London On-line Local Authorities
London On-line Local Authorities
| Harry Dive Managing Director of LBMSU |
Peter Evans Philip Goring Martin Jackson Steve Monksfield |
Deputy: Tony O'Brien |
DIRECTOR of IT Derek Schartau -> Dr Adrian Lepper (from Sep 1985) -> Keith McDowell |
PA: Beryl Dorrington |
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| TECHNICAL SERVICES Tony O'Brien |
APPLICATIONS DEVELOPMENT Harry Pearman ->Vince Padi |
OPERATIONS John Sheldrick |
PC GROUP (from 1981) Keith Callaghan |
Note: Not all these staff were necessarily in post at the same time. Some staff moved departments and are therefore listed twice. In the main the table reflects the situation in the 70s and early 80s. As the initial applications wound down, some staff moved to the maintenance team and other staff were moved to new (later) applications. Therefore there are less names listed against these later applications. Some later staff are listed in the Analyst and Programmers "pools" from where they were assigned to the development teams on an as needed basis.
Names below leaders are in surname order. Names with links are to their Linkedin profile.
| APPLICATIONS DEVELOPMENT Harry Pearman ->Vince Padi |
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| DOMESTIC RATES, FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTS, PAYROLL Jim Cleall-Harding |
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| DOMESTIC RATES | FIN. MGT. APPL. (FMA) Hilary Carrington -> Howard Dobson |
PAYROLL Brian Raper |
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| ANALYSIS Dave Hearn |
PROGRAMMING Ray Smith |
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| Phil Brown Chris Harvey Dave Horth Peter Sellars Pete Thompson |
Jean Bell (née Nicholson) Chris Dee Karin Churchman Martin Jackson Heather Maclean Keith (Kip) Menicou Paul Robinson Jonathan Samuel |
Trevor Hutchins Jeremy Leighton |
Steve Barfield Karin Churchman Martin Jackson Iain King |
| APPLICATIONS DEVELOPMENT Harry Pearman ->Vince Padi |
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| CREDITORS, PERSONNEL INFORMATION AND PAYROLL SYSTEM (PIPS) Peter Evans |
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| CREDITORS |
PIPS |
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| ANALYSIS Keith Callaghan |
PROGRAMMING Alan Blanks |
ANALYSIS Bill Webster |
PROGRAMMING Alan Blanks??? |
| Alan Mills* Pamela Trenery Bill Webster Keith xxx??? *LOLA's NALGO union rep. |
Ruth Bloom Suzanne Upton (née Downing) Alan Horswill Muriel McMahon Paul Robinson Bob Watson |
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| APPLICATIONS DEVELOPMENT Harry Pearman ->Vince Padi |
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| COMMUNITY CHARGE from 1989 Martin Jackson |
COMMUNITY CHARGE BENEFITS AND HOUSING BENEFITS from 1989 Phil Brown -> Murali Vidhyadharan |
COUNCIL TAX BENEFITS from 1992 (Tower Hamlets only) Phil Brown ->Murali Vidhyadharan |
NNDR (BUSINESS RATES) from 1989 Rachael Paulter ->Les Thurston |
| Steve Barfield Nigel Stratton-Fidel |
Matthew James David Turvey Murali Vidhyadharan Ian Wright Anne Yardley Steve Aherne Jan Richter Suzy Thompson Rob Kelly Sangeetha Sharma |
Ian Wright Aubrey Schwaltz Martin Jackson Steve Barfield Jan Richter Nigel Stratton-Fidel Arif Malik Sangeetha Sharma Steve Maling Paul Williams Brian Woodyatt |
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| APPLICATIONS DEVELOPMENT Harry Pearman ->Vince Padi |
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| STORES Karin Churchman |
ELECTORAL REGISTER |
SOCIAL SERVICES |
HOUSING Chris Andrews |
| Jeremy Leighton | Richard Pantlin | Richard Pantlin | Rick Hayter Richard Pantlin Mandy Roberts |
| The Stores team (1985-1990ish) morphed into Special Projects which included Internal Billing and other apps. | |||
