Joshua Davies

Senior IT Applications Manager at Science and Technology Facilities Council

Warrington, England, United Kingdom

About

Experience

  • Director at LegacyLens
    Feb 2026 - Present · 5 mos

    We carefully restore photographs and deliver within 24 hours - ready to print, frame, or share. Private, secure, and handled with respect. https://legacylens.co.uk

  • Director at EstateTalk
    Jun 2025 - Present · 1 yr 1 mo

    The AI-powered voicemail agent that identifies callers, matches properties in Street & Alto, and delivers actionable summaries directly to your Microsoft Teams or Email. https://estatetalk.ai

  • STFC (Full-time · 7 yrs 9 mos)
    • Senior IT Applications Manager
      Dec 2024 - Present · 1 yr 7 mos

      IT Applications Manager at Science and Technology Facilities Council - Built and maintained a suite of bespoke Power Apps tailored to operational workflows, cutting down on manual workarounds and giving teams tools that actually fit how they work. - Designed and deployed Power Automate flows across multiple departments, taking repetitive, time-consuming processes off people's plates and freeing them up for higher-value work. - Delivered organisation-wide reporting and analytics through Power BI, including a live safety incidents dashboard to monitor and act on incident trends across STFC. - Migrated a legacy 3,500+ page SharePoint intranet to a modern CMS-based website, improving accessibility and usability for both internal teams and external stakeholders. - Administered and continuously improved the Totara LMS, supporting training delivery and professional development at scale across the organisation. - Oversaw the implementation and ongoing management of a safety and compliance platform (Evotix), ensuring organisational safety objectives are tracked and met. - Managed IT budget allocation across a broad application portfolio, balancing operational needs with strategic priorities. - Line managed and developed a team of IT professionals, supporting both technical output and career growth. - Built AI-powered tooling, including RAG-based systems using vector databases and LLMs, making safety documentation more accessible and actionable for non-technical users. - Administered SharePoint Online across the organisation, delivering solutions for document management, team collaboration, and workflow automation. - Automated data processing pipelines using Python, reducing what previously took days of manual effort down to seconds.

    • IT Applications Engineer
      Oct 2021 - Nov 2024 · 3 yrs 2 mos

    • IT Infrastructure - Service Desk Analyst
      Oct 2018 - Oct 2021 · 3 yrs 1 mo