Helping customers anticipate and tackle the challenges and opportunities presented by the largest and most complex cloud transformations, and drive new value for their businesses.Also, host of Cloud Realities podcast which explores both the practical realities and the exciting alternative realities that can be unleashed through cloud driven transformation and cloud native living and working

Runs Professional Services and personally works with senior level teams (IT LT, C-suite and Board of Directors) on their goals and future direction, developing effective strategic programmes for agile organisation, technology driven transformation & innovation. Develops Cloudreach’s industry leading go to market services.Leads company Strategy development and recently restructured the Cloudreach organisation, embedding Agile at scale and ensuring Cloudreach can scale and quickly adapt to market conditions.Attend the Cloudreach Board and Senior Leadership Team member.Co-hosts CLOUDBUSTING, a regular podcast exploring all aspects of cloud and digital transformation.

Creating digital platforms, decommissioning legacy and modernising IT. Including finding a new vision and purpose for IT and very large scale Cloud adoption. Reported to Group CIO and member of the IT Leadership Team. Key achievements include:-- Moving BP to the Cloud. Established and lead a leading edge transformation programme moving all applications onto the public cloud and retiring legacy using scaled Agile and DevOps methods.- A new purpose and identity to reposition IT in a world of mass digital disruption. This work has been submitted to the 2018 MCA awards for ‘Thought Leadership’ and ‘Change Management’.- ‘IT as a Service’, or how all IT components serve specific business outcomes, setting the blueprint for a more efficient way of organising IT whilst driving increased business responsiveness.- Improving staff experience of IT. Accelerated execution of programme to migrate all staff to Office365 and to a ‘choose your own device’ model, delivering a modern user experience. - Modernising supplier management. Exploring new ways to contract IT services, better supporting new ways of working and new technologies.

Achievements:- Paving the way for wider transformation. Listening and influencing across four highly differentiated technical, engineering, marketing and trading businesses to agree a ‘next-gen’ technology architecture and path forward to wider digital exploit. Crucially, this involved working with Legal, HR and Cyber teams to rebuild policy and standards, to ensure safety and security. New policy and standards released in all areas to support the transformation journey.- Delivered a seamless collaboration platform. Including consolidating telephony onto the Microsoft Lync platform, migration of corporate email into a private cloud, launch of social (Yammer) and mobile platforms, along with BP’s first mobile apps and a large scale desktop deployment. Resulting in strong cost reductions and improved customer experience.

Reported to Chief Executive Officer and DWP Group CIO, sat on JobcentrePlus Board and DWP IT Board. Achievements:-- JobcentrePlus Digital Services. Early exploration of use of digital in public services to improve customer experience and efficiency, led to Jobcentre Plus Digital Services being established- Business process transformation. Programme to remove paper from business process, drive cultural change, enable faster transaction time for customers. Nominated Environmental Programme of the year.- Increased staff satisfaction with IT by over 10% in one year. - Cost reduction through estate rationalisation and commercial innovation.- IT operational management. Including governmental response to 2008 economic downturn, to ensure stable IT services in the face of radically increasing customer volumes.

Achievements:- IT lead for a significant group business transformation programme, which required building very strong relationships and Board-level confidence, to transform customer experience and deliver cost reductions.- Established and launched full DWP Enterprise Architecture, covering business process and IT services, in support of the above transformation. Delivered in 18 months to budget.- Legacy investment leverage programme, implemented to avoid cost/risk on new technologies and using a wrapped front end (Seibel) to deliver modern user experiences and simplified processes.

Achievements:- Landscape architecture for global ERP (SAP) landscape.- As CISO, drove a refocus of Cyber Security group, incl rebuilding the internal capability offshore (Kuala Lumpur).- Drove global data centre consolidation, ultimately realising strong cost saving, improved global service provision and management.