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 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 education for every child.
Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT)
Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer (MCSD)
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
One of JFDI’s Consultants in Microsoft Office 365 and SharePoint Server, a Business and Solution Analyst, Systems and Application Architect, Information Governance, a Design Authority, Project Manager (Project Leader) and Subject Matter Expert (SME).
Dan has a proven track record of turning around systemic operations, delivering exceptional results and empowering end users. He has spearheaded many business IT solution projects, coordinating diverse teams of IT professionals. As an enthusiastic and confident person he Dan is an accomplished analyst, strategist and negotiator. His broad technical expertise enables him to understand the unique relationship between technology and business. He excels in leadership roles, engaging with senior management and stakeholders to bring aboudt positive change, challenging cultural perceptions of IT in the workplace. He delivers exceptional IT results, empowering end users.
excels in leadership roles, engaging with senior management structures and stakeholders to encourage positive changes to cultural perceptions of IT in the workplace.
Microsoft Office 365 and SharePoint Server Subject Matter Expert (SME)
SharePoint Server 2013 & Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP)
SharePoint Server 2016 Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
Ayesha Manu – SharePoint, Office 365 and Azure Developer
Ayesha is a Business Application Developer across the Microsoft technology stack. She flourishes in producing elegant and effective code which solves many problems for our clients.
Ayesha has experience working in various environments and industries. Her flexibility and problem-solving skills allowed her to solve many problems with her clever technical solutions. One might say that she is an instinctive programmer.
She is also a lovely person to have around with infectious smile and fantastic sense of humour.
Ike Gluski – Business Development
Ike is JFDIs’ business developer. He is the first touchpoint for external contacts, also our representative online and at various events. He never stops looking for new opportunities to put the JFDI development team’s skillset to use. Plus, he makes sure that JFDI is as easy to find online as possible.
His openness and professionalism, as well as the ability to translate complicated terms into easy-to-understand, informative client presentations, have led him to be invited as a speaker at many events. He believes that businesses should focus on helping other businesses thrive because this approach generates only win-win situations.
Helpful, kind, and funny. Ike will not let the team feel down, even on the rainiest of days. And he likes cars. A lot.
Jonathan Atkins – Application Developer
Jonathan is one of our application developers and has been accredited with the senior developer (level 2) Appian qualification. With over 3 years of experience as a lead developer working on many projects and applications.
He has an extensive analytical and technical background which is applied to providing effective and efficient solutions to business process automation challenges.
Jonathan possesses a good team spirit and enjoys building strong relationships with customers and partners.
Anthony Wright – Business Application Developer
Anthony is a highly skilled Business Application Developer, that specialises in Appian.
In a nutshell, Anthony translates technical business requirements into Business Process Management (BPM) solutions which help our clients’ businesses daily.
Anthony is skilled in Appian, Blue Prism (RPA), and Celonis (Process Mining) development.
He is an experienced consultant with a history of working for various businesses in the information technology and financial service industries.
Anthony takes great pleasure in using the problem-solving and analytical skills that he has developed throughout his career, to provide tailored BPM solutions for clients.
His positive, energetic, and personable attitude makes working with him a pure pleasure.
He holds several certificates including Appian Level Two, Blue Prism Developer and SCRUM Master certifications.
Austin Breslin – Software Developer
Austin Breslin is a Software developer that adapts to the current and future trends within the industry with the goal of using an ever-broadening skillset to reach the goals set out by his business partners.
Started as Java Developer moved onto JQuery UI development to IBM WCM administrator/developer, then to SharePoint/Azure developer, then to AWS full-stack development.
He has experience in large enterprise and has helped solve many of the challenges which such organisation might face during their digital transformation and thrive to solve more.
Austin has a breadth of skills in many different development environments and administration roles.
Stephen Burns – Software Developer
Stephen started as a developer in the Azure/SharePoint Online space creating ARM templates, YAML pipelines and PowerShell scripting for deployments – primarily ops focused, then moved to develop frontend web part solutions for SharePoint Online using React / Typescript / SPFX and Flow with automated testing using Selenium / Jest and Cucumber.
Experience migrating an SPFX solution to a standalone NextJs / NodeJS application that used Graph for Azure related calls.
He’s done a bit of everything like working with SPFX, Next JS, React, TypeScript, PowerShell, Node etc.
Sree Dyavadi – Data Transformation & PowerBI Developer
Sree has extensive experience in working with data and data analytics with various customers over many sectors including Pharmaceutical and Financial Services.
Her unique approach and deep understanding of data allow her to support our customers when transforming extensive and difficult to process data sets, becoming easy to read yet fully functional dashboards.
Moreover, she continues to work with SQL Server, SSRS, My SQL, PowerBI and Excel, to deliver interactive dashboards, business reports, KPI metrics, time intelligence analytics and many other data-driven outputs.
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?