Experience
Nine years in infrastructure, from first-line support to leading mergers and divestments. I still do the engineering myself, which is why the plans hold up.
June 2025 to September 2026
Technical Project Manager and Migration Engineer (contract)
Tela Technology
- Three-party merger for a UK chartered surveying and property consultancy: 22 sites, 471 users, 613 endpoints, 27 servers, zero user downtime.
- Microsoft 365 tenant-to-tenant migration, device migration with Intune, network consolidation, Cyber Essentials and source-tenant decommissioning.
2024 to present
Founder and Lead Engineer
Truly Imagined
- A full-time R&D and upskilling year in generative AI and identity standards (2024 to 2025), then architected and launched a GDPR-aligned SaaS platform on AWS as sole engineer.
January 2024 to June 2024
EUC and Service Transition Project Manager (contract)
Caledonian Sleeper
- Discovery, planning and IT partner RFP during the operator’s transfer to the Scottish Government.
April 2023 to December 2023
Divestment Project Manager (contract)
Essentra (FTSE 250)
- Global IT separation of two divisions across 5 parties, 53 sites, 2,152 users, 3,029 endpoints and 737 servers.
January 2023 to April 2023
IT Infrastructure Manager (contract)
Enough Food
- Final-phase IT for a new EU-funded biomanufacturing facility in the Netherlands.
2021 to 2023
3rd Line Technician and Junior Project Manager
CMS Group
- Firewalls, VPNs, access points and Microsoft 365 for public and private sector clients across Scotland.
2017 to 2021
1st and 2nd Line Technician
Northern Marine
- End-user, network, infrastructure and backup support across offshore vessels and UK offices.
Certifications and education
- PRINCE2 Practitioner
- ITIL 4 Foundation
- WatchGuard Network and Wi-Fi certifications
- BSc (Hons) Computer Science, 2:1, University of Strathclyde