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At Magic Happens Here, I lead a dynamic team dedicated to helping technology ventures grow, innovate, and succeed. We are experts at unlocking potential through:Tailored operating models designed to drive alignment and agility.Strategic consulting to optimise team topologies and create enduring business value.Continuous delivery frameworks that ensure faster, reliable results.Our Approach: We don’t just consult; we co-create and innovate with our clients. With a startup mentality and a bias for action, we focus on results.Explore our services and see how we can transform your challenges into opportunities: Visit Magic Happens Here.

London, Gb

Genomics England builds data platforms and tools for analysing big data (100 petabytes) while running a regulated medical device. • Orchestrated a turnaround strategy and launched the world’s first national genome testing service within ten months of arrival.• Restructured the supply chain to strengthen technical leadership and save £5m in 1 year. • Expanded technical team from 40 to 200 to deliver multiple programs simultaneously, including a £110m specialist screening service and a £25m AI and imaging project.• Spearheaded and expedited GEL’s migration to AWS, reduced costs by 40% and modernized to adopt serverless patterns.• Matured program controls across a £30m/year budget.

London, Gb

NHS improvement operates digitally enabled initiatives to drive performance in the NHS.• Aligned digital initiatives into a coherent vision and architecture to deliver 10-15 related programmes in parallel using the “team topologies” platform and value-stream principles.• Developed cloud data and application architecture to support large-scale, distributed analytics across 30+ initiatives.• Enhanced product and software development life cycles, reducing time to value by more than 50% through sprint zero, walking-skeleton, and CI/CD paradigms.

London, Gb

The CQC assures the quality of health and care providers in the UK. • Proposed a digital strategy, endorsed by the Board, to secure circa £30m in transformation funds.• Restructured management and a team of circa 80 to create multi-disciplinary agile teams that put user needs at the heart of change.• Governed data management, analytics, and digital media for an organisation of 3,500.

London, Gb

• Forged relationships with NHS technical leaders to shape the NHS roadmap for data.• Executed a technical integration with seven organisations to create NHS Improvement.• Directed data, analytics, and software development, tripling the team to circa 100 in line with Monitor’s expansion.

Offered business advice and mentoring for start-ups and small companies. My expertise is in filling the holes needed to raise venture financing and repackaging the business to attract talent and success.Successful ventures have included:Message Automation - www.messageautomation.comComplex Matters [evolved into Digital Forming - www.digitalforming.com]Your Safe Planet [evolved into tripbod.com - acquired by TripAdvisor]

London, Gb

• Defined a technical vision for healthcare analytics products; restructured the teams and ways of working to improve productivity and generate £5m+ in new business.• Lead product and business development to create overseas markets, e.g., a collaboration of 26 global top hospitals, ultimately leading to the sale of the company to Telstra Health.

London, Greater London, Gb

Honorary research role, working with the faculty of Computer Science at one of the UK's premier research institutions.

Complex Matters solve engineering problems using ground-breaking computer simulations and artificial intelligence.

Generated over £1m new revenue by identifying and commercialising intellectual property; created two new companies and negotiated 10+ technology licenses.

Technology Executive for a charity whose purpose was to retrain people to be workforce-ready. • Technical Training: Provided technical training by running a CISCO Systems training academy, a web development training function, and a web development social enterprise

Chief Information Officer• Founded an internet start-up (on-campus recruitment software), sold for $15m.

Msc, Intelligent Systems

Gdl, Law

Mba, Finance And Entrepreneurship

Ba, Metallurgy, Management And Economics