Island Systems Ltd - Presentation by Software Testing Consultancy based in SW London, UK on the Surrey Borders.

"Ian has been instrumental in improving the software quality procedures and practices within the organisation, working under difficult circumstances in a high pressure environment. The technical results produced and the application shown in delivering them were to a high standard." – Software Development Manager - Flomerics Ltd

"While at Canon Ian interacted well with the leaders and team members on a variety of projects and rapidly got up to speed on a range of unfamiliar technologies and software. His testing experience and efforts have made a significant contribution to helping us start to raise the general level of our software quality process." General Manager R&D Operations - – Canon Research Europe Ltd

"Ian’s work was always extremely thorough and was happy to interact not only with other members of the system test team but development as well. His test cases were of a high quality as were his problem reports. Ian picked up the products very quickly and was happy to find out information on his own. I would definitely employ Ian again if the need for a contractor arose." – Senior System Test Leader - Nortel Networks

"Ian has come into the test team learnt a new product very quickly, and has performed very well as a team member and also worked successfully independently without any excessive supervision. He has a very professional attitude and has met the quality of testing expected within the team. He has met all the deadlines set and has helped the test team as a whole, meet the system test milestones. In the future, if a similar requirement was needed. I would not hesitate in re-hiring Ian for the role." – System Test Manager - X-Cel Communications Ltd

"Ian’s experience was very much hands on and even included the soldering of test leads. He approached his work in an extremely thorough manner, with an almost obsessive attention detail that was quite appropriate for the nature of the work. The quality of his output was very high. He was completely responsive for organising the execution of his own work, and was proactive in devising effective strategies when the work specifications were imprecise. I would definitely use Ian’s services again." – Integration Test Manager - Symbian Ltd

"Quick and tactful to persuade others in the merit of his ideas. Once people were on board, he was able to organise the work to be executed and assign people to those tasks. However Ian did not leave the execution of the tests to others. He took an active role and led from the front. This was a key ingredient in his success in this project. Ian was a pleasure to work with. He kept me informed of all important issues and was always positive in outlook. Always on time, honest and calm he was a model team player." – QA Manager - Eircell - Dublin