UKCMG :: UK Computer Measurement Group

UKCMG Exec Committee

Adam Grummitt (Chairman)

A (Cantab), C Eng, MIEE, MBCS

Adam has been playing with computers since graduating from Cambridge way back. Doing research in mass spectrometry he used the first Digital PDP-8 in the UK and early IBM mainframes. He has since been an analyst, designer and programmer for end-users, software houses and as a consultant. He has been in performance management and capacity planning for many years, specializing in application trials, performance engineering and strategic capacity management processes. He is a founding Director of Metron 20 years ago which was an early partner in UKCMG, ITIL and itSMF and he is now responsible for consultancy and international partners and has co-authored and presented Metron's training courses. He is on the executive of the UKCMG and itSMF. He gives papers and workshops on ITIL and capacity management at numerous conferences in the UK, USA, Australia, Japan and elsewhere and is a well-known speaker at international chapters of CMG across Europe

Michael Ley got interested in computer performance while in University. His first job in the area was with ICL in the early 80s. Subsequently he moved to BACS where he ended up as Capacity Planning Manager. In 1996 he moved to NatWest and is currently Capacity TDA (Technical Design Authority) for Royal Bank of Scotland Group Telecomms. Mike is particularly interested in the use of models to forecast capacity & performance.

Ken Williams

Email: ken.williams@ukcmg.org.uk

Kenneth Williams has been involved in performance management since 1974 and been involved with CMG, in three continents, since 1986. He has worked in some 20 countries around the world at various times, analysing performance problems and performance data. He was on the CMG Melbourne branch committee for some seven years, has been UKCMG program chair for seven years and has presented a number of times at UKCMG, CMG Australia and National CMG. He is hoping that maybe the rest of the UKCMG Exec will let him call it a day soon.

He has made it across the pond to National four times, but has still not been seen there in a kilt. When not stuck behind a crossword or a bridge table, he can generally be found climbing the nearest Scottish mountain (about 50 of the 270 odd Munroes over 3000 foot completed) , walking in the countryside, or preferably in the nearest hostelry after a long hard walk.

Leon Levy

Email: leon.levy@ukcmg.org.uk

Leon is a highly experienced IT consultant having worked in the IT industry since 1983 and has been specialised in the Capacity Management field since 1986. During this time he has performed both technical and managerial roles for both end-user and consulting organisations.

Leon is from an Applications programming background and moved through Applications Support into Technical Support where he became specialised in the Capacity Management discipline.

Leon worked for a number of well known organisations (BT, Woolwich, Bank of America and M&G) taking on ever more senior positions before moving into consultancy with IBM (for 5 years) followed by a short stint with CPT Global Ltd before setting up his own consultancy company, Capacity & Performance Solutions Ltd (CPSL) in 2002.

Leon can address all aspects of Capacity Management and specialises in the areas of Capacity Management process improvement and integrating Capacity Management into the application development lifecycle.

Leon has been a speaker at a number of conferences the most recent being:

June 2006, UKCMG How to integrate capacity management into the development lifecycle
May 2004, UKCMG & November 2004, itSMF How to use SLM

Gary Mulqueen

Email: gary.mulqueen@ukcmg.org.uk

Gary currently heads the Performance and Capacity Management team within O2 UK.

While working as a Clerk of the Crown Court it became apparant that computers could have a future, and so in 1985 he made the move into IT. He joined the team that designed and wrote the Crown Court Computer system, since which time he has undertaken both technical and managerial roles in areas ranging from Unix System and Oracle Database Administration for the Lord Chancellor's Department to Forensic Computing for the Serious Fraud Office. Eventually he embraced Capacity Management and joined Metron Technology Limited.

He left his eventual role as Principal Consultant with Metron after spending 9 years with them to join O2 in early 2006. While with Metron he was involved in Customer Consultancy exercises, also having a hand in the Design and build of the Athene product. In addition, he co-wrote and gave various training courses

Gary has written and presented many papers around the subjects of Performance and Capacity Management for UKCMG and the Oracle User Group

Adrian Johnson

Email: adrian.johnson@ukcmg.org.uk

As a consultant with HyPerformix, he has worked with a number of Europe's leading financial and IT organisations. Adrian is a strong advocate of engineering discipline and good practice for Quality Assurance in IT and believes Performance Engineering is one of the key disciplines to the successful delivery of IT projects. He has been evangelising in this regard at CMG events and other PE-related conferences and events in the UK, Europe and US for several years now. Since people keep turning up to listen, maintaining this trend seems to be a mutually agreeable arrangement

Peter J. Pinto

Email: peter.pinto@ukcmg.org.uk

Peter started his career in retail banking (Lloyds), working his way up from dusting the shelves (!), cashier to lending clerk and Mortgage advisor. From there, by luck more than judgement, he got a job in the Bank's head office as a business analyst and this is where he first came in to contact with IT having to partner-up with the development teams to build applications for the Branch network.

