Louise became a StaffPlan Director in January 2007, having joined the company in January 2004 delivering training and support.

Having spent 3 years travelling the length and breadth of the country gathering stories of cows on boats and having the east coast main line as a second home she now rarely strays from the office concentrating on the day to day happenings in StaffPlan. Louise likes to keep her hand in though and will often be found helping out on the support desk.

Louise has extensive experience in both the private and public sectors having previously worked with Scottish Borders Council Social Work Department, as part of the Information Systems implementation team. During her time at the Council Louise worked on implementing many systems the last being StaffPlan Roster. Louise is committed to trying to make a difference to people’s lives through her work and her desire to make caring for those in need easier.

Outside work Louise enjoys speedway - although these days from afar – and will bore anyone who wishes to listen about the thrill of men riding in circles with no brakes or gears.

Ian many years experience in the homecare software market and has been with StaffPlan from the beginning. He now leads the Business Development team dealing with account management.

Outside of work - when not tied up with his young family - Ian is a passionate (although quite short) volleyball player and plays at National League level.

Simon has been working for StaffPlan for more years than he cares to remember and therefore bears the scars from working in Mark’s garden shed ("home office") before the company had grown to a size worthy of brick walls.

Together with lead developer responsibility for StaffPlan Roster, OnCall and various internal systems including StaffPlan’s in-house CRM portal (interchangeably known as CASSIA or "the support site"), Simon has been involved in just about every aspect of the company’s activities at one time or another, including training and presenting at user groups. He also has honorary membership of the support team for "knowing some useful stuff not many people know"(tm).

Out of the office, Simon can be found at a least a couple of gigs each month and buys more CDs on eBay than there is time in the day to listen to. A huge Arsenal fan, he has attended several matches at the Emirates Stadium this season, though still has 44,467 people ahead of him on the season ticket list. If you run into Simon at the pub, he’s likely the be breaking even on the quiz machine or breaking the window next to the pool table.

Will has been at StaffPlan since April 2003 when the company was still based in a shed at the bottom of Mark’s garden. It’s been a fascinating journey working with a fast growing company and dealing with all the problems that presents.

His main role at StaffPlan is working on projects that revolve around the monitoring solutions we provide and interfacing with 3rd parties. There’s not much monitoring related that he doesn’t get involved with, so everything from Telemonitor, through to the VOIP solutions and cutting edge mobile solution we provide, StaffPlan Connect, He’s been involved in design and development.

When he’s not slaving away in the office one of his main passions is unfortunately software development. He’ll often get back from a day’s work and then settle down in front of his home PC for some R&D into new technologies. His other passions are good food, travelling and the natural world. He’ll also throw in a bit of rock climbing and snowboarding for good measure.

Chris first started working for StaffPlan back in 2004 for a placement year with us, after having fun at Plymouth Uni he then returned a year later with a degree to start work again.

Chris has worked on most of our products throughout his time here (Roster, TC, Bespoke, onCall) and is currently responsible for our in house monitoring solutions working on “StaffPlan Connect” and our VoIP Solution “Monitor”, Chris also helps out with the infrastructure.

Kate joined the StaffPlan training and support team in August 2004 , after previously working in a Homecare company in South Wales, her last job there being the implementation of Homecare Roster.

Kate brought with her expertise on implementing systems not just in scheduling but also automating payroll and invoicing processes, making her an expert in all areas of implementation. This is backed up by her first hand experience of actually having delivered care when called upon to do so.

Currently within StaffPlan Kate is our lead implementer, concentrating on major or specialist implementations, where she is a safe pair of hands to ensure the customer gets the most out of StaffPlan’s product range.

Based in the beautiful Herefordshire countryside Kate is use to the long hours that come with travelling the country to visit clients as she has a long standing love of horses. Previously working as a dressage groom where the one weeks holiday a year was a welcome break, having no time now for horses currently Kate’s new passion is renovating her house (with many colour schemes chosen on a South West train!).

Grant lived for 12 years in London and spent 10 years working for a Local Authority in Home Care Provision. He has worked in virtually all areas of the field, having been a carer, a care coordinator, administrator and systems administrator. Being one of the first users of StaffPlan Roster, he has had a long relationship with StaffPlan and when deciding to return to his native New Zealand quickly accepted the opportunity to establish StaffPlan in Australasia.

