Trivas is a company based on real world, hands on, experience. Our lead consultants have spent many years in the IT world in a variety of roles, in companies large and small, working for vendors and end users.

Keith Coles

Keith started working with computers in his teens, writing simple programs on an IBM 36 belonging to a local engineering company. After receiving a degree in Electronics & Electrical Engineering from Loughborough University Keith started with a firmware development role in the defence industry. From there Keith moved into OS, then application development and support. Although starting out in the "back room" he quickly moved into more client facing roles in pre-sales support, training and consultancy.

Keith's technical experience embraces many of the key aspects of IT systems covering messaging, databases, networking and security. He also works well with business people at all levels, gaining an understanding of their objectives and how those might be addressed, with or without technology.

As a consultant, Keith's clients have included UBS Warburg, Nat West Home Loans, Prison Ombudsman Service, Marks & Spencer, Gwynedd County Council and Jonathan Wren (part of Addecco). His most recent role before setting out on his own was as CTO for WAP-UK Ltd, a wireless application development company, where he delivered a major research project for the EU.

More recently, Keith's interests have focused on exploiting Open Source Software in business environments.

In addition to his degree, Keith has completed a post graduate qualification in Project Management from the Open University. He has also acquired many industry qualifications over the years, including Siebel CRM certification.

Adrian Chapman

Adrian started by completing a Computing Science degree in 1992. He then joined Lotus Development as a pre-sales technical specialist focusing on the rapidly emerging groupware and messaging product ranges. After learning that he wasn't an IBM corporate suit, he learnt how not to do consultancy with two of the larger corporate IT supply companies, before moving to smaller consultancy companies who understood customer focus. Over the years, he has worked with customers ranging in size from small businesses with a handful of staff to the very largest pharmaceutical and legal businesses, both in the UK and globally.

Adrian set out on his own as a freelance IT consultant in 2000 before joining forces with Keith to start Trivas in 2004.

Projects have ranged widely, from small implementations and migrations between competing technologies, to managing the impact of large mergers on IT infrastructures - always with a sharp focus on minimising disruption to the user community, yet maximising the benefit to the business.

As well as trying to make sense of the usual wide range of Windows (server and client) versions, networking and infrastructure challenges, mainstream products Adrian's worked closely with over the years have included Lotus Notes/Domino, Microsoft Exchange, while the growing Open Source market has brought several alternatives to the expensive big players.