I work as an independent solutions architect, supporting organisations where complexity, longevity, and risk intersect.
I am typically engaged when problems feel urgent but poorly defined, when architectural decisions carry significant long-term risk, or when systems are evolving faster than shared understanding. In these situations, clarity before commitment is often more valuable than additional delivery effort.
My work focuses on problem framing, architectural strategy, and technical decision-making in environments where systems span multiple teams, departments, and external partners.
I have spent many years working across complex technical environments, including regulated industries and business-critical platforms.
This experience includes shaping and stewarding long-lived systems, working across multiple departments with competing priorities, engaging directly with senior technical and non-technical leaders, and supporting delivery teams without displacing ownership or responsibility.
The common thread across this work has been responsibility for decisions that remain difficult to unwind long after delivery begins.
I am usually brought in when architectural judgement is required above the level of day-to-day delivery.
This may involve clarifying intent before work begins, maintaining coherence as systems evolve, or providing independent technical authority at key decision points. Engagements vary in duration and form, depending on context and need.
Maintaining independence is central to how I work.
I operate through my own company and remain separate from internal organisational structures. This allows me to provide objective assessment and challenge, avoid conflicts between delivery incentives and judgement, engage across teams, vendors, and leadership levels, and remain focused on system-level outcomes.
Clear boundaries ensure that responsibility for execution remains with the organisation, while architectural clarity and intent are supported externally.
Alongside client work, I document and share reflections on system design, decision-making, and architectural responsibility.
These writings are drawn from real-world experience and are intended to explore how complex systems behave over time, rather than to promote specific tools, frameworks, or trends.