Twenty-five years across defence, pharmaceutical and banking — at the level where the blast radius is real. Now focused on securing and building production agentic AI systems.
I've spent my career inside environments where a mistake is measured in regulatory findings, downtime, or worse — FDA-validated pharmaceutical systems, security-cleared defence and aerospace programmes, and retail banking. The kind of places where you earn trust by being right about risk, consistently, for years.
I'm hands-on by instinct and senior by experience. I've held enterprise-wide administrative authority over critical estates, designed the security controls beneath them, and more recently built and secured the agentic AI systems that are starting to run real business processes. That combination — deep security ground-truth plus working agentic AI — is where I focus now.
Part of a small core team holding Enterprise Admin and Root Forest Admin authority across a global FDA-validated estate, including large-scale Active Directory consolidation.
UK MoD Developed Vetting (DV) cleared. Delivered secure infrastructure for defence and aerospace programmes — including one of the earliest RSA SecurID two-factor deployments in UK defence.
Senior interim infrastructure and security work inside major UK retail banks, in environments with strict change control and audit expectations.
Led cloud migration, Microsoft 365 adoption and integration architecture for a multi-year engagement — and built a working LLM-driven integration between finance systems and the business.
The interesting problems now sit where autonomous AI meets real systems and real risk. I work that seam from both directions — as a hands-on security practitioner, and as someone who actually builds and runs agentic systems in production rather than just talking about them.
Helped unify a fragmented global directory estate into a single, governable forest under strict validation requirements.
Delivered one of the earliest RSA SecurID strong-authentication deployments in the UK defence sector.
Ran Exchange Online administration through migration, including recovery from a retention-policy incident affecting more than 160 mailboxes.
Designed and shipped a working Model Context Protocol server connecting an ERP/finance platform to the business through large language models — then decommissioned it cleanly, fully documented.
If you're hiring for the place where security, infrastructure and agentic AI meet, I'd be glad to talk.