with Richard Ireland
Team coaching services for SMEs with an IT/Software function
My Journey
Not long ago I was working, as I often have, in a technical leadership role. On the surface everything was fine and I had a team which was delivering. But I was hitting a brick wall when it came to focusing on the team's motivation and productivity. I began to see how we were all caught in a blizzard of new work items that deprived us all of the time to communicate effectively. The frustration was burning me out. I realised that I wanted to open a new chapter in my career. I began to learn about the power of Career Coaching and think about the potential within myself to use Coaching to help teams and organisations to improve the alignment of business and personal goals and through that to drive productivity and business-responsiveness for IT/Software teams.
More About Me
​Professional​
Across the last 30 years I have had the good fortune of experiencing a wonderful variety of Tech/ICT roles and worked with many also wonderful colleagues.
My regular point of reference became DevOps and its relationships such as with strategic architecture, QA, InfoSec and compliance.​
I helped steer a Fintech Start-Up through multi-million dollar investment rounds.​
I delivered cloud infrastructure for a FinTech Scale-Up to support secure servies around a multi-petabyte archive of market data.​
I co-developed a DevOps Centre-of-Excellence for a global consultancy.​
I managed the offshore resourcing arm for a multinational bank's tech division.​​
But my career has meant much more to me than a list of projects. Throughout, I have been driven to support colleagues' career development through raising self-awareness and confidence.
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Side-hustles
It's not strictly a side-hustle actually but have become a regular co-host on a series of 'Ask My Anything' YouTube videos. intended to help anyone advance and grow in the context of an IT/Software/DevOps career.
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Personal​
I am a father of 3 based in West London. When I'm not working you can often find me either jogging or dog-walking our golden Lab around the Chiswick area! If you do spot me then the dog's name is Mario and we'd both like to meet you ;)