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Johnny Read
Johnny is a businessman in touch with his inner geek. He seeks to bring together his understanding of business and technology to put solutions together. He particularly works in the Business Intelligence and Enterprise Systems parts of the business, and has been with Village over 20 years. As well as being a partner in the business he is a lecturer at Liverpool Business School.
Ian Bufton
Clients respect Ian's ability to examine complex technical and business situations, and mastermind solutions. Our partners often want Ian at their side as they talk through solutions with their clients. As a partner in the business and with experience in the business-to-business eCommerce field as well as financial sector projects, Ian brings authority to the projects with which he works.
Sue Roberts
Putting effective solutions together takes more than great technical skills and process. Sue has extensive experience in the information solutions field, which she deploys to ensure Village develops long term clients, not flash in the pan projects. She also helps to ensure that we are not just clever programmers but we provide an infrastructure around our work to ensure we are a sure footed and reliable partner to our clients.
Kat Todd
To our clients' staff, Kat is their friend in time of need, providing first line support and talking to our users in a way they understand. Kat keeps the office humming along with her meticulous administrative work in Sage and SQL Server, while producing critical reports for in-house use and further afield, using Crystal, Microsoft and Zap reporting and Power BI.
Margaret Macaskill
Margaret has been with Village Software for over 20 years; longer than many companies last! She is most often found grappling with tricky technical problems and wearing the crown of 'SQL Guru'. Her extensive experience means that she has a wide range of knowledge resources to call upon in response to new problems (which are often old problems in different disguises). Having been around the block a few times Margaret has wide experience, and has recently been working on Enterprise Reporting and Business Intelligence issues.
Mike Banner
Mike enjoys providing the analysis for solutions to the client and leads teams to deliver the highest quality of work. Mike's solutions are on big screens in factories, on ticket-vending machines around the country and on tablets in the hands of salespeople in the field. He brings understanding and practical innovation to solutions and provides a deep technical knowledge of Smart Card technologies and payment systems for our Integration projects.
Ste Griffiths
Ste has worked on a wide array of solutions for our customers since joining Village in 2012. He now forms a bridge between our customers and development teams, to aim for the best results the two parties can achieve together. He is keen to help fresh developers sharpen their skills and knowledge in the pursuit of well-made software.
Paul Geering
Paul is our embedded systems expert and spends a lot of time juggling the conflicting requirements of minimising battery use while communicating over the internet in his work on low power systems. When he’s not elbow-deep in obscure electronics he works on Enterprise Integration projects and has clocked up a remarkable number of hours on clients’ sites making uncooperative systems communicate.
Dominic Bisset
In his time at Village, Dom has helped with most projects across the company, bringing architectural expertise and technical excellence to whatever he works on. Now Dom spearheads the Business Intelligence effort, working to deliver comprehensive Data Warehousing and Analytics solutions for clients looking to get a better view of their organisation. Whether you’re looking for some straightforward reports, interactive charts or a self-service Natural Language interface, Dom will be able to help you.
Nisreen Al-Dasoqi
After completing her PhD degree in electronics engineering, Nisreen decided to explore the software development world. She now applies the precision that she learnt at university to help ensure a great quality project by planning, coding and executing our tests. Her Selenium suites allow us to confirm each successful upgrade, as well as lowering the costs of pre-release testing for user interfaces.
Anni Veijalainen
Anni has a knack for pinpointing what users want and what they really need. She drives us to deliver software that is the perfect fit for the client’s situation. With enthusiasm for design and user experience, she is helping with our development of data visualisation tools and comparing our kiosk user experience design with best practice, to allow us to improve our products.
Kaja Chłostowska
Kaja joined us over a year ago after graduating from Liverpool John Moores University with a degree in Computer Games Technology. Bringing unique perspectives from the gaming industry, her solid programming skills have been used, for example, to make a success of the ZyroFisher merger, and to bring additional diverse organisations into the SampleTrack world.
Lance Edusei
Lance is working for Village for the second time in his career, currently working on .Net projects in eCommerce and ticketing. Like many of the members of the team who have been working for decades he has a broad range of database and development skills and a long experience of providing customer service. Lance had a 7 year break from Village and has come back to find some of the same projects are still delivering.
Joseph Monaghan
Joe studies Software Engineering a Liverpool John Moores University. He has joined Village on an industrial placement, applying his TSQL skills on the Business Intelligence projects and reshaping the reporting on our SampleTrack product.
Aynes Bekir
Aynes studies Computer Science at the University of Liverpool. Since joining Village on industrial placement, she has enthusiastically engaged with some of our most complex problem domains, showing a keen understanding for technical detail and software design. Aynes takes readily to every new challenge, concept, or framework the job can throw at her.
Graham James
Graham's background is in Enterprise Information Solutions within the Manufacturing, Education, Healthcare and Supply Chain sectors. The depth of his Board level experience in IT adds dynamism to the management team to grow in traditional and new markets.
Martin Stevenson
With over 25 years’ experience and sustained record of success in both the public and commercial sectors, Martin brings to Village an extensive background in global business services consultancy, managing complex change programmes to achieve business objectives within critical deadlines. Having a passion for technology, he provides pragmatic leadership to build trusted teams that can create robust strategies to translate vision into reality.
Roger Mathers
Roger brings to the Village team a wealth of business development experience both on an international and UK level across sectors such as education, manufacturing, telecoms and transport. His insightful input to the management team keeps us on track!
Tom French
Tom joined us from University of Liverpool for his industrial placement as a part of his degree in Software Development. During his time at Village Tom has taken on new technologies with confidence to help us successfully deliver a project from start to finish for one of our newest clients.
