Specialists

Mark Smith
Change Director
Mark has a breadth of senior executive experience having held leadership positions at Accenture, United Utilities and Xerox.  Mark has a proven track record of successfully leading and delivering IT transformation and organizational change initiatives that decrease operational risk, increase productivity and reduce service delivery failures.
Mark is an impactful change agent with exemplary credibility and competence in pragmatically working at the most senior organisational levels – articulating and winning the investment case and resolving conflicting stakeholder expectations.  .

Frank Johnstone
Head of Delivery
Frank is Head of Delivery.  He manages Lamri’s consulting services, ensuring that customer expectations are met and exceeded.  Frank mobilises, drives and delivers improvement programmes in challenging environments.  He builds effective teams and focuses on skills transfer so that his clients’ improvement programmes continue to achieve results after Lamri has departed.

Keith Bray
SEI Certified CMMI Lead Appraiser and Trainer
Keith is an SEI certified CMMI Lead Appraiser and Trainer for Development and Aquisition.  Keith is one of the formost practitioners of the CMMI for ACQ having run the first authorised ACQ appraisal in Europe.  Keith is Pragmatic and very business focussed, gets the job done.  Assertive and encouraging of individuals to achieve common goals, a team player and also a leader.  Well respected by clients and colleagues.

Maria Bryan
Managing Consultant
Maria is a creative problem solver with a “can do” and flexible attitude. Proactive, focused, with excellent analytical skills and a systematic approach to problem-solving, combined with over 15 years expertise in Business Transformation and Change Management to streamline and improve processes and business performance.

David Piper
Managing Consultant
David is an SEI Authorized Instructor for CMMI for Development and is in the final stage of becoming authorised for CMMI for Service.  He specializes in the pragmatic interpretation of the CMMI models to achieve a best fit with customer organizations’ needs.  David is leading a large IT organization through the establishment of a Service Centre using the CMMI for Services model.  David has extensive experience of systems development methods including DSDM and other agile approaches.

John Evans
Managing Consultant

John, is a driven individual who brings the practical experiences of running engineering departments through to managing business transformations.  John understands that the people change is critical to the successes of business change. John also brings a wealth of detailed technical experience ranging from Enterprise tools setup to an in depth understanding of the military standards.

Andrew Brettle
Managing Consultant
Andrew is an experienced process improvement practitioner with over 25 years of experience in software engineering, project and quality management. He has both led and formed part of successful global multicultural teams in the design, implementation and deployment of process initiatives to achieve business benefits through CMM, CMMI, Lean Six Sigma and ITIL capability identifying pragmatic solutions from process asset libraries to project management processes. 

Chris Knight
Managing Consultant
Chris has over 30 years of experience in the IT industry across a number of roles and disciplines.  An experienced project manager, and quality manager, Chris has an in depth knowledge of the pragmatic and practical implementation of standards models and methodologies, including CMMI-DEV, CMMI-SVC, CMMI-ACQ, ITIL, ISO 9001, ISO 20000, ISO 27001, TMMI, COBIT, Prince, DSDM and RUP

Mark Aked
Managing Consultant

Mark has recently gained wide and esteemed acknowledgement for the pivotal role he played in ensuring the BT NHS Spine Programme achieved CMMI Level 3 (Spine is part of National Programme for IT - the world's largest civil information technology programme). Mark was responsible for the process architecture, process definition and successful implementation of the SDLC across a user base of around 1500 individuals, including 4 off-shore development partners.

Allan Jellett
Managing Consultant
Allan is highly experienced IT business consultant and project manager who is a natural communicator and presenter building on his early career as a very effective teacher. Having led teams of design/integration engineers on complex military systems, he has a sharp analytical mind which has been applied to IT project management, service design, process and service auditing, IT business strategy consultancy assignments and process improvement.