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United Kingdom

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ridging DevOps Practice and Research | Tacit Knowledge, Digital Capability & Socio-Technical Systems | PhD Researcher, A

Profile Summary

I am a practitioner-researcher specialising in DevOps capability development, tacit knowledge transfer, and socio-technical systems in digital work environments. I bring over 30 years of hands-on professional experience across DevOps engineering, cloud infrastructure, and technical training — combined with rigorous academic grounding in organisational learning, knowledge management, and workplace capability formation. My research expertise spans qualitative and interpretivist methodologies, including participant observation, semi-structured interviewing, artefact analysis, and thematic coding. I am currently pursuing doctoral research at Aston University investigating how tacit expertise is enacted, stabilised, and reproduced within digitally mediated micro-enterprise environments. I offer research services including literature reviews, research design support, white papers, industry briefings, and expert analysis in the following areas: DevOps capability and digital skills development Tacit knowledge and organisational learning Socio-technical systems analysis Digital workforce transformation UK technology skills policy and competency frameworks (SFIA, ECSF) My distinctive value lies in combining deep practitioner knowledge of live production environments with the analytical rigour of academic research — bridging industry and scholarship in ways that produce practically grounded and theoretically credible outputs.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ☆ Peer Review
• ☆ Research Methodology
• ☆ Feasibility Studies
• ☆ Technology Scouting
• ☆ Literature Search
• ☆ Gap Analysis
• ☆ Skills Training
• ☆ Innovation Management
• ☆ Management Information Systems
• ☆ Management Consulting

Services

• Writing
• Research
• Consulting

Writing Technical Writing

Research Feasibility Study, Technology Scouting, Gap Analysis, Scientific and Technical Research, Secondary Data Collection

Consulting Business Strategy Consulting, Digital Strategy Consulting, Operations Consulting, Scientific and Technical Consulting

Work Experience

Senior Technical Trainer

theITern llc, USA

June 2017 - September 2024

Founder, CEO

TTC Mobile

January 2003 - June 2017

Education

MBA

Birmingham City University

September 2011 - March 2012

BEng in Electrical Engineering

University of Ado Ekiti

September 1988 - March 1994

Certifications

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional

  Amazon

  January 2023 - January 2026