within budget. I took on an under-motivated department plagued by high staff turnover and low morale, which had consistently failed to correctly set expectations or meet requirements, and in which costs continued to climb while outputs fell; a little under a year later that's turned around completely and the team is now producing high quality products - with clients actually going out of their way to thank us for the experience of recent deployments - on time, to budget and exceeding expectations along the way. - Transformed the team from an under-performing, high turnover organisation into a highly motivated group producing excellent software on time, leading to an additional £3m of client wins - Instigated a decision to pursue Microsoft Gold Application Development Partner status, yielding a bottom line licensing fee saving in excess of £180,000 over three years - Championed a move to a Platform as a Service (PaaS) cloud offering with Microsoft Azure, creating flexibility in our deployments, adding scalability to our environments and the ability to rapidly respond to changing customer workloads while saving upwards of £200,000 in the first year in hosting and capital expenditure - Initiated and oversaw development of a new, lower-TCO offering for our portfolio, enabling entry into smaller customers - Re-established project delivery roadmap, transforming the requirements analysis and documentation process to deliver better results, faster - Reduced the support backlog by upwards of 6 months, implementing a response-time SLA for the first time and getting resolution back within SLAs, yielding a significant improvement in customer satisfaction

Access Intelligence PlcDevelopment Manager

Sep. 2012 - Apr. 2013York, United KingdomReporting directly to the group COO, I'm responsible for managing delivery of several products in the AI portfolio, with teams based in York and London and for representing the development and testing functions at board level to each subsidiary. - Implemented TDD, Agile workflows and Scrum-based management - "Insourced" development for improved quality, transparency and control - Developing lead developers to provide in-team leadership and better resilience

Vital TechnologyProject, Business Analysis & Development Manager

Jan. 2008 - Oct. 2012Reporting to the managing director, I'm responsible for managing a team of web developers and systems administrators made up of internal staff, contractors and offshore providers in a web-based development environment (centred around Microsoft platforms), and for managing client and service provider relationships. - Mentored, developed and trained staff - Led requirements analysis, specification and development of bespoke ASP.Net line-of-business application for multi-million pound manufacturing client, saving over £100k/year in licence and staffing costs. - Managed the development of small-form-factor solution for an onsite energy management appliance for a utility sector client - Established positive working relationship with offshoring services provider and remote management model to support offshore development with UK business analysis and project management funcftions

Wingas UK LtdIS/IT Head

Sep. 2006 - Dec. 2007Responsible for all aspects of IS and IT for this London-based trading arm of BASF and Gazprom's €11bn/year natural gas joint venture, reporting to the UK board. Led procurement and development of internal and external-facing solutions, managed supplier relationships, and worked closely with headquarters staff in Germany to ensure that UK infrastructure met the UK business' needs while at the same time fitting within group-wide policies. Responsible for: - Representing the IT function in a cross-disciplinary project team established to reclaim more than £25m in overpayments to national pipeline operators - Anticipating the needs of a rapidly growing business and delivering IT and IS solutions necessary to bring competitive advantage and cost savings through innovative and industry-leading use of technology - Conducting capital budgeting appraisals for new projects (both IT and in other areas of the business) and managing those projects which yield a positive ROI to completion - Requirements analysis, project specification and development (C#, ASP.Net, SQL) for internal software systems, interfaces, APIs and applications - Day to day management of network and infrastructure, including telephony, on a Windows2003 Server domain with Windows XP clients running usual desktop applications (e.g. Office) as well as dealer information systems including Reuters, Prebon, Spectron, etc.

Diving Leisure GroupIT Director

Nov. 2004 - Sep. 2006- IT Director of a group of small companies providing training services to business and consumer in both the health and safety and leisure industries - Managed projects, budgets and systems and contractors/consultants to ensure the group is provided with an efficient basis to operate from - Responsible for the IT infrastructure of the companies, including externally hosted servers for online shops, email list servers (mailman, majordomo) and web servers as well as internal network services such as Windows Server 2003 domains, Exchange 2003 email servers, Active Directory administration and networking including remote access, wireless networking.

InsightDevelopment Manager

Jun. 2001 - Nov. 2004- Managed the software development team (using C# and ASP.Net, ASP PHP, Perl, unix scripting) and systems administration teams and the EDI Team (ANSI X12 and EDIFACT protocols, Harbinger and bespoke message translation) - Responsible for development, upkeep and maintenance of Windows, Unix and Linux platforms running application servers, web servers, SQL Servers (Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle and MySQL), and for the development and maintenance of Insight’s EDI links with suppliers and customers - Project managed (PRINCE2) all internally and externally-sourced software projects from my teams, including change management and exception reporting to project or company board - Produced training materials and delivered face-to-face training on new and existing systems.

DecisionSmith Inc.Consultant

Jan. 2001 - Jun. 2001