Chris has Twenty years’ success in technical roles with broad and deep experience and a passion for technology and new developments. His strategic leadership skills coupled with strong relationship building allows him to influence at all levels within organisations and within customers’ organisations. Chris has built, developed and motivated large, quality, IT teams within a number of organisations from start-ups to larger enterprise companies. Chris has a strong commercial, programme management and budgetary focus with responsibility for projects in excess of £10m. He has successfully managing projects over the full software life-cycle for a variety of organisations delivering robust, fit-for-purpose IT systems in a timely manner. Chris has an excellent academic background with an MBA and 1st class honours degree.

Chris Astall is skilled in: IT Strategy, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Software, Software Development, Project Management, Databases, Architecture, Software Project..., Outsourcing, Strategy, Agile Methodologies, SaaS, Requirements Analysis, CRM, Project Portfolio..., Technical Leadership, Software Design, Service Delivery, Testing, Infrastructure, Telecommunications, Data Center, Team Leadership, Project Planning, Program Management, Start-ups, Web Services, Technology Management, Management, Integration, Leadership, Application Servers, Business Transformation, Stakeholder Management, Technology Leadership, Development Tools, Open Source Software, Recruitment, Investment Management, SDLC, IT Management, Software Configuration..., Change Management, Web Development, Java Enterprise Edition, jQuery, Agile, Cloud Computing, SOA