Career Milestones

Curricumum Vitae

Testimonials

Industry Awards & Case Studies

Ian's innovative digital transformation programmes have been recognized by major vendors including Microsoft. His work in the early 2000's led to multiple European and worldwide case studies including by Unisys and Microsoft and other vendors regarding the transformative nature of the new digital landscape. As a Microsoft partner in the 2010's specialising in digital collaboration his work led to M&W being rewarded as an official UK Government supplier as well as receiving recognition from Silicon Valley and CIO Review among other industry award bodies.

Digital Programme Direction

Ian has been a highly-successful director of digital programmes since the early 2000's and has led many multi million pound programmes to success. The major vendor case studies speak for themselves as does the creation of a Microsoft gold partner company from scratch. Working with some of the leading global brands worldwide, Ian has assisted organisations in leveraging the correct approach to digital transformation, 3rd party vendor selection and management, the building of international multi disciplinary teams, budget control, C-level executive briefings and stakeholder management in complex environments. Ian can draw on a wide range of industry testimonials on his programme delivery and product management and continues to assist new digital clients on their digital journeys.

Digital Frameworks

Ian is a world leader in digital frameworks and developed one of the very first cohesive, agnostic business-orientated modular frameworks that went on to become a global certification in the 2010's. Ian has successfully presented to hundreds of major organisation worldwide, taking them through the key benefits, sequence and logic of a modular digital framework approach. This has led to client wins by Microsoft and other vendors and their partners and has driven real value from multi-million dollar digital investments for many international organisations. Placing people and business value at the heart of any digital strategy is the key mantra that Ian works to.

Digital Strategy & Authorship

Ian has published two definitive books on digital collaboration technology governance and on search engine optimization for Microsoft. He wrote the Microsoft Outlook User Guide used by a number of major universities including UCLA in the early 2000's. Ian went on to write strategy articles for Microsoft's the Record Magazine on the Microsoft cloud in the 2010's as well as complete Practitioner and Master Practitioner guides used by thousands of digital collaboration strategy consultants during this period. In particular, Ian defined the entire Salem framework and logic that continues to be used today in defining digital frameworks for the cloud, platform as a service model, sustainable development goals and may other topics. Gartner recognised these digital strategy innovations in 2012 by listing Ian's work as a top ten innovation in western Europe and North America.

Certifications & Technical

Throughout the 1990's Ian gathered more than 40 technical Novell engineering and instructor certifications as well as ones by Microsoft and Compaq, In the 2000's this continued with Prince 2 and ITIL added to the portfolio. Ian developed a complete set of digital framework practitioner awards before adding further Microsoft sales certifications in the 2010's as part of building the M&W Microsoft Gold partner practice.

Ian spent many years managing enterprise class network deployments, e-directory designs and installations. In the 2000's Ian has directly designed, built and configured many Microsoft cloud solutions as well as well over 100 client digital marketing , audio and video solutions, which he continues to do today.

Timeline & Achievements