Technical Consulting & Architecture as a Service
With over 25 years of experience across industries and continents, I bring the perspective and resilience that only longevity in technology delivery can provide. My career has been built on adapting to change, navigating uncertainty, and consistently delivering outcomes that matter – giving clients confidence that projects are in safe hands.
Alongside full project delivery, I also provide fractional consulting, offering organisations targeted expertise exactly when it’s needed. This flexible approach means clients benefit from senior-level insight and leadership without the cost or commitment of a permanent hire, ensuring projects not only succeed today but are built to last.
I am a Generalist
I bring the perspective of a true generalist, shaped by decades of work across industries, organisations of every size, and projects at all stages of their lifecycle. This breadth of experience allows me to recognise patterns quickly, avoid common pitfalls, and draw on approaches that have succeeded in diverse contexts.
It also means I can cut through complexity to design elegant solutions, balancing proven principles with fresh thinking, so clients benefit from strategies that are both practical and adaptable to their unique challenges.
I am a Specialist
I also specialise in delivering high-performance, dynamically scalable solutions for organisations that demand speed, resilience, and the ability to handle sudden surges in activity. With deep experience in secure, mission-critical systems, I design and deliver architectures that ensure operations continue seamlessly, even under extreme load.
My background spans grid computing, microservices, serverless platforms, and heavily multi-threaded architectures, built for some of the world’s most demanding environments, including global investment banks and major retailers. This means I can help clients reduce risk, improve efficiency, and create systems that scale as the business grows.
Greenfield Development & Bleeding-edge Technology
Below are some examples of the technologies and approaches I researched, adopted, and introduced early in their lifecycle:
Agile since
1998
C#/.net since
2002
Grid Computing
2005
Cloud since
2010
Modern Web Apps
2011
AI/ML since
2019
Let's Talk
Every project starts with a conversation. Whether you’re exploring a bold new idea, facing a high-stakes delivery, or simply need clarity in a complex landscape, I’d love to help. I work with organisations of all sizes, from ambitious start-ups to global enterprises, and tailor my support to what you actually need. That might mean leading a full-scale delivery, offering fractional expertise exactly when it’s needed, or providing advisory and mentoring support you or to strengthen your own team. If you’re ready to turn possibility into progress, let’s connect 👇.
My Recent Technology Articles
These articles are designed to simplify complex topics, spark fresh perspectives, and provide leaders and teams with practical takeaways they can apply in their own work. Click here for all my articles.
The Transformation Nobody Announced
The largest change to knowledge work in decades is arriving in most organisations with no programme, no strapline, and nobody saying what it's for. This piece is about what a successful transformation did differently, and why AI adoption keeps failing for reasons that aren't technical.
Somebody Has to Hold the Ruler
AI has enormous capability and almost no measurement. While the frontier labs build, the universities are quietly building the ruler: open models, independent evaluation, and an assurance discipline. The question is whether a sector running a £5.5 billion research deficit can afford to finish it.
Still Queuing at the Door
A record number of people applied to UK universities this year, while graduate vacancies fell to a decade low. The threat to higher education is not that students stop coming. It is what waits on the other side, and who pays for the research in the meantime.
The Street Is the Laboratory Now
The Manchester Baby was a university machine, and industry, government and academia built what came next together. Eighty years on, the research happens at corporate speed, on public roads and in public services, funded by capital no university can match. This piece is about what that cost us, and who…
A Brief History of AI – LLMs
The phone in your pocket is a bundle of other people's decades, and so is the model you chat to. This is the timeline I wanted for myself: eighty years of ideas, from the first artificial neuron to ChatGPT, with the stalls, the unfashionable bets and the people who were…
The Interface Was the Revolution
For seventy years we spoke the machine's language. Now it speaks ours, and that shift, not raw capability, is the real revolution. This piece explores natural language as the interface that finally lets us govern intent and hand the execution to machines.
Reflecting on AI and a Tired Industry
The direction is clear. The world is not ready. A reflection on the exhaustion between those two facts, and whether we are walking the dot-com road again.
Human Intent – The Human Intent Stack
The Human Intent Stack: how intent moves from human purpose to machine execution, and the world-readiness test most organisations are not yet running.
Everybody’s Token ‘Bout It, AI Costs and Iteration Tax
AI costs are rising even as token prices fall. This side piece explores why the real issue is not just usage-based pricing, but the hidden cost of unclear intent: every vague prompt, retry, and agentic loop turns poor articulation into spend.
Human Intent – Chief Intent Officer (CIO)
The 1980s Chief Information Officer was the right answer to the 1980s question. The 2026 question is different. Same three letters, new word in the middle: Chief Intent Officer. Why the existing C-suite cannot quite reach the gap, and what changes when intent moves into the boardroom.