LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE

Leadership Experience

Transformation delivered at global scale. Methods I bring to OLS Consulting clients.

Experience

Scaling Uhub: Global Enterprise Platform Transformation

Architected and scaled a centralized work management and DevOps SaaS ecosystem for WPP, standardizing delivery and operational compliance across 700+ agencies and 12,000+ active users.

Key results

Global Scaling: Deployed and standardized platform operations across 700+ individual agency entities, scaling my own team from 7 to 15 while managing a $3M+ P&L.
User Centralization: Migrated and managed a continuous user base of 12,000+ employees, supporting 200,000+ client and employee requests annually through the unified platform.
Operational Compliance: Centralized and secured 1.8TB of code across 20,000+ repositories under consistent, automated governance that satisfied global security requirements across all agencies.
AI Governance & DevSecOps: Deployed governed AI capabilities and automated DevSecOps guardrails across 200+ development teams, embedding continuous security governance directly into the delivery pipeline.
Lifecycle Standardization: Established a single source of truth for work management, replacing fragmented agency-specific tooling and delivering $3.5M in licensing and vendor cost savings through consolidation.

Experience

SaaS Savings & Security

Drove Atlassian Guard rollout at WPP, slashing Shadow IT by 67%, optimizing users by 74%, and delivering $3.7M savings with 22.5x ROI.

Key results

67% reduction in shadow Jira instances and 42% in Confluence — dramatically shrinking the attack surface.
74% overall user base optimization through account consolidation across both products.
$3.7 million in direct licensing cost savings.
22.5x ROI within the first full cycle.

Experience

Process Transformation for Global ERP

Cut monthly PAM review time from 2 days to under 2 hours (>90% effort reduction) through automated workflows and data centralization.

Key results

>90% reduction in manual effort - monthly reviews now complete in under two hours.
Eliminated reliance on email and shared drives, strengthening data integrity and security.
Established a single source of truth for audit evidence, significantly improving compliance readiness.
Directly enabled the secure, global rollout of a complex ERP system across a fragmented multinational environment.

Experience

Digital Transformation for Digital Agency

Led full digital transformation for a WPP digital agency, replacing email and spreadsheet chaos with a tailored Atlassian ecosystem.

Key results

Streamlined workflows across 40+ Client Projects, significantly reducing project turnaround times.
Enhanced cross-team collaboration and real-time visibility for data-driven decisions.
Improved resource allocation, profitability tracking, and customer support quality, leading to 1,500+ service tickets processed efficiently in the first month post-launch.
High user adoption through targeted change management, pilot programs, and internal champions.