An independent practice for data-centre, mission-critical and secure-infrastructure programmes: ICT and ELV design, fibre and outside plant, and the delivery governance that holds them together. Fourteen years as ICT design authority across more than 20 facilities in the UAE.
Work package scope and WBS, schedule and interface management, estimating, BoQ and technical cost control, risk, change and RFI governance. Fourteen years applying these on live programmes, chairing client, PMC and contractor reviews through to acceptance and handover, with a 100% first-pass rate on official site acceptance testing.
Design package production and issue control, multi-discipline coordination with MEP, civil and CSA, interface and clash management, RFI and submittal governance, consultant and vendor evaluation, through commissioning, site acceptance and handover.
CCTV and VMS, access control, perimeter intrusion detection, control-room fit-out, and the structured cabling and containment beneath them. Design issue through installation, integration, commissioning and site acceptance.
Backbone, campus and inter-site fibre: route, duct and chamber planning, splice and termination schemes, fibre schedules, loss budgets and OTDR acceptance criteria. Outdoor enclosures, gland and entry detail, earthing and civil interface.
Data-centre reference design, rack-level and containment design, secure transmission planning and structured cabling to ISO/IEC 11801 and TIA-568. Design authority across more than 20 mission-critical facilities.
End-to-end design for city-scale and campus-scale platforms — sensing, edge, networking, and the data layer beneath them.
Heterogeneous sensor estates — radar, cameras, video analytics, smart fencing — unified into a single operational picture.
Practical AI/ML design with on-prem LLM experience: data ingestion, agent orchestration, human-in-the-loop governance.
Own your knowledge. An on-premise Obsidian "SecondBrain" — institutional memory for engineering teams or a personal knowledge system for senior leaders. Markdown-first, git-versioned, encrypted at rest, and AI-ready: a sovereign foundation for private RAG over your own wiki.
Senior design lead for UAE National Guard programmes. Earlier in the British Army's Royal Corps of Signals — NATO joint-coalition operations and ISAF Headquarters, Kabul.
Five tenets that hold across every engagement, whether the deliverable is an architecture pack, a vendor evaluation, or an on-prem AI/ML platform.
Design choices defended on architecture merit, not vendor preference or fashion.
No vendor lock-in bias. Selection on fit-for-purpose; ownership of integration risk across OEMs and SIs.
Mission-critical mindset by default. Threat surfaces, redundancy, and operational resilience considered at design time, not retrofitted.
I build, not just advise. End-to-end agentic systems, on-prem LLM platforms, and AI-ready data architectures grounded in what the business actually needs.
Engagements leave the in-house team stronger. Documentation, decision logs, and direct mentoring built into delivery.
A short, defensible set. Detail and walkthroughs available on request, subject to confidentiality where applicable.
Design and delivery of ELV and electronic-security packages across mission-critical sites: CCTV and VMS, access control, perimeter intrusion detection, control-room fit-out, and the structured cabling and containment beneath them. Coordinated with MEP, civil and CSA in BIM-managed environments, from design issue through installation, commissioning and site acceptance.
Design authority for integration patterns within Command-and-Control platforms unifying radar, long-range surveillance, video analytics, smart fencing, and environmental sensing IoT. Programmes up to USD 500M, multinational task forces of 8–10.
Direct architectural work with the Huawei Data Centre vendor team on on-premise LLM platform options — sizing, accelerator selection, data-sovereignty constraints, and integration with existing enterprise data sources.
End-to-end agentic system designed and built using Claude Code (Anthropic): multi-source data ingestion, AI agent orchestration, scoring logic, and human-in-the-loop governance. Direct architectural parallel to Smart City data platforms. Walkthrough available on request.
All engagements begin with a discovery call so we can establish fit before any commitment.
Architecture, design, and integration governance for a defined deliverable — system architecture pack, vendor evaluation, integration design, or on-prem platform build.
Ongoing senior architecture support on retainer — design reviews, vendor decisions, RFP scoring, and decision-log discipline. A senior voice in the room when you need one.
Every engagement starts with a 30-minute call: your context, the constraints, and where I can credibly add value. If it isn't a fit, I'll say so plainly.
Bespoke quotes — no published pricing tiers. Engagements are scoped to the work and the constraints. Day rates and fixed-price proposals are shared once the brief and scope are clear from the discovery call.
Tell me what you're working on, the constraints, and where you think senior architecture would help. I read every enquiry personally and reply by email.