07/22/2026 updated
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Technology Assurance Consultant | Operational Resilience | Infrastructure Architecture
Desborough, United Kingdom
Worldwide
About me
Independent technology assurance consultant specialising in operational resilience, enterprise infrastructure and architecture. I help organisations understand whether critical services can operate, recover and scale with confidence through evidence-based assurance, governance and executive advice.
ISO 27001Business Continuity and Disaster RecoveryChange ManagementDisaster RecoveryGovernanceInformation Technology Infrastructure Libraries (ITIL)Incident ManagementEnterprise ArchitectureInfrastructure ManagementService ManagementSolution ArchitectureTechnology ArchitectureInfrastructure DesignRisk ManagementVMware
I am an independent technology assurance and operational resilience consultant with extensive experience governing, designing and supporting enterprise technology platforms that underpin critical operational services.
My work focuses on determining whether technology is genuinely ready to operate, support and recover—not simply whether it has been implemented or passed technical testing. I help organisations make technology risk visible, challenge unsupported assumptions and establish evidence-based confidence in critical services.
My core capabilities include:
• Technology assurance and technology risk
• Operational resilience and critical service assurance
• Infrastructure and enterprise architecture
• Disaster recovery strategy, testing and recovery validation
• Operational readiness and production readiness
• Service availability, supportability and lifecycle governance
• Dependency mapping and failure-path analysis
• Technology governance, change and release control
• Incident, problem and service management improvement
• Supplier performance and customer assurance
• Infrastructure transformation and platform modernisation
• Executive reporting and board-level decision support
I have led infrastructure design authority and major enterprise platform transformations involving VMware, HPE, NetApp, NSX-T, networking, storage, monitoring, backup and disaster recovery. My experience includes scaling a hosted public-safety platform from one police customer to approximately twenty UK police forces, alongside Fire and Rescue and other critical-service customers.
This required more than technical architecture. I built and developed design, operational support and security capability; established operational readiness, service reporting and escalation routes; strengthened incident, problem, change and release processes; and owned disaster recovery strategy and testing.
I assess technology through the wider operational system in which it exists:
• Can the service be operated safely under pressure?
• Are ownership, support and escalation arrangements clear?
• Are critical dependencies understood?
• Is monitoring providing meaningful operational awareness?
• Can recovery objectives be demonstrated through evidence?
• Are leaders being given enough information to make an informed decision?
I am best suited to engagements requiring independent judgement across infrastructure resilience, operational readiness, recovery assurance, architecture assurance, technology governance and critical-service risk.
My approach is evidence-led, operationally grounded and independent of implementation. The objective is not to produce more documentation or technical activity. It is to give leadership a credible understanding of what is resilient, what remains uncertain and what must be addressed.
Experience
Professional experience10+ years
Freelancer since2026
Languages
EnglishNative speaker