Our Clients
Founded in 1998, Europoint Communications prides itself in delivering professional, knowledgeable test resource to high-profile software delivery projects in the UK.
We have worked with clients such as Resonate, Platform Smart at HSBC, AXELOS, Shiftpoint at Rolls-Royce, Experian, Capita, Ecotricity, Logica Esis, Clerical Medical Investment Group, and The Environment Agency.
Major Contracts
Whatever IT expertise you need, we have a wide range of experience and years of knowledge that can be rapidly deployed. We pride ourselves on being able to quickly understand the business needs and technological solutions required to deliver your requirements.
Best Practice
Having worked with AXELOS to deliver Best Practice into organisations across the world, we now strive to implement the most appropriate methodologies and frameworks into your company so that you can deliver quicker, better and right first time.
Technological Thoughts
The Hive Mind: Helping To Solve COVID19
How to run Folding@Home in a Docker container to help fight the Coronavirus and other diseases.|
Identifying Docker Container IP Addresses
I have been starting to use Docker to implement a number of applications (Jira, Confluence, Jenkins, GitLab etc), but one issue I have encountered is, that unless you create specific networks for each container, on starting the container, it is given a random IP...
The (Not So) Impersonal Touch
I received a telephone call this evening from a company that purported to be Lorien (on 0333 023 0006 if you are interested), a recruitment consultancy. Ordinarily, this wouldn't be a problem, although at quarter to eight in the evening, is perhaps not the most...
Bringing Agile Practices to the Every Day
For the past four years, I have been working in a fairly agile environment, with intentions of bringing in the DevOps culture of automation for repetitive tasks to reduce the human level of interaction and potential for error. Naturally this is in an Information...
Sunrise Sets With a Fresh Outlook
One of the top calendar apps for iOS and Android, Sunrise has long been a favourite of mine for its simplicity but also its ability to connect to a number of different sites (Office 365, Outlook, Exhange, Google Calendar, iCloud Calendar, Facebook, Wunderlist, Google...
Nasty Scam Spams
I've had a couple of these, rather pernicious, spam emails recently, which purport to be from Her Majesty's Courts & Tribunal Service and stating I need to attend court to hear the charges against me. Quite what the charges are, and when the court date is, I can't...
News
Taking a Break
Europoint Communications will be taking a break for a while, whilst Matthew Cunliffe explores new avenues of technology and career.
You Made a Difference
For Christmas 2014, Europoint Communications ran a poll asking you to vote for one of ten charities to receive a proportion of £5000 and Make a Difference. Thanks to you, the votes are now in, and we have now donated a total of £5004 (rounding up the amounts) to the...
Make A Difference This Christmas
This Christmas, we are giving away £5000 in total to ten chosen charities, and we'd like you to help us. From 1st December until 31st December 2014, you can vote for one of the ten charities to receive a proportion of the £5000. At the end of the month, the £5000 will...
Matthew Cunliffe
Director
Matthew Cunliffe has worked in the IT industry for over 24 years and continues to maintain a keen interest in the latest technical advances in both software and hardware.
With regular training to ensure that he remains in the top echelons of his profession, Matthew holds both ISEB Foundation and Practitioner Certificates in Software Testing, together with the PRINCE2 Foundation, Practitioner and Agile Practitioner certificates and RESILIA Foundation and Practitioner certificates. Having a strong technical knowledge has allowed Matthew to involve himself in all aspects of the Information Technology space, as Head of IT, Technical Architect or Test Manager.
Matthew has strong transferable skills that have allowed him to easily manage large projects, control multi-million pound budgets, and manage the ICT team whilst working on technical delivery; team management; design and architecture; Disaster Recovery and failover; through automated testing; development of metric gathering tools, Dashboards and test harnesses; project planning; and Quality Assurance.
With such a wide and varied skillset, Matthew is ideally placed to rapidly integrate into existing projects or introduce the appropriate quality processes into new. For an in depth view of Matthew’s skills and past client base, please take a few minutes to view his Curriculum Vitae below.
Matthew Cunliffe MA Technical Project Consultant
Job Roles: Head of IT, Project Manager, Quality Assurance Manager, Test Manager, Technical Architect, Test Lead
Role Type: Contract
Preferred Locations: East Midlands, West Midlands, Nottingham, Derby, Leicester, Coventry, Birmingham
Contact:
- AXELOS PRINCE2 Foundation
- AXELOS PRINCE2 Practitioner
- AXELOS PRINCE2 Agile Practitioner
- AXELOS RESILIA Foundation
- AXELOS RESILIA Practitioner
- Gilb Agile Inspection Leader
- ISEB Practitioner in Software Testing
- ISEB Foundation in Software Testing
References available on request
