About
I started as a chain boy on construction sites in Scotland. That means I stood in the rain holding a survey pole while old-timers laughed at me from under a shelter. No support, no recognition, and I travelled on my own expense and time.
Then the Global Financial Crisis hit. The company that sponsored my degree let me go in 2010. I took what was on the table and ended up in consultancy. Not because I had a burning desire for it, but because it was there.
Twenty years later, I've worked across Australia, the UK, Russia, Indonesia, and the Philippines. I've been the graduate getting roasted in meetings over someone else's mistake, the senior pricing jobs that were already too thin, and the person in the room who realised the entire scope had shifted overnight and nobody told the client.
Now I write about the game nobody teaches you. I help engineering firms figure out where AI actually fits in their workflow, not where the vendor says it fits. And I'm writing the book I wish someone had handed me on day one.
