I'm a digital innovation professional with 20+ years experience helping organisations create value from new ideas, data, and emerging technologies. Currently focused on AI-enabled compliance, smarter content and augmented consulting workflows — bridging commercial strategy, technology, and hands-on AI building.
Reflections on applying AI to real problems, lessons from rapid prototyping, and the evolving practice of digital innovation.
Practical lessons from embedding AI into consulting, compliance, and knowledge-intensive work. What actually changes—and what doesn't—when AI meets deep expertise.
What I learned the hard way about turning AI prototypes into real products. Structure first, then speed—and why technical literacy matters more than ever.
How systematic AI integration transformed my innovation practice—from cautious user to active builder. Lessons on tooling, feedback loops, and the patterns that actually work.
A selection of projects spanning product incubation, innovation leadership, technology R&D, and market research—built across BSI, Espion, and earlier roles.
Led validation of a digital marketplace platform for product lab testing services in APAC. Developed market research, prototype, and investment case with stakeholders and BSI leadership.
Identified £100m+ value stream within 5 years, secured venture-build partnership
Incubated end-to-end traceability solution for high-value pharma donations to global NGOs. Combined BSI supply chain expertise with Web3 protocols to reduce diversion risk and enable real-time assurance.
Now revenue-generating; backbone of key BSI strategic technology partnership
Incubated solutions for trusted, verifiable digital claims across certificates, audit reports, and supply chain records. Currently commercialising BSI "Digital Vault" for client credential issuance.
Generating ~£1m annual value uplift for BSI
Co-developed solution automating client privacy impact assessments and reporting for GDPR compliance. Streamlined consultant workflows while creating new revenue streams beyond billable hours.
Brokered development of patent-backed email/document reconstitution software for legal e-discovery evidence gathering and review processes.
Validated engineering product roadmap concept for Hall Probe product. Analysis led to informed decision to shelve concept due to insufficient differentiation versus existing market offerings.
Developed and implemented new process for tracking innovation activities as measurable agile experiments across Group Innovation portfolio, using lean OKRs as a core methodology.
Leading rollout of idea and challenge management platform across 5,000 employees to improve ideation and innovation engagement with subject matter experts.
Performed innovation capability maturity assessment across Group Innovation function using ISO 56000 standard and related capability frameworks.
Developed BSI's "Kickbox" innovation training programme enabling ideation, piloting, and new product development across the organisation.
Trained 500+ employees to date
Project lead for shipment-level route risk analytics R&D across BSI, industry, and UK government (customs) stakeholders. Integrating hybrid audit procedures with real-time data sources.
Enabling BSI Connect platform enhancements and 2025 UK Border initiatives
Project lead for digital standards framework enabling trusted sharing of operational, compliance, and risk data between industry supply chain and customs actors.
Developed IoT proof-of-concept pilots across BSI real estate, capturing sensor and BMS datasets for improved energy/emissions management and bottom-up ISO 50K compliance.
Tender and project task lead for EU FP7 project on cyber and physical security monitoring for critical infrastructure. Led SIEM technology review and digital forensics integration.
Project task lead for EU FP7 project on trusted sharing of cybersecurity and privacy threat information for critical infrastructure. Led data governance and digital forensics workstreams.
Led successful EU FP7 tender and project delivering innovation toolkits and support for emerging cybersecurity researchers and SMEs across the EU.
Masters thesis demonstrating improved description of software component interfaces within software architecture definition languages (SADLs).
Published in four peer-reviewed papers
Six-month strategic roadmapping and research exercise for Hydric Media, a digital agency operating in the music and media technology space.
Six-month strategic roadmap and research exercise into government statistics and data analytics industry sector for Australian/Japanese software company.
Ongoing market intelligence and horizon scanning across diverse technology areas: battery technology, energy ecosystems, mobile electronics, automotive components, and anti-counterfeit solutions.
Quantitative and qualitative consumer research for major clients including Tesco, Accenture, Glanbia, and various Irish government departments and agencies.
Market intelligence and requirements gathering for campus spinout's investment planning and product roadmaps, focusing on legacy application modernisation solutions.
Addressed commercial adoption barriers for ADLs by extending xADL 2.0 to model comprehensive interface specifications with detailed constraints, enabling flexible interface modeling across project lifecycles.
Galvin, S., Collins, J.J., Exton, C., McGurren, F.
View PublicationProposed an extension to software reconnaissance techniques that identifies reusable code within existing systems, enabling organisations to leverage embedded knowledge from legacy, non-component-based systems.
LeGear, A., Buckley, J., Galvin, S., Cleary, B.
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