| APPLICATIONS DEVELOPMENT Harry Pearman ->Vince Padi |
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| PENSIONS Peter Rawlinson |
FORWARD PLANNING (from c1980) Tony O'Brien |
IMPLEMENTATION then SYSTEMS ADVISORY Les Jordan ->Derek Leveridge ->Ray Cole |
USER LIAISON (1970s) |
| Alan Blanks Keith Callaghan Howard Dobson Peter Evans Jim Cleall-Harding Gerry Treadway |
Chris Andrews Roger Gifford Trevor Hutchins John Finch Derek Leveridge Keith McDowell Alan Mills Bill Myatt Peter Ryder Les Thurston Peter Thompson Alan Wedderburn |
Alan Mills Bill Myatt Brian Raper |
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| 1st PC based system | AKA Future Planning Group | ||
| OPERATIONS John Sheldrick -> deputy Gerry Treadway -> Trevor Turner |
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| SUPPORT PROGRAMMING GROUP | ||
| HEAD OF ANALYSIS: Ray Cole |
HEAD OF PROGRAMMING: Mike O'Brien -> Philip Gorin |
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Jim Betts John Dolan Margaret Drummond Peter Gillard Bob Humber Sara Keel Steve Ling Fiona Maton Norman Pickett Rachel Poulter Graeme Reid Liz Rhodes Andrea Schmidt Joe Sharp Ken Stainsby Steve Tew Helen PA |
Mike Bard Jan Barnes Gareth Brook Paul Bryant Hilary Carrington Ross Chapman Colin Cheeseman Bernie Conway Khalid Dean Kassim Dhamani Mike Fantis Sangheeta Fitzpatrick Clive Foyle John Gamble Paul Harris John Hussein Bob Jablonski Bob Jenkins Mike Kallas Judith Kinmond (née Rowlands) |
Greyzna Kowalski Wellington Leong Liz Maggs Anne Maguire Alec O'Connor Bushra Parr John Peate Mohammed Qureshi Trevor Rideout Parvez Saleh Bindi Shah Sonal Shah Barry Tatham Tony Upton Chris Walker Simon Wells Erica Williams Auriol Wilson Grant Wilson |
| The Support Programming Group took over the maintenance after the initial development with some development staff transferring. Staff could later return to applications development. LEO maintenance, was also handled by the Support Programming Group. | ||
| OPERATIONS John Sheldrick deputy Gerry Treadway -> Trevor Turner |
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| SHIFTS Peter Anthony, Roger Bennett John O'Sullivan, Trevor Turner ->Len Salter |
OPS. SUPPORT Ian Yarrien ->Peter Gillard |
DATA PREP Moira Coleman |
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John Aldridge Ian Alexander Steve Allen Mark Bevan Roger Bennett Heather Blinkoe Ian Brazier Fred Campbell Niall Carter Jeff Clark Frank Edohan Glynn Fanger Roger Forsdyke Rod Gibberd Gordon Grant Mike Hodges Richard Langford Darren Lines Rob Mello Darren Metcalfe Dave Musson |
Roger Nash little Raj Patel Neil Pearson Frank Phillips Marion Rawson (Tape Librarian) Andy Robbins Steve Robson Vernon Saldanha Len Salter Kevin Shimmin Manu Spanish Chris Sycamore Mike Teale Adrian Temple Bob Trotter Ian Yarrien Richard Ward Tony Wooden Andrew Younie |
Norman Bennett Alec O'Connor |
Hazel Hooper Linda Jackson Jackie Longman Dawn Newton Norma White Sylvia up to 30 staff |
| JOB CONTROL Norman Bennett |
PRINTING & MAILING |
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George Bispham Jackie Breame Dave Brooks Graham Cook Mike Green Chris Nolan Bijal Shah Jenni Shimmin (née ???) |
Roberto Castronovo Andi Lac Tony Lane Rodney Knight Charlie Nicolini Sonia Reece Alec ??? |
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| TECHNICAL SERVICES Tony O'Brien |
PC GROUP Keith Callaghan -> Howard Dobson |
MICRO SUPPORT GROUP Gerry Treadway |
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| TECHNICAL SUPPORT Dave Goodall |
APPLICATIONS SUPPORT Ken Lewis ->Derek Pasmore from c1974 |
