Slurp.co.uk Appoints Chief Technology Consultant
Slurp.co.uk today confirmed the appointment of Debbie Carne as the company’s first Chief Technology Consultant. Debbie will have overall responsibility for guiding Slurp’s technological development as the company enters a critical phase in its development. Debbie has already been working with Slurp for much of 2009, and has been the architect of a number of important developments: including a complete re-build of our product pages, a comprehensive security overhaul, the new pivot table navigation bar and development of our ground-breaking Online Sommelier system. Managing Director Jeremy Howard said:
“Debbie has truly earned promotion to this critical role. As a cutting edge online company, there is no more important position than Chief Technology Consultant. Debbie is rare amongst technologists in having a mastery of both the technical and the business aspects of any problem. Under her guidance I am confident we will now move quickly towards our goal of becoming the UK’s number one online wine retailer.”
Debbie started her career as an Autocad operator in 1994, but soon moved into IT support, development and management. She designed and built a production planning system for VI-Spring beds, along with various other business applications including invoicing, purchases orders and stock checking systems. She then moved to Amnesty International in 2000 as 'Intranet Administrator' of their International Secretariat, where she designed and built an internet-based secure document library for Amnesty's various offices around the world. After a spell in legal IT (which started in 2002) writing case workflow templates and intranet software (using Ruby on Rails), Debbie became a consultant to Slurp.co.uk late 2008
