May has 20+ years’ experience as a Senior Consultant, PRINCE2 Practitioner Project Manager, International Trainer and University College London UCL Visiting Lecturer in Establishing Less Paperless Offices, Enterprise Content Management (ECM), Document Management, Records Management (ISO15489, BS 10025), Information Compliance, Data Governance, Cyber & Information Security (ISO27001), Data Protection Act (DPA 1998, 2018, 2023), UK and EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), eDiscovery (EDRM), Workflow, Enterprise Search, Archiving and Digital Preservation.
May supports all types of businesses from start-ups, not for profit, charity, government and large enterprises as a virtual/interim Chief Information Officer (CIO)/Chief Data Officer (CDO) working alongside an in-house Chief Technology Officer and Chief Executive Officer (CEO).
- May established information management, compliance, data protection, eDiscovery and cyber security consulting firm, RookMay (Information Management Services) in 2002 - Current
- Within this company he founded Vaultium, an UK-based ISO27001, EU Data Protection secure cloud-computing, Software as a Service (SaaS) based Enterprise Document & Records Management software company which he successfully sold to CCube Solutions (2009-2014)
- PRINCE2 Practitioner Project Manager covering clients across Government, Private, Not for Profit and Charities
Since 2008/2009, May has delivered 100s of training courses and seminars across the UK, Europe, Middle East and SE Asia in the field of Document & Records Management, Data Governance, Information Security and Data Protection. May was also a part-time visiting lecturer at University College London (UCL), University of London.
Has spoken at seminars and leading events including The Records Management Society (RMS) and previously lead the Content Management Group (CMG) at The British Computer Society (BCS) as well as a mentor advising Startups, FinTech and Cyber companies through CyLon (Europe’s largest Cyber Security Programme) and The Accelerator Network, London, UK.
In his spare time, May enjoys playing Table Tennis, Online Billiards/Snooker, Online Chess, Online Sudoku, long distance running, walks in the countryside and mountains, international travelling and spending time with family & friends.
1992 – 1993 - Master of Science (MSc) Advanced Software Engineering, Aston University, Birmingham, (UK)
Sponsored by UK Science & Research Council - Chartered Engineer (CEng). Full accreditation with British Computer Society (BCS)
1989 - 1992 - Bachelor of Science (BSc) Mathematics with Computer Science, City, University of London, (UK)
1987-1989 - Higher National Diploma (HND) in Mathematics, Statistics and Computing, Manchester Metropolitan University (UK)
2024 - Current Associate Member Institute of Directors, IOD (UK)
1996 - 2002 - PRINCE2 Practitioner Certified Project Manager – Pass with Distinction
Waterfall/Agile/Scrum/Jira Experienced