I am an experienced IT consultant with over fourteen years of experience gained in a number of technical roles, including more than 10 years experience as a performance tester. I am competent in a number of technical disciplines including Microsoft server operating systems and HP testing tools (LoadRunner and QTP). I am involved in a customer-facing role and I am a confident communicator with excellent interpersonal skills.

I left HBOS (Lloyds Banking Group) in November 2009 after six years working as a senior performance tester. During my time at HBOS, I was responsible for performance testing the bank's customer facing web-sites as well as a number of key internal applications, including HR systems and core banking applications using LoadRunner. I managed a team responsible for the performance testing of the HBOS Faster Payments system using Iliad FasTest. This was, and remains, the most ambitious test project ever undertaken by HBOS plc. As well as training and mentoring my colleagues in the performance test team, I acted as a technical advisor on Performance Center, LoadRunner and HP Diagnostics software throughout Lloyds Banking Group.

I recently created my own company "Richard Bishop IT Ltd" and I'm working for a client in London two days per week. The rest of the time I work remotely from home.

I take an active role in the UK and worldwide testing community and am co-leader of the UK HP Software user group, VIVIT. I have been called to speak at UK and worldwide conferences by HP and by the British Computer Society at their SIGIST testing conferences on the subject of performance testing and "building performance test centres of excellence".