Our team

Alan: technical and data expertise

Alan is the latest member of Burningsuit and has a background in big data and scientific data visualisation. His role is to provide training and consultancy in Power BI and related technologies.

Specialisms

Alan combines both technical expertise of software development with an in-depth knowledge of data modelling and analysis. His experience is a great asset as Burningsuit Ltd moves forward into the Power BI consultancy arena.

Career background

Alan holds a master’s degree in Astrophysics from Cardiff University. He has worked as a software developer and Scrum Master and has a passion for all things data.

In his former role as a consultant at CGI, a multi-national IT business and consulting service, he was responsible for designing and building data and analytics solutions for a range of governmental departments and agencies.

He has also worked on data visualisation within AWE’s supercomputing department, assisting the scientific and technical user community with their visualisation needs, heling to develop and improve their visualisation systems to deal with large scale complex data.

Alison: Microsoft training specialist 

Alison joined Burningsuit in February 2001. Previously employed as a senior trainer with a major training company, she has over 30 years’ experience of IT training, 20 of which have been in Microsoft Applications.

Training specialisms

Alison is an expert in DAX and in producing Custom Visualisations with Charticulator, she is the author of two books, "Up and Running with DAX for Power BI" and "Introducing Charticulator for Power BI" both published by Apress, and available from Amazon.

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She also holds the Training Foundation's TAP Accreditation in Training Delivery Skills.

Career background

Having trained extensively in Excel PowerPivot and DAX (Data Analysis Expressions), the transition into Microsoft Power BI training five years ago was a logical step to make for Alison. Although still delivering training in Excel, her specialist areas are Power BI Desktop and DAX and she also works as a data analysis consultant in these systems.

Stuart: founder & software specialist 

Stuart is the owner and main trainer behind Burningsuit Ltd; he has over forty years experience in the IT industry and is a Microsoft Certified Professional.

Training specialisms

He delivers training for Burningsuit specialising in Microsoft Power BI Service, SharePoint and Office 365, but can train on most Microsoft applications and a number of esoteric subjects such as Ubuntu Linux and Python Programming.

Career background

Stuart began working in Information Technology when computers were bigger than your living room but had less power than your mobile phone. He has progressed through most of the jobs you can do in IT, from Operator to Programmer, Systems Analyst, Manager and Technical Director. He managed a group of 50 programmers at the American computing giant Unisys but left to save his home county of Sussex from the ravages of the year 2000 bug.

He started Burningsuit in August 2000 to provide help for organisations who wanted to make the best use of IT in their business. His combination of both practical business and technology skills has meant Burningsuit are a leading training provider for bespoke IT courses.

As one of his clients was kind enough to put it:- “The combination of understanding both of business and how IT relates to business is rare; having both, and using it to client advantage, is worth loads.”