I started at COLT Telecom in 1999 — Cisco networking, data centers, the heavy-iron side of technology. By 2003 I'd founded my first company, a technical consultancy, and spent four years learning how to build a business from nothing. That was followed by Rackspace, where I was the highest-grossing pre-sales engineer in the UK and the youngest on the enterprise team, and then Novell/SUSE Linux, winning multi-year contracts against RedHat and Oracle in the finance sector.

In 2010 I moved into pre-sales architecture at Computer Associates in Berkshire, where I found the intersection of deep technical expertise and business outcomes. I became their top-performing Solutions Architect globally — and led a landmark deal that created an opening to come to the United States. My wife, our kids, and I made the move, and we've been building a life here ever since.

I spent three years at IGT in Las Vegas building SaaS platforms for the gaming industry, leading 70 engineers across two continents and connecting thousands of machines to a centralized cloud platform. Then I founded HATech, a cloud consulting firm that grew to $5M in revenue and delivered over 200 projects for 65 enterprise clients across healthcare, finance, hospitality, and gaming. During that time I also served as a Principal Solution Architect at IBM for their highest-value accounts.

At Dick's Sporting Goods, I built their platform engineering organization from the ground up within a 1,200-person technology org. I managed an $80M annual budget, 200+ engineers, and 900 edge locations. I led a $30M+ annual cost optimization program, served as Incident Commander during a major ransomware event, and developed the "atomic store" edge deployment strategy that I presented at Microsoft Ignite to over 1,000 attendees.