Twenty-five years spread across six connected areas. Below is where that experience actually comes from.
IT Strategy and Leadership
Technology strategy only works if it’s honest. I translate technical decisions into plain business terms: what something costs, what it delivers, and whether it solves the actual problem, without jargon getting in the way. That includes saying no to a deployment, rejecting a vendor proposal, or pointing out when a simpler option beats the one being pitched.
AI strategy and adoption
Most AI initiatives struggle to show a return. I developed a platform-agnostic evaluation methodology, tested across multiple AI platforms, and used AI-augmented delivery models that tripled consulting capacity and returned three to five times ROI for clients. Honest measurement matters as much as the technology itself.
Vendor and partner relationships
Designing and running vendor and partner programmes: commercial agreements, co-op and marketing fund claims, co-sell alignment, and partner tier performance tracking, built across Microsoft and multi-vendor partnerships. Understanding both sides of a partnership, what the vendor needs to see and what the buyer actually values, is what makes one work.
Governance, risk and compliance
Auditor-level knowledge of international management standards, used to build governance that survives contact with a real audit rather than just a slide deck.
Cyber Security
Security leadership and governance built from the ground up, from framework and policy through to board-level risk reporting, shaped by delivering it inside real organisations rather than advising from the outside.
Cloud infrastructure
Cloud strategy grounded in hands-on infrastructure engineering, not just architecture diagrams: I built and delivered technical solutions for thousands of users across education, non-profit, SME and enterprise sectors before moving into strategy.
How I’ve delivered this
Most of that experience has come through fractional and interim CIO, CTO, and CISO leadership, for organisations navigating transformation and merger and acquisition integration, and through direct vendor partnership ownership inside consulting and solutions businesses.
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