itworks prides itself on hiring and retaining the best IT professionals available. We have worked hard to foster an environment were individuals can strive to improve their own skills and pursue their interests. This has enabled us to offer a level of service that is unmatched by most other information technology firms. The people described on this page form the core of our team. However, from time to time, we call on other highly skilled professionals to join our project teams.

Dr. Paul Mackey

Paul has an academic background in Physics, and gained a Ph.D. in the field of thin-film optics. He worked on the determination of fundamental material optical constants required to design state of the art ring-laser gyroscopes for aircraft inertial guidance systems. His work was in collaboration with British Aerospace (Sperry Gyroscope).

Paul has worked in information technology for the last twelve years. Originally developing solutions for the aerospace (Shorts missile systems) and insurance industries ( the ground breaking FM Quote system), he formed itworks in 1997. His goal has been to bring first class analysis and his experience of robust, reliable systems to a wider client base. Paul has worked on high profile projects such as Prime Access ( Goldman Sachs ), a high volume electronic equity trading system and the first ever electronic European Commercial Paper trading system (Tradeweb).

Dr. Nicola Mackey

Nicola collects degrees. Originaly she graduated with a Bsc & Ph.D in inorganic chemisty. Her work with boron involved creating nitrogen-boron polymer chians ( which is increadibly difficult), and for a time she held the record of having creating the longest. The ultimate goal of this work was the creation of molocular scale electronic components.

After her time in inorganic chemistry, she studied to become a teacher. For a number of years she taught as a science co-ordinator in a primary school. During this time, she kindly took on the role of financial controller managing the accounts of the fledgling itworks ltd.

As itworks has become more and more successful, this has become Nicola's full time job.

Dr. Ewan Roberston

Ewan is a seasoned IT professional, with many years expereince. Ewan also has a Physics background, during which ( as an atomic physiscist ) he did a lot of mathematical modelling programming.

After his acaedemic career, Ewan joined Paul in working on the ground breaking FMQuote system. After completion of this project, Ewan went on to work on anumber of systems in the legal, supply chain and petro-chemical sectors for such companies as IBM and Shell.

Ewan joined itworks Ltd in 2001 and since has worked on a number of projects, including the itworks smart card platform and the Unity Card system ( see our products).