Over 35 years experience in IT software engineering including enterprise and solution architecture in both R&D/product development and professional services organisations, in addition to consulting.With an R&D and commercialisation background I have a particular passion for product development and design and enjoy operating at the intersection of engineering, product and commercialisation. Particular strengths and interest in early stage systems development, packaging and commercialisation in leadership roles.Have worked extensively in technical engineering, architecture and leadership roles across a wide variety of technologies and domains. Currently working in the areas of high performance distributed systems, big data, open source, Linux, AI and reporting. Currently involved in the domains of enterprise search, unstructured data, text analytics and the broader and growing domain problem of information access, relevance and retrieval within organisations. As CTO and product owner for Syl Limited I am currently involved in leading a very smart and capable engineering team in the design, build and delivery to market of an enterprise grade platform and application set. Incorporating a wide variety of text analytics and search functions. Our goal is an absolute focus on providing truly relevant enterprise content discovery, search and access products utilising the platform, that are specifically designed to fully address the true information challenges of today’s enterprise.