I'm a senior tech individual contributor with duties as tech lead and junior engineering manager. I leapfrogged senior management and executive roles and went straight to non-executive Board of Directors roles in not for profit organisations.
My love language is bringing order out of chaos.
What I offer
Derisking AI-Adoption Decision Making
Is your Board considering an AI adoption proposal from your C-suite?
Is there a solid business case showing how ROI claims are derived? Or is it really about FOMO?
Your Director duties require a bit more than FOMO. I can help you justify the decision making process to auditors and shareholders.
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Existential IT Risk Mitigation
I determine and limit liability for software license use vs. license entitlements: identified €35M of liability at my last two audit clients.
I close near-term or overdue audit points in regulated environments: lead a project to cost-avoid €150M of regulatory fines, and saved a banking license.
Troubleshooting Wicked IT Problems
Few IT problems have a single root cause. Outages require concurrent failure of multiple preventions and mitigations.
When the answers aren't coming from inside the house, I work with multiple IT teams to identify the cross-team interactions and issues each team can't see on their own.
Make IT Go Faster
IT Performance really just means money: do more with less, and defer your next hardware refresh cycle by another budget year.
I measure what matters, not what is easy to measure. e.g. saving 0.1 seconds of some code... doesn't sound impressive until I tell you it ran 30,000 times an hour.
Board Spring Cleaning
At one Board, I inherited a mismanaged exit of a top executive. All parties were smiling at the end.
At another, I was on the recruitment panel for selecting a new Chair.
Elsewhere, I was part of the panel selecting a new top executive to lead the organisation.
What Got You Here Won't Get You There
I bring fresh, cross-industry insights to help you rethink assumptions, spot unseen opportunities, and act decisively.
I provide not only insights but also advocate for actions, and rank them by effort and payout so you know what to do and in what order.
