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Focus on – IT

THIS MONTH……Your Marketing and IT Team!

Jose Rial – Creative Director

Andrew Tatton – IT Manager

Who are the Creative and Marketing Team?

Jose Rial is Creative Director for Prestbury and has worked for the company for over 10 years. Gaining various CSE’s and A level art he went on to gain a National Diploma in Graphic Design at the acclaimed Mid Cheshire College.

Work Experience This was firstly gained at small advertising agency which at the time did not use computers as this was in its infancy; artwork setting was done by hand. Then Jose moved into the fashion industry were he designed garments, logos and labels for the high street chains. With the internet just emerging Jose joined an Internet company designing websites for blue chip companies. Then, with this wealth of experience, joined Prestbury.

At Prestbury, Jose has been at the forefront of designing our websites over the past years. Along with liaising with our JV clients, designing all our artwork needs. This includes logos, stationery and promotional brochures as well as dealing with our press and marketing needs.

Andrew Tatton works as Prestbury’s IT Manager. With GCSE qualifications, City and Guilds Distinction in Programming at the age of thirteen and a whole wealth of experience dating back to the age of seven (!) Andrew has been building and programming IT systems. Owing to the fact he was primarily responsible for publishing many of the IT industries qualification examinations, he was exempt from sitting them!

Work experience ranges from: NHS, PriceWaterhouseCoopers and the FSA as well as others, Andrew has had three years in E-Learning, authored training material for British American Tobacco and then moved to work on test publishing. At Thomson Prometric, Andrew worked as a Senior Test Publisher before moving to Pearson VUE, as a result of a TUPE transfer, where he was the author of the UK Driving Theory Test, Microsoft, Cisco and IFS CeMap qualification examinations among others.

Maintaining all head office and remote workstations, Andrew works as Prestbury’s IT Manager. Taking care of the servers and associated hardware – including our Moneybrain Franchise – Andrew liaises with relevant providers to source, build and maintain all IT related equipment. With research and development key to Prestbury maintaining cutting edge technology and processing, Andrew focuses on increasing our productivity. All interactive web site activities are also developed and maintained including the Case Tracking, Notifications, Query Submissions with other new and exciting development in the pipeline.