User:Seanlw/Sean Whetstone

Born in Epsom, Surrey on 25th January 1968

Personal life:

Married to Natalie with two children called Sophia & Finley.

Environmentally active in home and family life, being committed to recycling and reducing energy consumption within the home.

Sean regularly takes part in TV, radio and media interviews for Asthma UK charity to promote awareness for Asthma

Education:

Chairman of Governors for Surrey Infant School called Polesden Lacey Infant School http://www.polesdenlaceyinfant.surrey.sch.uk/

Parent Governor Representive & member of Surrey County Council Schools & Learning Select Committee

Micro blogger on School Governing issues on Twitter under the name of School Governing http://www.twitter.com/schoolgoverning

IT Industry:

1987-1989 Mainframe operator for HM Treasury at Chessington Computer Centre in Chessington, Surrey UK.

The Centre provided payroll services to 70 large civil service customers processing over 170,000 salaries every month. The centre used a number of ICL Mainframes series 29 & 39 before shutting in the nineties. The ex-base is now a housing estate.

Sean joined the Reed group of companies in 1989 working on ICL series 39 mainframes. Roles undertaken have included Shift Leader, Computer Operations Analyst, I.T Systems Administrator, Systems Development Manager, Technical Manager and currently Head of I.T Services for Reed Specialist Recruitment.

Sean helped setup Reed.co.uk in 1995. Reed.co.uk is now the UK’s largest job website with over several hundred thousand of jobs online, millions of jobs are viewed each month; over a million job applications are processed each month; several million registered users and more than a million unique visitors per month http://www.reed.co.uk

Blogger on Green IT at http://www.geekygreen.co.uk

Micro Blogger on Green IT News & views under the name of Geekygreen at http://www.twitter.com/geekygreen

Contributor to the not for profit Green IT book for Greening IT Book http://greening.it

Regular speaker at Citrix Iforum on Thin Client technology and virtualization issues.

Sean has presented to several I.T Analyst panels for both Citrix and Sirocom on technology trends.

Sean has completed a number of case studies and press interviews on technology in the industry press.

Presented Green IT case study with Global Action Plan at the House of Commons, London.

Awards:

Winner of City of London Resource Conservation Award at the London Sustainable City Awards 2008.

Winner of Computing Magazine for Green Project of the Year 2008

Signed up to EC Code of Conduct for Data centre Energy Efficiency 2009

Winner of Mayor of London Green 500 Trailblazer, Engager & Platinum Awards in June 2009