Metadata is an organisation that combines strong academic expertise with extensive practical experience gained in the commercial and public sectors. This means that our clients can be confident that our courses deliver the latest thinking in best practice with lots of practical examples to bring theory to life. Our core team members are:

Dr MIKE GOODLAND

Dr Mike Goodland has been working in IT for more than 20 years as a business analyst, consultant, trainer, author and university lecturer. He was instrumental in the development of business analysis and systems development methods for the UK government and his books on that method (SSADM) have sold more than 40,000 copies.

Mike has developed courses in business analysis that have been sold to many organisations (indeed you may find that other ISEB course providers are using our materials under licence) and given hundreds of courses on this and related areas. He also has considerable practical experience through working as a consultant on many key strategic projects. Coupled with his academic and teaching experience, this ensures that as a tutor you are getting someone whose knowledge is ‘second to none’.

Richard Johnson

Richard has a wealth of experience gained in a variety of roles in blue-chip environments and the public sector, such as American Express and HM Treasury. This includes over 15 years managing programmes and projects across the world including 10 years of systems development. Richard is a very experienced PRINCE2™ Practitioner and an active Gateway™ Reviewer of Government IT projects. He is also a highly regarded public speaker and delivers training courses that are effective and entertaining. Richard is a Director of the College of Public Speaking. He is also employed on a part time basis to deliver lectures to post graduate students at the University of Greenwich in Project Management and the Strategic use of E-Business.

ED GOLDSTRAW

Ed has spent many years working on computer systems in different parts of the world. Having started as an accountant he moved into installing financial systems then diversified into industries as varied as teleselling and estate agency before specialising for a while in Enterprise Resource Planning systems for engineering and aircraft maintenance. This involved system modifications, requirements gathering, stakeholder management, data conversion etc.

He has devised courses for and trained about 1,000 people and regularly takes new qualifications to keep up to date with his fields of interest. These have included an M. Sc, in Information Systems, PRINCE 2^TM Practitioners and the Business Analysis diplomas. He has recently joined Metadata after spending 8 years in China and Spain and is also a part/time IT lecturer at Kingston University.

SIOBHAN O'CONNELL

Before joining Metadata, Siobhan worked for 5 years at the Office of Government Commerce (OGC), the organisation responsible for producing guidance (including PRINCE2™, MSP™ and ITIL™) and promoting best practice in Programme and Project Management across the public sector. Prior to this she was Skill Centre Manager for Solutions Design at O2, managing the company’s Business Analysts, Technical Architects and System Designers. She is also a PRINCE2™ and MSP™ Practitioner with 20 years experience in Project and Programme Management.

 

 

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