Matthew Lowden

IT Consultant

Project Manager

IT Engineer

Web Designer

Matthew Lowden

IT Consultant

Project Manager

IT Engineer

Web Designer

About Me

Hello! I’m Matthew Lowden – Technical Project Manager, IT Engineer and Consultant from the UK, Derbyshire. I have a wealth of experience in the IT industry and use my insightful, deep, strategic analysis to help IT leaders make high-stakes decisions. I have a history of delivering in enterprise environments always looking to make technology work for business.  I also enjoy building and hosting websites and generally being geeky with new technology. 

  • Employed: Derbyshire Police
  • Current Role: Project Manager
  • Address: Ripley, Derbyshire, UK
My Experiences
IT Due Dilligence

Core IT Diligence: Discover the scope, reliability and opportunities arising from IT applications, processes, infrastructure, teams, and how well they meet your current and future business needs.

IT Consultancy

Implementing an effective digital strategy across front, middle and back-office IT environments is crucial to staying relevant, secure and run your business efficiently. Bringing a wealth of IT and business experience to any team.

Project Management

Speed up your IT project delivery by bringing in someone who has seen it all before. Having delivered projects with a wide ranging complexity, technology and cost has allowed me to gain great insights into successful delivery. Agile or Waterfall methodologies to fit with any business requirements.

Website Building and Hosting

Need a web presence? Want to upgrade your business site to this century? Partner with someone who hosts and builds websites. UK data centre, fast content delivery, single page sites to full blown eCommerce. 3cohosting.com

Security Clearance
Home Office
Security Check (SC)
  • Expires 10/01/2024
Ministry of Defence
Security Check (SC)
  • Expires 19/01/2029
NPPV2 (non police personnel)
Counter Terrorist Check (CTC)
  • Expires 01/08/2021
DXC
BPSS
  • Expires 19/01/2029
Fun Facts
25 mins Fastest 5k This Year (so far!)
Built 23 WordPress sites
Favourite Place Las Vegas
2 children
Clients
Resume
Experience
November 19 - Present
Project Manager
Derbyshire Police

Managing complex project deployments. Ensuring project deliverables are met and that these are aligned to the forces strategic objectives

April 2017 - November 2019
Bionix and Automation Deployment Lead
DXC

Bionix Deployment Lead for UK&I and EMEA involves automation tooling deployments, implementing lean methodologies and using analytics and machine learning to deliver the company’s digital transformation strategy.

December 2015 - April 2017
European Platform Capability Manager
CSC

Specialist in Infrastructure Event and Incident Life Cycle Management as well as Subject Matter Expert for Infrastructure Monitoring (Midrange, Mainframe, AS400 and Networks)

October 2014 - December 2015
Operations Manager Remote Management Systems
CSC

Operations Manager responsible for day-to-day running of RMS monitoring (Cloud, Midrange, Mainframe, AS400 and Networks) operations across UK Accounts with direct reports (35+) of varying skill-sets ranging from 1st and 2nd Line Engineers to apprentices on multiple accounts

CERTIFICATION
2019
Scrum Master
Scrum.org

Certified Agile Scrum Master PSM1 - scrum.org

2015
Prince2 Practitioner
Prince2

PRINCE2 2017 Foundation & Practitioner

2011
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft

Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) Certification

2010
ITIL Foundation
ITIL

ITIL® Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management

2019
Degree in Computing, IT and Statistics with the Open University
Open University

Currently studying for a degree in Computing, IT and Statistics with the Open University (year 3)

2020
Change Management
APMG

Change Management - Foundation. For professionals dealing with organisational change, transition and transformation

My Skills
Operating Systems
  • Windows Server 2008 onwards
  • RedHat
  • Solaris
  • Ubuntu
Soft Skills
  • Communication
  • Leadership
  • Public Speaking
  • Planning
Business Areas
  • Operations
  • Service Management
  • Finance
  • Project Management
Coding
  • YAML
  • Json
  • PHP
  • HTML / CSS
Recent Website Works
Latest Posts
November 7, 2019 Event Monitoring: Why we get it wrong. How to get it right.

Why we get it wrong. First of all we should recognise that event Monitoring is hard. We know we need…

November 16, 2018 Designing the perfect

Ex audire suavitate has, ei quodsi tacimates sapientem sed, pri zril ubique ut. Te cule tation munere noluisse. Enim torquatos…

November 16, 2018 Music Player Design

Ex audire suavitate has, ei quodsi tacimates sapientem sed, pri zril ubique ut. Te cule tation munere noluisse. Enim torquatos…

November 16, 2018 A Song And Dance Act

Ex audire suavitate has, ei quodsi tacimates sapientem sed, pri zril ubique ut. Te cule tation munere noluisse. Enim torquatos…

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