EST. 2000 · CONTINUOUS OPERATION · ESSEX, UK
Twenty-five years of organisation-wide accountability for live service — from shop-floor ERP and 24×7 service desks built from scratch, to FCA-regulated digital-asset custody and LLM governance. Same operator, every era.
Employer names withheld out of discretion — available on request.
REGULATED DIGITAL-ASSET CUSTODY (FCA) · LONDON, UK
Organisation-wide accountability for live service, platform operations and supplier governance; reporting to COO and CIO. Command major incidents, chair the Change Advisory Board, and provide executive assurance via service and operational-risk reporting.
ADVISORY & PRODUCT DELIVERY · LONDON, UK
Stood up change governance, CAB practice, and incident and problem management for clients reshaping IT service operations; led product and project delivery in Waterfall or Agile to suit.
GLOBAL LIFE SCIENCES / PHARMA (GxP) · SINGAPORE · APAC & EMEA
Led a team of twelve and governed strategic outsourcing partners; held the APAC & EMEA budget. Directed ERP consolidation across 20+ countries and 26 legal entities, sustaining ~€1.5M annual run-cost savings.
INDUSTRIAL MANUFACTURING · RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA
Built the MIS function from scratch — infrastructure, end-user computing, business applications and multi-site connectivity across production, sales and administrative sites.
PHARMACEUTICAL MANUFACTURING · KARACHI, PAKISTAN
Ran a post-merger IT integration across three countries; stood up an ITIL-aligned 24×7 service desk from scratch; acted as IT Head during management absence.
GxP PHARMACEUTICAL MANUFACTURING · LAHORE, PAKISTAN
Implemented manufacturing and production-control ERP, integrated shop-floor systems, and built SOX-aligned controls and C-level BI reporting.
SOFTWARE SERVICES · LAHORE, PAKISTAN
Built business software including one of the first online accounting platforms aimed at UK SMEs.
24×7 operations, major-incident command, disaster recovery and service continuity built so disruption is contained and recovered.
End-to-end incident, problem, change, release and request to a standard external auditors can stand behind.
Risk tolerances and escalation paths, board-level assurance, audit and control governance across internal and external cycles.
MSP performance governance, strategic sourcing, cloud and vendor cost discipline, contract and renewal management.
FCA · DORA · ISO 20000 · ISO 27001 · GDPR · GxP (GLP, GMP, GDP) · SOX-aligned controls.
Use-case assessment, responsible-AI policy, and LLM integration into ITSM workflows within regulated environments.
An end-to-end application that turns incident records into structured, audit-ready evidence and LLM-generated compliance gap analysis grounded in regulations such as DORA and FCA — cited, verifiable, and framed as drafts for human review, not automated decisions.
Outcome → practical, current command of the AI/LLM and cloud technologies I assess and govern.
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