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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.
Kathryn 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.
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 helping us to improve our products and generally making what we design and our clients use look and work the part.
Kaja Chłostowska
Kaja joined us some years 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 across a range of projects from bringing additional diverse organisations into the SampleTrack world to interacting with Government API's for record checking.
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.
Aynes Bekir
Aynes is a Computer Science graduate from 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.
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!
James Fisher
James came to us on placement from Edge Hill University, and has worked across a range of technologies, including Angular and .Net. Placement over he is working with us while he completes his studies.
Tom Horsfall
Tom has worked extensively on back end systems, both on enterprise systems for enterprise integration and business intelligence and on front end system design and delivery.
Tom Colbeck
Tom is involved in the heavy lifting end of data preparation for clients pulling in data from a range of sources and structuring it for clients to to gain management insights.
James Wynne
Joining Village of the back of a masters course James is bringing his wider experience to the application development team.
Jahan Ulhaque
Jahan is on placement with us from Liverpool University has got stuck into the world of .Net and Angular and delivering solutions for clients.
Lorenzo Jumilla
Lorenzo on placement with us from Liverpool University has got stuck into the world of .Net and Angular and delivering solutions for clients. He has previously done exciting things with robots.
Helen Macaskill
After completing her PhD degree in Physics Helen has moved more deeply into the data world. She is applying the technical skills for data management and the sharp thinking to find solutions.
Jess Farrell
Jess specialises in visual analytics and predominantly works with the Tableau and Power BI toolsets. Jess has worked with a varied client base across markets including retail, manufacturing, Healthcare, Education and Telco.
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
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 helping us to improve our products and generally making what we design and our clients use look and work the part.
Developer
Kaja joined us some years 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 across a range of projects from bringing additional diverse organisations into the SampleTrack world to interacting with Government API's for record checking.
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.
Developer
Aynes is a Computer Science graduate from 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.
Advisor
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
James came to us on placement from Edge Hill University, and has worked across a range of technologies, including Angular and .Net. Placement over he is working with us while he completes his studies.
Developer
Tom has worked extensively on back end systems, both on enterprise systems for enterprise integration and business intelligence and on front end system design and delivery.
BI Developer
Tom is involved in the heavy lifting end of data preparation for clients pulling in data from a range of sources and structuring it for clients to to gain management insights.
Junior Developer
Joining Village of the back of a masters course James is bringing his wider experience to the application development team.
Junior Developer
Jahan is on placement with us from Liverpool University has got stuck into the world of .Net and Angular and delivering solutions for clients.
Junior Developer
Lorenzo on placement with us from Liverpool University has got stuck into the world of .Net and Angular and delivering solutions for clients. He has previously done exciting things with robots.
Junior BI Developer
After completing her PhD degree in Physics Helen has moved more deeply into the data world. She is applying the technical skills for data management and the sharp thinking to find solutions.
Associate BI Consultant
Jess specialises in visual analytics and predominantly works with the Tableau and Power BI toolsets. Jess has worked with a varied client base across markets including retail, manufacturing, Healthcare, Education and Telco.