All,
Following Steven Law passing the baton to me recently, I thought it would be worthwhile introducing myself as the new Chair of the APP Cx Community.
I have been managing Flare/APP systems since 2000, and have attended the User Group and Community events since taking on that role, where I have likely met many of you. I was a system manager for Torfaen CBC in South Wales until 2023, when I moved to a corporate IT role, but have remained heavily involved in the system and am now mentoring the new system manager. I also hold a consultancy/contractor position with Blaenau Gwent CBC, where I continue to manage APP day to day.
I have acted as Chair of the South West region of the user group, and stepped into a Vice Chair role for the national group when we reorganised during the Covid period, specialising in GDPR and Data. I have had the privilege of working closely with Steven and the rest of the Leadership Team and hope to continue where Steven has left off.
I believe strongly in the benefits of the Community, and plan to work hard to continue our development, and facilitate the ethos of "users helping users" which has always been at the heart of what we do.
We have an almost unique organisation in the "User group" sphere, in that we remain independent of the supplier, which provides us the opportunity to ensure we work in the best interests of users - our members. We have enjoyed a good relationship with Civica over the years and I, along with the Leadership Team, will continue to work to maintain this.
I am sure I will speak to many of you in the near future, but in the meantime please don't hesitate to drop me a line at kevin@appcxcommunity.org if you have any questions!
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