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.
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.
Human Intent – Contribution Beyond Work
The title is deliberately paradoxical. Humans will continue to do things - that is not what is changing. What is changing is what makes them professionally valuable. This fifth article in the series explores why most AI-skills advice misses the deeper shift, and what humans actually contribute when work is…
The Cloud Said It First. AI Is Saying It Again.
AI feels unprecedented. Organisationally, it is surprisingly familiar. Twenty years of cloud computing taught us that governance lags technology, and that the organisations that thrived restructured around it rather than retrofitting it. The same pattern is now unfolding with AI, only faster.
Human Intent – Contribution Without Work
For over a century, work has been the unit around which organisations were built - the tasks, the roles, the workflows, the methodologies. As AI takes on execution, that unit is dissolving. Not the doing of things, which continues, but work as the organising principle of enterprise life. The fourth…
Human Intent – The End of Taylor’s Century
For over a century, organisations have been built on a single premise: that they exist to optimise human work. From Taylor's scientific management to Kotter's Dual Operating System, every major theory has been a variation within that frame. The third article in the Human Intent series explores why agentic AI…
Human Intent – Agile is Dead, Long Live agile
For two decades, Agile was the right answer. Sprints, standups, story points — all of it built to coordinate slow human execution. But agentic AI is changing the constraint. The methodology that grew up around the Manifesto is dying. The spirit that drove it has never been more alive. The…
Human Intent – Organisational Change in the AI Era
For most of the last century, organisations have been built to coordinate human execution. But as AI systems take on more of the work, across every function, not just technology, the constraint shifts. It is no longer how fast we can build. It is whether we actually know what we…
Intent-Driven Development – Humans have Roles, Agents have Functions
For decades, organisations were structured around the work humans had to do manually. But if agents can write code, run tests, deploy systems, and operate platforms, then organisations may no longer be structured around execution at all. Humans define intent. Agents enact it.