Tristen Coad

Technical Director

Tristen has worked in IT sector for over 20 years since graduating in 2002.  Tristen is our resident Cloud portfolio specialist; working with private, public and hybrid cloud environments.  Tristen has built and developed one of the first private cloud environments specifically for the Education Sector designed from the ground up with safeguarding and data security as the central purpose of the solution.

Tristen is our Data Protection, Disaster Recovery and Data Security lead at IT Systems as well as our GDPR and Senior Data Protection Officer for over 100 customers across the Education and Business sectors.  Certified as a Data Protection Practitioner, Tristen is also a certified Information Security auditor.

Outside of the world of IT, Tristen is our resident Lego fanatic.  Tristen is the Vice Chair for Brick Alley – a regional Lego group who host Lego exhibitions throughout the North East.  Tristen is also a keen kettlebell lifter and competes on behalf for Tu Nova; a key player in the UK kettlebell lifting scene.