RAG with Offline LLM
During my time as Head of Professional Services for a private Genomics based company I spearheaded an initiative to utilise an open source offline LLM for analysing our Jira,…
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Work, in practice.
Consulting engagements, engineering projects and applied experiments.
VCF File Validation
This script was bourne of necessity to validate VCF files for injestion into Congenica. The platform does it’s own validation but the output in case of error is not…
Read moreKubespray Dependencies
Anyone who has worked witk Kubespray knows what kind of hell it is to figure out the dependencies. Part of the reason for this is that each version is kept on a seperate branch,…
Read moreGenomics Laboritory – Export Service
As Head of Professional Services I developed and introduced a new billable service for customers which allowed them to receive monthly or quartery exports of analysed sequence…
Read moreEgyptian Genomics Institute – Software Delivery
Software Delivery I managed the team that took part in a deployment of genomics analysis software to a government programme based in Cairo Egypt worth £2m in total, I also acted…
Read moreNHS Genomics Partner – Integrations & Software Development
As Head of Professional Services I took over responsibility for a number of software integrations written by a bioinformatics consultant who had previously left the company. One…
Read moreUS Retailer – DevOps
I was asked to provide a health check with insights into the clients Discovery operations. I created a custom application called Pithos – a python-based application which…
Read moreUK Pharmaceutical – DevOps
I worked with presales to deliver a $55k project with insights into the clients Discovery operations created with Pithos – a custom built python-based application which collected…
Read moreHealthcare Company – AIOps
I worked in presales to present insights into their ITSM operations gathered from Talos back to the client. My involvement was in data cleansing and preparation for injesting into…
Read moreGerman Car Systems Maker – Storage Integration
I worked with this German company to enhance their Discovery and CMDB with various storage metadata and data from unsupported storage systems. I wrote extensive TPL code which…
Read moreUK Non-Profit Organisation – SaaS Solution
I was technical lead on a project worth $40k to implement the Helix Discovery SaaS solution. Since scanning hybrid infrastructure requires on-prem components there was still…
Read moreUK Telecoms Company – Digital Transformation
As part of a larger digital transformation I was responsible for the architecture of their Discovery, modelling application architecture and data integration pipelines to the…
Read moreUK Retailer – Managed Service Architecture
I was responsible for the improving the managed service architecture of a multi-year service contract already in-flight. There had been significant issues raised over the quality…
Read moreUS Energy Company – CMDB Augmentation and Deep Database Architecture
I worked 3 short projects with a US-based energy company over a period of three years to develop customisations to the data pipeline to their CMDB. This was to enable a front-end…
Read moreUS Vehicle Manufacturer – Managed Service
I was contracted to help win a bid for providing a managed service worth $200k to a large US-based vehicle manufacturer. They were intially discussing a multi-year deal for plant…
Read moreUS Insurance Firm – Cloud Migration
I was the technical lead on a project worth $170k to migrate the on-premise Discovery solution to to Helix Discovery SaaS. This was a significant project as it was the first…
Read moreUS Steel Manufacturer – ITAM & AIOps
ITAM Solution I was technical lead on a project worth $200k to implement the Helix Discovery SaaS solution. Since scanning hybrid infrastructure requires on-prem components there…
Read moreTelecoms Company – Digital Transformation
My company was initially approached directly by this large telecoms company to deploy Discovery with CMDB. My role as the Principal was technical lead for the project and Solution…
Read moreGerman IT Consulting Firm – Digital Transformation
I was in charge of the architecture for the deployment £200k worth of solutions and a managed service for a large German consulting firm that wanted to implement a new Asset &…
Read moreUS Coffee Company – SSL Certificate Discovery
I was approached by the account management team for a US coffee brand to implement SSL Certificate Discovery for their network, as they were having issues with expiring…
Read moreCanadian Investment Asset Management Company – Ditigal Transformation
I was part of a consultancy team to deploy a new ITAM function and I was specifically responsible for discovery and integrations to the CMDB, a project worth $3m over 3 years. The…
Read morePublic Utility Company – Digital Transformation
ITAM Solution As part of my time as a Delivery Manager I worked with an account to deploy an IT Asset Management solution as part of a Global Programme, and to fill in as Test…
Read moreManagement Consulting – Global Programme Software Rollout
I was hired as a Delivery Manager and Enterprise Architect for the global rollout of Discovery and CMDB for an international Managment Consulting company. This was a 2 year…
Read moreUS Investment Bank – SLM & SAN Storage
I worked for a partner consultantancy with the Software and Configuration Management team to extend and customise BMC Discovery to provide support for their licensing and auditing…
Read moreMarketing and Fintech Company – Monitoring Solution
I stepped into this project as Project Manager after it had started, but the key Solution Architect had left the business. I therefore needed to provide some guidance for the…
Read moreUK Charity – ITSM Project
I worked as a Project Manager for a UK London based charity client who presented some difficult challenges. The ITSM deployment was standard Ivanti ITSM with Incident, Change and…
