Experience

Experience

Travel, Consulting & Professional Development

2023 — Present | Remote

After more than 20 years in technology, leadership, and architecture roles, I’m currently combining long-term travel and development.

Key focus areas:

  • Architecture support for early-stage startups (AWS, microservices, product framing)
  • Hands-on technical refresh including self-hosted tooling and development work
  • Volunteering and community contribution while travelling through 20+ countries
  • Independent work on cloud-native tooling, architecture practice and thought frameworks

Solutions Architect

Vector — 2021 to 2023 | Auckland

Led architecture work on one of New Zealand’s most unique strategic technology programmes — a collaboration between Vector and Google (Alphabet X), focused on transforming how energy is generated, managed, and used.

Responsibilities and achievements:

  • Designed scalable platform and integration patterns for next-generation energy initiatives
  • Developed architectural frameworks improving consistency, reuse and delivery efficiency
  • Provided strategic architecture governance for multi-million-dollar initiatives
  • Led architectural reviews ensuring alignment with business drivers, security and scalability
  • Mentored engineering teams and supported executive technology decision-making
  • Evaluated technologies, platforms and vendors shaping future direction

Digital Transformation & Service Manager

Vector — 2019 to 2021 | Auckland

Responsible for shaping and delivering technology transformation roadmaps across delivery, DevOps, and operational capability.

Key outcomes:

  • Managed multi-vendor relationships while optimising cost and improving service reliability
  • Defined KPIs and OKRs improving delivery visibility and operational decision-making
  • Led cross-functional engineering teams with ~$10M OPEX and ~$5M CAPEX responsibility
  • Achieved ~30% optimisation without reducing capability or performance

End User Compute & Collaboration Manager

Vector — 2018 to 2019 | Auckland

Led the organisation’s digital employee experience platforms, enabling mobility, remote work and collaboration — improvements that proved critical during the COVID-19 response.

Highlights:

  • Delivered roadmap and budget planning for enterprise end-user platforms
  • Introduced modern collaboration tooling (SharePoint, Teams, Skype for Business, Workplace)
  • Automated and improved service delivery KPIs while reducing operational overhead

Startup Co-Founder / Technical Lead

Mega eXitus — 2007 to 2013 | Portugal

Co-founded and led the technical direction of a small CRM-focused software company.

  • Gathered requirements and designed end-to-end client solutions
  • Led development, deployment, support and customisation
  • Participated in sales, customer engagement and startup operations

Head of Technology

Madeira Ports — 2004 to 2013 | Portugal

Led IT strategy, delivery and operations for a critical infrastructure organisation.

  • Directed teams across infrastructure, applications, networking and special projects
  • Managed international vendor partnerships and budget alignment
  • Represented technology roadmaps to executive leadership and external stakeholders

Systems & Network Lead → SAP Consultant

Early Career — 2001 to 2004

Roles included system administration, SAP implementation, functional specification design, and project delivery — forming the foundation of later leadership and architectural work.

Highest Education & Key Certifications

  • Master’s Degree | Computer Science — Universidade da Madeira
    Focus: Enterprise Architecture & SOA
  • TOGAF Certified Architect
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect
  • A couple more degrees and additional certifications across leadership, cloud, agile and delivery disciplines, full list can be provided.

If you’d like a full résumé, a portfolio reference, or a deeper breakdown of work examples — just get in touch.