Experience

• Independent contract delivery through Boxcurve.
• Delivered regulated transformation for a Tier-1 New Zealand bank and a Top 4 global iron ore producer.
• Designed and built AI-governance capability on Azure (the Unity work): governance, RACI and requirements-traceability for complex change.
• CAF-aligned Azure landing zones, DevSecOps and hands-on build (React and FastAPI).

• Led the security core of a £20M ECB-mandated regulatory remediation programme.
• Managed a £6M budget and 100+ vendor resources; built a Tier 1 to 3 Security Operations Centre.
• Deployed Azure Sentinel across 6000+ log sources at 1TB+ per day; stood up a greenfield Azure landing zone.
• Achieved the ECB amber risk rating to deadline, £2M+ annual savings, and SOC maturity Level 1 to Level 3.

• Enterprise cybersecurity transformation and data-platform modernisation across global operations.
• Directed 100+ distributed resources and £15M+ across two consecutive contracts.
• Board cybersecurity review shaping the 5-year CISO strategy; SOC2 Type 2; Dremio Data-as-a-Service on Kubernetes.
• IAM and MFA across 9000 Unix hosts; 70,000-user browser migration. Delivered fully remote through COVID-19.

• £3M datacentre transformation across three datacentres; Cisco to Arista with F5 and Palo Alto.
• Zero-downtime delivery across 24/7 retail operations including critical point-of-sale systems.
• Pioneered an application-centric migration method and a custom real-time monitoring toolset.
• Displaced the incumbent and secured a multi-million pound managed-services contract.

• Regional director for an £800M IBM outsourcing transition: 400 offices across 41 countries.
• Led recovery from the NotPetya attack that hit 99% of the EMEA estate; Tier 1 services back within a week.
• Created the Cloud Factory methodology that accelerated the UK datacentre exit by 300%.

• Cloud and Microsoft 365 transformation for a top global miner (Australia).

• UK government Cloud First transformation at the largest single funder of debt advice.
• 98% operational expenditure reduction and £4.7M savings with a 7-month return on investment.
• Decommissioned two datacentres; personally architected the LAN/WAN, VOIP and firewall infrastructure.

Project management and network, security and infrastructure architecture across banking, government, critical infrastructure and maritime: Marsh McLennan, Data#3, First Data, Fujitsu, Chevron, Kinetic IT, BankWest, Lehman Brothers, Network Rail, Threadneedle Investments, NaviSite and P&O Cruises. Tier 4 datacentre builds and relocations, PCI DSS payments infrastructure, and large-scale Cisco, Checkpoint and F5 networks.