TAE Accreditations
- Expert Witness
- Expert Determiner
Specialist Registers
- Expert Determiner
Mr William Hooper
Information Technology Consultant
- Fitness for purpose in application, requirements, design, code review and forensic analysis, infrastructure, project and service management. I have particular experience in large-scale delivery (up to £250m a year), multi-vendor services, managing people through IT-supported change, transformation, Agile methods, software engineering and professional competence;
- Project delay cause and quantification;</li> <li>Intellectual Property review of algorithms, delivery methods, and similarity of code;
- Artificial intelligence (AI), The design, training, delivery, implementation of AI systems. Data Science, Machine Learning, Analytics, and Data Management; and
- Procurement of services and systems. Requirements definition, governance, product selection.
- Competition Act. Report to clarify the operation of IT and associated markets in the context of class action and other competition act disputes.
I am a current practitioner in the delivery of services. Extensive and current service delivery experience keeps me up to date with current technology, good practice and industry standards of performance. I have been trained and accredited as an expert witness and expert determiner, produced CPR35 and CrimPR 19 reports, given oral evidence, and been cross-examined.
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- Managing Successful Programmes - Foundation (2009) Practitioner (2009, 2018)
- Imperial College, London BSc (Eng) (1986)
- Member Chartered Institute of Management Accountants ACMA (1991)
- Chartered Mechanical Engineer MIMechE (1991)
- Master of Business Administration, London Business School MBA (1993)
- Certificate of Competence, Chartered IT Profssional CITP (2014)
- Fellow, BCS The Chartered Institute of IT FBCS (2022)
Expert Witness Snapshot
An IT and outsourced service consultant, expert witness, expert determiner, and project manager with thirty years' experience delivering services. Work included delivering computer systems and services, resolving disputes, procuring, and defining service strategy.
Expertise includes large-scale IT outsource services, infrastructure, software applications, and AI. I have worked on some of the world\'s largest services as well as the small. Areas include applications delivery, service management, governance, project management for both suppliers and customers. I have also worked in EPR, BPO, cloud, and document service delivery. I have undertaken several deliveries of Service Integration and Management (SIAM) and have worked on Agile projects with continuous integration.
I undertake:
- Fitness for purpose in application, requirements, design, code review and forensic analysis, infrastructure, project and service management. I have particular experience in large-scale delivery (up to £250m a year), multi-vendor services, managing people through IT-supported change, transformation, Agile methods, software engineering and professional competence;
- Project delay cause and quantification;
- Intellectual Property review of algorithms, delivery methods, and similarity of code;
- Artificial intelligence (AI), The design, training, delivery, implementation of AI systems. Data Science, Machine Learning, Analytics, and Data Management; and
- Procurement of services and systems. Requirements definition, governance, product selection.
- Competition Act. Report to clarify the operation of IT and associated markets in the context of class action and other competition act disputes.
I am a current practitioner in the delivery of services. Extensive and current service delivery experience keeps me up to date with current technology, good practice and industry standards of performance. I have been trained and accredited as an expert witness and expert determiner, produced CPR35 and CrimPR 19 reports, given oral evidence, and been cross-examined.