CTO LEADERSHIP: Global leadership oversight for 200-300x CTOs & Senior Lead Architects for a portfolio of major client transformation programs (high value multi-year contracts). Established team of CTO / Senior Technical Advisors for growing long-term client relationships alongside creating a team of Technical Experts for rapid deployment on client escalations, turnaround programs and solving complex technical issues. STRATEGIC CLIENT PORTOLIO: Spearheaded high impact growth and business development strategies with focus on new business, prospecting multi-sector corporate companies and expanding existing footprint through opportunity identification and client CTO / CIO engagement plans. Added strategic deal leadership oversight on technical solutions, cost / pricing models, due diligence (approvals) and delivery frameworks alongside evaluating the global innovation landscape on new solutions, emerging technologies and global vendor future roadmaps. GLOBAL PROGRAM ASSURANCE: Top-tier client and strategic portfolio performance oversight focusing on financial / operational metrics, global resource utilisation, talent / resourcing needs, program status updates, escalations (interventions), global onshore / offshore capability and critical incidents (troubleshooting issues). Introduced executive reporting dashboards, management business reports on strategic portfolio overview (snapshot). STRATEGIC PROGRAMS GOVERNANCE: Senior presence on Program Boards / Steering Committees reviewing risk / best practice governance, changing technology / innovation landscape (future roadmap), multi-program delivery frameworks, voice of the customer, skills / resourcing and talent pipelines (career development programs). Embedded OKR methodologies (Objectives and Key Results), technical / architectural excellence (Global Communities of Practice) and Scaled Agile / DevOps methods.

GLOBAL TECHNICAL SOLUTIONS: Led client CTO / CIO engagement on the very largest multi-year strategic deals with senior leadership oversight for global deal assurance, technical validation, commercial viability (sign-off) and a large-scale portfolio (100’s of deals). Evaluated the global technology landscape on new solutions, emerging technologies and global vendor innovation roadmaps. GLOBAL EXPERT TEAMS: Led global expert teams (30x people) for managing end-to-end bid strategies, deal lifecycles, technical requirements, due diligence, client negotiations and deal closing. Leveraged expertise from senior technical architects, Pre-Sales consultants and other expertise when required, including in-depth technical analysis of overall bid solutions and managing client relationships / expectations. GLOBAL DEAL ASSURANCE: Embedded global best practice technology standards, risk management, program technical assurance and delivery roadmaps. Included technical escalations, crisis management, turnaround programs and major incidents to ensure rapid response resolution, root cause analysis and class action to reduce further incidents. GLOBAL ARCHITECTURE EXCELLENCE: Established Community of Practice to embed technical and architectural excellence best practices, promote cross-industry / cross-practice collaboration and knowledge sharing in a wider global community. Successfully launched the Atos Architect Career Framework & Talent Development Program. OTHER STRATEGIC INITIATIVES: Introduced Global ESG Strategy Frameworks embedding Environment, Social & Governance best practices into all deals, operational environments and architectural standards aligned to the decarbonization, sustainability and Net Zero agenda. Oversight for embedding ESG into core technical operations as part of the Global Operations Environmental Management System.

SENIOR TECHNOLOGY LEADERSHIP: Managed client CIO / CTO expectations on escalations requiring specialist attention, rapid results and critical deadlines. Involved leading the global deployment of Expert SWAT teams to client sites (20-40+ people depending on scale of problem) with troubleshooting expertise on program turnarounds, critical program recovery, major incidents and deal / contract performance.

REGIONAL TECHNOLOGY STRATEGY: Standardised all cross-functional architecture, production tooling, solutions development and operational / service delivery frameworks into an integrated suite of management tools for customers in the UK, Ireland & North-West Europe. Included 24/7 systems monitoring, patching tools and service desk technology platforms.UK&I PRODUCTION STRATEGY BOARD: Established a UK&I board governance oversight framework for key technology investment decisions, business cases and solutions evaluation aligned to standardized architectural / IT operational frameworks. Appointed Architecture Lead (North-West Europe) and embedded ways of working by leading multi-disciplinary technology teams in a high-performing Agile / DevOps environment covering in-house, offshore, onshore and contractors).

SENIOR TECHNOLOGY MANAGER: Successfully delivered client solutions development project portfolio with full stack platforms, solutions development, server infrastructure and systems architecture projects for corporate and public sector clients. Led multi-disciplinary teams (30x experts) on Microsoft, Unix & Linux platforms, service process architecture, systems integration and automation, plus established global toolset for technology evaluation, investment business cases, QA / project assurance and risk / governance frameworks.