Selected work
Problems, approaches, results.
Evidence of how Education Host delivers and how I lead it — platforms the company operates, the methods behind its consultancy, and the strategic calls behind both. No invented clients, no vanity metrics.
Education Host
Browser-based teaching labs for higher education
- Problem
- University computing labs tie practical teaching to physical machines: slow to reset, hard to standardise across cohorts, and painful for remote or distance learners.
- Approach
- As Managing Director, I set the strategy for Cloud Pulse and led its development at Education Host. Our developers and specialist partners built a platform where lecturers create teaching environments once and deploy them to whole cohorts in the browser — from Linux administration to AI, cyber security and web development labs.
- Result
- A live Education Host platform used to run practical computing teaching, with reusable templates, a custom lab builder, cohort deployment and single sign-on through institutional identity providers. It now also powers AI Labs (OpenClaw), the company's AI-agent teaching service.
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Governed student web hosting at institutional scale
- Problem
- Web development courses need every student to have real hosting — but ungoverned student hosting creates account sprawl, security risk and an administrative burden every academic year.
- Approach
- Education Host built Student Web Host Manager around the academic structure itself: courses, modules and teaching blocks, with Microsoft Entra sign-in, automated provisioning and end-of-module lifecycle controls. I directed the product decisions that shaped it — starting with governance, not features.
- Result
- A live Education Host platform giving institutions governed, auditable cPanel hosting for students, with lifecycle automation aligned to the academic calendar.
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Taking the morning scramble out of school cover
- Problem
- Allocating cover for absent staff is a daily, time-critical puzzle that most schools still solve with spreadsheets, paper and a very stressful 7:30am.
- Approach
- Our team developed Cover Manager as an MIS-integrated platform: absence requests and approvals feed a single morning view that highlights unallocated sessions, with timetable context pulled through Wonde. I oversee its direction as part of the company's product portfolio.
- Result
- A deploy-ready Education Host platform that turns cover allocation into a clear, repeatable workflow, with printable cover sheets, reporting and Entra single sign-on.