Obviously we are going to talk ourselves up a bit; but our clients and people we have worked with have nice things to say about us too.
“We approached Duncan to complete a specific project for us (to create a new process to import our Standing Orders to Raiser’s Edge). This initial contract was for 5 days and 4 months later he’s leaving us*. This is because Duncan completed the first project and then took on several other projects at a time of huge change within the charity where we were at the end of a lengthy database migration project. The other projects included data cleaning, creating data flow specs, importing and creating reconciliation reports. Duncan excelled when training new users and his documentation is excellent. He’s very patient, approachable and a pleasure to work with.” Cathy Liddiard, UK Raiser’s Edge Business Planning and Support Manager, WSPA (now World Animal Protection)
*Duncan returned shortly after this to work on other projects for another 18 months
“I worked with Duncan on a difficult database migration and he was very knowledgeable, motivated and easy to work with.” Oliver New, Web Developer, Bluefrog
“In the time that I worked with Duncan he demonstrated a creative and innovative way of delivering change to the existing database use and functionality. He worked collaboratively with key stakeholders to scope out user requirements and led a number of cross team steering groups to deliver this change. Duncan isn’t one for convention or hierarchy, happy to get into the core of an issue and work with all levels of staff to find a solution. He always championed his team across an organisation that perhaps didn’t always understand the role of data.” Nisha Motwani, Head of Individual Giving, Sue Ryder Care
“Being such a small charity, a lack of knowledge can be crippling. We were recently faced with a complex problem that no one in the team could fix; it was an issue for both our fundraising team and the finance team also, so a quick solution was essential.
“We called Duncan and he came in for a couple of days and saved us. I’m not kidding, he literally saved us hours and hours of work. Not only that, but he left us instructions on how to deal with the issue next time around, making his services even more cost-effective. Another point that’s easy for some consultants to miss, he fitted into our office environment incredibly well, some members of staff asking after him after he’d finished the project.” Paul Baird, Direct Marketing Manager, Fight For Sight