NEOM – campus network & infrastructure blueprint

Role: Senior Network Architect (Consultant)

Context: Greenfield campus networking in one of the world’s most ambitious smart-city programmes, with multiple sites, partners and high expectations on reliability.

• Produced high-level and low-level designs for campus connectivity, security and services.
• Created repeatable patterns so new sites could be deployed consistently instead of re-invented each time.
• Aligned structure and standards across vendors and delivery partners.

Business impact: A clearer roadmap for campus build-out, less friction between parties and a design set that can be reused instead of starting from scratch for every site.

QBE Insurance – VMware SDDC modernisation

Role: Infrastructure Architect (Networking & Virtualisation)

Context: Underperforming VMware estate with stability issues across vSphere, NSX-T and the physical network.

• Diagnosed and addressed systemic design issues in overlays, routing and firewall policy structure.
• Simplified network and security constructs so operations teams could understand and support them.
• Introduced clearer documentation and runbooks to reduce single points of failure in knowledge.

Business impact: Fewer incidents, more predictable change windows and better use of the investment already made in the SDDC platform.

Creative ITC – Nutanix and private cloud architecture

Role: Solutions Architect (Consultant)

Context: Managed service provider building and evolving Nutanix-based private cloud offerings for enterprise customers.

• Designed Nutanix-based platforms with a strong focus on availability, networking and operational simplicity.
• Standardised reference architectures, making proposals and delivery more repeatable.
• Improved customer onboarding by clarifying boundaries between platform responsibilities and customer duties.

Business impact: Faster, more consistent delivery and a clearer service catalogue for customers buying private cloud capacity.

Global investment & fintech clients – hybrid cloud & zero-trust alignment

Role: Cloud & Infrastructure Architect

Context: Regulated environments moving towards AWS and Azure while maintaining existing data centres and strict security expectations.

• Designed secure landing zones in AWS and Azure with clear patterns for connectivity, identity and policy.
• Aligned cloud networking and security with emerging zero-trust models rather than lifting-and-shifting legacy assumptions.
• Helped teams adopt cloud-native practices without losing sight of compliance and operational realities.

Business impact: Faster time-to-market for new services, with a governance model that satisfied both security and delivery teams.

Start-ups & scale-ups – fractional architecture & operational cleanup

Role: Fractional CTO / Architecture Consultant

Context: Growing companies needing senior technical direction and infrastructure sanity, but not yet a full-time architecture function.

• Defined pragmatic infrastructure and security foundations that could grow with the business.
• Cleaned up ad-hoc environments, reduced “mystery outages” and improved observability.
• Freed product teams to focus on features instead of firefighting infrastructure issues.

Business impact: More predictable releases, less operational noise and clearer decision-making around technology choices.

Operational cover & escalation support

Role: On-demand Senior Consultant

Context: Organisations needing temporary senior cover during holidays, projects or staff changes.

• Provided expert escalation support across data centre, network, virtualisation and cloud issues.
• Helped teams through critical incidents by bringing calm, experienced judgement.
• Offered a structured handover back to internal staff, including recommendations and next steps.

Business impact: Reduced downtime and risk during busy periods, with decisions made by someone who understands both the technology and the operational reality.