Data strategy and advisory for organisations drowning in complexity and starving for clarity.
Let's talkYou've got data platforms, transformation programs, and a room full of stakeholders who can't agree on what the problem actually is. I untangle it, map it, and give you a path forward everyone can see.
Nearly three decades across warehouses (physical and data), analytics teams, architecture practices, and global consultancies. Banking, retail, government, transport. Now independent: same calibre, without the overhead or the org chart.
I don't hand you a strategy deck and disappear. I've managed warehouses, built prototypes, designed data platforms, and led teams. I stay until the work lands.
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What's actually going on here?
6–8 weeks · The fog-clearing exercise
Most organisations know they have a data problem. Few can articulate what it actually is. Discovery maps your current state: governance, architecture, capability. Then it frames the decisions that matter. What to modernise, what to leave alone, and what to stop pretending is working.
You get: a clear-eyed assessment, a prioritised roadmap, and a team that finally agrees on what needs to happen.
Weeks to months · The expert in the room
Complex platform programs, whether marketing technology, data infrastructure, or cloud migration, need someone who's seen enough implementations to know when things are going sideways before the steering committee does. I embed alongside your team or your delivery partner to keep quality honest and decisions sharp.
Deep platform knowledge across Adobe Marketing Cloud, data pipelines, Tealium, Snowflake, and modern analytics stacks.
Flexible · The person who actually does the work
Sometimes you don't need another strategy. You need someone who can architect a solution, build a working prototype, and stand up interim capability while you hire. I work directly in your environment: designing, building, and transferring knowledge as I go.
I work independently, but I don't work alone. When an engagement needs data science, data engineering, or specialist platform skills, I bring in trusted collaborators I've worked with before. The team flexes to match the problem. No bench warmers, no org chart padding. You get the people who are actually doing the work.
I didn't start in consulting. I started on a forklift.
My early career was physical: construction, labouring, warehouse floors. I worked my way into managing distribution operations: 50 staff, 1.2 million despatches a year, supply chains that broke in interesting ways. I was good at fixing things under pressure, and I discovered I was better at understanding systems than most people in the room.
From there I moved into data. First as an analyst, then running a master data department responsible for half a million products across multiple business platforms. Then leading analytics and data teams in complex multi-system environments. I learned what data looks like when it's messy, political, and mission-critical all at the same time.
Then I spent almost a decade inside a global digital transformation consultancy, working on complex programs for Australia's biggest banks, retailers, government agencies, and transport operators. I led discovery engagements, designed platform architectures, and spent a lot of time making complicated things simple enough for everyone to act on.
In late 2025, I went independent.
Across thirty years I've sat on every side of the table. I've been the person doing the work, managing the team, designing the system, advising the executive, and explaining the whole thing to a room that was lost ten minutes ago. That's not a consulting career. It's a career that eventually became consulting, so I could focus on what I'm best at: walking into complexity and making it make sense.
What people say
"An incredible ability to really listen and absorb, then reiterate back almost always complicated things in a simple and non-condescending way."
"It's a thoroughly enjoyable experience sitting across a table and watching you mesmerise clients."
"When clients talk about us as being good at what we do but very different to the Big 4, it's someone like Tim they're talking about."
"Amazing to see Tim dissect what felt like an incomprehensibly complex problem, and then succinctly replay the issue and a solution back to a general audience in a way that everyone could understand."
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Melbourne, Australia
Available nationally and for remote engagements.