Julian Knight is Head of Architecture in Corporate IT and Smarter Working for NHS England and NHS Improvement.

He has over 40 years of IT knowledge specialising in designing and implementing information systems architectures.

He is passionate about ensuring that information and technology serves people and not the other way round.

Julian is also owner of the independent IT and Information Management consultancy Totally Information which has been running since 2009.

You can contact him from this site or via his blog “Much Ado About IT” or his consultancy website.

Skills

Technical: Enterprise technical architecture and design; IT Security; Cyber Security; Information Management; Development of interoperability standards and design baselines; open standards; identity management; Internet and web standards; application development: Microsoft Office, VBA, HTML, JavaScript

Business: Development of technical strategies, policies, standards and processes; governance; project assurance; project scoping; requirements capture and analysis; customer, user and supplier engagement; supplier and product evaluation; team leadership; development of functional/non-functional requirements; process development; procurement support; process improvement; multi-supplier management; configuration management; business cases; budgets; training and seminars; technical design; business analysis

Specialities

• System Integration
• IT Strategy
• Design Authority
• IT Security & Cyber Security
• Enterprise, Solution, Technical Architect
• Technical Project Management
• Training
• Multi-supplier Integration
• Government, Health, Banking
• NHS
• Identity Management
• Office Systems
• Web Technologies
• Communication at all levels
• Interfacing between business & technical staff
• Managing expectations of customers & suppliers
• Application Development
• Sheffield, Leeds, Manchester, Nottingham, UK