A fully qualified accountant with over 20 years’ experience in the Housebuilding and Construction Industry, Carole has worked for a variety of companies including Taylor Wimpey, Balfour Beatty and the Avant Group where she was Divisional Finance Director and latterly Group IT and Systems Director, before moving into consultancy.

Carole has extensive experience in managing large business transformation projects. As a consultant Carole has restructured companies both from an operational and systems perspective, as well as managed new systems implementations and developed business policies and procedures. Carole works with clients to fully understand their requirements and expectations in order to design best practice solutions, which drive the desired improvements in business operation and performance.

Giles is an experienced leader and manager, who has developed exceptional front-line management and strategic capabilities throughout his career, dealing with often difficult and complex change, business restructuring and process re-engineering.

Giles has successfully restructured businesses, devised and implemented procedures, designed new house type ranges and has always remained focused on delivering excellence in quality and customer service.

With this level of experience Giles is well placed to understand the challenges facing our clients in the Housebuilding Industry and to advise and support our clients through change projects ensuring that they can achieve their objectives.

Rhodri has extensive experience as a Commercial Manager in housing development, contracting and affordable housing, and has also worked as a Quantity Surveyor in main contractor and subcontractor environments. He is skilled in commercial team leadership, commercial process improvement, risk management and the management of cost control, procurement, PQQ production and tender submissions. 

Rhodri’s interest in Construction I.T. and business improvement led him undertake his MSc in Computing and successfully manage the implementation of finance, estimating, project management, document management and construction management software within contracting and housing development companies.     

Andrew recently received an MSc in Computing Systems from Nottingham Trent University, and has 10 years of shipping experience where he has mastered how to optimise his speed to prioritise deadlines.

While completing a degree in Public Health, Andrew conducted research from which he learned how to communicate and visualise data. Andrew’s creativity equips him with resourcefulness in simplifying complex data.

Andrew works closely with the team across all aspects of the business offering support. He is also responsible for designing automations for various programs that cut out some of the repetitive tasks from the team’s workflow. His attention to detail has helped him examine projects carefully for mistakes and track the small details that lead to the timely completion of a project.

Suzanne has worked in everything from pre-sales through to customer support worldwide and interfacing with finance, facility management, project management and IT.

Suzanne has also worked on Design and Implementation with Architects, Main and Subcontractors in the UK and internationally within a number of sectors including Residential, Commercial, Civil sectors and Infrastructure.

Suzanne’s experience in working on New Engineering Contracts (NEC) and Joint Contracts Tribunal (JCT) projects allows her to accomplish specific tasks efficiently, dealing with issues of time, cost and quality effectively.

With several years experience in the Housebuilding and Construction Industry Linda understands the pressures that clients face. She is responsible for managing, planning, and monitoring each client project to deliver the required outcome, whilst providing project assurance through meetings and reports.

Before joining Optimum Linda worked in the Education sector where she has spent many years as a Chair of Governors as well as a Teacher for a private school. She has been a volunteer for a charitable organisation for most of her life.

Linda’s experience has given her the ability to not only see the bigger picture and broader requirements, but to also see and understand the detail when managing projects.

Linda brings an organised and disciplined approach to all projects she works on utilising the tools available to her to enhance project delivery.

Stephanie has a BA (Hons) Design and Innovation degree,  and Level 6 CIM Diploma in Professional Digital Marketing. This came from a passion to explore the opportunities of Marketing, Design and Sales.  

Having worked in the public sector for the last 6 years Stephanie’s skills are now focused on engaging with our clients both current and future, creating a strong online presence by publishing content which engages all and brings people’s attention to the possibilities which are achievable when working with Optimum.