HELEN WITNEY
- 16 BYLAND DRIVE
SL6 2HF MAIDENHEAD
Phone: (+44) 01628 621370
Fax: (+44) 0870 169 7146
E-mail: Send messagewww.witney-vaal.co.uk
Short profile:
Born and educated in the Netherlands, Helen arrived in the UK in 1984 with a ‘doctoraal’ degree (M.A. equivalent) in English Language and Literature from Leiden University. Unable to enter the teaching profession in Holland due to a surplus of candidates and high levels of unemployment, she went to live and work in this country, to soak up the language and culture and improve her chances in the Dutch job market in the longer term.
Detailed description:
A short stint in the conference department at the British Computer Society provided her introduction to setting up a database, using one of the first generations of personal computer on an office LAN. She moved on to IT consultancy firm Eosys Limited, then based in Farnham Common, Bucks. From providing secretarial and project support initially, she graduated to consultancy, mainly to public sector clients, in the areas of office automation and application design. She remained there for seven years, during which time she married and settled in the UK permanently.
In 1992, after a maternity break, she moved to East Berkshire Community Health NHS Trust and held a series of posts in Information Management and Technology with responsibility for corporate activity data flows, managing the associated information systems and routine information reporting, as well as data administration and Data Protection. Latterly, she project managed the implementation of range of solutions for activity data collection in the community, with a budget of £500k.
Keywords:
Helen Witney, Witney Vaal, NHS, Health, information, consultancy, informatics, Maidenhead, administration