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- 47AIxAI Consultant | Strategy, Solutions, & AutomationEDUCATION AND E-LEARNINGJune 2024 - May 2026 (1 year and 11 months)Built and launched an AI-focused consulting and productization project helping coaching, consulting, and expert-led businesses turn expertise into AI-powered tools, automations, and Micro-SaaS-style recurring-income opportunities.Key contributions:
- Defined and implemented AI strategy around a core business use case focused on turning expert knowledge into AI-powered tools and offers.
- Identified and validated AI use cases, gathered requirements, and shaped solution design around business needs.
- Developed a practical framework for turning expert knowledge into AI-assisted tools and SaaS-style offers.
- Designed and built 19+ AI tools and related solution concepts supporting one core business use case.
- Designed AI solutions using 3rd party tools and AI platforms and built no-code AI solutions to demonstrate capabilities.
- Set up 16 AI automations for content creation and repurposing, with projected savings of 88 workdays and $17,000+ over 12 months.
- Created RAG-style knowledge-based AI chatbots / conversational AI tools retrieving answers from knowledge-base documents.
- Applied multimodal AI across text, image, audio, and video workflows.
- Used AI across coding, automation, research, analysis, content creation, and strategy work.
- Reviewed hundreds of AI tools and models to identify best-fit solutions and business applications.
- Built AI-assisted lead-generation and sales-funnel assets.
- Launched a paid membership and broader AI offer ecosystem while validating market needs and messaging.
Focus areas:Generative AI; AI productization; AI SaaS advisory; AI automation; prompt engineering; structured AI instructions / system prompts; LLM-enabled workflows; RAG-style knowledge-based AI chatbots / conversational AI; multimodal AI; workflow transformation; product strategy; business and marketing strategy; ROI thinking. - Campari GroupDigital & AI Consultant | Strategy, Transformation, & AdoptionJuly 2023 - June 2024 (11 months)Advised a global beverage company on strategy, transformation, adoption, enablement, and AI innovation across a complex digital ecosystem including 50+ multilingual brand websites and multiple e-commerce sites.Key contributions:
- Conducted structured discovery and deep-dive sessions across executive, business, technology, marketing, engineering, delivery, and operational stakeholders to understand goals, constraints, workflows, adoption barriers, and current vs future-state gaps.
- Conducted a detailed audit of a large global website ecosystem covering performance, security, technical SEO, UX/UI, architecture, code quality, scalability, infrastructure, release management, deployment, documentation, and operating-model issues.
- Synthesized findings into practical strategy and recommendations for global directors, including risks, priorities, quick wins, trade-offs, business value, and short, medium, and long-term direction.
- Consulted 3rd party suppliers on translating business needs into technical solutions and advised the business on implementation strategy and roadmap.
- Helped define and shape AI innovation opportunities.
- Advised on pilot and adoption frameworks covering business goals, value potential, feasibility, risk, adoption practicality, success metrics, and measurable outcomes.
- Drove digital and AI adoption through workshops, training, interactive guides, feedback collection, and optimization.
- Helped teams move from awareness to practical usage and measurable behavior change.
- Supported greater local team independence with fewer requests to global IT.
- Consulted on conversational AI strategy and adoption.
Focus areas:AI consulting; AI strategy; AI adoption; AI transformation; conversational AI; digital consulting; digital strategy; digital transformation; use-case discovery; deep-dive analysis; pilot strategy; adoption and enablement; roadmap development; stakeholder management; executive advisory. - CogX FestivalTechnical ConsultantFebruary 2021 - June 2021 (4 months)Joined CogX ahead of a major event planned for 100,000+ attendees, 1,000 speakers, and 18 virtual and live stages, with responsibility for helping the web platform cope with anticipated traffic and operational demands.Key contributions:
- Assessed the existing platform and identified major technical risks, bottlenecks, and improvement opportunities.
- Helped frame problems and explore solutions.
- Recommended and carried out major optimisation work across hosting, PHP, WordPress, caching, images, and plugin rationalisation.
- Improved measured website performance by 6,000%+.
- Extended support beyond the initial turnaround, including automation, UX/UI improvements, code reviews, deployment support, and log-tracking improvements.
- Worked directly with stakeholders, engineers, and marketing teams in an agile environment.
- Combined strong analytical and problem-solving skills with hands-on delivery from diagnosis through implementation.
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