20+ years across business intelligence, analytics, data engineering, data management, and data strategy.
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Senior data and analytics leader.
I lead data engineering, analytics, data strategy, governance, and practical AI work, with more than twenty years' experience turning data capability into useful products, services, decisions, and operating models.
Profile
Award-winning data leader with experience across enterprise data warehouses, BI platforms, data management, cloud data engineering, analytics, machine learning, and AI initiatives.
Senior data leadership experience across finance, betting, travel, healthcare, education, and retail.
Current focus on group data strategy, Microsoft Fabric modernisation, governance, data science, and practical AI.
MSc Applied Data Analytics, with awards for innovation and clinical research contribution.
Core Skills
Broad enough to connect strategy to delivery, technical enough to know where the awkward bits live.
Data strategyData engineering leadershipBusiness intelligenceData governanceCloud data platformsData warehousingPower BI, Qlik, TableauMachine learning and AIStakeholder managementOperating modelsService improvementTeam leadership
Experience
Recent leadership roles across data strategy, platform delivery, governance, analytics, and team development.
Head of Data Engineering / Head of Business Intelligence
Evolution Funding Ltd
- Responsible for group data strategy and leadership of data analysis, data engineering, and data science initiatives.
- Leading data architecture modernisation with Microsoft Fabric, data governance, self-service analytics, and AI initiatives.
- Data product owner for reporting, analytics, data science, and business-as-usual data delivery across the group.
Head of Data Management
UK Tote Group
- Led data management activity across governance, architecture, operations, data quality, and metadata management.
- Acted as requirements, architecture, and data engineering lead for a strategic BI platform.
- Mentored and led a team of data engineers within a scaled agile delivery environment.
Data Operations Manager
MoneySuperMarket
- Built a new data operations function supporting data flows across the business.
- Developed data-specific incident, problem, change, release, monitoring, SLA, and support processes.
- Managed data support and DevOps support engineers while improving reliability, governance, and trust.
Business Intelligence Manager
Malvern Group / LateRooms.com / SuperBreak.com
- Led BI, MI, and analytics functions for online travel businesses across Manchester and York.
- Designed and delivered BI platforms, partner data integrations, monitoring tools, and enterprise data warehouse capability.
- Managed technical BI, management information, and commercial analytics teams.
Technical Development Manager
Bolton NHS Foundation Trust
- Technical lead for BI development, data warehouse delivery, reporting, automation, and predictive analytics exploration.
- Led development of the Minerva BI Portal, contributing to an innovation award for the BI team.
- Created technical standards, skills frameworks, training, coaching, and development processes.
Information and Systems Development Manager
The Christie NHS Foundation Trust
- Developed applications, analytics, data analysis, and reporting for research, development, and trust areas.
- Built tools for sharing and analysing clinical trials and performance metrics.
- Represented the division on informatics groups and chaired research informatics forums.
Earlier Career
- Exams Officer / Data Manager, All Saints Catholic College
- Contracts Admin Manager, The Co-operative
Education and Certification
- MSc Applied Data Analytics, BPP University, Merit
- Microsoft certification 70-767: Implementing a Data Warehouse
- DP-700 Fabric Data Engineer Associate certification, in progress
Awards
- Unsung Hero of the Year, Greater Manchester Clinical Research Awards, 2013
- Innovation Award, Royal Bolton Hospital Staff Awards, 2017
Speaking
- Big Data London 2023: Do You Remember the First Time? Tips and Tricks for a Successful Data Strategy from Scratch
- Big Data London 2025: Is EVERYTHING AI Now? How to Avoid, or at least acknowledge, the Hype Bandwagon