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Cloud Strategy & Executive Advisory
Turn competing priorities, vendor narratives and internal opinions into a clear technical direction leadership can act on.
Roadmaps · options · trade-offs · investment decisions
Independent cloud architecture & technical advisory
Cloud without
the theatre.
Cut through the nonsense. Get to the decision. Get it delivered. I help organisations make hard cloud calls, untangle complex architectures, reduce risk, and move from strategy decks to systems that actually work.
30+ yearsTechnology experience
Former AWS TAMEnterprise cloud advisory
AWS + Google CloudArchitecture & security
Enterprise scaleRegulated & complex environments
01 / Cloud
Make the cloud earn its keep.
Cloud is not a destination, a logo, or a transformation programme by itself. The job is to choose the right architecture, control risk and cost, and build an operating model that can actually be delivered.
Strategy is useful only when it changes the next technical decision.
I work from the outcome backwards: what has to improve, what is getting in the way, what trade-offs are real, and what is just organisational noise. No cloud theatre. No cargo-cult architecture. No pretending every workload needs the same answer.
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Architecture & Modernisation
Design or challenge architectures across cloud, platforms, applications, data and distributed systems—with delivery constraints made explicit.
Target architecture · patterns · modernisation sequencing
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Cloud Security & Resilience
Bring identity, governance, resilience, threat exposure and operational reality into the design before they become expensive surprises.
Security review · guardrails · resilience · risk decisions
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Migration, Data & Platform Decisions
Assess migration approaches, large-scale data movement, platform choices and the operational consequences of each path.
Migration strategy · data platforms · landing zones · operating model
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Technical Due Diligence
Independent review when a proposed architecture, vendor solution, product or programme needs to be tested before money and credibility are committed.
Architecture challenge · vendor evaluation · decision memo
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Delivery Recovery & De-risking
Step into programmes that are drifting, overcomplicated or blocked; identify what matters, reduce ambiguity and establish a realistic path forward.
Recovery assessment · priorities · risks · delivery reset
02 / Results
Evidence over theatre.
A career spent in customer-facing technical leadership, cloud architecture, security and modernisation means the advice is grounded in what happens after the meeting ends.
Cloud estate optimisation
Architecture and optimisation work reduced one AWS customer estate from roughly 3,000 instances to around 500.
Modernisation savings
Led infrastructure-modernisation initiatives projected to save more than $20 million.
Commercial impact
Contributed to more than $1 million in new business through customer-facing technical leadership.
Cloud security leadership
Built and led a Google Cloud security practice around real customer demand, sales, partner and delivery needs.
03 / Advisory
Senior technical judgement, when it matters.
Not every problem needs a six-month consulting programme. Sometimes the highest-value move is an experienced independent view, a hard architecture review, or a decision that stops wasted work.
A straightforward operating model.
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Understand the actual problemBusiness outcome, technical reality, constraints, politics, risk and sunk assumptions.
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Separate signal from noiseIdentify what changes the decision and what is simply vendor, process or organisational theatre.
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Make the trade-offs explicitCost, time, security, complexity, operability, lock-in and delivery risk.
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Recommend a pathClear decision, architecture or recovery plan with ownership and next steps.
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Stay close enough to deliveryValidate that the plan survives implementation instead of ending as shelfware.
04 / Experience
Across industries. Across the stack.
Experience spans large enterprises, cloud providers, consultancies and customer environments across multiple verticals—with work ranging from executive advisory through hands-on architecture and technical validation.
01Financial Services
02Healthcare
03Cloud & Managed Services
04Technology & SaaS
05Enterprise Platforms
Career context includes Amazon Web Services, Deloitte, Laya Healthcare, 66degrees, Trace3, Cloud Technology Partners and other enterprise technology organisations. Names indicate professional background, not endorsements.
Bring me the messy version
Got a cloud problem that needs a grown-up answer?
Send me the situation as it actually exists—not the polished version. We can usually determine quickly whether I can help, what decision needs to be made, and the smallest useful engagement to get there.
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