Delivered Blue Vela, IBM Research’s purpose-built on-premises AI training supercomputer: 6,144 NVIDIA H100 GPUs on an InfiniBand fabric, the platform behind IBM’s Granite foundation models.
Built the executive case for IBM’s strategic CoreWeave partnership, contributing to the world’s first commercial deployment of NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 systems: 4,032 GB200 GPUs on InfiniBand.
Led global organisations of up to 2,000 professionals with annual technology budgets of $250 to 300 million.
Delivered Salesforce Sales Cloud to 28,000 sellers in under a year, built on simplified global sales processes.
Created a real-time, event-driven sales analytics platform giving executives live pipeline and quarter-end visibility from seller to CEO; recognised with a CIO 100 Award.
Built the Sales and Marketing technology capability required for Kyndryl’s launch, delivering a fully operational function of 600 people in nine months.
Reduced annual cloud expenditure from $40 million to $30 million through FinOps governance, observability and operational discipline, while AI demand was rising.
Led Brilliant at the Basics across 2,000 professionals and 280 Agile teams, raising engineering maturity from 2.5 to 4.0 and employee Net Promoter Score from 37 to 57.
Co-author, “The infrastructure powering IBM’s Gen AI model development” (2024); featured in CoreWeave’s IBM AI Cloud customer case study.
Fellow, British Computer Society (FBCS); MA, University of Oxford; MBA, Warwick Business School.