Created and drove the implementation of an industry-leading strategic architecture, taking BT Group from a Telco to a Techco. Transforming from a monolithic to a modular, agile, platform based and product-led digital landscape, for a future of BT Group. A future that connects for good and creates an exceptional experience for our customers: all brands - BT,EE, PlusNet - and all lines of business - BT business & BT consumer - underpinning all BT Group revenue. Established and led a new end to end core engineering platform's function of c.800 people, providing services across secure public cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure), Integration platform, DevOps & CI/CD and Data Fabric. A product-first & platform-thinking led approach to deliver the vision of 'faster to value' in BT. Broad experience of technologies: from Jira to GitLab, from slack to Apigee, from AWS code whisperer to BlazeMeter, from iPaaS to ArgoCD, from Ab Initio to Kafka. These platforms support 10,000+ engineers and the move to modern engineering techniques, increased productivity, adoption of Inner-source, a shift to cloud alongside the operational platforms accountability. Senior Responsible Ownership for Dev/Sec/ops for BT driving policy to code standards, and automation across BT Group.Sponsor of "Tech women" in BT and with local level support established across key sites in UK and India A regular representative for BT at external events/publications speaking to the digital architecture transformation, cloud transformation and promoting women in tech.

Delivered a business & customer first re-architecture bringing five customer facing lines of business together to align future business strategy, customer journey thinking, alongside problems and challenges they faced in order to design the right future IT architecture for BT Group.Delivered a business outcome technical strategy and roadmap for a 5 year transformation alongside the business transformation across the group, driving architecture thinking at the core of the transformation, aligning the BT Board, Exco lines of business & IT leaders that technology was key to locking BT’s Next Gen potential.Re-introduced 'Data architecture' and established an architecture for a sustainable data fabric and data platform target.Key input to partnership deals to procure strategic components including : Salesforce, ServiceNow, Ciena Blue Planet, Google.Established and owned central IT budget for transformation of core foundations.Delivered initial "lighthouses" with key partners for a number of the customer facing business functions to prove strategic components such as GoogleNorthern Cohort leader for BT’s “Tech Women” programme, approx. 10 – 15 female colleagues across BT, helping them to be the best versions of themselves with the right tools and techniques to progress their careers.

Delivered alignment and traceability of Alere's strategic intent from cross-domain, cross-organisation and cross-project perspectives for Global IT Services. This included 19 Global manufacturing sites and the full product lifecycle process for 96 legal entities and across a varied set of healthcare products & services.Establishment of new core capability models and solution architecture standards, practices and governance for a highly validated healthcare business. Business outcome led IT strategy creation for the Global business including Core SAP ERP (including manufacturing), network & data architecture.Transformed IT service management through the adoption of ITIL and rollout of ServiceNow, with a specific focus on building a strong service-centric CDMB at the core.Owned and managed the IT cost management and cross charge across the global 96 legal entities and established service account management as a capability to serve those entities.Key member of the team for divestment of Alere's diabetes business and technical domain separation and the initial planning for the Abbot Laboratories purchase of Alere Inc.

Portfolio management for the newly formed Global IT function. Delivered a business outcome based investment decision making process using Enterprise Architecture techniques to ensure all investment choices were strategically aligned.A key member of the newly formed Global IT function setting up core functions such as a central investment portfolio to provide decision insight to the executive board on investment/return choices. Implemented change management best practice across portfolio, programme and project management.

Accountable for alignment and traceability of the Enterprise strategic intent from cross-domain, cross-organisation and cross-project perspectives covering the Vodafone Group Enterprise Division.Guided a key transformation activity within Vodafone across the whole Group Enterprise business, including a number of local markets to create the people, process and technology requirements for their new business expansion.

Creation of a new Enterprise Architecture practice in Cable&Wireless Worldwide linking strategy and execution. Implementation of architecture assessment within the customer deal process for margin protection for non standard deals.Linking full end to end lifecycle from product through billing of people, process, tools, data.

Head of the Design & Test Department for all core platforms at Cable&Wireless Worldwide. Covering Hosting, Data (ATM, IP), Voice (TDM & IP), Mobile (FMC Radio & Core), CCS, Transmission, Internet, LLU, Internal Networks & APM delivering market leading products and services.

Accountable for delivery of internet services for the Wanadoo account. Management of IPStream project management for Wanadoo's rollout including liaison with BT.

Management of a team of engineers to develop a new volume legal process and exit from a legacy mainframe.

Delivery of the first data warehouse in the organisation to drive a more insight driven metering business supporting North East Region (circa 17.6 million reads a year, a 900 vehicle fleet covering approx. 4.4 million homes and businesses)