A satellite ground station antenna slewing against a twilight sky
Critical Mandate Mission-critical program delivery

For more than twenty years I have run the technology programs that banks, carriers and governments cannot afford to get wrong.

20+
years leading mission-critical technology programs
500+
U.S. bank branches moved to a new voice network, across 22 states
10,000
servers moved in a single data centre refresh
7
countries worked in, across North America, Europe and Asia

The whole field, in one picture

Point at any part of it to see what I delivered there.

A twilight panorama of a city, a stadium, a data centre campus, a telecom tower and a satellite ground station, with an aircraft and a satellite overhead
  • Banking platforms
  • Venue-scale Wi-Fi
  • Data centre build, refresh and exit
  • Airborne radar and LiDAR
  • National networks and voice
  • Satellite ground segment
  • Satellites

Selected record

Twelve problems someone had to own, and what happened when I did.

A long aisle of server cabinets in a data centre

Banking, infrastructure

Recovered a stalled data centre refresh and finished it.

Took over a $17M program that had stalled, rebuilt the plan and delivered it across 100+ lines of business.

10,000 servers, 28 core switches, 500+ applications

Operators in a control room at night in front of a wall of screens

Banking, platform

Protected millions of users through an overnight migration.

Moved a bank's online banking platform out of a data centre before its lease expired, with no penalty and no downtime.

Zero downtime, team of 21

Fibre optic cables plugged into a network switch

Banking, cloud

Moved enterprise data into AWS, securely, for the first time.

Led a Big Five bank's first migration of on-premises data to the cloud, built with AWS CDK, Glue and Redshift.

1M+ records, $10M+ budget, team of 26

A city street grid seen from the air at night

Banking, voice

Put 500+ U.S. bank branches on a new voice network, from Canada.

Ran the rollout remotely and out of hours with AT&T and Mitel, branch by branch.

22 states, $15M budget, $328K saved

Wi-Fi access points mounted on the railings of a stadium, with the field behind

Telecom, venue

Had stadium Wi-Fi live in time for opening day.

A Cisco stadium network on a date that could not move, with status reported straight to the CTO and CIO.

600 access points, $5M budget, core team of 32

Technicians wheeling a wrapped server rack into a truck at night

Telecom, data centre

Merged two data centres into one for 80 lines of business.

Physical moves and server migrations planned group by group, with every cutover approved by the business first.

80 lines of business, 3,000+ network connections

A program team in silhouette in front of a planning wall

Telecom, transformation

Built a PMO from 12 to more than 60 project managers.

Chosen to stand up a new IT PMO, then ran 30+ projects and $50M across three portfolios through it.

60+ project managers, 30+ projects, $50M

Glass bank towers lit at blue hour

Banking, regulatory

Landed regulatory programs on their legal deadlines.

Compliance-driven programs at a Big Five bank, each with a date set by law, delivered on schedule and on budget.

Fixed legal dates, on schedule, on budget

A data centre campus lit at night

Public sector, data centre

Relocated 800+ servers with zero defects.

Moved 200+ applications between data centres for an Ontario Crown corporation, with cutovers agreed across 15 lines of business.

800+ servers, 200+ applications, zero defects

Satellite ground station antennas at twilight

Sovereign, space

Delivered a national satellite ground station.

Led the ground receiving station for Malaysia's national remote sensing centre through integration, commissioning and stabilization.

Turnkey delivery, as technical head

A satellite's solar array above the Earth at night

Sovereign, space

Advised a national CubeSat program.

Advisor to Malaysia's CubeSat initiative, contributing to its launch.

Advisory, launch

An engineer fitting an antenna to a telecom tower at dusk

Sovereign, wireless

Put broadband wireless on the air across Southeast Asia.

WiMAX and point-to-point networks for public safety and surveillance in Malaysia and Indonesia. Some of them I installed myself.

WiMAX, point-to-point links, video backhaul

What runs on the infrastructure I deliver

A data centre is never the point. What it keeps running is.

A data centre aisle with rack status lights
  • AI Training and inference that cannot pause.
  • Banks Payments, online banking and core platforms.
  • Insurers Policy, claims and regulatory systems.
  • Telecom carriers Networks, voice and customer platforms.
  • Government agencies Licensing, records and national systems.

Where the work has been

Three regions, one standard of delivery.

Canada United States Europe Thailand Malaysia and Singapore Indonesia Ukraine

North America

Banking, telecom and public-sector infrastructure in Canada and across 22 U.S. states.

Europe

Supplier programs with Kongsberg and Airbus, and a project in Ukraine.

Southeast Asia

National sensing, satellite, secure facility and wireless programs in Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and Thailand.

Southeast Asia at night seen from orbit, with city lights below

Sovereign programs, led at national scale.

Satellite ground stations, airborne radar and LiDAR, spectrum monitoring, secure communications and the facilities that house them, delivered for a national government in Southeast Asia. Most of that work is not public. I am glad to discuss it in private.

Open a private conversation
A survey aircraft with a radar pod flying over a coastline at dusk

Airborne radar

Synthetic aperture radar fitted to survey aircraft, for mapping through cloud and at night.

A survey aircraft mapping forested terrain with a scanning beam

Airborne LiDAR and hyperspectral

Terrain and land-cover mapping from the air, delivered with acceptance testing and operating procedures.

A special-mission jet parked outside a lit hangar at blue hour

Special-mission aircraft

Sensors integrated, tested and accepted on airborne platforms.

A circular array of antenna masts around a small building at twilight

Spectrum monitoring

Ground systems that watch the radio spectrum at national scale.

Trusted by

  • Big Five Canadian banks
  • A national telecom carrier
  • Ontario's public sector
  • A national government in Southeast Asia

Clients, institutes, suppliers and integrators on those programs

  • Malaysian Centre for Remote Sensing
  • Kongsberg
  • Airbus
  • L3Harris
  • Datron
  • Cisco
  • AT&T
  • Mitel
  • Amazon Web Services
  • IBM
  • Accenture
  • Deloitte
  • Capgemini
  • TCS
“A very capable technical manager.”
Malaysian Centre for Remote Sensing, on the national ground receiving station.

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Who you will be dealing with An engineer by training, with an M.Sc., PMP and Six Sigma Master Black Belt. I started hands-on, installing telephone exchanges and WiMAX links myself, before leading programs at national scale. Based in Canada, working worldwide. This site carries no name on purpose. You will have mine in my first reply.

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