Stuart Thomson

Experience

• 

  Royal Air Force (RAF)

  Sept 1987 - Jun 2000

  Control of all IT related resources for the Joint Command and Staff College in Bracknell, Berkshire (now closed). Responsible for NT4/W2K network consisting of 30 servers and 1000+ users over 4 locations. Management of Exchange 5.0/5.5 servers, TCP/IP networking, mass OS and software installations and user administration. Leading a team of 8 military and 3 civil servant engineers. Management of 12 HF/MF transmitters/receivers for BT in the Shetland IslandsSenior Engineer for Britians most northerly radio station Radio Saxa VordDeployment of Racal VSC 501 and Inmarsat satelite systems to Gulf War I, Northern Iraq and Former Yugoslavia.Provision of RAF, Army and Navy Data and voice systems for rapid international deployment.

  • Section Leader

    Jun 1996 - Jun 2000

  • Ground Communication Engineer

    Sept 1987 - Jun 1996
• 

  Versata

  Feb 2000 - Oct 2001

  IT Manager

  Designing, planning and implementing the European WAN I was responsible for all aspects of European Corporate network reporting directly to European Vice President and Financial Director. Support for 15 Europe wide servers, MS Exchange 5.5, SQL 6, TCP/IP Services (including VPN tunnelling), Cisco PIX Firewall and Maximizer Contact Management.

• 

  Sunrise Medical

  Nov 2001 - now

  • Group Data Protection Officer responsible for the management of Sunrise Medical's global Data Protection environment (including EU/UK GDPR , APP, PIPEDA, PIPL and CCPA/CPRA)• Creation and maintenance of the appropriate data protection policies and procedures and managing the assurance programme and related audits including, but not limited to, data sharing, disclosure and data retention.• Provide advice and instructions on how to conduct Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs).• Overseeing the maintenance of records required to demonstrate data protection compliance.• Operating as the primary contact point for supervisory authorities and advise on data incident response and data breach notification procedures.• Leading the organisation's response to any regulatory investigation or request for information.• Monitoring changes to the law and guidance on all matters relating to data protection ensuring the organisation takes timely action to update and implement changes in policies and procedures.• Managing a programme of awareness-raising and training to deliver compliance and to foster a data privacy culture.• Be the contact point for and co-operate with data subjects when exercising their individual data rights as well as supervise and advise on the response to such requests.• Adviser to the Executive Team on all matters related to data protection. Show less Management overview:• Leadership of international multi-skilled team (24 members across Europe)• Prince2 Foundation and Practitioner• Change Management – for Technical, ERP and Software changes• Business Continuity planning and testing for Data Centre and multiple international sites • Strategic planning and road-mapping to provide a clear view of business IT direction • Security and Data Management – Monitoring, Identification and isolation of security threats,• Movement of Data Centre to new location (with 0 business hours downtime) • Cyber Security (Cyber Essentials, ISAME)• Cyber Security – global safeguards project (AV, Firewalls and monitoring) Show less

  • Data Protection Officer

    Aug 2018 - now

  • Director, IT Europe

    Nov 2001 - Aug 2018