Nick Evans

Experience

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  Saudi Arabian Basic Industries Corporation

  Jan 1998 - Jan 2000

  SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR

  A leading manufacturer of chemicals, fertilisers, plastics and metals.

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  Ascent Media Group (formerly Telecine & Todd-AO)

  Jan 2000 - Jan 2002

  NETWORK & SYSTEMS MODERATOR

  An integrated digital media services company.

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  IT-GP

  Jan 2003 - Oct 2008

  OWNER & SENIOR CONSULTANT

  I founded and operated this business to provide a variety of innovative solutions that included network, Cloud and telephony technologies. Services encompassed network security, email, backup, licensing, remote access, virtualisation platforms and mobile communications. • Focused on designing and installing a number of startup businesses’ networks into server based networks and data centre colocation hosting solutions.• Influenced business owners on benefits of server & Cloud based investments, exchange enabled mail delivery, decentralised storage and backup solutions and mobile connectivity. • Although initial concerns around cost were voiced, every client without exception expressed gratitude and highlighted increased productivity at recommendations. • As a result my clients trusted my recommendations leading to repeat business and further recommendations to other businesses for my services.• Positioned the company for a profitable sale in 2008. Show less

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  IRIS Legal Services

  Oct 2008 - Feb 2011

  UK’s largest privately-owned software house and designer of diary management software for 90% of the UK’s Barristers Chambers and practice/case management solutions to the UK Solicitor market.Driving the product lifecycle of the IRIS Legal portfolio with particular focus on platform and database compatibility.• I deployed my skills in designing and marketing hosted offerings through cloud technologies. • Consultancy led to roadmapped implementations and ultimately to a more robust and marketable product.• Seconded to work with the offshore development team to oversee the delivery of IRIS’ Workflow suite.• Immediately identified a number of issues in software that prevented access to market. Highlighted issues to UK management in a effort to avert further costly delays. Show less Supported sales cycle by providing technical backup and pre-sales advice relating to IRIS’s newly released SQL based product stream of Barrister Diary Management and Legal Case & Practice Management software.• Pre-Sales advice included consulting for a variety of hardware, software, infrastructure, hosted and Professional Services as well as authoring proposals and delivering input to tender documents. • Similarly I negotiated other large contracts with UK Barrister Chambers and Solicitor Practices involving Data Warehousing, Disaster Recovery, Offsite Hosting, Data Migration, Professional Services and Hardware generating £0.75M GP over the following year.• Working closely with the Sales and Technical teams, I quickly established an excellent working rapport based on trust and judgement. • Organised and conducted detailed presentations on Microsoft Licensing and the Cloud phenomena at the IRIS’ road shows. Show less

  • Technical Product Manager

    Jun 2010 - Feb 2011

  • TECHNICAL PRESALES CONSULTANT

    Oct 2008 - Jun 2010
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  Towers Watson

  Jan 2012 - Feb 2013

  Pre Sales Consultant

  Part of an EMEA, APAC wide software sales team assigned to addressing risk governance commitments within the financial services industry. • Successfully tasked with supporting the sales cycle for Towers Watson’s financial modelling software platforms for life and non-life insurers. • Principally assisting clients and sales on product migrations and transitions, I am also regularly assigned to client sites to deploy upgrades and proof of concept installations, oversee model development as well as drive client engagements. In addition I also regularly present to clients on behalf of Towers Watson. • Typically when deploying enterprise solutions the focus is centred on Microsoft High Performance Computing and virtualisation, giving our client base reliability and accelerated processing capabilities. This has enabled our clients to reduce large model return times from days down to hours and minutes.• Working in close partnership between Microsoft and our clients, I have been closely involved in testing, promoting and deploying a number of Azure grid computing proof of concepts aimed at complementing the Towers Watson HPC offering. Show less

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  Nick Evans IT

  Feb 2013 - now

  Owner & Senior Consultant

  A self start-up consultancy aimed at addressing technical requirements for mid-sized EMEA businesses focussing on mobile and cloud services.

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  3Degrees.it Ltd

  Jan 2015 - Apr 2018

  Business Owner

  Are IT and technology challenges preventing you from achieving your goals? Technology coaching and assistance is on hand to help you through those barriers.3Degrees will run your systems smoothly, and be your personal IT lifeline in case you have any tech related questions. No matter your current level of technical capability, 3Degrees can help your business optimise productivity and flow in any area of your digital life.​3Degrees provides a one-stop-shop for IT and helps guide customers through our IT maturity model to continually develop and improve their business and processes. Show less

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  Nick Evans Technology

  Jun 2018 - now

  Owner Nick Evans Technology

  www.nickevans.it