Retired

Heriot-Watt University

Court Committee

Pipistrelle Ltd

Strategic advisor for a UK technology company primarily focused around the assessment and exploitation of emergent technologies for industry-wide solutions.

Non-Executive Director

Capgemini

Business Value leader within Cloud Centre of Excellence, specialising in cloud strategy, business case and operating model transformation. Led major engagements around: cloud adoption; business continuity/disaster recovery; data centre strategy and migrations; and operating model development.

Business Value Consulting Director

Leading a range of strategic engagements while developing capabilities and propositions (particularly related to consultancy and technology/service lifecycle management).

ACHIEVEMENTS
# Led a team within a large bank to review quality assurance measures, demand management supplier engagement, process diligence, project delivery and data dashboards.

# Delivered a cloud partner assessment framework for a US software company seeking to expand its SaaS portfolio globally.

# Trusted advisor to large public sector body on DR, data centre strategy and service alignment initiatives.

# Alternative sourcing operating model benefit assessment for IT leadership within global insurance & fund management organisation.

# Test function gap analysis, re-design and implementation for major UK bank.

# Strategic Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity review and transformation plan for major pension company

Head of Service Development

Exception

Built a highly skilled team and developed the Exception capability portfolio to increase value-delivery.

ACHIEVEMENTS:
# Successfully developed and delivered proposition across: Desktop Modernisation; Data Centre Modernisation; Discovery & Migration; and Service Improvement.

# Developed and launched a SFIA-based career framework across Architectural and Consulting areas.

# Governed infrastructure testing across key outsourcing partners for a major UK bank divestment programme.

# Managed a team of architects, designers and test managers within leading UK financial services customer.

# Conducted review and recommendations across major UK health body digitalisation programme.

# Led a strategic IT function review for a national educational authority.

Head of Infrastructure & Integration

Asked to return to Morse to lead a corporate integration programme. 
Morse was later acquired by 2e2.

OBJECTIVES
Derive and evolve corporate strategy, capabilities and partnerships.  Develop integrated solutions in order to bring clear propositions to market.

ACHIEVEMENTS
# Successfully led service offerings in strategic alignment, data centre optimisation, automated lifecycle management, end-user computing and cloud adoption.

# Example client engagements include strategic IT programme delivery for Finance, Commercial & Health sector clients, and major IT transformation programme for large Defence client.

# Delivered post-acquisition review, assessment and integration of capabilities and collateral.  

# Key member of senior leadership team strategic change programmes.  

# Implemented SFIA-based career framework, skills assessment and profile management.

Strategist

SSE plc

Personal sabbatical from 2e2, spent exploring the combination of generation sources with storage solutions for effective and economic national energy supply and exportation.

Energy R&D

OBJECTIVES
Advise CTOs & CIOs, across public and private sector organizations, on key challenges through strategic business consulting for value-add IT design.

ACHIEVEMENTS
# Successful proposition development on Virtualisation and Green IT.

# Contributor within European CIO Surveys on IT Agility and Innovation.

# Lead IT advisor on the Digital Oilfield programme for a major UK energy company.

# Test programme lead on a global HR transformation for a major UK government body.

# Managed commercial, architectural and third party teams for initial bid stage of one of the largest IT programmes (~£400M) undertaken within a major UK government body.

Managing Consultant

Morse Group

OBJECTIVES
Marry customer business requirements to appropriate infrastructure architectures and solutions. 

ACHIEVEMENTS
# Provided consultancy over a broad customer base, working across commercial and technical teams, to supply technology integration solutions driving annual revenue growth.

# Successfully led and delivered strategic propositions around Business Continuity and Infrastructure Architecture.

# Key consultant within major UK bank reviewing consolidation, capacity planning & business continuity for more effective re-balancing between mainframe to virtualised midrange estates.

# Coach for a number of senior-level technical consultants.

Solutions Architect

I provide independent input, based on a rich variety of experience around transformations that work in the best interests of your organisation - no sales agenda, no politics and no marketing-spin.

As a pragmatic generalist, my approach is straight forward: identify any relevant strategic, tactical or operational opportunities/blockers; and help your organisation address them.

Also, if you are a not-for-profit organisation or charity, this may be reflected via low (or even zero) cost engagement.

Specialties: problem definition, strategic solutions, operating model change, DC/cloud transformation, business continuity/disaster recover, value delivery, innovation/vision.

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