Curriculum Vitae

CTO with almost three decades of industry experience. Originally from a networking and systems background, experienced in management all the way up to board and CXO level. Having been part of the team that built and grew one of the biggest mid-market IT services and datacentre companies in the UK, I bring deep technical expertise combined with strategic and commercial leadership.

Specialities: project management, software development, strategic planning, network & systems design and implementation, operations management.

Chief Technology Officer — Podfather

Edinburgh, Scotland (Hybrid). Leading the engineering team to build best-in-class fleet operations software with simplified logistics planning, route optimisation and electronic proof of delivery (ePOD).

Chief Technology Officer — My1Login

Glasgow, Scotland. CTO at one of Scotland's leading identity and access management companies. Oversaw agile software development and technical strategy, including recognition in the KuppingerCole 2024 Leadership Compass for Privileged Access Management and multiple SC Awards nominations.

Founder — Spherical Digital

Stirling. Founded Spherical Digital to provide advice and support to companies who depend on IT solutions. Areas of expertise: network design and build, hosting infrastructure, cloud computing and virtualisation, datacentre and computer room design, security, audits and compliance.

Chief Technology Officer — QubeGB

Overseeing technology teams covering Information Technology, Management Information and process improvement. Led a two-year transformation from a traditional Windows/SQL Server solution to a scalable, cloud-based Service Management system built on the Salesforce platform.

Technical Consultant — Logie Fast Broadband Project

Technical consultancy supporting rural broadband infrastructure development.

edNET / Lumison / Pulsant (same company through name changes)

Almost two decades with one of Scotland's leading managed IT services and datacentre businesses, progressing from founding-era engineer to board-level director:

• Technical Director – Pulsant  Mar 2012 – Dec 2013
• Operations Director – Lumison  Mar 2011 – Mar 2012
• Chief Technology Officer – Lumison  Jul 2004 – Mar 2011
• Chief Technology Officer – edNET  Jul 2001 – Jul 2004
• Systems Administrator – edNET  Oct 1995 – Jul 2001

Joined edNET as a founding-era systems administrator and grew with the company through its rebrands to Lumison and then Pulsant following merger with two other managed IT businesses. As CTO led the technical strategy, infrastructure build-out and engineering teams that established the company as one of the UK's largest mid-market managed IT services and datacentre providers.

BSc (Hons) Computer Science — University of Edinburgh

One of the UK's leading research universities for computer science and informatics.

Aberdeen Grammar School

Steering Committee Member — IX Scotland

Advising on managing and growing Scotland's Internet Exchange.

Section Assistant — The Scouts

Helping to plan, prepare and run meetings with Cubs (ages 8–10). Activities included games, skills teaching, leadership, camping, hiking, raft building and campfire cooking.

Software development · Agile methodologies · Network design & build · Cloud computing & virtualisation · Hosting infrastructure · Datacentre design · Security & compliance · Identity & access management

CTO / CXO leadership · Strategic planning · Project management · Operations management · Team building & mentoring