Back to Savernake IT homepage		 philip blunt



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Looking for a JOB! what sort of job? something interesting in which I can use the grey matter and earn a modest salary.  Something which involves any combination of the following:
  • Team management / team motivation / building a team from scratch
  • Work with churches / church communities / pastoral work / counselling
  • Charitable work, secular or Christian
  • Supplier management / negotiation
  • Process Improvement
  • Local politics / local government
  • Human resources work / interviewing / advising / counselling / candidate selection
  • Supporting customers, be they customers of a charity, IT users, members of a church
  • Training - devising training courses, delivering training courses, IT related or otherwise
  • IT - designing, creating, implementing and maintaining websites
  • IT - specifying, sourcing and installing hardware
  • IT - specifying, implementing, supporting and developing software
  • IT - project management
  • Happy working from home or in an office or a combination of the two
I'm married with 3 sons, live near Marlborough in Wiltshire and was born in 1962.

I enjoy walking the dog, listening to and making music, church activities, riding my motorbike, reading (fiction & non-fiction), current affairs, politics, political satire, designing and maintaining websites, and listening to radio 4.
 it's ok - he has been known to wear a jacket and tie occasionally - he scrubs up quite well.

please email me at philip.blunt@hotmail.com
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Current Activities ('06-'10)

Since 2006 I have been involved with a number of voluntary projects to do with the church and community. I have also launched a small website development company which has been involved in providing website development expertise to a number of projects on a free of charge basis: www.savernakeit.co.uk

  • Great Bedwyn Website - ('06 to date) Website Editor for the village in which I live www.greatbedwyn.com – a project I started by designing and creating the website some four years ago. This site contains the latest news from within the village (church, school, clubs, organisations), minutes from the parish council and other local matters.
  • All Saints’ Church, Burbage - (March '10 on) Member of the PCC (Parochial Church Council) at All Saints’ Church, Burbage. Member of the leadership team for “Men of Savernake” – Men’s group for all men within the Savernake Team of churches. I maintain their webpage as part of the website for Great Bedwyn. Also involved in organising men’s breakfasts, weekend away, camping events and regular meetings.
  • Unite FC - ('09 to date) Part of the marketing launch team for Unite FC – the Pewsey Deanery Pilgrimage due to take place in June 2010. Also part of the pilgrimage steering committee. In addition I have designed, created and continue to maintain the website associated with this: www.unitefc.org
  • Great Bedwyn Scout Group ('09 to date) Chairman - Since May '09 I have been Chairman of Great Bedwyn Scout Group, which involves managing the affairs from behind the scenes (fund-raising, recruitment, accounts, organising and chairing meetings, writing letters to parents etc.) and providing support to the section leaders and volunteer helpers.
  • Great Bedwyn Surgery Patient Connect ('09 to date) - Founder member & secretary of Bedwyn Patients’ Participation group which meets regularly with local GP Surgery management team to discuss health initiatives, the provision of local healthcare, and feedback from the surgery’s patients.
  • St John’s School Marlborough ('07 to date) - Involved in conducting mock job interviews at St John’s School Marlborough for year 10 and 11 students taking business studies courses. Also adjudicated at some of their music competitions.

Other charitable and voluntary work experience includes:
  • Advisor for Young Enterprise Company Programme (2003 – 2007) - more information here
  • School Governor, Great Bedwyn Church of England Primary School (1997-2001) - more information here
  • Samaritan (1989 – 1994) - more information here

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Vodafone ('01-'06)


6-Sigma Process Improvement Specialist ('05-'06)
Use 6-Sigma methodology to improve processes around the organisation – particularly within IT Business Systems.

Senior Retail Systems Manager ('03-'05)
Accountable for all hardware & software across a retail estate of 310 shops. Main priority was to reduce the number of disparate systems which had resulted from Vodafone expanding rapidly by taking over smaller telecommunications companies.

Instrumental in starting the EPOS (Electronic Point of Sale) replacement project which resulted in the selection and implementation of new tills, hardware and software (Torex) throughout the retail estate.

Senior Application Support Manager ('01-'03)
Led a number of teams supporting a variety of application software systems throughout Vodafone. Applications involved call-centre support systems, stock control systems and the Vodafone customer website.











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Walker ('89-'01)

Consultant / Principal Consultant ('89-'01)
Involved as a Professional Services Consultant working on customer sites to implement Walker Financial software applications.

Responsibilities included
  • Designing and programming customised software
  • Training people in the programming languages
  • Project Management
  • Software support
In addition I devised a software migration offering for our customers which resulted in approx. £2million in professional services revenue. I managed a number of the migration projects personally including National Power which was worth £1.1m

As the millennium approached, a number of Walker customers were concerned about the effect of the date change to their computer systems. I devised a program which checked software for potential Y2K traps which generated £750,000 in revenue.










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The Early Years ('80-'89)

  • Norsk Data ('88-'89) Pre-sales consultant - Responding to invitations to tender, specifying systems for proposals, setting up and conducting sales demonstrations and attending conferences & exhibitions in a pre-sales capacity.
  • Norsk Data ('87-'88) Software Support Analyst - first level software support for Norsk Data's commercial customers both on customer site and phone.
  • Custom Data Systems ('83-'87) Senior Support Analyst / Programmer - Developing software systems for a variety of  commercial applications. Installing, troubleshooting, supporting and enhancing these systems both on and off site.
  • Computer Ancillaries Ltd ('80-'83) Programmer













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