About us
APS Ltd is an information management company specialising
in projects primarily, but not exclusively, in the higher
and further education sectors of the United Kingdom. We've
been operating since 1998 and have an extensive portfolio
of clients and services.
APS consists of a husband, wife and daughter team, Alan and
Charlie Paull and Jennifer Denton. Alan & Charlie are
both information management and ICT specialists. Jennifer
is also skilled in project management and communications.
Our skills lie in information standards development, requirements
gathering, process improvement, project management and website
development. To assist us, we have a range of contacts at
other small and medium sized businesses should our clients
require other types of expertise.
Our work includes individual project and regular scheduled
activities, such as the dissemination of courses information
from The Open University to third party data collecting organisations.
We look forward to helping to deliver the projects and services
that you require.
Alan
Alan's career has included courses data collection for the
Polytechnics Central Admissions System (PCAS) and 8 years
as technical lead at ECCTIS 2000, managing the technical delivery
of the largest directory of UK courses information at the
time (to 1998). He has been involved in the development and
maintenance of courses information standards since the mid
1980s, including working on the Superclass and Learndirect
subject classification systems and the Sector Subject Areas
(SSA) system.
He has worked as a consultant on a variety of projects for
JISC, UCAS, the Open University, the University of Nottingham
and other universities and colleges. For several years he
has been an Honorary Lecturer at the University of Nottingham.
He has provided supporting technical skills to many JISC-funded
projects from 'Specifying an e-Portfolio' to the current Course
Data programme, which is rolling out XCRI-CAP to dozens of
English higher education institutions. He is a co-author of
the eXchanging Course Related Information (XCRI) eProspectus
standard and has recently worked on several XCRI projects,
including the XCRI Implementation Models (XIM) Project that
synthesised experience gained from early XCRI work.
Current work is primarily focused on XCRI-CAP roll-out, including
information management issues around XCRI-CAP, Key Information
Sets and the HEAR.
Charlie
With a First Class Honours degree in ICT from the Open University
and an Applied Biology degree from Hatfield Polytechnic, Charlie
has a background in both Science and IT. After working in
the public sector for GLOSCAT (now Gloucester College), she
joined Alan at APS in 2000 as a part-time employee. For APS
she specialises in website construction, graphics and modelling,
while also spending significant time on board and card game
production for Surprised Stare Games.
Charlie has built websites for a wide range of our clients,
including ADSET, many local drugs advisory services and for
the XCRI Benefits Realisation project. She has also produced
high quality visualisations for many projects, including the
Supporting Responsive Curricula project.
Charlie operates our information processing systems that
enable us to offer extensive courses information management
services to higher and further education organisations.
Jennifer
Jennifer has a First Class Honours Degree and is a qualified
project manager accredited by the Association for Project
Management and the Open University. She has public sector
project experience working on regional procurements in the
NHS in the East of England. She has experience working closely
with technical and non-technical customers and has been very
successful in the past at bridging the gap between the two.
Jennifer works supporting Alan on his projects, managing
specific aspects where appropriate. She also is the Account
Manager for our XXP customers.
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