Mr Peter Birley Profile

Peter Birley is Director of Information Technology and Head of Business Operations for top 100 law firm, Browne Jacobson LLP. He was responsible for the introduction of a three-year rolling IT strategy aligned with the business and a Business Process Improvement methodology to assist in the drive for efficiency.
 
Peter is an experienced IT Management professional and has held senior IT positions in the legal, high technology, London insurance market and manufacturing sectors.
 
One of Peter’s specialities is Programme and Project Management and he holds the highly acclaimed PMP (Project Manager Professional) accreditation as well as being a certified practitioner in the Prince2 project methodology, the MSP (managing successful programmes) methodology and a Six Sigma black belt.

Peter has written a number of articles on IT Management and is a regular speaker at IT events. In 2009 Peter’s blog (www.cioblog.co.uk) on IT Management came second in the Computer Weekly 2009 Blog Awards for the CIO/IT Director category.   He was also voted onto the 2009 Silicon CIO50 which is the UK’s top 50 Influential and innovative IT chiefs.
 
Peter is a Fellow of the Institution of Analyst and Programmers and a Fellow and Chartered IT Professional with the British Computer Society.