Senior IT leader with 17+ years turning technology functions around — network modernisation, cloud migration and cybersecurity uplift across complex, multi-site organisations.
Senior IT leader with 17+ years' experience owning IT strategy, operations and cybersecurity for multi-branch, multi-entity organisations — currently leading the group technology function for an international shipping and logistics business. I build and run distributed onshore/offshore teams, own technology budgets, and partner directly with senior leadership to turn business growth priorities into a clear, funded technology roadmap.
My track record is taking full ownership of a technology function and transforming it: replacing legacy network infrastructure with a modern SASE architecture, delivering a full cloud migration, and embedding ITIL-aligned governance — while staying close enough to the technical detail to be the escalation point when it counts.
I judge every technology decision by the business outcome it drives — not the shine of the tool. Uptime and security are the baseline; the job is turning IT into something the business can actually grow on.
Aging on-prem server and storage infrastructure with no real disaster recovery.
Replaced with Dell modular servers and EMC storage, new L3 Cisco switching, repurposed legacy hardware into a DR site, deployed VEEAM backup.
Eliminated single points of hardware failure and stood up working disaster recovery for the first time.
Fragmented security tooling and inconsistent access control across a distributed workforce.
Deployed Fortinet NGFW, client VPN, org-wide MFA, password management, and moved email security to a cloud platform.
Consolidated the security stack and gave the business real-time vulnerability visibility for the first time.
On-prem Exchange was a single point of failure with no modern collaboration tooling.
Migrated to Microsoft 365 (Exchange Online, Teams, SharePoint), rolled out Azure AD and hybrid cloud storage.
Modernised collaboration company-wide and removed dependency on aging on-prem mail infrastructure.
Backup and recovery was manual, slow, and not cloud-resilient.
Implemented cloud-based backup integrated with AWS, plus SaaS backup for Office 365 data.
Cost-efficient, compliance-ready data protection with far faster, more reliable recovery.
Legacy managed WAN limited flexibility and reliability across branch sites.
Directed upgrade to fibre connectivity across all sites and transition to a cloud-managed gateway.
Higher availability and simpler, centrally managed network operations across every branch.
Aging server hardware and legacy virtualisation platform were constraining performance.
Replaced with Tier 1 hardware, migrated to Hyper-V, upgraded server OS and mail platform.
Improved performance and stability by up to 50%.
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