About Me
Husband, Father, Friend, CTO and Delivery Director
Motto
"The only failure is quitting. Everything else is just gathering information."
Summary
A Google Cloud, AWS, Oracle Certified Master (Java EE 5 Enterprise Architect), TOGAF 9, ISEB, CITP, ITIL certified professional, Prince2, NIST Cyber Security professional and a Fellow of the British Computer Society. With experience as a Technical Director and Digital and Cloud Transformation Consultant with a background in Solution, Architecture, Design and Development. With diverse market sector experience, leading teams both on and offshore, at varying levels across all lifecycle disciplines throughout a 25 year career.
I am the CTO and Operational Delivery Director for The Transport and Mobility (T&M) pillar within Worldline which provides transport and retail related services to customers within the UK, France and Austria. Leading and managing the CTO, infrastructure and operational delivery office teams, setting technical strategy, assuring solutions from bid through delivery and into operational running, including the provision of on premise and cloud services infrastructure, along with operational governance of projects and service delivery and T&M business enablement functions.
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Competencies
- CTO leading technical teams across: solution, delivery, infrastructure, multi cloud, agile, data and AI
- Delivery Director, covering software development delivery and business operations covering a variety of enablement functions
- Leading Business and Technical transformation through adoption of Agile, Cloud and DevOps
- Years of successful software delivery experience
- Experienced Certified Scrum Master and Agile Certified.
Achievements
- CTO and Delivery Director for Worldline T&M and the exec sponsor for the gender pillar.
- Fellow of the British Computer Society with CITP certification. Certified in: Google Cloud, AWS, BCS, TOGAF, ISEB, Oracle (Java), ITIL, NIST, Scrum Master and Prince2.
- Completed various Talent programmes: One Worldline Academy 2024 Senior Talent, Atos Global ‘Gold for Experts’ Talent Program 2017, Atos SI (2013) High Potential Talent programs, Atos Origin UK (2009), Senior Expert and Worldline UK&I Expert community lead.
- Led numerous transformations across Worldline UK&I including the Move2Cloud initiatives, recognised with Computing awards, interviews/articles.
- Introduced and led Software Development Community Office (SDCO) for Worldline UK&I and within Atos (large secure government) account; promoting software reuse, TDD, AI adoption, knowledge sharing. Produced and delivered OOAD, Agile, Java, UML TDD, Design courses. Coached career and certification paths.
- Held (5 years+) DV and SC security clearance levels
Qualifications and Training
2025
- Certification – Prince2 Foundation, Practitioner & Project Manager
2024
- Certification – Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect
- Certification – NIST Cybersecurity Professional Foundation
- Certification – Fellow of the British Computer Society (FBCS)
2023
- Certification – Google Cloud Certified Associate Cloud Engineer
2022
- Certification – AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
2021
- Certification – British Computer Society Chartered IT Professional (CITP) renewed
2020-2001
- Certification – BCS Foundation Certificate in Agile
- Certification – AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
- Certification – AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate
- Certification – AWS Certified Developer - Associate
- Certification – British Computer Society Chartered IT Professional (CITP)
- Certification – ITIL Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management
- Certification - ArchiMate Core training – Architecting the enterprise – Gold Award
- Certification – Oracle Certified Master, Java EE 5 Enterprise Architect
- Certification – ISEB Intermediate, Practitioner Cert in Enterprise and Solution Architecture
- Certification – IBM Certified SOA Associate [2008]
- Certification – TOGAF 9 Foundation, TOGAF 9 Certified
- Certification – Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Master. Scrum Master Training
- Certification – NVQ Team leading
- Certification – Certificate of Management Consulting – Chartered Management Institute
- Certification – Analysis and Design ISEB Diploma
- Certification – Various Java 1.3/4 Sun Certifications
- Certification – Introduction to Oracle SQL and PL/SQL
- BSc.(hons) 2:1, Computer Science – Sheffield University