Grant lives in Palmerston North, New Zealand with his wife and 2 children, plus Chelsea the cat (fallout from his time in England). He enjoys rugby, cricket, fishing and the lifestyle that accompanies living in a place like New Zealand. His wife and he have travelled extensively around the world and are grateful for the sights and experiences that they have gained from the many countries and cultures encountered.

Ashleigh aka Ash has been a member of StaffPlan since November 2005 where she was employed as a Customer Support Technician in the lovely town of Berwick-Upon-Tweed. Not forgetting a very impressive interview telling StaffPlan about how she was under pressure making donuts for a bakery she worked for while studying.

Ash is now a member of the Training / Implementation team and thoroughly enjoys meeting new organisations and learning how each is an individual with their own ways. In tricky situations Ash has the knowledge from being on support to wriggle her way out of them.

Outside of work (or sometimes with work) Ash enjoys a mixture of things which could include a quiet night in, a night in town clubbing, cinema, long drives with no destination and don’t forget a sneaky spa treatment now and then.

Cord has been developing software for more than 12 years with experience ranging from assembly language programming to Delphi, and more recently, C#. He has always had a strong interest in technology and has worked on a plethora of exciting projects including large-scale industrial automation, man-machine interfaces, and web design & development. But, his passion has always been commercial software development; he considers the creativity required in problem-solving a form of art.

Outside of work, Cord enjoys reading, watching movies, and exploring the latest ideas in Artificial Intelligence and Digital Biology. Occasionally he loses himself to a series on the Sci-Fi channel. When he isn’t home he’s either wandering around Greenwich with his fiancé, Leonie, or helping her look after her ailing mum. Having first-hand experience as a care-giver gives him a unique perspective of the care industry and its challenges.

After studying physics at Imperial College and some vacation research work in the engineering laboratories of the CEGB Pete decided a proper desk job was the order of the day so it was on with the learning cap again as a trainee actuary. He soon found money rather a dull subject and moved sideways into actuarial management, then briefly ran his own consultancy company for the benefit of companies trading in unwanted endowment policies. Now, really bored with money, he decided to pursue a career in his long term hobby of software development and wound up two years ago at this fun place to work, no looking back.

Nigel joined StaffPlan in February 2007, living in Leeds he looks after clients in the north of England, Scotland and Northern Ireland. He has experience in a wide variety of different areas including local government, education, transport, manufacturing, finance and business continuity. Nigel is a former systems programmer with over 25 years experience in IT and remembers fondly the good old days when computers filled a room, had lots of flashing lights, ate paper tape and you could warm you lunch in them. In recent years he has moved into account management and now particularly enjoys meeting new clients.

Nigel is a keen cyclist and can be seen most evenings peddling away come rain or shine. The child in him says he prefers it when it’s raining as he loves to get muddy!

Justin Blyth joined us back in April 2007 as a Trainer/ Implementer having come from an IT lecturing and training background which exposed him to many training situations and many people, from IT professionals to first time PC users.

Based in Bromley, South East London, Justin has many outside interests, playing guitar being the main one. For the past ten years or so, he has been in many bands and has played in session situations, at corporate events and at festivals both in the UK and abroad. Most recently, he played for the Mayor of Bromley at a charity event for Diabetes. Having studied at the London Guitar Institute, Justin also teaches guitar in his spare time.

Pete has extensive experience in management, commercial activities (including terms, pricing, negotiations and tendering), sales and marketing (including partner and sales channel development) and project management. Pete has been involved in the software, IT and services markets with considerable experience of working with UK Government, including Local Authorities, and the corporate market (in the UK and internationally). From April 2004 to August 2007 Pete worked for Care Monitoring 2000 Ltd (‘CM2000’), winning tenders and working with many prospects, customers and partner organisations and brought this experience to StaffPlan when he joined in September 2007.

Pete is responsible for the overall bid strategy for all of our tenders, the lead on all of our partner and new and emerging point of care and electronic monitoring technology activities and sales and has responsibility for developing international markets including North America.

Pete is married and a grandad. He enjoys loud music (the Boss is a favourite) and golf (though not together).

Adi is 25 years old, originally from Israel. She has been living in London for the past two years and thinks that London is one of the most amazing cities in the world.

Adi is trained as Musical Theatre actress, which is her biggest passion. She hopes that one day everyone could come and see her performing at the West End.

Until then, she is happy to work for StaffPlan as the Admin Assistant and thinks it’s a joy to be surrounded by a group of funny and wonderful people.

