Managing Partner / Founder

• Oct 2021 - Present

Founder and Managing Partner of Celsio. Ideation is a key part of any innovation programme, but ideas alone will not create a culture of sustainable innovation. This requires deeper transformation, taking what you have and giving it the chance to evolve into something that it wasn't before. We are in the business of innovation transformation and we're using technology to accelerate the pace of change. Founder and Managing Partner of Celsio. Ideation is a key part of any innovation programme, but ideas alone will not create a culture of sustainable innovation. This requires deeper transformation, taking what you have and giving it the chance to evolve into something that it wasn't before. We are in the business of innovation transformation and we're using technology to accelerate the pace of change.

Chair / Founder

• Jul 2020 - Present

Driving innovation collaboration and best practice between innovation professionals. Innovate Island is a non-commercial all-island community created by a group of enthusiastic innovation professionals looking for an informal place to share experiences, lessons learned, news & views, best practices, and hints & tips that help to deliver real value through innovation. Driving innovation collaboration and best practice between innovation professionals. Innovate Island is a non-commercial all-island community created by a group of enthusiastic innovation professionals looking for an informal place to share experiences, lessons learned, news & views, best practices, and hints & tips that help to deliver real value through innovation.

Member ISO TC279

• Sep 2019 - Present

Working as part of the NSAI/TC 045 committee in defining, maintaining and promoting the ISO 56000 series of standards for Innovation Management Working as part of the NSAI/TC 045 committee in defining, maintaining and promoting the ISO 56000 series of standards for Innovation Management

Six ‘I’s® Certified Practitioner

• Jan 2021 - Present

Director Of Innovation

• Dec 2013 - Sep 2021

Director with responsibility to facilitate innovation across the Equiniti group. Seeking opportunities to identify and utilise new technologies and software to the benefit of Equiniti and our customers, and standardising approaches in software development and solution delivery

Director Of Software Development

• Jun 2011 - Dec 2013

Director within the Commercial Solutions Division of Equiniti, with full strategic and P&L responsibility for a delivery team of around 150 people located between Belfast & Chennai, designing and delivering solutions built primarily upon the Microsoft Technology Stack. Responsible for the design of the development methodology, and the definition and delivery of the R&D Solutions Roadmap

General Manager

• 2004 - 2011

Director within the Innovative Software Division of Equiniti ICS, with full responsibility for the enterprise software team located between Belfast & Chennai, selling, designing, and delivering solutions built primarily upon the Microsoft Technology Stack. Responsible for best practice and the design and implementation of the software development methodology used across the organisation. Director within the Innovative Software Division of Equiniti ICS, with full responsibility for the enterprise software team located between Belfast & Chennai, selling, designing, and delivering solutions built primarily upon the Microsoft Technology Stack. Responsible for best practice and the design and implementation of the software development methodology used across the organisation.

Senior Manager

• 2000 - 2004

Responsible for process improvement and the company’s delivery of large scale, enterprise software solution. This included the development of a Model Driven approach to Software Delivery (based on the Software Factory paradigm) that allowed major system development times to be reduced from 1000’s of days down to 2-400 days. This allowed us to provide solutions into a wider market, at more competitive prices, and with greater margin than had been possible previously. I was a key stakeholder… Show more Responsible for process improvement and the company’s delivery of large scale, enterprise software solution. This included the development of a Model Driven approach to Software Delivery (based on the Software Factory paradigm) that allowed major system development times to be reduced from 1000’s of days down to 2-400 days. This allowed us to provide solutions into a wider market, at more competitive prices, and with greater margin than had been possible previously. I was a key stakeholder in the definition of standards, policies and procedures that resulted in achievement of awards in ISO (Quality, Security & Environment), Investors in People, and EFQM Quality.

Software Engineer

• 1995 - 2000

Development of software on a variety of projects in C++, VB & C#

Software Engineer

• 1994 - 1995

Development of Enterprise software in Oracle Forms/PLSQL Development of Enterprise software in Oracle Forms/PLSQL

Software Engineer

• 1991 - 1994

Development of Accounting software solutions in C/C++ Development of Accounting software solutions in C/C++

Computer Graphic Designer / Animator

• 1990 - 1991

Design & development of Computer Animation & Graphics for a variety of corporate and broadcast video productions Design & development of Computer Animation & Graphics for a variety of corporate and broadcast video productions