Integra has built a highly trained, highly qualified, and completely dedicated team.

 

Our Team

All Integra team members have technical qualifications and many are qualified accountants. Each Integra team member has first hand experience of financial systems implementations in financial end user roles and as applications consultants for software houses. One thing common to all the team members is a professional attitude and a track record of delivering successful solutions in financial systems.

Mark Bloomer

Mark has been working on implementing financial systems since 1992, including full lifecycle project management, and is a founder and Director of Integra Associates Ltd. Mark has worked on a wide range of projects for Integra, including project management of the implementation of financial and time recording systems, design and roll out of procurement systems to over eight hundred users, and design of a number of management reporting and systems integration solutions. Mark has also project managed the implementation of Sun Systems at part of the National Grid.

Most recently Mark has been focused on assisting customers in the financial services industries to integrate Agresso to front end systems and to meet regulatory reporting requirements as well as Agresso v 5.5 upgrade projects.

Prior to founding Integra Mark spent two years as a Financial Systems Consultant with a financial software house, primarily on implementing the Agresso system.  Mark trained as a Chartered Accountant with Price Waterhouse, concluding his career there as a Senior Auditor.

PRINCE 2 Registered Practitioner
Fully qualified ACA accountant
BSc (Hons) in Engineering & Management Sciences

Gary Clydesdale

Gary has over ten years extensive and varied experience of financial applications consultancy, built on a broad accountancy background.

Gary has been with Integra working on Agresso, and Microsoft Business Solutions Axapta implementations since 2001.  Prior to this he spent three years with software houses working as a senior product consultant for both the Agresso and Axapta systems.

Gary's recent Integra projects have included development of complex web based reporting solutions in the property, transport and local government sectors as well as development of new Agresso screens using Agresso VBA tools.

Previously Gary spent eight years in the bio-science industry in positions including Systems Accountant and Financial Controller. During this period he was involved in a number of software implementations including that of the Sun Systems accounting suite.

BA (Hons) in Accounting & Finance

Ian Davis

Ian has been working with financial systems since 1983, initially as a management accountant, and later as a systems consultant.

Ian's projects have included development and roll out a number of local government sector procurement solutions development and deployment as well as consultancy in the commercial, health, and higher education sectors utilizing Agresso's PCB, logistics and Financials modules.

Ian has been with Integra for four years, and joined us after a period as systems development manager for the Agresso system at the RAC.  Previously Ian spent four years as a senior product consultant on the Agresso system at an Agresso reseller.  This followed three years as financial controller and systems accountant at an NHS trust where he was responsible for selecting and implementing the Agresso system.  Prior to this Ian worked in a number of management accounting and business analyst roles in the commercial sector.

FCCA

David Trevette

David has been working with financial systems for fourteen years, having worked on a number of Agresso sites.  He has extensive experience of systems development and is expert in understanding the architecture of complex systems integrations.

David has been involved in the architecture design of several complex CRM / Finance systems integrations with Siebel and PeopleSoft, including one implementation for a large motoring organisation. These projects typically encompass the detailed design of extensive shared system processes, shared data architectures and the high volume migration design of legacy data to the go live solutions. More recently David has been working closely with Agresso UK to design, develop and implement an Agresso ETL toolkit for the purposes of integration.

David joined Integra in 2002. Prior to this David spent eighteen months in the roles of Business Systems Analyst and Systems Accountant for Apex Computer Recruitment and TMP Worldwide.  During this time David was project manager and administrator for Apex's Agresso system, and business analyst for the replacement of Agresso with TMP's Oracle system.

Before this David spent three years as Finance Systems Manager for Southbank University where he was responsible for the implementation of Agresso, and four years as Finance Systems Manager at Basildon & Thurrock General Hospitals NHS Trust where he implemented Ross's CS Accounts.  He began his systems career with 2 ½ years as Assistant Finance Systems Manager at Southend Community Care Services NHS Trust. During the above roles David has also undertaken significant systems developments including database systems and system integrations between finance systems and industry specific front end, and third party external systems.

Lindy Armiger

Lindy joined Integra in 2007 and has worked on projects to implement Agresso 5.5 at an energy company, and at an entertainment brand management company as well as on a procurement system for a local government customer.

Prior to joining Integra Lindy worked for Agresso for ten years as an implementation and also as a pre-sales consultant both in the UK and the US.  This experience encompassed all Agresso versions current during this period, including most of the last year training and working on version 5.5, and has covered a wide range of modules, particularly financials and logistics as well as a wide variety of organizations, both public and private sector.  Prior to Agresso, Lindy has ten years application consultancy experience in other business systems and has worked in cost and systems analysis and healthcare administration.

BTEC HND in Public Sector Studies for Health

 Allan Burrows

Allan has ten years experience of implementing the Agresso system in a variety of industries, including project management of implementations.

Allan has been with Integra for seven years and has worked on a great variety of projects including implementing logistics and project time and billing solutions into professional service organisations and local government, and major CRM systems integrations.  Allan has undertaken a number of roles for clients including project management, business process analysis and re-engineering and systems design.

