Career Context
Background
Current Role
Applied AI Engineer and Consultant
Building and deploying MCP servers, AI skills, and workflow tools for UK professionals. Five public MCP servers across property, legal, due diligence, project scheduling, and trading — all on Fly.io and PyPI. Consulting with UK SMBs on AI adoption: workflow audits, hands-on training, and custom tool builds.
Prior Career — Technical Product & Operations
Pre-software career in hardware product and operations roles with customer/vendor-facing responsibility, technical-commercial communication, and commercial ownership.
Desktop Product Manager
Owned the desktop product line: £50m gross profit target, 80k annual units. Led roadmap and supplier decisions across university, NHS, and public-sector contracts. Bridge between sales, purchasing, R&D, and customer.
Service Buyer
Reduced Jobs on Hold from 13% to 2.5%. Analysed £1.8m service stock, identified 51% obsolete, cut to £1m.