Staff Interview Name Peter Burden Job title Head of Finance & Operations Technology Department/Division Group IT Date of joining CLC January 2019 Based Southampton
What were you doing immediately before joining us? Before CLC I worked for Graitec, a national Autodesk reseller. As part of my role at Graitec I helped deliver the managed IT Service to small clients in the Architectural, Engineering, Construction & Manufacturing industries. A lot of IT Infrastructure refreshes and installs! Previous experience? Last year I was involved with the cloud upgrade for CLC’s ERP system from the on-premise Dynamics Nav deployment to the cloud based Business Central. A big part of this was the customisation of Business Central through development of Al Code customisations.
Plans for the merged business in outline? Regular communications with function leaders to ensure IT is aligned with business requirements. To work with the business teams to Integrate, merge and unify applications. Implement and support new applications as requested. How will your plans improve our business? When the Business and IT are aligned, we can prioritise and push forward timely and relevant projects. The merge into group systems and applications will allow teams to work together and unite on a single set of IT solutions.
Any challenges you would like to share? Managing change so we can control the risk associated with that change is going to be key. When changing applications, their configuration or ways of working in general, we have to respect what that means for our end users, so communicating and controlling this change properly is critical. Immediate priorities – what does your day look like? It’s a case of maintaining our “As Is” applications, with a mix of planning and arranging our migration to our “end state” applications. Also as requirements for our “end state” becomes clearer, planning and standing up a support function within the team for these applications and services.