Our management team...

Mark Sweeny, Managing Director

Mark Sweeny, MBA, FBCS, MAPM, MCMI - Managing Director Mark is an experienced leader and has a proven track record in the delivery of large scale IT Enterprise Resource Planning enabled business change programmes. His knowledge and breadth of skills has enabled him to provide counsel and direction to the boards of two international software houses (The HUON Corporation, The Innovation Group); a niche international change management consultancy (Enzyme International Ltd); and to central government.

In 2007 Mark founded Certus Solutions, providing highly skilled System Integration services to private and public sector companies, specialising in Shared Services Oracle E-Business Suite implementations. Having successfully delivered the £25m Phoenix Shared Services Programme for Her Majesty's Prison Service, Certus was subsequently engaged to manage several high profile Shared Services projects for the new National Offender Management Services organisation.

In November 2009 Mark was awarded Medalist by the British Computing Society and Computing IT Awards for Project Management and was made a Fellow of the British Computing Society (FBCS).

In 2010 in partnership with Parity Group Plc, Mark led Parity and Certus to successfully win through open and fair competition a £6.1m contract to provide Systems Integration Services for Ministry of Justice Shared Services – Phase 1 HR Enablement Project and NOMS Organisational Restructure Technology Shared Services Projects.

Mark is a Managing Successful Programmes (MSP) and PRINCE2 accredited practitioner and also a Member of the Association of Project Management (MAPM) and a Member of Chartered Management Institute (MCMI). Mark holds a first class honours degree from Westminster University, and an MBA from Strathclyde Graduate Business School.

Tim Warner, Director

Tim is one of the leading Oracle HCM implementation consultants in the UK and EU. Since 1998, Tim has provided consultancy services either as Project Manager or Lead Consultant level on many of the largest Oracle HCM implementations in the UK and Europe. As a specialist in the Oracle HCM Family of products. Tim uses his in depth knowledge of the product set to harness the power of the e-Business Suite to maximise the benefits of the application through configuration rather than customisation.

Previous headline assignments have included the management of a pan-European rollout (14 countries) of Oracle HCM for COLT Telecom; and management Oracle HCM and Self Service HR to the Rural Payments Agency - one of the first implementations of self service in central UK Government. In 2006, Tim joined the H.M. Prison Service ‘Phoenix HR’ project in the capacities of Lead Consultant and Solutions Architect. This project delivered Oracle HCM to an employee base of over 50,000 within a shared services environment. Recent implementation projects have also have included implementing OLM for HMPS, OLM and iRecruitment for FL Smidth in Denmark, USA and India; advising CapGemini and Posten (Norwegian Post Office) on an SSHR, OTL, iRecruitment and OLM project in Norway. Tim regularly delivers training courses for Oracle University and for other customers and is a frequent contributor to Oracle User Groups in the UK and USA.

Tim is currently (2006- ) the chairman of the UKOUG HCM SIG and a member of the Oracle HCM Users Group (OHUG) in the USA. In 2008, Tim was made an ‘Oracle ACE’ by Oracle in recognition of his strong credentials in the Oracle HCM market and for his contribution to the Oracle community.

Rachel Neesham, BA, ACA, Financial Controller

Rachel is a qualified Chartered Accountant with 10 years post qualified experience. Rachel gained her ACA qualification in 2001 after training at a 5 partner Firm of Chartered Accountants. In 2001 Rachel moved into Industry to become a UK Financial Accountant for an American Gases Company. Shortly after joining she then became the European Financial Accountant responsible the European Consolidation & monthly reporting of all European Country results to the US for worldwide consolidation. Rachel left full time employment to raise a young family and in 2010 returned to became the Financial Controller for Certus Solutions (UK) LLP. Rachel has a first class honours degree in Business Administration from Leicester Business School.

Mary Thethi, Head of Testing Services

Mary is one of the country’s leading experts in software systems testing and Quality Assurance, with over 20 years management experience. She has helped numerous companies deliver mission critical programmes to the highest possible quality, whilst ensuring the cost of quality is always measured and inline with customer expectations. Her proven track record includes two global insurance companies (Lombard, Gan Insurance); three international software houses (The HUON Corporation, The Innovation Group, Rubicon Corporation); and to the UK public sector (National Offender Management Services; HM Prison Service). Mary was also one of the original and longest serving members of the award winning HM Prison Service Shared Services Phoenix Programme, where she was Head of Quality Assurance from October 2004 – October 2008 and oversaw the delivery of QA Services to Finance; Procurement; Training and HR Shared Services project streams. As a consequence she is has a wealth of knowledge of the deployment of ERP systems (Oracle E-Business Suite) into a Shared Services operational environment.

Mary has used her wealth of experience to develop a number of standard testing and QA methodologies incorporating speed of delivery; repeatable processes; enhanced defect identification and resolution; and detail reporting metrics. As a consequence Mary is often cited and is regularly called upon by leading organisations in advisory and training capacity in regard to software testing. Mary is ISEB qualified.

Mark Adam, Head of Business Change Services

Mark is a proven HR delivery professional with over 10 years experience of delivery in the public sector having worked with the Cabinet Office; Prime Ministers Office; HM Treasury; DCLG; HM Prison Service and the Healthcare Commission. His in-depth knowledge and subject matter expertise covers all HR disciplines and he has extensive experience gained through process design, service delivery and creation of HR functions and systems. In addition mark has considerable expertise in change management and communication and took a lead role in the Phoenix HR Shared Services Programme for HM Prison Service(2005-2008), where he was responsible for the planning and delivery of organisational structural change to support a new HR Operating Model that supported both Shared Services and HR Business Partners. Mark specialises in the creation and delivery of integrated toolkits for effective management of internal and external stakeholders and evaluating HR activities to demonstrate added value and impact on organisational effectiveness. Mark is CIPD qualified and has a Business degree from University of Surrey.

Jerry Seager, Head of Training Solutions

Jerry has over 20 years experience in the Oracle E-Business Suite application space, starting out as a Functional Consultant rising to the position of Chief Technology Officer and then Chief Operations Officer with EMEA Enterprise Solutions WLL, an IT Managed Services organisation based in the Gulf State of Qatar.

As part of the Executive Management Team at EMEA Enterprise Solutions WLL Jerry was key to negotiating the Protocol of Cooperation (2006 to 2009) between Oracle Systems Ltd and the Supreme Council of Information & Communication Technology (ictQATAR) which was the Qatar government wide software licensing agreement. He was pivotal in creating the vision, physical learning infrastucture and program for an innovative education initiative known as the Oracle Knowledge Transfer Centre - a unique educational and knowledge sharing environment for government employees. This was recognised as one of only a handful of Oracle Approved Education Centre's in the country.

In 2011 Jerry was appointed to set-up Certus Solutions Training Solutions Division and this quickly became an established Oracle Approved Education Centre for the delivery of HCM and Payroll R11, R12 and Fusion training courses in the UK.