Expertise behind the lens

Photography has been a constant part of my professional and creative life for many years, and I’m now developing that experience into a more focused specialism within property, architecture, and commercial spaces.

Alongside photography, I have spent nearly 15 years working as a business owner and project manager, supporting housing and property organisations across a wide range of operational and strategic projects. This has given me a strong understanding of the built environment, including:

  • Social Housing

  • Commercial Property

  • Asset management

  • Repairs and maintenance

  • Building Safety

  • BIM

Through this work, I have developed a genuine interest in how buildings are designed, constructed, managed, and presented. I’ve also seen first-hand how strong visual communication supports everything from evidence gathering and project documentation to marketing, leasing, and brand positioning.

My work now brings these disciplines together a long-standing passion for photography, an excellent understanding of property and the built environment, and an appreciation for landscape and fine art image-making.

I am also a keen landscape photographer and bring the creative ideas in Landscape to the commercial and architectural world

Some examples can be seen here

I hold the following:

  • Internationally recognised LRPS (Licentiate of the Royal Photographic Society)

  • City & Guilds NVQ Level 4 in Photo Imaging (Digital Photography and Imaging)

  • Enhanced DBS certificate

My experience with property dates back to 2011 within corporate project delivery and latterly building safety. My previous clients and projects along with key achievements are:

Achievements

  • Defining and building a project to deliver the changes required to implement the Building Safety Act in multiple Housing Associations.

  • To ensure the management of data in line with HACT and COBie data standards, the creation of the capabilities to manage the Golden Thread of data, the definition of how to create and manage Building Safety Cases and the Building Safety Management system and the management of COBie level data through repairs and asset management processes.

  • Mobilised 3rd party repairs service providers into service in two G15 Housing Associations, enabling new service design and delivery providing improvements for the customer and operational teams.

  • Successful implementation of bespoke, cloud-based contact centre workflow to 160+ remote working call centre staff during Covid-19 lockdown

  • Reviewed property usage, leading on the refurbishment of the London head office to enable new ways of working, creating satellite ‘drop in’ centres for staff closer to their customers and costed proposals for building disposals (sale or lease termination) as part of the rationalisation.

  • Experience of delivering ERP solutions into the workplace (SAP, PeopleSoft and Oracle)

Anchor Housing Association - September 2025 to January 2026 – Interim Property Lead

Contract to structure a property program comprising 3 key projects:

  • Stock Condition, Big 6 compliance and Repairs & Maintenance

  • Defined the program governance

  • Provided mentoring to the individual project managers

Aster Housing Association - April 2023 to July 2025 – Interim Building Safety Consultant

Successfully delivered the Building Safety program by:

  • Providing the overall project structure and governance to the Building Safety steering group

  • Helped formulate the approach to delivering Building Safety at Aster

  • Helped define and document the Building Safety management System

  • Helped define the Resident Engagement Strategy and Mandatory Occurrence Reporting system

  • Created the Golden Thread of information for each HRB

  • Defined and had built a Building Safety Dashboard

  • Collated all the Key Building Information required to register the HRBs

  • Helped shape a change control process to deliver major works in HRBs aligned to Building Safety, CDM and other regulations

  • Created a digital data pilot for Aster by merging point cloud scans of HRBs with COBie data sets to capture asset components installed in buildings for integration into Building Information Models and a wider Asset Information model.

Vivid Housing Association - Jan 23 to March 23 – Interim Data Project Manager

  • Manage the completion of the build and delivery of an Azure based Data Integration Platform, including PowerBI dashboards and a data quality tool.

  • To plan the data cleansing prior to migration of data from legacy systems to D365 platform.

  • To design and build the plan for the data integration and migration both from legacy systems to the D365 and vice versa.

Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing Association - Dec 20 to Jan 23 - Building Safety Programme Manager

  • Working with the Building Safety team on the development of the Safety Case, understanding the emerging and sometimes conflicting advice on what constitutes a safety case, translating that into a meaningful structure based on Goal Structured Notation, understanding the risks in, on and around the building, the available evidence base to support safety claims and the safety management system that supports this.

