I'm a software engineer by training, experience and desire. I've been "hands dirty" on everything from embedded to cloud. I've led high stakes projects and large international teams - working to impossible requirements and improbable deadlines.
These days, I am working on projects that help push the limits of what is possible - in order to forge new markets and create new opportunities.
Cisco Principal Engineer
I work in the Emerging Technologies and Incubation group at Cisco. I am part of a team who are tasked with exploring new areas that are opened up by advances in technology. Although the potential opportunities are huge, most often the requirements are still ambiguous, technology is still nascent and revenue chains unclear.
My role is to take these early market opportunities and explore them in concrete terms - by leading development teams and working in concert with domain experts. We don’t do PowerPoint - we tackle the problems head-on by building tangible, working, hype-busting systems. I lead by example, spending much of my time writing cloud native applications and coding across the development stack.
As part of my role, I am expected to perform technical evaluation on a range of platforms and companies and to present complex technical choices in simple to understand ways to key decision makers, inside and outside of the company. I have authored more than two dozen patents, with more on the way.
I am a technical advisor to our Government Affairs group and represent Cisco on several forums on topics such as the ethics of AI, data trusts, university liaison, research grant approval, etc. I am a member of techUK's Data Analytics & AI Leadership Committee.
I work closely with our Social Responsibility group and am the lead for Cisco's mentoring programme for underachieving children. I also founded Cisco's Machine Learning for Young Women programme.
At work, I am currently building a comprehensive, policy-driven, data brokering platform. At home, I am tinkering about on a bunch of fun stuff.
NDS Technical Director
NDS (acquired by Cisco) were a leading supplier of enabling technology for the digital television industry.
I worked in engineering and leadership roles on all aspects of the software stack from highly performant and available server-side components to content delivery infrastructure to consumer facing websites and set-top-box programme guides.
Thompson Reuters Senior Engineer
ASTA Development Engineer
ICL / STC Junior Engineer
IBM Junior Engineer
Brunel University
Bachelor of Science in Maths with Computer Science.