Ian is the Director of Merchandising & Operations in the Software Business Unit at Computacenter plc, the largest reseller of Software in the United Kingdom. His teams span Software Operations, Product Management, Support Subscription Renewals and Software Supply Chain; he is ultimately accountable for the VOLUME software business at Computacenter, which covers 97% of the order volume and 40% of the value of software sold by the business unit.
Ian spent 17 years at Digital (Trainee Programmer, Software Specialist in PC and Industrial Distribution channels, through starting DECdirect Software (zero to $100m sales in 18 months), to being Group Manager of their UK Software Products Business); grew the Digital business at distributor Metrologie from £12m to £52m in 2 years, and their Microsoft business from £1m/month to £5m/month in 4 months at doubled profit levels; became Head of Marketing Services at Demon Internet, growing their subscriber base fom 116,000 to 228,000 in 2 years at industry lowest acquisition costs; did a variety of projects related to small business Internet services and Internet Vulnerability Testing Services at BT. Following consultancy work at Trafficmaster plc, Ian returned to CCD Metrologie to start their Linux business, working with Red Hat, IBM, HP and MySQL, before moving into the Software Business Unit of the parent company.
Outside work, Ian enjoys the gym, football (Aston Villa supporter), reads the Economist and a wide range of books on High Technology, Lean methods, Marketing and business trends. He is also learning to program in Python and using the Django MVC Framework - a return to his roots as a system programmer on Digital PDP-8, PDP-11 and VAX computers earlier in his career.
In time, this web site will be repurposed in Django when his various hacks are credible enough for people to see ;-)
In an attempt to avoid having contact details harvested, you can find Ian at:
Work: ian dot waring at computacenter dot com
Home: ian dot waring at gmail dot com
