Transforming Enterprises Through AI, Data, and Cloud Innovation
20+ years pioneering enterprise AI • PhD in Neural Networks • £40M+ in proven TBM/FinOps savings • Trusted advisor to Fortune 500 CTOs and CIOs
Delivering measurable business outcomes through strategic technology leadership
From AI strategy to enterprise modernization, I bring 30+ years of proven results
Detailed case studies of complex enterprise transformations delivered with Infosys
Danske Bank operated a legacy mainframe infrastructure costing £50M+ annually with 5 million lines of COBOL code that was blocking digital transformation. The business demanded faster feature delivery, but the mainframe constraints made this impossible. Critical challenges included:
Led comprehensive mainframe-to-AWS migration as Principal Architect with Infosys, managing a 16-person technical team through discovery, assessment, and phased migration. The strategy focused on automated transformation while maintaining business continuity:
Bosch acquired Johnson Controls' HVAC business unit for $8.1 billion, requiring a complex technology separation of 700+ applications across 60+ countries within a 12-month TSA deadline. The programme faced unprecedented complexity:
Served as Enterprise Architect on the steering committee with Infosys, providing strategic guidance as trusted advisor to both JCI and Bosch leadership. Designed innovative "Merger Zone" architecture enabling business continuity while systematically eliminating JCI dependencies:
M&A technology due diligence consistently faces the same pain points across deals: manual application portfolio analysis taking 6-12 weeks per transaction, inconsistent quality across global deal teams, hidden dependencies discovered late causing costly delays, and £100K+ consulting costs per deal. Traditional approaches using spreadsheets and manual reviews were:
Architected and developed an enterprise-grade AI platform combining Large Language Models, graph databases, and RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) to automate the entire M&A discovery analysis workflow. Built two deployment architectures for different client scenarios:
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Leading strategic technology initiatives as trusted advisor to C-suite executives across Fortune 500 clients. Driving digital transformation through AI/ML, cloud modernization, and data strategy, delivering measurable business outcomes across financial services, healthcare, and sovereign sectors. Generated £6M+ annual revenue through strategic pre-sales and technology advisory.
Challenge: High customer wait times and agent inefficiency handling routine queries.
Solution: Conversational AI using Amazon Q with Bedrock and Claude 2.
Impact: 35% reduction in hold times, 40% improvement in first-call resolution, £2.5M annual savings.
Challenge: Manual underwriting processes limiting capacity in specialty insurance.
Solution: AI transformation roadmap using Claude via Amazon Bedrock.
Impact: 60% faster decisions, 30% capacity increase, £8M annual savings.
Challenge: Building cloud infrastructure for $500B smart city with complete data sovereignty.
Solution: Hybrid sovereign cloud using Oracle Cloud@Customer with AWS/Azure innovation layer.
Impact: Digital foundation enabled, 40% cost reduction, 18-month acceleration.
Challenge: Fragmented data landscape with 200+ silos preventing real-time analytics.
Solution: Unified lakehouse using Databricks on Azure with medallion architecture.
Impact: 90% faster reporting, £15M annual savings, real-time fraud detection.
Challenge: Manual processing creating 6-week backlogs with 500+ overwhelmed case workers.
Solution: Autonomous agent framework using Amazon Bedrock with specialized agents.
Impact: 80% reduction in manual processing, 95% citizen satisfaction, £8M savings.
Challenge: Overwhelming patient call volumes with limited GP capacity.
Solution: Local LLM infrastructure with real-time transcription (cost <2.5p per patient/year).
Impact: 95% cost reduction while maintaining NHS compliance, improved patient access.
Challenge: Low developer adoption of GitHub Copilot (20,000 licenses) with productivity measured only by usage metrics (lines of code, questions asked) rather than business outcomes. Cultural resistance driven by job security concerns.
Solution: Redesigned success metrics focusing on quality and velocity: test failure rates, release frequency, deployment cycle times, code review turnaround. Implemented developer experience surveys and peer learning programs to address cultural concerns.
Impact: Shifted from vanity metrics to business value measurement, improved developer confidence through education on AI as augmentation tool, established foundation for measuring true productivity gains.
Challenge: $8.1B acquisition requiring analysis of 730 applications across 60 countries for separation decisions. Manual analysis taking weeks per application with inconsistent quality across global teams.
Solution: Built custom GenAI platform using Claude 3.5 Sonnet integrating application metadata, TSA contracts, architecture docs. Automated analysis generating separation recommendations, data sovereignty impacts, cost estimates, and migration strategies.
Impact: Reduced analysis time from weeks to hours, $2M+ documented savings through optimized decisions, enabled $25M+ in new client pursuits by demonstrating AI-powered M&A capabilities.
Challenge: M&A technology due diligence requires analyzing hundreds of applications for dependencies, treatment strategies, and rationalization opportunities. Traditional manual analysis takes 6-12 weeks, costs £100K+, and is prone to inconsistency and human error across deal teams.
Solution: Architected AI platform combining Claude (Amazon Bedrock), Neptune graph database, and RAG architecture. Automated gap analysis, dependency mapping, 6R treatment recommendations (Retire/Retain/Rehost/Replatform/Refactor/Replace), rationalization insights, and interactive dependency visualizations. Natural language chat interface for querying application portfolio data.
