Christopher Thorpe

Background

About Christopher Thorpe

Delivering ICT strategies: resourcing, digital transformation, infrastructure, application and disaster recovery. Instrumental in the future direction of organisations. Operating at senior management/executive level delivering premise, shared and outsourced services. Managing contracts obtaining value for money. Complex programme and project portfolio management. Highly customer and delivery focused always aiming to exceed customer expectations. Strong leadership and development skills. Managing high performance teams. In depth knowledge and background working knowledge of networks, end user computing, virtualization, private and public cloud services implementations. Key skills and expertise: Driven to improve the business - I make the IT department team an enabler to the business, to help the business achieve its mission. I am a provider of solutions, but I also understand systems and process and work to mitigate the risk that would prevent success. A proven ability to make a difference - I achieve improvement in the service provided by my teams to the business, both by changing the team’s understanding of their role, and by improving the quality of information provided to non-IT managers. A leader of teams - My success has come from my ability to make teams work cohesively towards the business goals, both within the IT function and in the broader business. Experience of many industries - I have operated in a number of different industries: private, housing and charitable companies. My experience has helped me to look differently at the problems that sector specialists find difficult to resolve.