Technology Strategy, Governance and Architecture:• Defined strategic direction as a tech scale-up.• Consulted and collaborated with customers on IT architecture patterns and solutions.• Established technology roadmaps and presented strategies to senior management and C-Suite stakeholders.Commercial Relationships:• Aligned business drivers with innovative technologies to win multiple RFPs.• Developed and maintained customer, partner and supplier relationships.Solution Design, Deployment and Operations:• Accountable for infrastructure and security lifecycle processes, from design to operational deployment of reliable solutions in off-prem public cloud, private cloud and on-prem environments.• Collaborated with sales teams and SMEs across cloud, cybersecurity, network, data and digital application stacks.• Operationalised scalable cloud-delivered services for customers and internal teams.• Acted as primary escalation point for nationwide managed services and incident response to critical infrastructure sectors.• Created business continuity plans to maintain uptime of essential functions and services for clients.Team Management:• Recruited and mentored high performing talent for network and platform engineering teams.

• Co-founded a tech start-up telco and managed service provider.• Developed scalable products for telco & MSP services to improve business outcomes.• Provided IT and operational technology (OT) consulting services across a range of industries.• Architected innovative IT solutions and distributed systems for government and enterprise.• Scaled from leading a team of 4 engineers in 2009 to a multi-domain organisation of 50+ engineers in 2019.

• Designed and implemented technology solutions for customers as an IT value-added reseller.

• Designed network solutions and provided level-3 TAC escalation at the global research & development (R&D) centre of an embedded software and hardware equipment vendor.

• Provided network vendor R&D support to government and enterprises as a specialist field engineer across the EMEA region.

• Developed and maintained software automation test suites for R&D verification of network switches, routers, and firewalls.