When he saw the cars the IT guys drove to work in, he realised the errors of his previous career path ways and managed to fluke the aptitude test and get into the central system test team, where he built up knowledge of Mainframe and DB2 testing practices, and also client / server environments. He then moved to Nat West specifically to work on their Mondex (chip card technology) project, which eventually got canned despite a number of successful pilots around the world (nothing to do with him - the canning that is not the successful pilots!).

From here, he moved to their credit card project in Southend where he started adding to his already growing passion of the testing arena of system testing, user acceptance testing and Operational Acceptance Testing. This is where he started to specialise in performance testing. After a number years learning his craft and gaining experience at the coal face and seminars and conferences around the country, he felt he needed to broaden his industries knowledge outside of the banking world and joined IBM's Global Services. This was a perfect opportunity to branch out into other sectors of the market (utilities, telecoms etc).

After some years with 'big blue' he decided to go it alone and started his own Performance Testing Consultancy 'SeeShell Productions Ltd', which has now been successfully providing performance testing solutions for over 5 years to clients such as, Royal Mail, FT.com, Ministry of Defence, DHL, Fidelity Investments, Logica CMG, JP Morgan Chase, and currently Friends Provident where he has created their market leading performance testing service, which he is now running and is responsible for.

He has been described as one of the top consultants in the country, which has been borne out by being invited to write the first white paper for HP in the UK, invited to become part of the panel of experts for industry analysts, The Butler Group's annual conference, been asked to join the Exec committee of UKCMG, and recently requested to speak at the IBM world Conference in Orlando, Florida.

Derek Olive

Email: derek.olive@ukcmg.org.uk

Derek Graduated from University of Salford with BSC Hons. Business Operation and Control in 1980.

4 years programming.

6 Years as Support Director for a small Unix Systems House providing bespoke RDB software solutions and support to various industries including Broadcasting, Abattoirs and Airports.

13 Years contracting for 3 different companies providing development, deployment and support for bespoke software applications, Unix L3 Support and teaching Unix System Administration.

Currently with Hewlett Packard as an Expert level Problem Management Engineer and Project Manager ( PMP certified ) working in an ITIL environment providing Root Cause Analysis, Problem Solving and Project Management to various teams within the internal IT operation.

Katherine Walsh

Email: katherine.walsh@ukcmg.org.uk

Katherine has worked for LloydsTSB for nearly twenty years. Katherine worked in branches for six years, before successfully applying to be an “IT Trainee”.

She started life in IT operating the IBM Mainframes. When the novelty of working all hours wore off , she moved to a “normal” day job as a system programmer on the Mainframes. This involved doing support work, programming and configuring the hardware.

Katherine then took maternity leave for a year, and on her return joined the IBM Mainframe Performance and Capacity team. She then took additional maternity leave in May 2007 but is now back in the world of IT P&C !

Andy Bolton

Email: andy.bolton@ukcmg.org.uk

Andy provided his skills to many financial, telecommunications and IT companies before co-founding Capacitas^® in January 2002. He has led process re-design and tools development in several capacity management functions, optimised annual budgets saving over $50m in Capital and Operating expenditure and developed a market-leading approach to capacity management, as recognised by Gartner. Andy has a broad range of experience covering many aspects of IT Management, including performance analysis and capacity planning, and has led Capacitas^® to become an industry-recognised centre of excellence in ICT performance and capacity.

Malcolm Gunn

Email: malcolm.gunn@ukcmg.org.uk

Malcolm currently works for Barclays as part of a team providing an "internal consultancy" reviewing poor performing applications, processes and services running improvement teams and putting them back in order before passing them back to the service managers. Before working in IT Malcolm spent 15 years working in retail banking watching as various new IT systems came and went. Since moving to IT he has worked in data quality, incident, problem and change management.

During this time Malcolm has implemented a number of processes and delivered various MI reports and KPI figures. Having worked in business areas before moving into IT Malcolm now tries to encourage a partnership approach between the business and the IT areas. Often the IT community and occasionally the business forget the impact they have on the organisations customers, Malcolm has found that by putting the customer and users at the centre helps deliver effective usable solutions. Malcolm has presented at various recent conferences and forums.