  • Working with the Building Safety director to start defining a Safety Management System

  • Review the existing Mandatory Reporting system to align this with the needs of the act.

  • Working with the Development and Property teams to document and improve the New Build handover process

  • To design a Building Safety Dashboard, describing the data and reporting requirements and working with the Technology teams to have this built.

Peabody Housing Association - May 2019 to August 2020 – Interim Senior Project Manager

  • Helped manage the integration between two internal Peabody housing systems (Northgate and Total Mobile) to enable the internal repairs service to operate the same processes as the external contractors.

  • Working with IT teams, responsible for managing the mobilisation of both four Gas and four Responsive repairs contractors into service

  • Helped shape and implement an extended trial for delivering a repairs service based on a Dynamic Purchasing platform (Plentific)

Hyde Housing Association - September 2018 to January 2019 – Interim Business Change Lead

  • Implementing a new contact centre system and associated change utilising cloud-based contact centre system (SharePoint based Anywhere365) and cloud-based telephony integrated with Skype for Business

Associated British Ports - May 2017 to September 2018 – Interim Property Programme Manager

  • Successfully designed and managed the data collection and cleanse process covering the reading of circa 3000+ leases, abstraction into spreadsheets and subsequent Extract, Transform and Load into an SAP system

  • Managed leading property surveyors (Jones Lang LaSalle & Cushman & Wakefield) teams running property surveys across the estate from Scotland to the Southwest of England. This data was then integrated with the lease data to form a wholistic picture of the commercial performance of the estate.

  • Integrated this data into an ESRI Graphical Information System for property surveyors available on handheld devices to provide surveyors with up-to-date property and commercial information available whilst on site.

Southern Housing Group - December 2015 to May 2017 – Interim Agile Working & Office Strategy Programme Manager

  • Focused on defining new digital ways of working for housing teams by delivering a strategy of change across People, Processes, Place and Platform working closely with Home and Property Directors

  • Made information available to all workers via handheld devices to enable direct access to key documents.and data whilst working remotely.

  • Delivered Proof of Concept for delivery of business applications based on Office365 & Azure Cloud

  • Delivered on successful Head Office refurbishment incorporating new ways of working including move to hot desks, increased availability of video conferencing and break out area’s.

  • Shaped the design and build of satellite working locations (hubs) away from main offices and closer to customers and reviewed property usage and provided costed proposals for downsizing the built estate, either through disposal or exiting leases thereby identifying significant cost savings

First Port Property Service - June 2015 to November 2015 - Interim Head of IT Projects

  • Responsible for all aspects of project leadership, including planning, implementation, and delivery.

  • Worked closely with senior business executives and stakeholders, advising on IT & project delivery.

  • Responsible for major project delivery, including project planning, scheduling, and set-up of a PMO.

  • Prepared a business case for the replacement of legacy IT infrastructure and enterprise storage.

  • Collaborated with Google on the development of a Housing app based on the google platform.

Kier Group - July 2014 to June 2015 - Interim Programme Manager

  • Responsible for programme leadership, delivering major IT, infrastructure & service enhancements.

  • Led the delivery of an upgrade of the COINS ERP environment, delivered across 6 instances enabling the management of the Kier repairs service to their customer base

  • Established a fully integrated MI capability, integrating disparate data into a single data repository.

Circle Housing (now Clarion) - April 2011 to June 2014 - Programme Manager and Interim Head of Programme Delivery

  • Responsible for leading the successful delivery of a portfolio of business change & IT programmes.

  • Collaborative engagement with senior stakeholders, including monthly reporting and dashboards.

  • Directly responsible for:

    • Mobilising 4 repairs contractors for a new repairs and maintenance contract

    • Agile Working programme, identifying business technical & cultural changes required.

    • Enabling technologies to help shape a new way of working, including remote IT access.

    • Finance Programme, covering data governance and data quality issues for the group.

    • Compliance and regulatory activities covering Payment Cards (PCI) & Treasury Systems

    • Digital Programme, implementing a new enterprise website and CRM technology.