Core Skills
- Leadership & Delivery: Portfolio Management, Service Delivery and Ownership, Vendor Management, Stakeholder Influencing.
- Methods and Standards 5 Case Model, SCRUM, OKR's, KPI's, APMG Business Case Development.
- Data and Technical M365 Copilot, Power Platform, Sharepoint, LLM Apps, OpenAI, Gemini, Zapier, DNS Management, WordPress.
- Commercial Cold Outbound, Sales, Business Development, Digital Marketing.
Certifications
- Professioanl Scrum Master 1 Scrum.org
- Building Better Business Cases Practitioner APMG
- Building Better Business Cases Foundation APMG
- Agile Project Management and Delivery Google
Education
- MSc - Psychology Nottingham Trent University
- BA (Hons) - Education with QTS Nottingham Trent University
- PGCE - Leadership and Manangement Nottingham Trent University
Summary
A leader at the intersection of AI, education and digital transformation. I combine a strong commercial background with technical knowledge and stakeholder management to deliver exceptional outcomes. I've previously delivered an insitutional software training service for one of the UK's largest universities and, in a subsequent role, a portofolio of digital transformation projects. I've also led on AI strategy shaping guidance and policy development. I'm a recognised innovator in applying AI to solve real educational challenges, having been accepted into Microsoft's founders program, as well as featured as a starup partner by The Times Higher Education.
Relevant Work Experience
Digital Confidence Delivery Manager
Nottingham Trent University | Nottingham, UK
Feb 2023 - Present
- Founder and chair Trent Insitute for Learning and Teaching Generative AI in academic environments. 160 member AI & Innovation community.
- Led the strategy and development of institutional AI guidance and frontend deployment (sharepoint).
- Delivered a portfolio of digital transformation projects and events.
- Co-edited an internationally recognised journal (Meeting new challenges in Education) for a special GenAI issue
Founder and Lead Consultant
Broomfield Educational Consulting | Nottingham, UK
Jan 2023 - Present
- Leading a consortium of SME's providing management and technical consultancy to the UK public sector.
- Contracted on behalf of HM Gov's Midlands Engine to deliver GenAI training to SME owners and leaders.
- Delivered a range of AI focused talks and workshops to public sector bodies and NGO's.
- Providing business development services to EdTech, CIC and consulting companies (email marketing, prospecting, commerical strategy).
Co-Founder and Lead WordPress Developer
AIED Collective | Kent, UK
Jan 2025 - Present
- Leading an online community for AI education dedicated to advancing AI literacy.
- Rapid prototyping and deployment of frontend using Gemini ChatGPT & optimising via code refactoring, image compression and caching strategies (CDN / Object Caching).
Digital Academic Practice Trainer / Acting VLE Manager
Nottingham Trent University | Nottingham, UK
June 2022 - Feb 2023
- Led on the design and delivery of an institution wide software training and support service offer.
- Unified all attendance and feedback data into one warehouse and developed automated flows and an interactive frontend for reporting with MS PowerApps.
- Trained over 2000 academics and professional services staff on GenAI across key themes like sustainability, ethics and GDPR/compliance.
- Managed the universities annual LMS rollover (approx 10000 modules) in acting up role, ensured technical and academic teams aligned to deliver rollover with minimal downtime.