Adopt
Create safe access, shared practice and confidence across engineering teams.
AI-first technology leadership
Agentic engineering changes more than how code gets written.
I help engineering organisations move from individual experimentation to a governed, measurable capability—adopting agentic workflows, redesigning the delivery system around them, and implementing the platforms, controls and habits that make the change stick.
Transform
Redesign roles, workflows and measures around delegated work, faster feedback and explicit human accountability.
Implement
Integrate agents into real delivery systems, with evaluation, observability, security and governance built in.
AI-first does not mean AI-only.
It means treating AI capability as a default part of how the organisation solves problems.
Where I help
A calm head in complicated rooms.
Most useful when the answer has to work for engineers, executives and the business—not just one of them.
AI-first engineering adoption and transformation
Practical direction for moving agentic engineering from isolated enthusiasm into shared practice, measurable outcomes and a delivery system the organisation can trust.
Fractional and interim technology leadership
Experienced direction, accountability and operating grip without immediately defaulting to a permanent executive hire.
Transformation that survives contact with reality
Architecture, teams, target states, delivery signals and leadership expectations brought into a direction the organisation can execute.
Executive, board and delivery confidence
Direct, audience-appropriate advice and better visibility around technology, AI, risk, capability, ownership and operational reality.
20+
Years across software engineering, delivery, product, transformation and executive leadership.
150–175
Engineering organisation scale across international, multi-business-unit software environments.
CTO
Scale-up leadership through modernisation, recurring-revenue growth and due diligence readiness.
Where I engage
Four common failure modes.
The visible symptom is often delivery. The underlying issue usually spans several layers of the business.
Direction without a target state
Strategy exists as ambition, but architecture, organisation and sequencing still tell different stories.
Delivery without confidence
Plans move, incidents surprise, ownership blurs and executive reporting creates more questions than clarity.
Change without alignment
M&A, platform modernisation or operating-model change is progressing unevenly across teams and business units.
Technology without translation
Leaders need an honest view of risk and capability in language that supports a commercial decision.
Selected experience
Built from the work.
Credibility built over two decades: first in software, then through teams, products, transformation and group-level leadership.
Group Director of Engineering
CitNOW Group
Leading the wider engineering estate across multiple business units and geographies, including agentic engineering adoption, integration, target states and post-acquisition transformation.
Director of Engineering
CitNOW
Reshaped delivery culture, improved observability, flattened platform structure, reduced time-to-hire by 58% and lowered cloud cost.
Chief Technology Officer
SalesMaster
Led product and technology through scale-up, modernisation, due diligence readiness and a move from 50% to 98% recurring revenue.
Software engineer to digital leader
Built software, led engineering and delivery teams, managed suppliers and shaped multi-year programmes for household names across automotive, consumer, hospitality and charity sectors.
Selected client background
Automotive depth. Broader perspective.
Automotive has been a major through-line in my career—alongside work across consumer technology, hospitality, energy, healthcare and the charity sector.
A point of view
Technology is rarely the only issue. The harder part is helping people understand it well enough to move.
If the business needs a clearer view and steadier technology leadership, that is usually where I fit.
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