Digital Strategy · Delivery · Brighton, UK
For nearly three decades I have helped universities, NGOs, and businesses plan, build, and run their digital platforms — from institutional repositories for the World Health Organization to eCommerce delivery and AI-assisted outreach systems.
Services
Three ways of working, usually in sequence — and often all three on one engagement.
Whether a digital archive, an open access journal, or a complex eCommerce site — I help you determine the way forward before a line of code is written.
Hands-on product and project management: remote teams, product backlogs, and stakeholders from C-level to engineering — kept in scope and on schedule.
Systems only pay off when your team can run them. I build the training, documentation, and knowledgebases that make your platforms stick.
Selected work
A few engagements that show the range — global institutions, national heritage, and a decade of running my own platform.
Specified and led the build of the World Health Organization's Institutional Repository for Information Sharing — with true multilingual capabilities, published as a peer-reviewed case study.
Founded and scaled a multi-tenant SaaS delivering repository hosting and open access publishing for universities, NGOs, and government agencies — product strategy through global client support.
Led the Heritage Lottery Fund project "Sea Your History": digitised 15,000 images across six naval museums, implemented digital asset management, and presented the project to HRH Princess Anne.
Managed a major WordPress rebuild and SEO restructure with accessibility at the centre — WCAG audits woven into design and content workflows, delivered across agency and in-house teams.
How I work
Needs analysis before technology choices. The right platform falls out of the right questions.
Agile where it helps, Waterfall where it's honest. Most real projects need both.
Comfortable in the boardroom and the sprint review — stakeholders from C-level to engineering.
Documentation, training, and handover are part of delivery — not an afterthought.
About
I started in digital in the mid-1990s, pioneering early internet advertising in New York before co-founding a design and build agency whose clients included American Express and Condé Nast. Since then the through-line has been the same: taking ambitious digital projects — archives, journals, eCommerce platforms, transformation programmes — and making them real.
Along the way I have built the World Health Organization's institutional repository, led a national digitisation project for the Royal Navy's museums, founded and ran a SaaS platform for academic publishing for a decade, and managed delivery for agencies and nonprofits across the UK. Today I work with organisations on strategy, delivery, and the practical adoption of AI in their workflows.
"What you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it."
— Goethe
Contact
Tell me where you are and where you're trying to get to. I'll tell you honestly whether I can help — and what I'd do first.