A highly tenacious CTO with excellent leadership skills, strong business focus and acumen. Excellent track record in building business-IT partnerships up to board level, leading large teams through change, IT/IS strategy and policy, Programme & Portfolio Management, Application Architecture Design and Implementation and IT performance management - particularly driving costs down and performance up. Specialties: Creating, leading and implementing of visions, Building business-IT partnerships, IT/IS strategy and policy, Programme & Portfolio Management, Application Architecture Design and Implementation and IT performance management - particularly driving costs down and performance up.

Head of Change & IS @ Additional responsibility to CTO role for leading change & IS function for Business Services, Generation and UK Centre bsuinesses. Up to 100 staff. £30m+ budget. Includes resposibility for significant business change project implementation. Member of divisional board for shared services. From September 2009 to Present (6 years 4 months) Chief Technology Officer @ Responsible for managing the CIO's Office including resposibility for IT Strategy, IT Performance and Design Authority. Deputising for CIO in his absence. From 2007 to Present (8 years) Head of IT Strategy @ Responsible for determining future IT strategy, managing strategy team. Included working with Corporate HQ in Germany and IT management team in UK as well as managing own team of 3 people. Member of divisional board for Shared Services. From 2003 to 2006 (3 years) IT Strategy Manager, Energy Trading @ Responsible for determining future infrastructure and application strategy and architecture of trading systems. From 2002 to 2003 (1 year) Project Manager @ From 1999 to 2002 (3 years) Head of Data Management @ From 1998 to 1999 (1 year) Project Assurance Manager @ From 1997 to 1998 (1 year) Change Programme Manager @ Managing portfolio of Change Projects in Energy Settlements & Information Services Division From 1996 to 1997 (1 year) Various IT Roles @ Analyst, Project Management, Consultancy, Account Management From 1989 to 1995 (6 years) Analyst / Programmer @ From 1987 to 1988 (1 year)

MBA @ University of Liverpool From 2003 to 2005 BSc(Hons) Computer Science @ University of Teesside From 1985 to 1989 Acklam Sixth Form College John Middleditch is skilled in: IT Strategy, Change Management, Strategy, IT Management, Project Management, Management, Leadership, Stakeholder Management, Shared Services, Business Transformation, Project Delivery, PRINCE2, Business Analysis, Outsourcing, Program Management