Name: Matt Miller 
Job Title: Managing Director of 7C Alliance & IT Contractor
Area of expertise:
Matt Miller is the founder and Managing Director of the 7C Alliance, a Professional Association of Independent Technology Contractors who offer their services to end-clients independently of large corporations and IT services – and typically own and operate their own small limited liability companies for doing this. That may range from having one person as the fee-earner (that is, the owner themselves!) to several fee-earners (and maybe even sell an IT product or two along with the consulting or support service provided).
Matt, himself, is a leading IT professional who works independently on contract to large corporations and small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) where he provides consultancy advice and/or project management that reviews and/or implements applications that best enable businesses to achieve their objectives, and ideally efficiently as possible with minimal risk. His own primary focus for contracting is on alignment of IT services with the business (and not the other way around!)
Read Matt Miller’s blogs:
The Top 5 Market Challenges for IT Contractors
2010 and the Tennies – Years to work anywhere
On wimming your way through a hard job
Name: Andrew Wilson
Job Title: Sign Writer, Graphic Designer & Teacher
Area of Expertise: CorelDraw, PhotoShop and AutoCAD
Andrew Wilson has spent most of his working life as a Designer of graphics, signwriting, steelwork and as time went on, the computer played an ever increasing part in his work. At the outset he looked over other people’s shoulders whilst they typeset for him but now the sky’s the limit with the power of the PC and the Web at home and on the move.
Read Andrew Wilson’s blogs:
Computers and I
What’s the Alternative?
Name: Stuart Fordham
Job Title: Networking and Security Engineer
Area of Expertise: Windows servers, Linux & networking
Stuart is 32, has worked in IT for about ten years, within the finance, health and local government sectors. He is MCSE, CCNA, JNCIS, MCTS qualified (amongst others).
He got into IT during his Psychology degree, decided that Psychology required too much studying and switched to IT after graduation. He has not stopped studying IT since! He has worked in local Government, the finance industry and at the moment within the National Health Service.
He is also a technical reviewer for Redmond Magazine, and during spare time he likes to play the guitar, and he is a bit of a film buff.
Read Stuart Fordham’s blog:
Cross Examination
Name: John Allen
Job Title: IT Consultant
Area of Expertise: Medical and Financial arenas
John Allen has been working in IT since 1978, where he helped develop (and install around the world) an early version of a satellite navigation system for aircraft. Since then he has gained a considerable knowledge in all areas of IT and in a variety of industry types. Over the years he has steered IT rollouts and alignment projects from concept to completion and been the led programmer of medical / financial databases.
John has also taught computer programming / program design methodologies and pure and applied mathematics at Universities both in the UK and in China.
John is currently a Self-employed IT Consultant, specialising in the Medical and Financial arenas, and more recently John has been involved with teaching IT in schools catering for Adults with Learning Difficulties. He firmly believes the days of the jargon junkie are dead, and prefers to break things down in to a user friendly / plain English format for all to follow.
Read John Allen’s blogs:
Devalued Skill Base
Captain’s Log, Stardate 1673.1 Vs The real World of IT
To Train them or not to Train them, that is the question.
Name: Moira Vincent
Job Title: Events Officer
Company: Computer Aid International
Moira works for Computer Aid International, a UK registered charity that aims to reduce poverty through practical ICT solutions.
Computer Aid provides only the highest quality, professionally refurbished computers for reuse in education, health and not-for-profit organisations in developing countries.
At Computer Aid’s London workshop we data-wipe, test and professionally refurbish donated computers and laptops from UK organisations and individuals.
Computer Aid has provided over 175,000 PCs to where they are most needed in more than 100 countries across Africa and Latin America, making us the world’s largest and most experienced ICT for Development provider.
Name: Alexia Ward
Job Title: PC Donations and Marketing Officer
Company: Computer Aid International
Alexia Ward is the PC Donations and Marketing Officer at Computer Aid International, prior to which she worked at Hotwire, an international technology PR agency.
Alexia holds an Msc in Global Politics and International Relations, with a focus on international development.
