Ian Knox of Mountain Software who contracted me to introduce a new bespoke software development methodology across the group of 4 branches and to personally manage the development of the offshore development team… That team reached a total of 140 developers working across the companies products.

Mountain Software Holdings was sold to CSG which then rolled into IRIS.

A GREAT SUCCESS !

The Cosgrave brothers (Paul and Ciaran) who together with Rolf Josefsohn created Cassium Technologies.

Cassium took on funding from Bamboo and Close Brothers and needed strong project management in place. I joined the team at the highest level.

My responsibilities had no bounds within the Cassium venture where I interfaced with all clients and the funding VC’s whilst at the same time lead the team of developers (on and offshore) and personally coded complex systems configuration solutions for Barclays bank as they rolled out 27,000 workstations across the globe and worked on projects for BT, Virgin. Several offshore projects took me to Europe, Russia and India.

My key role was the integration of sales and software creation and delivery processes working with clients such as British Telecom, Barclays Capital, Abbey National, Virgin Group and the European Patent office.

Cassium was ultimately sold to Netstore Plc.

I’d had had some dealing with Netstore being friends and business colleagues with one of the founding investors.

I engaged with Netstore for a short time ensuring that the transition of control from Cassium to Netstore Plc was planned and structured.

I was well suited for this at every level, not least of which, was my ability to fly in my personal plane from one end of the UK to the other without the delays of commercial airlines.

Neil Lloyd of Netstore Plc asked me to work closely with the transition team which I did whilst also managing Cassium’s sister company Freedom 2000 and taking up the role of CEO in NSA solutions.

It was a busy time for sure 🙂 and I loved every minute