Background
I'm based in Poole, Dorset. My career has sat at the boundary between running organisations and building the technical systems inside them — and I've never felt the need to pick one side. The combination is more useful than either alone.
I've founded businesses, built teams from scratch, and delivered operational platforms across a range of sectors. I've been working with distributed and remote-first teams since 2008 — well before it was common — which shapes how I think about communication, accountability, and the systems that make remote work genuinely effective rather than just technically possible.
Currently I run operations at Sea Salt Learning and do the technical work through Westlake Business Services. Those are the current contexts. The underlying work — designing and running systems that hold organisations together — is the constant.
What I focus on
Most operational problems come down to misalignment — between people and structure, between process and tooling, between what's intended and what actually happens. I focus on the whole system rather than isolated fixes.
- Decision-making clarity and accountability structures
- Delivery processes that scale without adding friction
- Integrating platforms and eliminating manual workarounds
- Embedding AI into real workflows with appropriate governance
- Building distributed teams that deliver consistently
The technical side
Alongside the operational work, I do technical delivery through Westlake Business Services. Systems architecture, AI implementation, and regulated software delivery for organisations where reliability and governance matter from the start.
Some of that work has been in regulated sectors — medical device platforms in particular — where quality management, documentation discipline, and change control aren't optional. That experience carries across to any environment where auditability and delivery integrity matter.