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about me

My name is Tim Clayton and I am an ex-finance industry professional with nearly 20 years of technical experience providing I.T. support within the finance sector. I have a proven track record for problem-solving, setting up and maintaining security systems and have had extensive experience managing a wide variety of projects.

Some of my past roles in the finance industry were at management level and whilst being interesting in many ways, I reached a point where I felt that I had reached the peak of realistic achievement in this sector. I also found that with higher-level positions, I was less able to be as "hands-on" as I would like to be. After all, to a large degree solving problems is what working in the I.T. sector is all about.

I therefore took the plunge and opened for business in October 2005. It has given me the opportunity to solve a wide variety of problems for people and have the benefits (and occasional downsides too!) of working for myself and running my own business.

My computer experience is detailed below:


1969 - Born in Jersey.

1972 - Attended nursery at Colomberie House, and spent much of
the year in the 'Rumpus Room', only taking time out to play a
shepherd in the Nativity Play.

1973 - Started school at St Michael's.

1970s - My Dad brought home a number of different home-build
computer kits which my brother and I managed to get to play with.

1981 - We finally got our first real computer, the Sinclair ZX-81
(with a whopping 1K of RAM) and I started learning BASIC
programming language so I could write my own games.

1982 - The ZX-81 was quickly replaced with the BBC Micro Model B
(32K of RAM and colour too) and I continued learning BASIC and
wrote a number of games on it. Also co-authored a 3-D fractal
landscape generator with a mathematician friend.

1983 - Left the Island to attend Blundell's School in England.

1985 - Was heavily involved in the school computer club for a
few years.

1988 - Returned to the Island to start work in the finance
industry working as an assistant to the Computer Manager at
Matheson Trust Company.

1989 - Attended Highlands College to do a 1-year BTec course
"Computers with Business" which involved many disciplines
including programming, double-entry book-keeping systems and
computer networking.

1990 - My first bout of the travelling bug - went back-packing
with a friend through the United States, Hawaii, New Zealand and
Australia.

1991 - Joined Invesco as a PC/Network Administrator and spent 3
years learning all about Desktop PCs, Windows, networking (Novell
Netware 3.11) and AS/400 mainframe systems.

1994 - Spent the next 2 years in various contract positions
(Royal Bank of Canada, Coopers & Lybrand and Hill Samuel amongst
others) to learn as much of the business as I could by getting
the widest experience possible.

1996 - Second bout of the travelling bug - took just over a year
back-packing through Europe, Africa, Asia and the Pacific
Islands, visiting 26 countries in all.

1997 - On my return to the Island, I commenced a temporary
training business with a few large clients who needed their
employees gradually trained in using Windows, Word and Excel.

1999 - Once the training had been completed, I started working for
KPMG as their I.T. Assistant Manager - plenty of desktop support,
networking skills (this time, Windows NT) and managed many large
projects over the 2 years. Single-handedly managed the I.T. side
of the breakaway of the Trust Company and spent a year transforming
the systems in preparation for a buyout.

2000 - My girlfriend and I bought our first house together.

2001 - Joined Moores Rowland/IFM as their I.T. Manager and spent my
first year managing the merger of all 3 companies in the group from
3 separate locations into 2 adjacent sites. This included linking
the 2 adjacent sites and managing all I.T. support and project work
single-handedly going forward. I set up an I.T. User Group where
users could request projects. The position also included preparing
board reports and managing the entire I.T. budget.

2001 - Finally married my girlfriend after 12 years! It would have
been a year earlier but I had forgotten to take the ring with me on
that holiday (shh, don't tell her).

2005 - We had our first child together, called Tommy. Perfect timing
as I was in the throes of setting up my business!

2005 - In October I was finally able to open my business and spent
the next year handing out flyers and other fun jobs. Quite honestly,
setting up and running my own business was one of the best things
I have ever done and I am still enjoying it thoroughly 4 years on!