This month we celebrated Senior Software Engineer, Tim Beswick’s 20th year at Innovative Technology. In a presentation given in front of the staff here at our Oldham head office he said “over the last twenty years, this company has not only gone places but it is still going places”.

 

Tim started his career at Innovative in 1994 when the Head Office consisted of several people in a small building in Royton where he worked as a repair technician fixing NV1 units. He reflected “the office was very small and there was no internal computer network, just three computers in the building and if you needed to transfer a file it had to be done by floppy disk”. Back then Innovative consisted of no more than several people and Tim remarked on the incredible transformation that the company has made since then, “When we moved to our Derker Street location we didn’t have many people and to think now that we have 100 staff here is amazing, but also the fact that the company has retained that family atmosphere”.

 

Working on the NV1s, Tim came into ITL on the back of a Diploma in Electronics from Oldham College and from very early on took an interest in computing and coding; he began writing software for testing programmes which ultimately lead to his later promotions. Firstly to a software development Engineer, after which he progressed quickly from a Development Engineer, to a Lead Engineer and to what he is today; senior Software Engineer.

 

When asked about what has kept him here at Innovative for so long it seemed to be a close call between what he called the ‘family atmosphere’ that ITL has retained despite the rapid growth, and the opportunities that he took to progress into to new roles within the company appearing as new challenges for him.

 

Tim was keen to emphasis his admiration toward the company’s hiring policies saying that “ITL isn’t hung up on qualifications alone; it’s more weighted toward trust and ability; if someone here can prove their ability they will be given the chance to progress.”

 

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