Hands-on IT leader. 20+ years running Microsoft estates in regulated industries · from PowerShell on a Friday to board papers on a Monday. CISM, AIGP, DORA. Service-first, evidence-led, plain English.
Available for hireCombat medic. Engineer. Service desk lead. Infrastructure architect. Head of Cyber & Infrastructure. Founder. The thread through all of it: stay hands-on, ship reliable systems, and make people's lives easier.
British Army · Bosnia · N. Ireland · Belize
Service-first discipline forged in operational deployments. Nine years in uniform set the foundations: high-pressure decision-making, calm under fire, and a habit of being useful when things break.
TENYAS / NHS · Frontline 999 response
Civilian frontline. Triaged, treated and transported across Yorkshire. Trained First Aid Instructors · the start of a habit of writing things down so others can do them.
Masternaut / Michelin Connected Fleet · Field & telematics platforms
First IT specialism. Field engineering on a national telematics platform, deep into hardware, networking, and 24/7 platform support.
Legend Club Management → GCI Communications · First management roles
First people-management role at Legend Club, then 24/7 NOC ownership at GCI Communications. ITIL operations at scale · incident, change, problem · with shift patterns and major incident process.
Restore Document Management · Multi-site growth-by-acquisition
Multi-site datacentre build & M&A onboardings. Led the US → UK operational migration whilst Restore was itself the target of acquisition · separating tenant, identity and mail from the US parent with zero service interruption. Onboarded several acquired businesses post-deal.
Xiros Ltd · Award-winning medical devices manufacturer
Sole IT leader, hands-on everything. Operated within a GAMP 5 validated environment with zero CAPA events raised against IT-managed systems. Led the digital transformation that retired legacy on-prem in favour of mobile-first cloud platforms.
SimplyBiz Group / Fintel PLC · AIM-listed financial services · 600 staff · 12+ brands
Promoted from IT Operations Manager to Head of Cyber & Infrastructure during the SimplyBiz → Fintel rebrand. IT Director-equivalent role. Hands-on across the full Microsoft estate while owning strategy, operations, security and board reporting as Data Protection Officer. 55% Azure cut · 94.3% SLA · £3.67M board case · 151% ROI.
Westgate Sentinel Consulting Ltd · Boutique Microsoft cloud & security
Founded UK boutique Microsoft cloud and IT consultancy. Productised model for professional and financial services clients. Hands-on engineer, founder and consultant in one · I still build the runbooks, write the scripts and ship the migrations alongside the strategy.
Infrastructure to AI. CISM to AIGP. Windows Server 2008 to Azure OpenAI. I've stayed hands-on across the whole Microsoft stack while growing the leadership remit around it.
Tenant migrations, infrastructure assessments, Cyber Essentials Plus, M365 hardening, vCIO advisory. Reach out on LinkedIn and I'll come back within one working day.