The Personal Computing Group was formed in 1981. This supported end users using APL on the mainframe. | The Micro Support Group was formed in the early 1980s. This supported end users using CP/M based micros. |
| John Aldridge Simon Benvenutto Barry Davis Chris Dee Ray De Souza Ed Devine Roger Cane Richard Game Ian Gitting Chris Harvey Alan Horswill John Hussein Dick Jones Jean Jones Muriel McMahon Frank Philips Ian Reeves Noel Sant Peter Simpson Barbara Tanner |
Alan Cooper David Devine Dave Doyle Jim Fothergill Joe Stansbury Mike Kinmond Malcolm Littler John Maguire Phil McCombie Mike Nixon Derek Pasmore Geoff Passmore big Raj Patel Tony Upton Geoff Williams Mark Winter |
Simon Benvenutto Moira Coleman Howard Dobson Martin Harris, Iain King, Sheila McMahon-Davis Bill Myatt Nick South Pam Trenery |
Alan Blanks |
| EDUCATION & TRAINING Fred Lockhart |
FINANCE & PERSONNEL Charles Stebbing ->Eithne Harris |
IBM SALES Peter Evans |
IBM SUPPORT Peter Maunder |
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Robin Andoe Maggie Blanks (née McCombie) Lesley Guthrie Peter Malivoire Lavinia Phillips Edith Steiner Pam Trenery |
Judith Bell (HR - CFM) Marilyn Gillard (Receptionist) Steve Christian (Purchasing) Mick Tomasso (Caretaker) Ingred Riley (Cook) Christine Brook (née Coleman) |
Peter Abrahams Ian Jenner Neil xxx??? |
Unplaced persons: Peter Shearing (1984-85), Peter Gillard (when in Applications), Nigel Rheam (1989-95).
By 1993 Hackey, Haringey and Hillingdon had migrated most of their systems in-house and LOLA was moving to a maintenance situation, though Tower Hamlets continued to run on the LOLA systems and Hackney returned to LOLA to run their Council Tax Benefits system from 1995. In 1993 it was decided to outsource to CFM.
CFM were a small company started by former employees of London Borough of Hammersmith's computing department. Unsurprisingly there was soon a reorganisation of the Applications division. The new structure can be seen in this document from May 1994: Business Consultancy & Development Organisational Chart
CFM later became CFM London North until taken over by ICL in 1998 which in turn became part of Fujitsu in 2002.
The LOLA office in Sydney Road, Enfield was shut in 2003 and most staff relocated to the Fujitsu office in Stevenage, excepting Tower Hamlets staff (see below).
Whatever systems were left (i.e. g UNIX file transfer system etc) were still being managed under Fujitsu and the last LOLA element finally ended in 2006.
From April 2002, the Tower Hamlets LOLA systems were being managed by ITNET. The ex LOLA applications included Housing Benefits, Council Tax Benefits, Rents system and few other little systems. A web based Free School Meals that interfaced to the Benefits system was developed.
A team from ICL/Fujitsu were TUPEd to manage these. When the LOLA office closed in 2003, development staff moved to the Enfield Council offices in Silver Street.
Tower Hamlets then decided to implement the Northgate iWorld Rents and Benefits system and the data was migration from the LOLA Benefits system in 2004.
ITNET was taken over by Serco in early 2005.
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MANAGER Bob Humber |
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| BENEFITS Murali Vidhyadharan |
RENTS Paul Williams |
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Martin Jackson (prog) Matthew James (SA) David Turvey (prog) Paul Williams Brian Woodyatt (SA) |
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Links are to the person's Linkedin page where found. If you can help fill in the gaps or add a correction then please contact me as at the foot of this page. Do tell other former staff of this page if you are in contact with them.
If you know of any more staff then please contact Alan Cooper at network@ + this page's domain name or via my Linkedin page.