Managing Director
Johnny is a businessman in touch with his inner geek. He seeks to bring together his understanding of business and technology to put solutions together. He particularly works in the Business Intelligence and Enterprise Systems parts of the business, and has been with Village over 20 years. As well as being a partner in the business he is a lecturer at Liverpool Business School.
Technical Director
Clients respect Ian's ability to examine complex technical and business situations, and mastermind solutions. Our partners often want Ian at their side as they talk through solutions with their clients. As a partner in the business and with experience in the business-to-business eCommerce field as well as financial sector projects, Ian brings authority to the projects with which he works.
Commercial Director
Putting effective solutions together takes more than great technical skills and process. Sue has extensive experience in the information solutions field, which she deploys to ensure Village develops long term clients, not flash in the pan projects. She also helps to ensure that we are not just clever programmers but we provide an infrastructure around our work to ensure we are a sure footed and reliable partner to our clients.
Reporting Analyst
To our clients' staff, Kat is their friend in time of need, providing first line support and talking to our users in a way they understand. Kat keeps the office humming along with her meticulous administrative work in Sage and SQL Server, while producing critical reports for in-house use and further afield, using Crystal, Microsoft and Zap reporting and Power BI.
Senior Developer
Margaret has been with Village Software for over 20 years; longer than many companies last! She is most often found grappling with tricky technical problems and wearing the crown of 'SQL Guru'. Her extensive experience means that she has a wide range of knowledge resources to call upon in response to new problems (which are often old problems in different disguises). Having been around the block a few times Margaret has wide experience, and has recently been working on Enterprise Reporting and Business Intelligence issues.
Senior Developer
Mike enjoys providing the analysis for solutions to the client and leads teams to deliver the highest quality of work. Mike's solutions are on big screens in factories, on ticket-vending machines around the country and on tablets in the hands of salespeople in the field. He brings understanding and practical innovation to solutions and provides a deep technical knowledge of Smart Card technologies and payment systems for our Integration projects.
Senior Developer
Ste has worked on a wide array of solutions for our customers since joining Village in 2012. He now forms a bridge between our customers and development teams, to aim for the best results the two parties can achieve together. He is keen to help fresh developers sharpen their skills and knowledge in the pursuit of well-made software.
Developer
Paul is our embedded systems expert and spends a lot of time juggling the conflicting requirements of minimising battery use while communicating over the internet in his work on low power systems. When he’s not elbow-deep in obscure electronics he works on Enterprise Integration projects and has clocked up a remarkable number of hours on clients’ sites making uncooperative systems communicate.
Senior BI Analyst
In his time at Village, Dom has helped with most projects across the company, bringing architectural expertise and technical excellence to whatever he works on. Now Dom spearheads the Business Intelligence effort, working to deliver comprehensive Data Warehousing and Analytics solutions for clients looking to get a better view of their organisation. Whether you’re looking for some straightforward reports, interactive charts or a self-service Natural Language interface, Dom will be able to help you.
Software Tester
After completing her PhD degree in electronics engineering, Nisreen decided to explore the software development world. She now applies the precision that she learnt at university to help ensure a great quality project by planning, coding and executing our tests. Her Selenium suites allow us to confirm each successful upgrade, as well as lowering the costs of pre-release testing for user interfaces.
UI/UX Designer
Anni has a knack for pinpointing what users want and what they really need. She drives us to deliver software that is the perfect fit for the client’s situation. With enthusiasm for design and user experience, she is helping with our development of data visualisation tools and comparing our kiosk user experience design with best practice, to allow us to improve our products.
Developer
Kaja joined us over a year ago after graduating from Liverpool John Moores University with a degree in Computer Games Technology. Bringing unique perspectives from the gaming industry, her solid programming skills have been used, for example, to make a success of the ZyroFisher merger, and to bring additional diverse organisations into the SampleTrack world.
Developer
Lance is working for Village for the second time in his career, currently working on .Net projects in eCommerce and ticketing. Like many of the members of the team who have been working for decades he has a broad range of database and development skills and a long experience of providing customer service. Lance had a 7 year break from Village and has come back to find some of the same projects are still delivering.
Junior Developer
Joe studies Software Engineering a Liverpool John Moores University. He has joined Village on an industrial placement, applying his TSQL skills on the Business Intelligence projects and reshaping the reporting on our SampleTrack product.
Junior Developer
Aynes studies Computer Science at the University of Liverpool. Since joining Village on industrial placement, she has enthusiastically engaged with some of our most complex problem domains, showing a keen understanding for technical detail and software design. Aynes takes readily to every new challenge, concept, or framework the job can throw at her.
Business Consultant
Graham's background is in Enterprise Information Solutions within the Manufacturing, Education, Healthcare and Supply Chain sectors. The depth of his Board level experience in IT adds dynamism to the management team to grow in traditional and new markets.
Business Consultant
With over 25 years’ experience and sustained record of success in both the public and commercial sectors, Martin brings to Village an extensive background in global business services consultancy, managing complex change programmes to achieve business objectives within critical deadlines. Having a passion for technology, he provides pragmatic leadership to build trusted teams that can create robust strategies to translate vision into reality.
Chairman
Roger brings to the Village team a wealth of business development experience both on an international and UK level across sectors such as education, manufacturing, telecoms and transport. His insightful input to the management team keeps us on track!
Junior Developer
Tom joined us from University of Liverpool for his industrial placement as a part of his degree in Software Development. During his time at Village Tom has taken on new technologies with confidence to help us successfully deliver a project from start to finish for one of our newest clients.