Making technology useful, in different worlds.
Engineering authority. Executive conversations. Organisational change. Different environments, connected by the need to turn technical possibility into practical decisions.
Clarity in complex engineering.
Chief Engineer
Engineering authority, technical assurance and evidence-based decisions in a complex defence environment.
Data culture starts with people.
Head of Data Culture
Connecting leadership intent with the confidence and participation of the people who use data.
Making innovation operational.
Director, Technical Innovation, BlueLabs · Contract
Exploring emerging technology with the people and departments that could put it to use.
Technology in the executive conversation.
EMEA executive programmes leadership → Slack subject-matter expert
Led Slack’s EMEA executive programmes team and served as its regional executive voice, before becoming a Slack subject-matter expert within the Salesforce Innovation Centre EMEA team.
Technology and culture, together.
CIO, Synaptek · Concurrent Innovation Director, Spherica
Bringing technology direction, people strategy and enterprise automation into the same conversation.
Engineering close to the action.
Earlier roles took me through industrial automation, motorsport timing and trackside infrastructure, before enterprise technology services and innovation leadership.
In the FIA World Touring Car Championship, my work included race-data distribution. At Lotus and Renault, I worked on trackside infrastructure. These environments made dependable systems and timely information a practical engineering responsibility.
As a technical consultant and team manager at Spherica, supporting Virgin Trains, I led the architecture and migration of its live data-centre operations to Microsoft Azure and co-location facilities. I also designed and implemented the “Smarter Working” strategy across its offices and railway stations, using Office 365 and Box. Those programmes connected infrastructure delivery with changes to how people worked.
Practical judgement, seen by colleagues.
“He is able to identify what is missing in a situation not only what is wrong.”
Read full recommendation from Mike Harding
Karl is always quick to see outside of an immediate problem and spot an opportunity via another avenue, often exceeding/optimising the original objective. He is able to identify what is missing in a situation not only what is wrong. A strong advisor to any team forging a path into new areas for the first time.
“He is an intuitive problem solver who gets things done in a pragmatic fashion with a great sense of humour to boot!”
Read full recommendation from Bal Jagpal
Karl is a very insightful individual, I have worked with Karl on many occasions and always found he added real value to any project he has been involved in. He is an intuitive problem solver who gets things done in a pragmatic fashion with a great sense of humour to boot! Highly recommended.
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