13+ years building and leading technology inside growing businesses - six acquisitions, a £23m to £60m scale-up and a PE-backed exit.
Most of the businesses I work with have outgrown their systems but aren't ready for a full-time technology director. Typically £5m-£100m turnover, 30-500 people, often acquisitive, and usually carrying more manual process than anyone would like.
1-2 weeks · fixed fee
I review your architecture, systems, suppliers, development team, processes, cybersecurity, technical debt and technology costs. You get a Technology Health Report and a prioritised 90-day roadmap.
A way to buy a senior opinion without committing to a six-month consultancy.
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I interview people across the business and map where information gets copied from A to B to C. You get a prioritised list of automation, integration and system consolidation opportunities - with the cost of doing nothing attached to each one.
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Buying a business? I assess the technology before you buy it: systems, software and IP, infrastructure, cybersecurity, the technical team, suppliers, licences and data. You get red flags, an estimated integration cost and a 100-day technology plan.
1-3 days a week · retained
The senior technology person you need without hiring one. Board-level technology advice, managing developers and suppliers, architecture, roadmap, budgets, cybersecurity and hiring.
I started as a full-stack developer and built the bespoke enterprise system that became central to a UK waste management business's operations. Over 13 years I grew with that company from £23m to £60m turnover, integrated six acquisitions of £4m-£20m revenue each, worked on both buy-side and sell-side due diligence, and saw it through a PE-backed exit. Over that period the business grew revenue 146% and EBITDA 84%.
I then led a multinational engineering function for the large multinational organisation that acquired us, growing the team from 2 to 26 engineers across five countries and establishing an in-house capability in Romania to replace third-party development resource. I supported migrations representing more than £200m of annual revenue.
Along the way: around £300k of missed revenue recovered through software I built, and £52.9k of annual operational savings identified. I led the business's recovery from a state-backed cyber attack in 2022, restoring operations within three to four weeks.
I completed an Executive MBA at the University of Nottingham alongside the role.
More recently, I've been building The Skip Shop, an automated UK skip hire brokerage, alongside my business partner - so I'm not only advising on automation, I'm doing it.
Waste and recycling · Logistics and transport · Field services · Facilities management · Construction · Industrial services · B2B services · PE-backed businesses
Tell me what's slowing you down. If I can help, I'll say how. If I can't, I'll tell you that too - and probably point you at someone who can.