A long-running relationship that has run the gamut — from steering IT teams through a major merger to designing and building a modern annuity quotation platform and the secure APIs that let partners plug straight in. Architecture advice to the CIO, a group-wide planning system, and a BI centre of excellence along the way.

My flagship SaaS platform, built and run end to end. It drives high-volume sales fulfilment and ties insurers, banks and distribution partners together through a web of secure APIs. Architecture, code, deployment and support — the whole stack, mostly Laravel.

My consulting and software shop, delivering bespoke systems across a deliberately wide range of domains — lead management, digital vault, coaching, recruitment (USA labour), last-mile delivery, warehousing and learner management. Different industries, same approach: understand the domain, then build something that fits it.

Advisory work sizing up application portfolios and rationalising them with 7R thinking — what to retire, re-platform, refactor or rebuild — and helping teams pick the pragmatic route to the cloud.

Ran IT for a mass-market insurance house. Led the GENESIS admin platform and opened it up to partners with API-based integration — getting products into more hands, faster.

Where the foundations were laid — a BSc in Knowledge & Information Systems. I later returned as a guest lecturer, teaching XML and markup languages to second-year Informatics and Computer Science students.