My Journey

My career started in technical training. Since then, I’ve spent most of it moving between two worlds that rarely talk to each other properly: the vendors who build and sell technology, and the organisations that have to buy it, adopt it and make it actually work.

I’ve run vendor partnership programmes from the inside, and I’ve sat on the buyer’s side as a fractional CIO, CTO and CISO. That combination, vendor, buyer and a foundation in training, shows up in how I approach AI adoption, cyber security, cloud and governance.

Expertise Map

• Firebrand Training, Technology Solutions Director (2026 to present)
• Focus Group, IT Strategy Consultant then Head of Strategic Consulting (2024 to 2026)
• Conosco, Senior Infrastructure Engineer through to Head of Strategy Consulting (2019 to 2024)
• Joskos Solutions, Technical Manager and Solutions Architect (2014 to 2018)
• Co-Operative Systems, Technical Manager (2008 to 2014)
• Joskos IT Training and Recruitment, Technical Manager (2000 to 2008)
  
  

Professional memberships:

• Professional Member and mentor, British Computer Society (MBCS)
• Associate Member, Chartered Institute of Information Security (CIISec)

Selected achievements

• Over £10m won in competitive technology tenders
• Built and scaled a global technology PMO
• Delivered technical solutions for thousands of users across education, non-profit, SME and enterprise sectors
• Developed a platform-agnostic AI evaluation methodology and governance framework tested across multiple AI platforms
• AI-augmented delivery models that doubled consulting capacity and returned three to five times ROI for clients
• Designed and ran Microsoft and multi-vendor partnership programmes, including co-op fund management, co-sell alignment and partner tier performance