Prior to joining Integra Allan spent four years with a software house, concluding his career there as a senior Agresso product consultant.  Allan began his career with Severn Trent Water, initially in a variety of accounting roles, and later working on an implementation of Oracle Financials, and as Project Manager for the implementation of an electricity industry specific system.

PRINCE 2 Registered Practitioner
Change Management Certified Professional
Fully qualified CIMA accountant
BA (Hons) Industrial Economics

 

Ray Davidson

Ray's experience combines over ten years of implementing Agresso in a number of industry sectors throughout the full project lifecycle, with a strong commercial and public sector accounting background. Ray has been Integra's lead consultant on a project to set up a project time and billing system for a large consultancy organisation, and has worked on setting up web based procurement for a higher education and a building sector client.  More recently Ray has been leading a project to set up and integrate Agresso for a Lloyd’s insurance syndicate in its London and US offices.

Ray joined Integra in 2003 after spending six years with Fraser Williams Financial Systems where he spent time both as a Senior Product Consultant and as a Senior Pre-Sales Consultant on the Agresso system.  Prior to that Ray spent 19 years in Education, local Government and Private Practice, where he occupied roles including that of Senior Auditor with KPMG, and Deputy Finance Director. During this period he was responsible for implementing two financial systems including Oracle and Microcompass.

Business Analyst Certified Professional
Fully Qualified CIMA accountant

Ted Wright

Ted has a wealth of experience in the software applications industry having 26 years of experience in a wide variety of roles on both the customer and supplier side, from development, installation and support through to project management of implementation teams.

Ted has worked on a wide range of Agresso based projects at Integra including implementation of the debtors' module with periodic invoicing and payment plans, system audits, and a re-implementation at a UK university.

Ted has been with Integra for over five years.  Prior to this Ted spent four years as Customer Services Manager for Prophecy Europe.  This followed a two year spell as Senior Product Consultant with Agresso UK, and nine years as Senior Pre-Sales Consultant & Development Manager for Walker International. Prior to that Ted spent six years working through the traditional software development route of analyst programmer, systems analyst, and business analyst with a number of hi-tech companies.

BSc (Hons) Computer Science
PRINCE 2 Certified

Jeremy Barclay

Jeremy joined Integra two years ago and has worked on projects to implement Agresso’s automated bank statement load, development of interfaces to the Sales, Purchase and General Ledgers, as well as system enhancements to meet business and local government standards. Jeremy has also worked on projects to develop reports using all the standard Agresso report writing tools.  

Jeremy has worked with the Agresso system since 1999, initially as Finance Systems manager and then as development manager at the RAC.  Jeremy's projects here included the successful development and implementation of a multi-million pound billing system, as well as system enhancements to the Sales, Purchases and General Ledger configurations.

Fully Qualified CIMA accountant
BA (Hons) Accounting and Finance

Tom Jordan

Tom has been working with Integra in project management roles for the last 3 years, including an assignment to manage the full implementation of Agresso at Ipswich Borough Council, to manage an upgrade of the Agresso software to version 5.5 at the Royal Marsden NHS Trust, and to implement a new Agresso 5.5 system at Bath University. Tom has brought excellent communication skills, string planning ability, team building and motivational skills to all of these projects.

Tom has nearly 30 years of experience in the IT industry, over 25 of which have been with the FWL Group (previously known as Fraser Williams) and has experience of all aspects of software development and product implementation.  Tom has 20 years experience in project management and has worked with a number of customers in various sectors of industry, both commercial and public. Tom has managed the implementation of Agresso at the Scottish Prison Service, the Royal Air Force Maintenance Group, the Port of Felixstowe (which was the first live implementation of Agresso in the UK), Lopex, Inveresk Research, Hammerson, the CITB, Capital Shopping Centres and The Bank of England.

He has managed a wide variety of software projects, and has a good track record of delivering project objectives on time and to budget.

BSc (Hons)
MBCS CITP

Paul Morrison

Paul is a highly experienced technical professional with design, specification and development experience in a number of languages, operating systems and databases.  He has a great breadth and depth of experience of Agresso installations, and has been working on Agresso installations since the early 1990’s.  Paul’s contribution to Integra’s projects has always been valuable and his skills and approach are highly regarded by both our customers and his fellow consultants.  Paul has been working with Integra on Agresso projects since 2006 and has worked on a variety of projects including Agresso software installations, including version 5.5, system reviews and audits, technical training, database tuning, and development work including purchasing ‘punch-out’ to procurement market places, and report writing using all of Agresso’s reporting tools.

BSc (Hons) in Computing

Lynda Ball

Lynda is Integra’s Finance Director, and runs our own back office systems, providing administrative support to the in-house team and associate consultants.

Lynda worked as an accountant in practice for twelve years where she was Corporate Services manager to a wide client base.  After working in practice Lynda was financial accountant to an independent tour operator where she was involved in systems implementation and testing.

BA (Hons) Pure Mathematics
Fully qualified ACA accountant  

 

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