An enterprise manufacturing data, AI systems, and digital factory architect with 30+ years of experience designing, modernising, and scaling software, data, analytics, and integration platforms across global manufacturing environments. Combines deep hands-on engineering expertise with architecture leadership, team management, and business-facing stakeholder engagement to deliver resilient, high-value solutions that improve operational visibility, decision-making, quality, and manufacturing performance.

Specialises in enterprise manufacturing applications/intelligence, real-time and historical analytics, cloud data platforms, Microsoft Fabric/Power BI, semantic modelling, AI/ML-enabled operational insight, complex event processing, IIoT, and distributed software architecture. Leading architecture teams and setting technical direction across Data Services and Analytics, Manufacturing Application Integrations, including Digital Factory platforms such as factory control centres, unified metrics, application and operations dashboards, alerting and threshold frameworks/systems, and general integration patterns that support global production operations.

Experienced in Unified Namespace (UNS) concepts and manufacturing data architecture, using event-driven and context-rich data models to align shopfloor, MES, machine, quality, and enterprise data into a consistent operational information layer. Focused on enabling scalable data discovery, standardised asset and process context, real-time observability, governed integration, and analytics-ready manufacturing data foundations that support predictive, preventative, and autonomous, AI integrated factory capabilities.

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