Twenty-seven years of keeping serious technology honest.

The story

From the early web to the AI era

I started as an independent consultant in 1999, when the web was first becoming serious business, and incorporated the practice as AD Internet Consulting in 2000. I have worked through every era of enterprise technology since: hosting and systems administration in the early days, enterprise and infrastructure architecture through the 2000s, cloud platforms and large-scale transformation through the 2010s and 2020s, and today the architecture of AI-era systems.

Along the way I have held architectural and transformational roles for organisations including Canon Europe, as Head of Cloud Services, ING, Cochlear, Carrefour and Philips Domestic Appliances / Versuni.

The through-line has never changed: technology designed by someone senior, accountable, and close enough to production to know what survives there. Today that discipline also ships as my own product, Yachtara.