Meet the Team
We believe in directness. Talk to engineers & consultants, not sales people.
Sales people sell aspiration, not reality. So we don’t have a sales team.
All our staff are part consultant, part engineer, part project manager. They’re great at listening, business-minded and focused on solving your unique challenges. They’re trouble-shooters and creators who pay attention to detail, testing everything until it’s perfect. And they’re great communicators, because communication is key to delivering your project on time and within budget.
Joel Jeffery – Technical Director
Joel is an esteemed SharePoint Architect and Microsoft Certified Trainer, who specialises in the development and implementation of large scale Microsoft projects. With over 25 years’ IT experience, he’s trained thousands of people in SharePoint and is regarded by the global IT community as a SharePoint virtuoso.
Joel has held roles as Technical Director, Partner, Managing Consultant and Principal Consultant at consultancies large and small throughout the last two decades. Joel has over 25 years’ experience in IT, and over 20 in industry. Despite being a trained enterprise architect, Joel remains rebelliously hands-on, holding 23 certifications in Microsoft technologies.
Joel has a real knack for explaining complex technologies simply. He’s rebelliously hands-on and rarely off-duty. He thrives on the warm, fuzzy feeling he gets from solving client problems. Definitely the type of IT guy you want on your team!
Microsoft Certified Trainer
Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (MCSE) SharePoint 2013
Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer (MCSD) SharePoint 2013
Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MSPD) SharePoint
Jon Silver – R&D Director
A lifelong inventor and engineer, Jon is also a proven communicator, having been a freelance writer since 1989 including as Contributing Editor and database columnist for PC Pro Magazine. He’s a specialist in several subject areas including UX design, low-power electronics design, firmware engineering and 3D printing. Jon has been creating business systems for almost 40 years and providing consultancy for over 30 years, so there’s not a lot of business problems he hasn’t seen and solved. He can give you an immediate answer to what’s possible and then rapidly show you how. He still codes every day, constantly learning and mastering new skills, and keeping up to date with the latest technologies and architectural patterns including serverless cloud computing. With his leadership, creativity, experience and passion for the application of technology to the automation of business processes, he’s someone you want on your project team.
Jon thinks governments should act decisively on climate change and actively invest in green technology research & development. Jon is also a passionate supporter of basic human rights, especially ending homelessness, water poverty, food poverty and ensuring an education for every child.
Microsoft Certified Trainer
Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MSPD)
SharePoint Server 2010 & Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP)
Ian Sanders – Principal IT Consultant
Ian is a Microsoft Certified educator with a solid track record of confidently presenting SharePoint concepts. He instils that same confidence in his trainees, making him the ideal person to develop your in-house team.
As a consultant at JFDI, Ian has years of real-world experience, solving all manner of architectural, operational and development-related SharePoint problems, improving both corporate and small business sites.
Ian is a Microsoft Certified Trainer with a solid track record of being able to confidently present any SharePoint concept and instill that same confidence into his trainees.
He’s also a Microsoft SharePoint Certified IT Professional and Microsoft SharePoint Certified Technical Specialist, and as a consultant at JFDI, has gained real-world, practical experience in solving architectural, operational, and development-related SharePoint problems in both corporate and small-business sites.
Microsoft Certified Trainer
Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MSPD)
SharePoint Server 2010 & Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP)
Microsoft SharePoint Certified Technical Specialist (MCTS)
Dan Atkins – Technical Business Consultant
Microsoft Office 365 and SharePoint Server Subject Matter Expert (SME)
SharePoint Server 2013 & 2016 Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
Zell Jeffery – Project Manager
Zell is an agile project manager who works behind the scenes at JFDI, ensuring complex projects are kept on track. As a professional Scrum Master, she’s pivotal to making each client’s wish list become a reality.
Zell oversees every Sprint, keeping the team focused. The JFDI project portal is updated daily, showing the progress we’ve made against milestones, budgets and timescales.
Scrum Master
JFDI was founded in 2001 by Jon Silver and Joel Jeffery. Their passion for innovation in business process automation, unrivalled SharePoint expertise and desire to be the best in their field have made JFDI a trusted technology partner of many SME and corporate clients. Their emphasis on people as their best asset has created a company culture that attracts talent from far and wide. Interested in becoming part of our team?