Read moreUK Law Firm – ITSM Deployment
I acted as Project Manager to deploy Ivanti ITSM to a major UK law firm worth £20,000 in billable consultancy. I organised the workshops and kept track of time and change…
Read moreUK Non-profit – Datacenter Migration
A UK non-profit organisation planned datacenter move within the next 12 months. The required an understanding of their environment, the servers, applications and storage. Their…
Read moreMajor Retailer – Datacenter Cloud Migration
A major UK retailer was looking to perform a datacenter assessment to understand the infrastructure currently deployed within the DC and the relationships between the…
Read moreUS Investment Bank – Edge Device Discovery
A leading US Investment Bank wanted to extend their off-the-shelf scanning solution to discover edge devices and follow hops to find the very edge of the network. This was not…
Read moreUK County Council – Project Management – Digital Transformation
I project managed the deployment of a new ITSM system to an English County Council as part of their Digital Transformation drive. This called for multiple workshops to scope…
Read moreBritish Transport Company – Business Application Modelling & SSL Certificate Discovery
I was contracted to a this British Transport Company to provide consultancy services in the area of modelling approximately 60 business applications . Some of them had been…
Read moreDigital Health Checks
During my time as a consultant I have worked to develop various digital health checks to assist companies with taking a tempurature test of their IT systems and strategy. The view…
Read moreOnline Betting Platforms – CMDB Data
I was brought in to architect and deliver an data pipeline for updating their CMDBs from multiple data sources. The CMDB itself was hosted on Salesforce and the data sources were…
Read moreMajor Fashion Retailer – Digital Transformation
Over the years I built a relationship with this global fashion brand in facilitating their ongoing digital transformation. The first engagement was in architecting and…
Read moreLogistics Company – Business Application Modelling
I was brought into save a project for a leading UK logistics company where the Discovery solution had been chosen and deployed but the initial project team had failed to deliver.…
Read moreOnline Betting Platform – ITAM & Cloud Migration
Over the years I have worked with a leading online betting brand to facilitate various technical and digital transformation requirements including straightforward software…
Read moreCorporate Trainer
Over the span of my career I have facilitated as both a BMC corporate trainer and internal technical trainer where I have used both vendor material and designed training from…
Read moreInvestment Bank – ITAM & DB Migration
I maintained a long-term relationship with a European Investment Bank based in Canary Wharf. As part of a team of consultants we had repeat work to maintain and upgrade their ITAM…
Read moreItalian Investment Bank – Mainframe Discovery
I was assigned to advise an Investment Bank in Milan in how to deploy an agent for discovery of their Mainframe systems for dependency mapping. The solution was straightforward…
Read moreMiddle Eastern Oil Company – CMDB ITAM Deployment
I was assigned as a consultant to a large Middle Eastern Oil Company for six weeks onsite. BMC Discovery was their chosen IT Asset Management solution and their objectives were to…
Read moreExam Assessment & Vigilation
Over the years I have offered my services as a reader for those with disabilities taking exams. It’s very simple work but also very rewarding to assist someone to get a…
Read moreMapping Food & Drinks Venues with Foursquare API
I was given a brief to extract data from Foursquare to identify the nearest food and drinks venues within 1000 meters latitude and longitude provided in an Excel sheet for a…
Read moreEscape Room Concept
I was once hired to write a concept for a “panic room escape” just as Escape Rooms were becoming a new thing. I wrote the following brief: A gothic setting with a backstory to…
Read moreTranscription Services
On and off during my career I’ve been asked to transcribe handwritten notes and paid for my services. I am trained in touch-typing but I’ve also used speech-to-text (STT) tools…
Read moreUsing the BMC Discovery API
This is a course I designed and developed offered by Traversys hosted on Udemy. Similar to the TPL Crash Course, I sensed there was a demand to understand how to use the API from…
Read moreTPL Crash Course
I designed and developed a TPL Crash Course for BMC Discovery which still has active sign ups. BMC Discovery is an Asset Management tool which most people have never heard of but…
Read moreDisco Enhancements
This is another project created for Traversys which aimed to make use of BMC Discovery easier by making useful changes to the Discovery UI via a browser extension for Chrome and…
Read moregetCert CE
This is the Community Edition of getCert which is free and open source to download and use with BMC Discovery. This is managed and provided by Traversys.…
Read moreTPL Repo
A reposity of free and open source TPL code for some more obscure applications and use cases. Developed by me but forked and expanded by Traversys.…
Read moreTideway
An I developed in Python for Traversys which simplifies usage of the BMC Discovery API. This is no longer being actively developed since we’ve moved away from working on…
Read moreDISMAL
Toolkit built for use with BMC Discovery written in Python. Can do a number of powerful reports and modifications with both API and CLI (appliance) based commands.…
Read moreSample Sizing
A small script utilising scikit-learn for predicting the size of a build of Congenica on-premise given the number of genome samples to process.…
Read moreETL Tools
Tools for bulk download of Confluence, Jira and Salesforce docs. Includes a script for buggy quarantining failed PDFs. This can then be used for RAG with an offline LLM client.…
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