About Me

Welcome to my Blog!

I work for IBM as an Executive Architect and Associate Partner for IBM in Cognitive Decision Support practice as a Big Data and Analytics Architect. I work across all industry sectors including industrial, communications, health and financial services. 

My current role, involves the design, delivery and architecture for multi-million pound solutions covering Data and Analytics. The key areas I focus are Business Intelligence platforms and the Application of Machine Learning in the field Vision Systems and applying to complex industrial problems. Increasingly the application of machine learning is driving automated decision making within Business Intelligence platforms and for those platforms to automatically select responses based on learned criteria.

In my childhood I spent many a happy hour going around to local TV repair shops and seeing if they had any old radios or TV’s that I could have, which were often broken up and developed occasionally into something else. This started by love of electronics and then move into software development and latterly architecture. Engineering is the one career where you bring together a huge range of customer problems and address them with creativity, technology, mathematics, business understanding to deliver something quite amazing, always learning, and have so much fun in doing it!

I started my working career designing and developing hardware and software systems, covering applications, embedded systems, digital signal processing.

Much of the early work was focussed on real-time processing with complex mathematical models which controlled homegrown processing hardware and embedded software.

Some of my early digital signal processing hardware and software were designed and built to detect at extremely low signals in a very noisy environments; on project involved signals broadcast from distress beacons, from vessels and individuals who were in life threatening situations at sea. The detection of the signal alerted the emergency services who were then able to respond and hopefully in time.

I have also been involved in taking advanced research technology and with a team productising it into commercial solutions, driving new business, which were then either sold off as a spin-out or became part of the companies product portfolio.

Over the years I moved from being a hardware and software developer, to Solution Architect who still retains a very much hands-on approach to technology. It is one of those careers that provides exciting change, lots to learn, allows real creativity and to deliver solutions that provide real value and benefit to those that use what has been developed.

Prior to working for IBM, I have worked for DXC Technology, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Detica, Serco, Hewlett Packard, Dopra Systems Integration (Now Capita Public Sector) and British Aerospace.

This blog is purely my own work, and does not reflect the views or thoughts of any organisation that I have been involved, or currently worked for in a private or professional manner.