Colin Armitage
CEO
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Colin is the CEO and the founder of The Original Software Group. Throughout his career Colin has been a key industry player focused on building companies and solutions where technology is aligned to true business needs.
From the founding of Original Software in 1997, through its expansion into North America and the broadening of its solution set, Colin has provided the leadership and vision to deliver the track record of continual and profitable growth.
Prior to Original Software Colin was a main board director at AIG, leading their main business division through a period of unprecedented and highly profitable expansion. It was here that he had the opportunity to put his strongly held views on team management and personal style into practice. The results spoke for themselves with staff turnover less than 25% industry norms and a succession of multi-million dollar projects delivered on time and on budget.
Large scale, global company project experience across a wide range of architectures and development standards – stimulated an interest in the management philosophy and techniques that characterized the most successful software development projects.
Original Software and its flagship TestBench software product, with a tight focus upon software quality achievement through structural testing techniques, grew out of that experience. As did an awareness of the potential opportunities & rewards offered by the corporate markets, to the proven professional supplier.
A passionate skier, tennis player and golfer; Colin confesses that these interests can create near crisis strains on his commitment to the cause of better software…!
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George Wilson
Operations Director
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George is Operations Director responsible for sales, consulting services & product support delivery to Original Software's worldwide client base.
Another founding member; George's strong software quality and customer care orientation is reinforced by extensive software product and large-scale development project experience within many areas of IT.
He has helped shaped the solutions Original offer today with practical experience from the field, combining well with Colin's insight and innovation.
An engineer by training, his background served him to great effect at Osprey Computer Services (to 1995) where, as a main board director, he drove development and marketing of new applications into new markets for the company.
Later, as Business Group Manager at AIG Computer Services, George rapidly broadened his platform experience, simultaneously managing IBM Midrange, NT and PC development projects - in a rigorous ISO9001 and TickIT management environment, where George's natural 'quality evangelism' served him well.
He has been a keen dinghy sailor, enthusiastic windsurfer but these days golf seems to take
precedence.
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