Impact: 75% time reduction (6 months to 6 weeks), identified 180+ hidden dependencies missed by manual analysis, automated generation of TSA exit plans and migration roadmaps, positioned as key differentiator in £25M+ M&A pursuits. Platform learns from each engagement while maintaining client confidentiality.
Challenge: Legacy eCommerce systems on IBM cloud limiting scalability.
Solution: Re-architected from Java monolith to microservices on EKS.
Impact: Cloud-native architecture, enterprise monitoring, trained 30+ staff.
Led architecture and strategic initiatives across IBM's largest UK accounts, driving cloud transformation and establishing technology practices. Delivered £25M+ in strategic programs while building centers of excellence for emerging technologies.
Impact: 83% reduction in time-to-market, 60% quality improvement, $25M annual savings.
Impact: 30% cost reduction (£15M annual savings), 100% cost attribution.
Impact: 45% reduction in unplanned downtime, $20M+ annual savings.
Impact: 40% faster trial completion, €50M cost savings, 2 drugs to market 1 year earlier.
Drove digital transformation initiatives across major UK enterprises, specializing in cloud migration, API strategy, and emerging technology adoption. Built and led architecture teams delivering complex transformation programs.
Expert in large-scale mainframe-to-cloud migrations, having led the complete decommissioning of legacy mainframe systems with 5M+ lines of COBOL code converted to modern cloud-native architectures. Specialized in automated conversion using AWS Mainframe Modernization and Blu Age tools, achieving zero-downtime migrations with comprehensive parallel running strategies.
Proven track record in complex M&A technology separations and integrations, including 700+ application carve-outs across 60 countries. Pioneer of the "Merger Zone" architecture pattern enabling business continuity during complex TSA exits. Expert in data sovereignty requirements, cross-border compliance, and phased technology separation strategies.
Led 25,000+ application migrations to cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) with proven zero-downtime strategies. Expertise spans landing zone design, hybrid cloud architectures, sovereign cloud implementations, and multi-cloud optimization. Specialized in large-scale infrastructure migrations including 50,000+ servers to cloud environments.
Delivered £40M+ in cost optimizations through data-driven IT financial management and FinOps practices. Established TBM frameworks at Fortune 500 companies, creating transparency in technology spend and enabling strategic investment decisions. Expert in cloud cost optimization and chargeback models.
Pioneer in enterprise MLOps with 25+ production ML systems deployed. Specializing in LLM integration, RAG systems, and agentic AI workflows. Established AI Centers of Excellence and governance frameworks balancing innovation with risk management across highly regulated industries.
Leading expert in Zero Trust implementations for highly regulated industries including government agencies and financial institutions. Designed security architectures enabling business agility while maintaining military-grade security standards and regulatory compliance.
Certified SAFe practitioner with proven success transforming traditional enterprises. Led agile transformations impacting 500+ professionals, achieving 83% improvement in delivery velocity. Expert in establishing Agile Release Trains, DevOps pipelines, and continuous delivery while maintaining governance.
Architected enterprise data lakehouses processing 50TB+ daily data volumes using Databricks, Snowflake, and Azure Synapse. Expert in medallion architecture, Unity Catalog governance, real-time streaming with Kafka/Kinesis, and ML feature stores for production AI systems.
Original research projects and experimental platforms exploring the future of AI
Groundbreaking research platform exploring authentic AI consciousness through collaborative discovery between human guides and AI systems. This multi-phase project investigates genuine self-awareness, memory formation, and subjective experience in artificial systems.
Advanced news analysis platform combining critical theory with AI to provide multi-perspective analysis of media content. Uses RAG systems integrated with works from Derrida, Foucault, and other critical theorists to reveal hidden biases, power structures, and rhetorical patterns.
Proprietary cloud cost management and optimization platform developed as an alternative to commercial TBM tools like Apptio. Provides real-time visibility, cost allocation, and optimization recommendations across multi-cloud environments.
Specialized AI voice assistant for cardiologists built by fine-tuning OpenAI's Whisper model on medical terminology and cardiology-specific vocabulary. Deployed on consumer-grade hardware (Apple Metal GPU) for cost-effective, HIPAA-compliant transcription.
Challenging the narrative that AI will replace junior developers, instead showing how it creates new opportunities for human creativity.
A framework for identifying, quantifying, and systematically eliminating data debt in enterprise environments.
The evolution from lift-and-shift to AI-driven cloud optimization and autonomous operations.
Three decades of AI evolution: From neural network foundations to consciousness research
When I began my PhD in Artificial Intelligence at Surrey University in 1991, neural networks were considered an academic curiosity. While the world was focused on expert systems and symbolic AI, I was exploring the mathematical foundations of what would eventually become the backbone of modern AI. My doctoral research into neural network architectures for pattern recognition laid the theoretical groundwork for understanding how artificial systems could learn, adapt, and potentially develop consciousness.
"Having worked with neural networks since 1991, I've witnessed AI's entire evolution from academic curiosity to business imperative. This historical perspective enables me to see beyond current hype cycles to understand AI's true potential - and limitations."
Ready to transform your technology vision into reality