I rebuilt my website in Astro. The interesting part wasn't Astro.
I rebuilt my WordPress website in Astro and let AI agents write almost all the code. What surprised me most was how much the design-to-build workflow changed.
Freelance IT consultant. I do the thinking and the doing.
IT leadership and hands-on technical delivery, from a former IT Director who's spent 30+ years doing both. Independent. Based in London and the South East, working remotely across the UK and internationally.
ROUTE ONE
I run an organisation
You need someone senior to own the decisions and stay long enough to see them through. Strategy, systems, suppliers, and a plain answer when you ask what it will cost.
IT strategySupport & managed careCRM & dataInterim & fractional IT leadership
ROUTE TWO
I work with clients
Agencies and developers: an extra pair of senior hands, or the person who talks to the client's IT department so you don't have to. Nothing gets lost in translation: I still write the code myself.
Web developmentCRM & data migrationsIntegrationsTechnical partnership
WHAT I DO
Eight things, and most engagements draw on two or three of them. You are buying days, not a package.
01
IT strategy & roadmaps
What to do next year and why, costed, in language your board can challenge.
02
Web development
Sites and web applications built to last, fast by default, handed over documented.
03
CRM & data
Selection, data models and migrations, run so you can trust the outcome.
04
Infrastructure, cloud & integrations
Networks, servers, tenancies, and the systems that need to talk to each other: designed, connected and left in a state someone else can pick up.
05
IT support & managed care
Someone reliable behind the day-to-day, and someone who fixes the causes as well as the tickets.
06
Interim & fractional IT leadership
A gap where your IT lead used to be, or senior IT leadership when you don't need a full-time hire. The projects still get run; nothing waits for a permanent appointment.
07
Agency technical partnership
Named on your pitch, in the room for the technical questions, available by the day once you win it.
08
Training & handover
Your team able to run it without me. Written down, not just demonstrated.
WHY THE ADVICE LANDS
I've sat on both sides of the IT relationship: running it, and being the one who has to fix it when it breaks.
Then
An international computer manufacturer, enterprise systems support and software engineering
Later
Web development and IT project management
After that
Membership organisations, untangling and running their CRM systems
Recently
Director of IT, international charity
Now
Independent, and still building
Recent writing
All articlesStatic-first: what an SME site actually needs to do
The case for shipping HTML and CSS to a client who will not touch a build step, and where that argument stops being honest.
Writing a CRM migration you can run twice
Idempotent imports, reconciliation reports, and why the dry run is the actual deliverable. With the reconciliation query I hand to finance teams.
Start with a conversation.
Half an hour, no charge. If I am not the right fit I will say so.