Barbara joined the organisation in December 2007

She has a Training background and her responsibilities are Training and the Implementation of StaffPlan products. Barbara hopes to grow her training skills and software knowledge within StaffPlan.

Outside of work Barbara enjoys playing netball, eating out and organising fashion design market stalls at national festivals.

Stephen is Customer Support Technician at StaffPlan, He has over six years of experience ranging from Windows Server, Networking and Customer Support with Microsoft, Linux and Netware Os. He has constantly been in Customer faced positions maintaining and troubleshooting systems with a true passion for Support.

Outside of work he enjoys Running and Scuba Diving.

Rob is a Customer Support Technician and attended Richmond upon Thames College studying I.C.T for 3 years (Vocational A level qualification). He has experience in Visual Basic and troubleshooting in all versions of Windows.

Rob previously worked in I.T Support for social housing authorities (3 years). He also enjoys solving problems and meeting new people.

Outside of work he enjoys fishing, and supporting Millwall FC.

With more than 4 years experience and a Post Graduate degree in IT, Usmans area of expertise is Software Quality Assurance & Testing. At StaffPlan, he ensures that the software being developed is of highest quality by identifying faults (if any) and getting them fixed before the release. In addition to that he is also responsible for improving the testing processes and ensuring compliance with quality standards.

Outside of work, Usman enjoys good food and good company. Other interests include gardening, table tennis and other racket sports.

Sam joined StaffPlan in February 2008 as an Independent Sector Specialist. He works closely along side companies who may be frustrated with the time and effort it takes them to set up their rotas for the upcoming weeks or who may be concerned with the paper trails that are left behind dealing with communications between members of staff and clients.

Sam is very happy to work in such a vibrant company having left a small consultancy business to join StaffPlan. He will look forward in getting to know your business and the way you would like to run the business. Summarising, we want your business to run the way you want it. Not the other way round!

Sam’s hobbies include listening to music, cooking and travelling

Lukasz started his software engineering adventure in Poland, where he studied and worked as a programmer for more than 10 years. Currently he lives in the UK working as a software developer for StaffPlan at its London office. .NET applications are his strongest assets as he has been developing his .NET expertise since 2003.

Cultures, baroque music and surrealistic cinema (D. Lynch) are his passions along with software engineering. He is also interested in ancient history and in history in general - especially in the way it influences people living now.

Vlad started his career as IT Technician after he finished his studies in Slovakia. In Slovakia he worked as an onsite technician dealing mostly with hardware and software issues, and supporting small networks. After going travelling he decided to settle in the UK, having improved his English knowledge he joined the StaffPlan support team.

Out of work he likes to do some sport activities (football, tennis, rollerblading), watching movies, listening to music and improving his IT knowledge.

Rowan has recently relocated from Australia to develop a career within Support.

He has been working in the Customer Service industry for the past 8 years, and have a thirst for customer support. With vast knowledge within the windows environment, ranging from networking, building, and troubleshooting

When not at work he enjoys travelling extensively and sporting activities.

Marketa Tucker joined StaffPlan in early July 2008 as Bookkeeper. She’s originally from Prague, the Czech Republic, and came to London 8 years ago in order to improve her English (she didn’t expect to stay quite this long). She initially worked in tourism, working for a company specializing in travel between London and major cities in the Czech Republic. She then worked for over 4 years as Office Manager/Bookkeper for a gastronomy bar in Notting Hill, which is her favourite part of London. In late 2006 she joined a software company specializing in document management, again as Office Manager/Bookkeeper.

Marketa loves travelling - her favourite continents are Africa & Middle East. She also enjoys chilling out watching a good movie and recently discovered a passion for argentine tango.

Alexei Tisevic joined StaffPlan in July 2008 as Network Infrastructure Support. He helps to handle a growing number of workstations and servers, as the company grows.

Originally from Eastern Europe, he has been living almost three years in London. He has been working in IT for 8 years, originally as a software developer and then changed his career path for a support / engineer specialist. Outside work, he likes to watch movies and play games. He is a dedicated CS:S fan.

Lawren has worked in IT Training and Support for the last 9 years, most recently in Dallas, Texas.

Outside of work Lawren enjoys reading a good book and hanging out with her family.

David comes from Manchester (up north!) and has recently moved to London in order to start working as a software developer for StaffPlan. He studied at Lancaster university for 4 years where he enjoyed hiking, cycling, drinking, and (occasionally) working.