If you would like to donate your computers to Computer Aid then please contact her at alexia@computeraid.org or 0208 361 5540.
Name: Dimitri
Job Title: Front-end Developer
Area of Expertise: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, UI Design, Analytics
Dimitri has been building websites for more than six years.
Starting out in the charity sector he worked on websites and desktop software to connect schools across the world he then moved onto agency work building corporate sites for FTSE 100 & FTSE 250 companies.
Name: Ben Morgan
Job Title: Business Relationship Manager
Area of Expertise:
Ben Morgan is a Business Relationship Manager currently working for a large Residential Telecommunications organisation within IT. His career spans over 12 years and he has worked in consulting and in corporate IT departments. He has experience of Financial Services, Telecoms and Retail organisations and has delivered Online (Wealth Management and Trading), Billing, CRM, Management Information and Contact Centre solutions as well as running IT transformation initiatives.
Read Ben Morgan’s blogs:
Modern Skills Required in a Corporate IT Environment
Is 2010 the Year of the Cloud?
Name: Rob Cooper
Job Title: Senior Consultant at Sanderson Recruitment Plc
Area of Expertise: Project/Programme Management, Infrastructure & Service Management
With over 12 years recruitment experience, Rob is one of Sanderson Recruitment’s most experienced consultants, providing recruitment expertise and resource to a large number of high-profile, blue-chip organisations and a variety of SMEs.
Rob specialises in the Project/Programme Management and IT Director sectors, and has built an extensive knowledge of the market and networks of high-level candidates and clients in these areas.
Specialist areas: Contract and Permanent recruitment of IT Directors, Business Change Directors, Project & Programme Managers, Service Management specialists and Shared Service experts.
Read Rob Cooper’s blogs:
What Skills and Attributes make the best Project Manager?
Which Project Manager do I hire?
Who is the best project manager?
Where have all the Financial Services Project Managers gone?
Name: Stuart Adams
Job Title: Senior Consultant & Team Leader at Sanderson Recruitment Plc
Area of Expertise: recruitment of Software Development Professionals and Architects
Stuart has been with Sanderson recruitment PLC for nearly 11 years. Specialising in the recruitment of Software Development Professionals and Architects, Stuart’s main aim is to build trusting, lasting relationships with these individuals at all levels.
Expertise: Stuart aims to provide advice and guidance on a range of topics that directly affect the Software Development Market, these topics range from changes in technologies, market information, business and economic trends, legal changes and other related news.
Specialist areas: Software Development: Java, J2EE, Enterprise Solutions, Microsoft Technologies, .NET, C#, C, C++, Unix, RDBMS), OO Analysis and Design (Rational Tools).
Name: Vijay Nair
Job Title: VLE/ Moodle Administrator and IT Support Technician
Area of Expertise: IT/ Network Support and E-learning
Vijay is currently working as an E-learning/ VLE Administrator for a Moodle Application based Environment. He has over 17 months experience in IT Support within the Public sector, Charity Sector and Educational Sectors. He has worked with a range of Technologies such as:- Terminal services (RDP, Dameware and NetOp), Moodle/ VLE, Active Directories, SQL 2005 & My Sql Servers, TCP IP networks and Back up technologies (Tape and Hard drive backups). His greatest strengths includes completing tasks to the highest standards within fixed deadlines.
Read Vijay Nair’s blogs:
IT Graduates Vs IT Pros
The Technology behind the Helpdesk
Using VLE technology in education and outside educational environments
Name: Bhavdeep Virdee
Job Title: Business Analyst (IT for Risk Management)
Area of Expertise: Credit Risk Management & Liquidity Risk Management
Bhavdeep has an interest in the latest FSA consulting papers & new reporting structure. He is currently working with clients in the Liquidity Risk Management domain for the implementation of the latest FSA regulations.
Hobbies: Outdoor sports & biking. He plays hockey as a mid-fielder for a club in Cambridge.
How did he jump into IT? He did an MBA in Finance and IT. A career in Systems implementations in the Financial domain was ideal for and that is how he “landed” in the IT sector. 
Read Bhavdeep Virdee’s blog:
How to stay motivated while job hunting
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