Alastair Town

Digital Transformation & Innovative Leader

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Core Skills

  • Leadership & Delivery: Portfolio Management, Service Delivery and Ownership, Vendor Management, Stakeholder Influencing.
  • Methods and Standards 5 Case Model, SCRUM, OKR's, KPI's, APMG Business Case Development.
  • Data and Technical M365 Copilot, Power Platform, Sharepoint, LLM Apps, OpenAI, Gemini, Zapier, DNS Management, WordPress.
  • Commercial Cold Outbound, Sales, Business Development, Digital Marketing.
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Certifications

  • Professioanl Scrum Master 1 Scrum.org
  • Building Better Business Cases Practitioner APMG
  • Building Better Business Cases Foundation APMG
  • Agile Project Management and Delivery Google
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Education

  • MSc - Psychology Nottingham Trent University
  • BA (Hons) - Education with QTS Nottingham Trent University
  • PGCE - Leadership and Manangement Nottingham Trent University
Summary Section

Summary

A leader at the intersection of AI, education and digital transformation. I combine a strong commercial background with technical knowledge and stakeholder management to deliver exceptional outcomes. I've previously delivered an insitutional software training service for one of the UK's largest universities and, in a subsequent role, a portofolio of digital transformation projects. I've also led on AI strategy shaping guidance and policy development. I'm a recognised innovator in applying AI to solve real educational challenges, having been accepted into Microsoft's founders program, as well as featured as a starup partner by The Times Higher Education.

Work Experience Section

Relevant Work Experience

Digital Confidence Delivery Manager

Nottingham Trent University | Nottingham, UK
Feb 2023 - Present
  • Founder and chair Trent Insitute for Learning and Teaching Generative AI in academic environments. 160 member AI & Innovation community.
  • Led the strategy and development of institutional AI guidance and frontend deployment (sharepoint).
  • Delivered a portfolio of digital transformation projects and events.
  • Co-edited an internationally recognised journal (Meeting new challenges in Education) for a special GenAI issue

Founder and Lead Consultant

Broomfield Educational Consulting | Nottingham, UK
Jan 2023 - Present
  • Leading a consortium of SME's providing management and technical consultancy to the UK public sector.
  • Contracted on behalf of HM Gov's Midlands Engine to deliver GenAI training to SME owners and leaders.
  • Delivered a range of AI focused talks and workshops to public sector bodies and NGO's.
  • Providing business development services to EdTech, CIC and consulting companies (email marketing, prospecting, commerical strategy).

Co-Founder and Lead WordPress Developer

AIED Collective | Kent, UK
Jan 2025 - Present
  • Leading an online community for AI education dedicated to advancing AI literacy.
  • Rapid prototyping and deployment of frontend using Gemini ChatGPT & optimising via code refactoring, image compression and caching strategies (CDN / Object Caching).

Digital Academic Practice Trainer / Acting VLE Manager

Nottingham Trent University | Nottingham, UK
June 2022 - Feb 2023
  • Led on the design and delivery of an institution wide software training and support service offer.
  • Unified all attendance and feedback data into one warehouse and developed automated flows and an interactive frontend for reporting with MS PowerApps.
  • Trained over 2000 academics and professional services staff on GenAI across key themes like sustainability, ethics and GDPR/compliance.
  • Managed the universities annual LMS rollover (approx 10000 modules) in acting up role, ensured technical and academic teams aligned to deliver rollover with minimal downtime.
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