Senior technology leadership, without the full-time hire

I help organisations shape their cloud, infrastructure and AI strategy, then deliver it. I bring 20+ years of enterprise experience, including leading large global teams at Dell Technologies.

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How I can help

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Fractional CTO and technical advisory

Senior technology leadership part-time, or for a defined period. I work with your leadership team on strategy, roadmap and investment decisions, and turn technical choices into business cases a board can act on.

02

Cloud and infrastructure strategy

Independent advice on where your workloads should live and how to get them there. I've designed and delivered platforms across VMware, Azure, Red Hat OpenShift, Nutanix and Openstack so the advice reflects how they behave in practice.

03

IT transformation and delivery

For programmes that have stalled, or need a firm hand from the start. Clear plans, milestones and governance, with scaled Agile (SAFe) and Scrum@Scale (S@S) where it fits, from someone who has led large cross functional teams of

04

AI readiness and adoption

Where AI fits, what your infrastructure and data need to support it, and how teams adopt it safely. It draws on your daily use of AI tools.

05

Vendor and platform selection

Independent help choosing, replacing or renegotiating a major platform. Licensing changes are pushing many organisations to rethink their virtualisation platform right now, and you’ve guided customers through platform migrations first-hand.

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Advisory for technology providers

Help with product roadmaps, solution architecture and technical messaging for software and services firms, drawing on your vendor roadmap work, Gartner analyst briefings and Dell Technologies World keynote content.

Case Studies

Expertise

Cloud Infrastructure Strategy

IT Transformation

Fractional CTO

Independent by design

I'm not tied to any vendor, reseller or platform. My recommendations are based on what's right for your organisation, not on what anyone needs to sell.

When a programme needs hands-on delivery beyond strategy and architecture, I can introduce trusted specialist partners. Whether you use them is your choice, and where you do, I stay involved to make sure the work matches the strategy we agreed.

“Mark Duffy is one of the most insightful, driven and pragmatic leaders of software engineering that I have had the pleasure of working with in my career. ”

Eric Pitcher, Fractional Product & Technology Executive

INNOVATION • TRANSFORMATION • SCALABILITY • CLOUD STRATEGY