Midlands Group
Leader(s): Mark Goddard - contact
Midlands Group
Chair: Mark Goddard
Treasurer: Rod Bowie
Secretary: Linda Coyne
Committee Member: Matthew Smith
Contact: IRMS Midland Group.
IRMS Midlands has been active since June 2006 when the first meeting was hosted by the British Geological Survey in Keyworth, Nottinghamshire. Our meetings are held at 4 monthly intervals at various venues around the Midlands.
The Group would like to provide a platform for the exchange of ideas and information, plus a means of mutual support for all records management practitioners. If you would like to join this group please contact the IRMS Midlands Group for more details.
We welcome suggestions for themes/topics for future meetings. If you would like to offer a venue for a future meeting or would be willing to speak at a meeting please contact either Mark Goddard or Linda Coyne. Likewise, if your company is able to sponsor a meeting, we would be pleased to hear from you.
Mark Goddard IRMS Midlands Chair
Mark Goddard works as an information assurance professional for the Gambling Commission. He is a proactive professional, used to working autonomously in complex, multi-stakeholder environments and has a demonstrable track record of managing and complex programmes of work, including information security and business continuity. Mark is an excellent communicator, used to engaging with and influencing all business levels, including senior management. His professional interests include technology, integrity, diversity, cultural change and training and development.
Linda Coyne IRMS Midlands Secretary
My name is Linda Coyne and I am the current Secretary of the IRMS Midlands group. I am relatively new to Records Management, having worked in the Records Management Service at Birmingham City Council since January 2009. Previous to that I worked in the field of archives at Walsall Council whilst studying for the Post Graduate Diploma in Archive Administration at Aberystwyth University. My role as a Records Manager is rapidly evolving and the current role involves giving guidance on retention issues, helping teams to rationalise their paper holdings ahead of office relocations and developing and delivering training on a number of Records Management issues. The Records Management Service at Birmingham City Council has greatly changed during the course of 2010 and this has led to a number of challenges which the team have risen to. I look forward to participating in the work of the IRMS Midlands and working with other Records Management professionals.
Matt Smith IRMS Midlands Committee Member
I work for the Barclays UK Retail Banking Record Management team. We're a part of Retail Operations Risk, so you can immediately gauge where the bank thinks RM fits! I joined the team as the implementation of Records Management started in January 2006 and after a 2 year programme of requirements gathering & managing action plans across a number of clusters the programme closed and transitioned to BAU.
The requirement gathering taught me most about the operational issues, mainly because I was involved in quite different sides of our business from the branch network through account service operations to Barclays Insurance Dublin and some of our 3rd party service providers.
In BAU I've been responsible for maintaining the processes and controls established in the project phase and developing tactical changes as required. Our strategic direction (such as long term scanning implementation) is delivered by the Group Information Risk Management Programme. I also answer queries, chair business level forums and deliver training sessions as required.
Now that the BAU processes are considered mature enough and the need for day to day support is diminishing then the focus has shifted to designing and delivering testing of the various policies and standards.
Just as the 'IRMS' has evolved so my personal development seeks to expand my knowledge and I'm currently studying for my 'CISM' in December 2010 - that's Certified Information Security Manager to the layman!
Rod Bowie IRMS Midlands Treasurer
Rod Bowie is a geologist by training but has been a longstanding member of the IRMS with over 20 years of experience managing records and geoscientific information. After working for a Scottish quarry company he joined the British Geological Survey (BGS) and managed their London facility holding the BGS national collections of millions of geological specimens, materials and associated records. When BGS relocated to Nottingham he organised the transfer of this material (over 2,500 tonnes), which took two years. In Nottingham he took over the management of the Survey's field records and the Records Enquiry Service and now manages the National Geological Records Centre (NGRC) at Keyworth with over 9 million records. He established the Records Centre as a Place of Deposit for Public Records and between 2001 and 2005 managed the transfer and integration of the British Coal/Coal Authority archives of prime geological information and a subsequent £500k document conversion and cataloguing contract. He has worked on the data management of several large thematic science programmes and research projects and also manages the Earth Science Academic Archive. He is currently on the IRMS Accreditation Committee and has been actively involved giving talks to Regional Groups and supporting the Midlands group.